With the creation of the Binghamton Memes Facebook page and the Binghamton University Subreddit, memes relating specifically to Binghamton University have become increasingly popular. Binghamton can now add another to its list of meme-related sites, a website called UrCrowd.

Dedicated entirely to memes and image sharing, UrCrowd.com has specific pages for different universities like Binghamton, NYU and University of Central Florida.

Alexander Weinberg, a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, created and moderates the Binghamton community page.

“I just stumbled across the site one day while surfing and thought it was hilarious,” Weinberg wrote in an email. “I saw that there was an option to create a community. I got in touch with the site’s administrators and we set up a Binghamton Community page at Urcrowd.com.”

According to Weinberg, the purpose of UrCrowd is for people to share relevant and funny images related to Binghamton whenever they want.

“Since the Binghamton Memes page on Facebook seems to disappear and reappear at random I figured it would be nice to have a place where we, Bing students, could always post and access,” Weinberg said.

The memes can be created by anyone that has an account on UrCrowd. What sets UrCrowd apart, according to Weinberg, is that you can edit other posts on the site along with liking, commenting and following other UrCrowd user’s profiles.

“Essentially if you post something, I can take the original image/gif/etc and turn it into something else,” Weinberg said.

Anyone with an account can edit another user’s meme. UrCrowd calls this “tweaking” and it engages users in a visual conversation where a thread of edited images can be viewed.

John Koulouroudis, an undeclared junior, said the Binghamton Community page on UrCrowd is funny and relevant.

“It always makes me laugh,” Koulouroudis said. “You can get a laugh whenever you want. When your bored, with your friends, you can even get a good laugh when your girlfriend drags you to go shoe shopping. It has a broad range of subjects, within Binghamton like State Street, Greek Life, Campus, etc. And you can post anything you want, it will not get censored.”

However, Andrew Loso, a sophomore double-majoring in history and Spanish, said he believes the page is not specific enough to Binghamton.

“The website is entertaining, although some of the memes are more about college in general and less about Binghamton,” Loso said. “I’d like to see more ‘inside jokes’ that only true Binghamton students would understand.”

Kevin Revier, a graduate student studying sociology, said he liked the Binghamton memes, but said he believes the website could do more.

“I like how UrCrowd is tailored specifically for BU students,” Revier said. “I think they provide quick humor. But I also believe that they could rally support for a particular idea or create social change in a humorous way that is still political; memes are kind of a way to introduce an idea. I think it’s interesting how an organization can use them to reach the public or present an idea.”

Professor Guy Risko, a doctoral candidate in the literature department, said he agrees with the notion that memes can be more and do more than one would expect.

“In the context of these small Internet memes, it’s an emerging form of communication, a cultural text that people share,” Risko said.