If the internet is really going to amount to anything, then it’s time to get serious, folks. The news keeps saying that this viral video thing is going to be big, but we all know that in order for anything to really go global, it has to have a million dollar marketing campaign behind it (right movie executives, RIGHT?).

At ATOM we do it right, so in service of some of our favorite internet memes, we present to you…

Internet Memes With BIG BUDGET MARKETING CAMPAIGNS!

I’m sure all of you were huddled around your computers at work, speculating on when it would be ok to make jokes about the appropriately named boy, Falcon Heene, who was allegedly floating above the Denver landscape in a hilariously strange homemade balloon yesterday. Certainly we at atom were (though we all know Falcon isn’t the first hilarious balloon boy). While productivity in offices across the country slowed to a halt (what economy?), the true champions of internet culture were feverishly compiling mashups, videos, and 140 character gems of insensitivity to keep us entertained for the remaining 15 minutes of this news cycle. In case you were wondering, when the internet looses its shit, its shame is close to follow. Everyone was glad to find that  Falcon is ok, but it didn’t really stop people from cracking jokes well before we knew that.