| 单词 | meme |
| 例句 | So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all—plus c’est la meme chose, plus ga change. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I have remained heavily involved in computing science, investigating and maintaining complex networks and studying everything from memes to artificial intelligence. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We talk on the phone at least once a week, and she texts me funny memes from the internet, or sentimental quotes about the importance of family. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Layla sends me a silly meme, and I text her back a smiley face. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Or a lame Twitter account where she retweets memes about the importance of hand washing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Many of the silliest ambiguities in the Internet memes come from newspaper headlines and magazine tag lines precisely because they have been stripped of all punctuation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Jontay sent me a message with a meme of one of the African princesses from the Black Panther movie. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z He hadn’t intended for us to wither into desiccated husks in front of brightly lit screens that leeched away our summer days one meme at a time. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z And Em’s dad reminded Bridge of Em’s mom—he watched reality TV and always knew what meme was going around. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z His work is unique by necessity; government regulations forbid him from using copyrighted images found in the most popular mainstream memes, limiting him to what he can scrounge from basic iStock photos. How a federal bureaucrat uses astronaut babies and dogs riding pigeons to try to save your life 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z When I open Instagram, I might see a mini history lesson followed by a meme and then a performance. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z And no one can ride a meme like Benny Johnson. Benny Johnson got fired at BuzzFeed. You will believe what happened next. 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Also, the “House of the Dragon” writers seem much more aware of how to use lines and scenes to stir watercooler discussion and to crank up the old “Thrones” meme factory again. Fantasy Face-Off: ‘The Rings of Power’ vs. ‘House of the Dragon’ 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Internet memes such as Tay Zonday's Chocolate Rain or rapper Reh Dogg's comically sincere Why Must I Cry got passed around the office, but Chairlift's gorgeous Evident Utensil not so much. OK Go find more viral success ? but not real success 2010-03-18T23:05:00Z The actor is an iconic blockbuster star, a quirky one-man meme factory and, by all accounts, an actual gracious, decent human being. Keanu Reeves' "age-appropriate" relationship shouldn't be viewed as heroic 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z But in person, he has a childlike buoyancy, kept aloft by his lifelong loves of hip-hop and professional basketball and his occasional tendency to talk like an internet meme come to life. Can Hasan Minhaj Make Topical Comedy Work on Netflix? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Ahead of a new exhibition bringing the internet meme into a physical setting, the artist tells the BBC why she first created the artwork and how digital technology is helping to create new art forms. The paintings 'made better with cats' 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z A whole bunch of users responded with “edgy” memes: “In a nation divided, I’m with the ones who carry guns and know which bathroom to use.” Perspective | Elon Musk’s Twitter is a safe space for bros who think they’re funny 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z There’s a parody meme on Twitter to break any banal statement or quote into short lowercase lines and sign it “- rupi kaur.” Why Rupi Kaur and Her Peers Are the Most Popular Poets in the World 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Proactively setting goals for the year ahead has become trendy online, where a number of creators have been posting videos and memes detailing the ways they have already gotten into a 2024 mind-set. Happy Newish Year! 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z According to culture site The Daily Dot, the handshake saga began with a meme that hit the Internet in August. Twitter users celebrate unlikely relationships with viral 'handshake' tweets 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Traditionally, the turkey pardon is also a cultural snapshot of the administration, a single moment that launches a thousand memes. Biden pardons his first turkeys — but who will pardon his bad jokes? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z But this is the first time that Hollywood is focusing on a meme in the same way it would explore the expansion of, say, a comic book character. ‘Slender Man,’ a Horror Meme, Gets Ready to Step Out of the Shadows 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z There are memes of him alone, eating a sandwich. All hail Keanu! Why I’m thrilled that Hollywood’s loveliest man has a new girlfriend 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z As these things go, he made a public apology, started crediting the original meme creators and launched a brand of canned rosé. At the first-ever SopranosCon, meet the fans who never stopped believin’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z That wasn’t the case this time, and he wasn’t alone: Instagram had shut down dozens of popular meme pages without warning or reasoning. Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Naturally, the internet did what the internet does best — it made the situation into a meme. Gavin McInnes “DM’d an ex in Paris,” and instantly became a meme 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The Internet can turn literally anything into a good meme, but Mike Pence jokes bring a special satisfaction. All the vice president’s memes: Reading Mike Pence’s stillness in the Oval Office showdown 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Stephen, who is now 10, echoed his father’s sentiment and seems to have taken his meme notoriety in stride, spending his summer instead on karate lessons and the Honor Harrington series of science-fiction novels. A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme 2010-09-16T12:56:00Z He coined the word “meme” to mean a cultural element, perhaps an idea, that can be passed along like a gene. Review: ‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins, Puts Intellect Over Intimacy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “The meme likely went viral because of the uncertainty about whether it was real or fake,” said Arvind Narayanan, a professor of computer science at Princeton University who studies AI. An AI-generated ‘Balenciaga pope’ fooled us all. How much does it matter? 