Pizza Rolls

The "pizza roll" memes are a perfectly example of generativity on the internet. The origins of the meme are based on the simple premise that the members of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team are mostly young players. There is no direct connection between the Thunder and pizza rolls other then the simple fact that the Thunder are a young team and pizza rolls are predominately marketed toward young children. An alternative interpretation of the meme is based on the notion that the team's star Kevin Durant is perceived as a "mama's boy" because she attends all of the Thunder's home games, thus some of the memes carry the caption "mom made pizza rolls". The concept has spread and mutated into memes using images from the Olympics, baseball, volleyball, the Jewish holocaust, as well as incorporating images of politicians Barack Obama, Herman Cain and Martin Luther King, and singer Katy Perry.