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z "Shrek" memes and empty Trump rally stadiums may provide for some necessary, comforting comedic relief, but the threat we face from Texas' abortion ban is anything but a joke. Why “Shrek” memes shutting down anti-abortion snitch hotline are just the beginning 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z “I discovered that funny animal pictures — memes — would get a lot of likes and shares,” he said. George Takei Is Still Guiding the Ship 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Every time the meme crossed my path online this year, I saw something of myself in the dog’s vacant smile, bug-eyed paralysis, and impotent optimism. In case you missed them: the Guardian's unsung heroes of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z It was the coat that launched a thousand memes. Nancy Pelosi's 'blood red' coat sparks a frenzy 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The website catapulted to meme status in 2010, apparently after a Reddit post drew users’ attention to its inexplicable continued existence. Welcome to the Space Jam, Again 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z “The Last Dance” is an invitation to meet the legend who sparked the memes, to witness a newly human — or perhaps simply also human — figure who, in his prime, loved his sport above all else. In ‘The Last Dance,’ Michael Jordan and the Bulls Still Dominate 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z But another chapter appears to have given the meme new life: Mr. Green issued an update through The Nib, called This Is Not Fine, in which the dog wakes up from his stupor and panics. Why ‘This Is Fine’ Is the Meme This Year Deserves 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is also fond of tweeting wearisome Thrones-styled memes, with slogans such as: “Sanctions are coming” or: “The wall is coming”. The new nerds: how Avengers and Game of Thrones made everyone geek out 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z “The more I clicked, the more I started to see memes about white supremacy,” Schroeder says, “and that’s what was really scary.” ‘Do you have white teenage sons? Listen up.’ How white supremacists are recruiting boys online. - The Washington Post 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The one-minute video, in which three female dancers performed microscopic movements that caused their bodies to shake and shudder, went viral, producing thousands of comments and memes — some gently humorous, some more mocking. Moriah Evans: Communitarian, Feminist, Dance Maker 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z So the meme implies a question worth thinking about: What is all this art doing now that we are no longer looking at it? Perspective | What Mona Lisa with her feet up says about art after coronavirus 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Debate season is on, so let the instant memes begin. A year for enduring pop culture icons to shine 2012-12-19T18:34:09Z The prevalence of this kind of comedy contributed to the rise of the canard — “meme” is too dignified a word — that women are not as funny as men. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z This type of study – looking at huge amounts of social media traffic by location – is useful for more than tracking pop culture memes in different cities. New York City or Los Angeles? Where you live says a lot about what and when you tweet 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Others worried that mocking memes would undermine Williamson’s claim to a serious run. Ironic Occultists for Marianne Williamson 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z If you have not heard the original song from which the “Football’s Coming Home” meme is derived, be warned: it’s a virulent earworm. An Anthem to England, Football, and English Defeatedness 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z A bottom-trolling mandarin and collector of low-brow memes, Mr. Prince reflects mockingly on the futility of rebellion in a society that turns every expression of the young and the restless into a fungible commodity. Art Review: Richard Prince at Gagosian and Salon 94 Bowery 2010-05-27T21:22:00Z But by the time Obama referenced Big Bird in the second debate, 13 days after the meme went viral, Big Bird was, in the words of the Portlandia sketch, “over.” What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z Otherwise it just becomes a series of memes. The Devils You Know: Three ‘Spider-Man’ Villains Return in ‘No Way Home’ 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The video is part of a current trend of memes online that joke about how seriously the film’s characters take the concept of "family." Jack in the Box mocks McDonald's ice cream machines in response to viral video 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Of course, once the hangover has passed I forget it ever happened and go back to skipping through life and eating memes for breakfast. Hell hath no fury like the adult hangover | Coco Khan 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The Internet was flooded with online memes, some of which depicted Guilfoyle as a darkly sinister figure surrounded by thunderstorms and flames. Guilfoyle’s loud RNC speech makes her the comics’ favorite 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z It's a meme of sorts, one that traversed from the Web into real life in 2009 when it was created by Gary Clarkson and Christian Langdon in Somerset, who called it the "Lying Down Game." "Lying Down Game" claims man's life 2011-05-16T15:17:00Z Some of them use Instagram for their businesses; some for sharing photos of their kids; and some for distributing memes about hungover mornings and overeating. Instagram Is Now a Dating Platform, Too. Here’s How It Works. 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Hip-hop is now in everyone and in everything, from music to memes. Review: In FX’s ‘Atlanta,’ a Princeton Dropout Works the Angles Back Home 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Sitting on your couch, posting the occasional meme, it is easy to believe that you would never be so stupid, so deluded, so dishonest. ‘90 Day Fiancé’: An Anti-Fantasy for Troubled Times 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Friends would share memes and photos and hate-filled posts online, oblivious to my personal situation, claiming women who had abortions were everything I knew I wasn’t. My abortion almost killed me — but not for the reason you think 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z That is how our technology discourse works, there are lots of great bloggers, soundbites and memes, but once you start putting them together you realise that they don't add up. Evgeny Morozov: 'We are abandoning all the checks and balances' 2013-03-09T19:20:02Z An especially popular seller this year has been a sweatshirt from Funnyshirts.org that says “Epstein didn’t kill himself,” a popular meme about the suspicion surrounding financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, surrounded by faux-cross-stitched nooses. Santa’s a sleazebag. The elves are drunk. How did Christmas sweaters get so raunchy? 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Or do audiences simply move onto the next new thing, the show and its discussions quickly forgotten amongst the internet clutter of words and memes? Why binge-watching TV might not replace weekly installments 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Despite its modest performance at the box office, the film, directed by Rob Reiner and based on the novel by William Goldman, has emerged a cult classic, spawning memes, board and video games and more. Looking for Buddhist Wisdom in ‘The Princess Bride’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The fact that so many “eras” focus on mortifying or difficult experiences makes the meme all the more likely to stick, says Sylvia Sierra, linguist and author of Millennials Talking Media. Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’ 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Many of the Instagram memes centre around a specific plant: orchids. 'Imagine using liquid water': why people water their house plants with ice cubes 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z This is the kind of rhetoric you expect to see on 4chan’s political message board, a den of white supremacist rhetoric fused with ironic memes. The Rise of the Internet Fan Bully 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z That position is best exemplified by the Twitter meme, “astrology is fake but.” How Astrology Took Over the Internet 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Nick Santiago and Matthew Hwang were such devoted Erewhon shoppers that a few years back they made sweatsuits emblazoned with the store’s name in block letters — meme as merch. How Erewhon Became L.A.’s Hottest Hangout 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Her specialty is meme warfare — sharing loving tributes to Trump, derogatory takedowns of progressives and broadsides against congressional Republicans. What is Ginni Thomas saying now? The evolution of an unusually outspoken Supreme Court spouse 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z “The feminine urge to …” is a meme of the latter sort — the kind journalists often subject to semantic dissection. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Many members of a new generation of corgi owners associate the breed with memes more so than monarchs. God save the corgi 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z There are memes — so, so many memes — about the panic that sets in when your Juul goes missing, and kids stuffing their mouths with Juuls and emitting one massive vaporous cloud. We killed the cigarette. What we got in return is mango-flavored nicotine in ‘party mode.’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Interscope marketers worked to associate the track with the meme and, weeks later, Black Beatles went to No 1 in the US. How to have a pop culture hit like La La Land and Rae Sremmurd 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z In years past, Twitter and memes have laughed off Melania's bleak holiday decorating schemes as sad Soviet throwbacks. There's no comfort & joy in Melania Trump's bleak and impersonal Christmas decor 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Maybe you overhear this voice talking to a date about meme stocks. The Rise and Fall of ‘ZuckTalk’ 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s a pretty common meme in the Valley that Google does not “get social” products. Why Would Google Want To Take Over Twitter? 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Live by the meme and die by the meme. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z Social media, of course, takes all of this to a much darker place, led in part by Donald Trump Jr. who shared a murder meme about Fauci on Instagram last week. Perspective | Only in our anti-truth hellscape could Anthony Fauci become a supervillain 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The overwhelming Roman response to the degradation is to share memes on social networks. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z She decided to record “Princess Diana,” from her new EP, after seeing memes flying around the internet late last year calling her this generation’s Princess Diana. Ice Spice Broke Out With ‘Munch.’ Rap’s New Princess Is Just Warming Up. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The animal becomes a meme, a product, a unit of sale. Hooray for Fiona the Hippo, Our Bundle of Social-Media Joy 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z That period was the beginning of rap’s meme era, even though memes as we experience them today hadn’t yet been born. Blackbear Is Not Quite the Sum of His Parts on ‘Cybersex’ 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z I think about, say, Pinterest memes that say if you love what you do you’ll never work a day of your life. Inside women’s “Ambition Decisions”: On opting out, buying in or embracing the “flex life” 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z According to a popular meme, Karen is a middle-aged white woman with an asymmetrical bob asking to speak to the manager, who happens to be as entitled as she is ignorant. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The culture of fantasy and gameplay informs movies, television, and memes, and has become a lingua franca of communicating online. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z An over-the-top meme places the candidates in raging battle. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The Disney episode set the scene for the current point in the history of the “Unknown Pleasures” cover, a format where irreverence and confusion reign: memes. How Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ image went from underground album cover to a piece of cultural ubiquity 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Whether Blackbear is more than a living, breathing index of hip-hop memes isn’t wholly clear on this album, which veers from soulless to clever and back again. Blackbear Is Not Quite the Sum of His Parts on ‘Cybersex’ 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Envision that now ubiquitous “woman yelling at cat” meme. Did McDonald's Columbus the churro for their Donut Sticks? 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z “What about a club where we talk about our favourite TikTok memes and viral dances instead?” she suggested. Before the internet broke my attention span I read books compulsively. Now, it takes willpower | Josephine Tovey 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Ross seems to acknowledge that, but he also protests that the “Wagner-to-Hitler” meme suggests a teleological progression that, while perhaps convenient, is dangerously simplistic. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s hard to do a joke on a booming meme that someone hasn’t already done. Bite Club 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Below are the best of those memes, which collectively prove that, no matter the genre, no matter the TV theme song, Drake always dances on beat. Drake's 'Hotline Bling' Video Inspired Some Incredible Dancing Memes 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Or does this tell us something more fundamental about the relationship between television and memes? From Big Little Lies to Love Island: are memes shaping TV? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Yesterday’s news that the internet meme/living feline known as “Grumpy Cat” was to get a Lifetime movie all her own was treated as somehow surprising. Grumpy Cat is the perfect Lifetime movie star 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z "Very fortunately, from what I've seen it's been nothing but interest and excitement and some quite witty memes," he told the LA Times of fans' reaction to the news. This Game of Thrones Theory Makes a Long-Lost Character's Return All the More Likely 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z To become a meme, an image must be dissociated from its reality and turned into something else. The rise and fall of Ken Bone: This is what happens when real humans become Internet memes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Dr. Phillips added that the meme could be categorized as ambivalent expression. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Cross-platform sharing — of dances, of memes, of information — is how things are made on the internet. The Original Renegade 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Since the debate over whitewashing broke out, those looking for more representation of Asian-Americans in movies have had to settle for justice via meme. 10 Cultural Battles That Ruled 2017 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Without stores, you’ll just stay home, scroll through memes, buy a toothbrush off Instagram, and lie about how happy you are that you don’t get enough sunshine. Let’s Take This Conversation Offline 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z And yes, she’s seen the memes about her reliance on flying stunts. Pink Quietly Became Pop Royalty. Here’s How She Made It Last. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The Friends of Whitegrass Ski Touring Facebook group is similarly buoyant, featuring on any given day photos of on-site fun, cross-country skiing memes, bourbon cocktail recipes and panda videos. Skiing West Virginia’s ‘Canadian Valley’ in a banner season 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z The genre has virality imprinted in its DNA, which is demonstrated on a weekly basis by a flood of memes that buoy songs to relevance. How “Songland” Tries and Fails to Honor the Songwriter 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z At this very moment, Subtle Asian Traits memes are being made, posted, and discussed, and the community is not done building its own support systems. The Story of the Subtle Asian Traits Facebook Group 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z The meme seems to share that sense of perspective. Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won’t Die 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z “I never want to be ‘a Karen’ in the way the meme suggests and, since it’s my name, I think about this often. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The Mona Lisa meme, however, gets at deeper psychological beliefs about art. Perspective | What Mona Lisa with her feet up says about art after coronavirus 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z This is our culture now: unlike in 1977, there are dozens of TV outlets, thousands of media outlets, millions of news stories and memes flittering across our radar. History’s Roots Remake: Probably Unnecessary, Possibly Worth It Anyway 2013-11-06T17:25:21Z Mr. Rout’s laissez-faire response was a far cry from that of other parents whose children became Internet memes. A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme 2010-09-16T12:56:00Z This hot dog chart isn't the only interactive food meme in recent memory. Which hot dog are you? The enduring appeal of regional food in the global digital age 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z “Honestly, I hadn’t seen the ‘Karen’ meme until your email,” she replied. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z But it also manifests in his image: He courts the meme economy assiduously, playing a character in an ongoing social-media drama that’s just as important as his music, probably more so. How Rap’s Class of 2019 Lives and Dies by the Meme 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z For example, this is how she explains her “Texts from Hillary” meme to her fellow olds: Are You There, Angela Merkel? It's Me, Hillary! 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Now, thanks to the rise of social networks, little memes can spread like wildfire, and can be adapted and transformed. What effect has the internet had on comedy? 2011-04-02T23:07:08Z It was a modern-day friendship, built upon random memes sent to the masses; she expected no more of it. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z It has become a bit of a meme on Twitter: A user will post GIFs of sad or angry people, along with a report that their Starbucks is out of cold-brew. Whatever happened to plain iced coffee? Cold-brew. 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The resulting Tumblr account, “Texts From Hillary,” turned into an Internet meme of a woman so ice-cold as to be cool. Hillary Clinton Aims to Capture the Cool 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Sometimes memes or phrases become so ubiquitous that they are impossible to trademark. Lizzo is '100% that bitch' … but can she trademark it? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Between scenes, we see a phone screen, scrolling through an Instagram feed littered with real posts about the state of the world — memes and videos, some funny, some sad, from celebrities and the everyday masses. ‘In These Uncertain Times’ Review: Love, Loss and Zoom 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z I know that this question was originally asked on Yahoo and became so thoroughly ridiculed that it became a meme. Ifs and butts: readers' questions on orgasms answered 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z “One big meme right now is two astronauts looking at earth from space, and one says, ‘it’s all cake,’” Mr. Caldwell said. This Pickle Is a Cake 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Internet Culture Owling is the new planking, and other made-up trends Planking, also known as "the lying-down game," might be one of the most asinine memes to ever draw the public's attention. Owling is the new planking, and other made-up trends 2011-07-12T21:13:00Z People demanded that Cosby’s new show be axed, and it was. Even an attempt to create “Cosby memes” to promote his show backfired when Twitter flung the accusations back in Cosby’s face. America’s Bill Cosby awakening: Why the rape allegations are finally sticking 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Yes, femininity has its pitfalls too but harmless memes don't affect the way women perceive themselves. Girl math vs. Boy math: an insight into the internet's tit-for-tat battle of the sexes 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z He may be the Internet’s latest meme, but the joke is on us. Ryan Lochte: So sexy, so dumb 2012-08-06T21:30:00Z “I would not be surprised if people who are making, seeing, sharing the meme are not also making pandemic contingency plans given widespread transmission.” So, You’ve Been Cast as the Delta Variant 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z "The nasty undercurrent in the scene isn't a joke or a meme," he said. In virtual play, sex harassment is all too real 2012-08-02T04:14:04Z The author shows how variants of the mass-from-which-light-cannot-escape meme kept arising, with each being rejected outright. Black and light 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And with its photo-realistic portrait and contested quotation, it looks more like a meme than a monument. Maya Angelou and the Internet’s Stamp of Approval 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z And so the character arc of Andrew Yang continues, moment after meme, through one surefire-campaign-killer after another. The Post-Embarrassment Media Campaign of Andrew Yang 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z What’s more, lexicons can be built out of anything: memes of every sort, forms, formats and formulas, icons and symbols, traditions, ideas and techniques. How to talk about art 2012-07-14T00:00:00Z No, she wasn’t offended, Kingbsury wrote: “I don’t mind the meme. It’s not me.” What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The This Is Fine Dog is perhaps the best-known meme on the entire internet, so he definitely deserves a film. Meme team: after Rihanna-Lupita, what if other viral moments became movies? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “Many memes look close to political cartoons and serve a satirical purpose,” he explains. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z We love our happy hours, and “day drinking” has become quite the meme — and aperitifs are made for slow summer sipping. Attention, day drinkers: Here’s what you should be imbibing 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z That the mayor in “Jaws” has become a pandemic meme is a testament to the film’s unnerving topicality and our habit of viewing the world through a screen. ‘Jaws’ Is Still Devouring Us. SOS! 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The show spawned countless memes, crashed the streaming service multiple times, and earned 23 Emmy nominations, including a best actress nod for Olsen. How Elizabeth Olsen Came Into Her Powers 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z One exception came in April, when Harvard University discovered a stash of particularly tasteless memes in a private Facebook group started by recently admitted students. Harvard’s Ugly Offshoot of Campus Meme Culture 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The consignor had withdrawn the pixelated collectibles and posted a meme on Twitter mocking the auction house. Sotheby’s NFT Sale, Expected to Hit $30 Million, Suddenly Canceled 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z For his current installation, the artist isn't just updating a famous 18th century painting into some sculptural meme. Daniel Joseph Martinez offers a front-row seat to a famous artistic murder -- starring himself 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Her right arm has a LOL cat – the popular internet meme – wearing a fez, and the other is a reimagined Alfred E. Newman as the Hindu goddess Kali. Conjuring up a career with one of NYC’s only female magicians 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The meme even inspired an advertising campaign for the Squatty Potty, a home bathroom aid, with a video depicting a unicorn, er, producing cones of rainbow soft-serve ice cream. This is your food on acid: Why edible rainbows have taken over the Internet 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z He became a regular at the clubs and went Instagram-crazy, posting party pics and memes and gym videos and evenly-cut sandwiches perched on rustic wood tables, all in an endless supply of skinny jeans. "We young, bro": My friend lost a decade of his life, but I can't go back to our youth with him 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z As he was becoming a rap star, he was becoming a bigger viral sensation, nailing a few signature gestures — mopping the floor, slicking his eyebrows — that became easy memes. How Rap’s Class of 2019 Lives and Dies by the Meme 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z There are few words to describe how ungenerous it is, but there are, of course, memes. A man tried to body shame the gloriously unabashed Billie Eilish. It didn’t go well 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z She admitted to speaking in “meme language” and internet shorthand, subbing “v” for very. An Indie-Rock Star at 18? Snail Mail Is Figuring It Out 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z In the days following the death of Mr. Breitbart, many of his admirers adopted a meme of “I am Breitbart,” and vowed to continue his work. The Life and Death of Andrew Breitbart 2012-04-13T23:02:42Z But Subtle Asian Traits suggests how meme culture has become a platform for generational self-reflection. The Story of the Subtle Asian Traits Facebook Group 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z So maybe Melania uses her private email at work to send her favorite memes to her mates. What's in Melania Trump's private emails? I took a few guesses | Poppy Noor 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The partnership with Reddit has ended, and “Endless Thread” has expanded to explore internet culture more generally — last year, it debuted a delightful mini-series digging into the back stories behind various memes like the rickroll. 6 Podcasts About the Dark Side of the Internet 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Johansson didn't appear to react much to the incident but her blank expression instantly became a meme and launched several "caption this"-style reactions. Scarlett Johansson defends Travolta's Oscars kiss: 'Totally sweet and totally welcome' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Instead, meme politics often actively resist the campaigns’ intentions. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z "Whether it's a sponsored post, an ad, a visual meme, a bot on Twitter, a rumor - people just use it against any information they don't like." Forever 21's 'Fake News' bike shorts sell out, prompt backlash online 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z It is an irresistible media meme, and it has triggered hundreds of anxious trend stories. Hipsters, they’re just like us! “Normcore,” Sarah Palin, and the GOP’s big red state lie 2014-04-27T11:00:00Z Memes are how we relate to television, memes are how we remember television, and broadcasters understand this well. From Big Little Lies to Love Island: are memes shaping TV? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z For your group if: You like your #MeToo meme as a fast-paced narrative. Review | ‘The Woman in the Window’ or ‘The Wife Between Us’? A guide to the best new thrillers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z The name started to become a meme — “hyperpoop” jokes abounded on Twitter — but the springboard the playlist provided was undeniable. How Hyperpop, a Small Spotify Playlist, Grew Into a Big Deal 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Medieval Twitter can be a noisy and fractious place, where scholars post articles, memes and, not infrequently, fierce blasts at each other. Medieval Scholars Spar on a Modern Battlefield: Twitter 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z “It is fun to just post memes and relatable things without having your identity revealed,” Mr. Bakshi said. Sidechat Wants to Be College Students’ Main Chat 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z After the outlandish series took the world of memes and quarantine streaming by storm since its premiere in March, Netflix dropped a previously unplanned addendum on Sunday. Tiger King: what can we learn from the new special? 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z In one heavily-circulated meme, the "tradwife" is depicted as having a "slim figure from her healthy homemade meals and active lifestyle," while the feminist is "chubby from her diet of fast food and microwave meals." Madison Cawthorn's dog whistle about microwave meals isn't new 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Georgia's law, which banned abortion care at six weeks, was ultimately blocked from taking effect, and Milano's "organizing" stunt faded into a cesspool of rightfully mocking memes, too. Withholding sex is not the answer to abortion bans: The spectacle of celebrity "pro-choice" activism 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Never forget that Jude Law achieved a similar level of fluster in 2017 with "The Young Pope," the HBO series that became a hit meme before it debuted to mixed acclaim and positive audience befuddlement. "The New Pope" is still sexy and it knows it 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Its resonance with serious theatergoers is surprising until you consider that even as adults, those of us who watched the series can’t shake its omnipresent songs, references and memes. How ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ invaded our brains 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Senate than the inevitable memes ensued: After statistics revealed that 98 percent of African American women voted for Jones in Tuesday’s special election, the #BlackWomen hashtag began trending on social media. Perspective | A ‘Girls Trip’ snub and the troubling black woman-savior trope that bedevils politics and Hollywood 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” with its soft pastels and spacious backdrops, is a virtual meme generator. Good News for MTV’s V.M.A.s: Music Videos Matter Again 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The ostensible reason Gritty memes and jokes flew across the internet, of course, was the lengthy fight over vote-counting came down, as many predicted it would, to the city where American democracy was invented. Thank you, Gritty, for rallying with us to save our democracy 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Many others first heard of White Claw through memes. The Memes Are Pouring the White Claw Down Your Throat! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Moschino was a one-man meme machine before memes properly existed. At Moschino in SoHo, a Tweety Bird Sweater and Other Charms 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Midway through Biden’s first term, supporters of Donald Trump popularized a series of memes depicting the former president as a domineering, Thanos-like figure with blue laser eyes — out to take revenge on his liberal enemies. Biden embraces his ‘Dark Brandon’ alter ego in 2024 campaign 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z But that hasn't stopped the Internet from turning the killer clown into a hilarious meme. Pennywise Dancing the Macarena Is the 'It' Meme You Never Knew You Needed 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z “The meme absolutely cheapens a serious matter,” he wrote. Did Storming Area 51 Teach Us Anything? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z "Very fortunately, from what I've seen it's been nothing but interest and excitement and some quite witty memes," Dempsie told the LA Times of fans' reaction to the news. We Finally Have Confirmation That Gendry Is Returning to Game of Thrones 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Its title is self-explanatory: post photos of cool dogs – your own, known, even memes. Dogged enforcers: the well trained social media world of Dogspotting 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z More significantly, it's well on its way to becoming a popular Internet art meme, with mash-ups of the sculpture popping up all over social media. Paul McCarthy's 'tree' sculpture may be gone, but it lives on in memes 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z We write about dance music through a constant stream of MP3s, reviews, interviews and features – and the odd comedy meme. Blog jam: Harder Blogger Faster 2012-08-06T09:13:40Z Merriweather’s legendary summer of ’73 lineup was so ridiculously overstuffed with greatness that a flier announcing its schedule has recently become a meme. From Jimi and Janis to assorted festivals, 50 years at Merriweather Post 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z But then the meme was turned against them. Biden embraces his ‘Dark Brandon’ alter ego in 2024 campaign 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The jokes and memes her parents send are all in Spanish, a language her husband doesn’t speak. Our group texts are blowing up during the pandemic. And we’re taking the drama personally. 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z It's amusing satire, but instead of shouts of injustice, the meme gleefully separates from reality. Internet memes sprout around Occupy movement 2011-11-23T20:21:11Z The tweet was signed with a W, confirming that the tournament’s favorite meme had reached almost to the highest place in the land. An Anthem to England, Football, and English Defeatedness 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Thanks to me, several Italians now are familiar with the Florida man meme. Stuck stateside needn’t mean you can’t chat with foreign locals — and improve your language skills 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z But on Nov. 10 — with readers still buzzing about Buress' act — Cosby's Twitter account invited readers to make him an Internet meme. Bill Cosby is in role of outcast after sexual assault allegations 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z In 2016, the presidential debate has become a constant, roiling center of meme production, a viral video threatening to explode from every little look or line. Memes, Myself and I: The Internet Lets Us All Run the Campaign 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The phrase became a rallying cry and eventually a meme. Review: The Only Big Name Here Is Still J. Cole’s 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Would it make me the dog in the meme that says “this is fine” while the surrounding room is on fire? As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z But the real trigger point that led to mass production of Nazi and other offensive Pepes was after Hillary Clinton released a denouncement of the meme, which is a milestone in meme history. How Pepe the Frog and Nasty Woman Are Shaping the Election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z He defined a meme as: “a unit of cultural transmission”, encompassing ideas, symbols and practices. From Distracted Boyfriend to Unhelpful Teacher, I love the twists of a meme’s journey | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z And Black women — from Rihanna to Bernice King to the members of Black Twitter — were the first to come publicly to Megan's defense and support her while others made memes about her attack. I'm a Black woman, not a "woman of color." Here's why I make that distinction 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z I mean, a good comic-book panel is not that much different than a meme. John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America” 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z In the wake of the film’s subsequent derisive reviews, it soon became clear that the movie’s star was deeply unhappy with life behind the cowl and we saw all those “Sad Affleck” memes. Ben Affleck's Batman was hard to like – but the man himself deserves some empathy 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Other brands replied to Burger King’s tweet, with KFC’s UK account posting a meme reading, "The best time to delete this post was immediately after posting it. The second best time is now." Burger King UK's tweet about women belonging 'in the kitchen' draws backlash on social media 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z There, in a nutshell, are nearly all the darkly suggestive “X-Files” elements that would feed what William Gibson — in his introduction to the catalogue — calls the flying saucer meme. ‘Flying Saucers Are Real!’: Womack’s new book looks at the heyday of UFO lore 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z That the pictures of them looking silly in their new product would then be made into memes, and that … well, you know what happens next. But Would You Wear It? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The meme, and others riffing on it, became so popular that it earned an entry in Know Your Meme, an online database of memes. Fans used to love ‘Game of Thrones.’ Now they just love criticizing it. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Just as a successful gene is one that transmits biological information from human to human and passes down through generations, so the most successful memes are the ones that resonate widely across the population. From Big Little Lies to Love Island: are memes shaping TV? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z It was a meme of a bald Lady Gaga with the text “A Wig is Torn,” a play on Gaga’s role in last year’s “A Star is Born.” At the 9:30 Club, Charli XCX creates community, if only for one night, with her expansive pop sounds 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z And, sure, maybe a couple long-lived meme formats combined with a chaotic online community doesn’t quite signify a movement. Quitting Your Job Never Looked So Fun 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z “Having this comic and other images from my past works be made into memes before, this was really nothing completely new,” Mr. Green said of his reasoning for creating the elephant image. Why ‘This Is Fine’ Is the Meme This Year Deserves 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z “People were just going on to make jokes about campus and post memes.” Sidechat Wants to Be College Students’ Main Chat 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z For the time being, it is the cringe-proof meme, the zombie meme, the meme that knows no shame. Can anyone kill Gangnam Style? 2012-11-14T20:30:00Z Or at least make it into a Blue Man Group meme. Grounded? How Disney's Dumbo flop could threaten its master plan 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z But there are times when, for me, despite all its true horror, social media – and memes in particular – induce tears of laughter. From Distracted Boyfriend to Unhelpful Teacher, I love the twists of a meme’s journey | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z This time, the clothes-play just seemed calculated to set off a thousand memes. ‘Is It Theater or Is It Real?’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z On TikTok, instructors are set loose as memes; on Twitter, they are pinned down and politically scrutinized. This Is Your Brain on Peloton 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z It also inspired countless memes, including a "Mega Pint" remix uploaded on YouTube, a comical skit posted by YouTuber snerixx and other similar posts on Instagram and Twitter. “Depp v. Heard”: The 6 most shocking moments from Netflix’s doc about the viral celebrity trial 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z “I didn’t create the joke,” Mr. Adams said, citing the meme of Ms. Collette as inspiration. What Does It Mean to ‘Yassify’ Anything? 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z In the wake of the shooting, she was dismissed and ignored, joked about and made into a meme on social media. I'm a Black woman, not a "woman of color." Here's why I make that distinction 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z The bold aesthetic choices that drew so much flak and snarky memes in Christmases past are noticeably absent. The White House Christmas Decorations Look Strikingly Normal 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z “She said, ‘Mom, you need to do something to become a meme,’” said Ms. Sanderson, 51. The Accidental Celebrities of the Impeachment Inquiry 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Seeing the program's hashtag trend on Twitter is enough to elicit a Pavlovian response at delighting in whatever new memes may have resulted in that day's smackdown. A farewell to harms: Meghan McCain exits "The View" but may have tainted it forever 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Were Republicans able to counter with memes of their own? How Pepe the Frog and Nasty Woman Are Shaping the Election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Rifling through Instagram feeds, they register with half yawns the sponsored posts and thirst traps, the Throwback Thursday selfies and banal memes of cats. Who Is rg_bunny1: An Instagram Whodunit 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Mantras like “respectfully,” “this is a safe place,” “make sure you love you,” and “God is watching” are tagged to most of his memes. Respectfully, Justin Laboy moves from online stardom to TV 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z They get such news on their phones, often from College Daily, in a stream of memes and Internet-speak. The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The list, which incorporates views, likes, shares and trends into its rankings, showcases TikTok’s power to generate conversation and drive meme culture. TikTok’s Biggest Hits of the Year — and Its Predictions for 2020 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The current meme craze baffles him, but he’s enjoying hearing what people do to his song. Remixing Smash Mouth’s “All Star” has become an art form, and its writer is loving it 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Bernie Sanders’s supporters produced a steady stream of memes to elevate his campaign’s message. Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Chan is one of a number of people seemingly weary of the 24-second cycle of Internet memes, viral distractions and celebrity hearsay that provide the fodder for today’s online intelligentsia. Unplugging Without FOMO 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The jokesters evolved into a hyper-loyal online fan base, many of whom claim they helped put him in the White House with “meme magic.” Marianne Williamson’s fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z “A year from now, you’ll all be laughing about this virus,” reads one recent meme. It’s OK to Find Humor in Some of This 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z What brings this to mind is that a new version of the meme appeared last week. How Google made me get into bed with Hitler 2013-03-17T00:05:49Z “Call Me Maybe” has become kind of a musical meme—everyone from Katy Perry to Harvard baseball players is lip-syncing it on YouTube. Carly Rae Jepsen on Gay Rights, ?Call Me Maybe? and Singing With ?Dreamy? John Mayer 2012-05-18T10:00:59Z One encouraging sign is that videos about topics that high schoolers are all studying sometimes generate thousands of views and become memes in themselves. High Schools to TikTok: We’re Catching Feelings 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Reddit, as well as being a breeding ground for memes and gifs, has a reputation, sometimes hard to square with site users used to its different face, for being a toxic, misogynistic community. Is Reddit’s Ellen Pao just too radical for Silicon Valley’s unequal terrain? 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The meme revels in the contradiction between Jordan’s legendarily aggressive persona and his free-flowing tears. Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won’t Die 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Like a forest fire, memes use up the fuel that allows them to proliferate. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z Kamala Harris’s dancing turned into a meme, celebrated by supporters but ridiculed by critics. The Election Brings Dance to the Streets for a Collective Roar 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Intellectual History wrote, “Bashing Lilla’s review of Robin’s book seems to be the newest Internet meme.” Corey Robin?s ?Reactionary Mind? Stirs Internet Debate 2012-01-18T23:05:28Z Soon a burgeoning meme’s worth of material accumulated: songs, arrangements, set designs, makeup concepts, choreography and even key art — everything except an actual show. ‘Ratatouille’ Review: What’s Small and Hairy With Big Dreams? 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z Miles Klee, a 36-year-old writer in Los Angeles, heard from a friend that a meme he had made in April about vaccinated people enjoying a promiscuous summer had been reposted by Mr. Musk. Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Sometimes it seems as if show writers were borrowing their gags directly from existent Internet memes. Television: ?Parks and Recreation? and Other Sitcoms? Hashtags and Memes 2011-12-09T22:31:54Z Thanks, memes, for keeping a legendary scene alive — and thanks for giving Tom Cruise a good laugh. Tom Cruise Can't Stop Laughing at These Memes of Him 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z In the bowels of the federal bureaucracy, in Cubicle 717-02 of the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s headquarters in Bethesda, Md., the U.S. government’s experiment with memes is getting weird. How a federal bureaucrat uses astronaut babies and dogs riding pigeons to try to save your life 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z I consider the meme in the context of other art-making practices, from World War I political art to the early collages of Pablo Picasso to the appropriations of the Pictures Generation. Essential Arts & Culture: Stoppard's new play, L.A.'s Wrigley Field, Dudamel's best-ever L.A. Phil piece 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z It's not that we didn't get why people wanted to talk, joke and meme this to death. Our group chat is a sacred space to talk openly about being Black in America 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Many women find undeniable truth, liberation, and empowerment in the “strong black woman” meme. “Oh, girl, get up. You got this”: Why the “strong black woman” stereotype is an albatross 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z But of course no museum on the planet today would undertake a show about memes and snapshots and social media without expecting everyone to Instagram it, hashtag it on Twitter and flood Facebook with selfies. Review | Museums wants 2 show u memez now. They shud be careful. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z So how did an innocent baby photo become a Japanese meme? A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme 2010-09-16T12:56:00Z Some have even traveled to the spot in Des Plaines for photos and memes. This chaotic duo sounds like nothing and everything you’ve ever heard 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z By “over there,” he means pretty much anywhere overseas, but the documentary, directed by Sally Sussman Morina, then uses archival footage to show just how “Midnight Express” made a meme out of a Turkish prison. ‘Midnight Return’ and ‘Becoming Bond’: The Smuggler and the Spy 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z So even when Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton exit the campaign stage, the next iterations of “Deplorable” merchandise, Nasty Woman Twitter handles and Hillary health memes will live on. Memes, Myself and I: The Internet Lets Us All Run the Campaign 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z For her, the kind of engagement possible on the internet — memes and one-liners about crucifixes — can ignite as much critical thought about a novel as an annotation. How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z And with them, Three's new campaign comes rumbling into our lives: a trying-so-hard-a-little-bit-of-poo-might-come-out attempt at creating a meme. The new Three ad? It's pony 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z One much-derided and flatly delivered line became an Internet meme and was scrubbed from the game’s official release this month: “That wizard came from the moon.” Destiny Is a New Shooter Game From Activision and Bungie 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z A meme is currently circulating on Twitter in which people post two contrasting photos: one is “me at the beginning of 2016”; the other is “me at the end of 2016.” The Worst Year Ever, Until Next Year 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z But the man who made a meme out of Nietzsche’s notion that “time is a flat circle” isn’t going to tell a simple story about hard work and steady forward progress. Review | Matthew McConaughey is ‘alright, alright, alright’ — and thinks you will be too 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z What Hawke intended as an observation about marketing hyperbole quickly morphed into a meme about high-low culture, snobbery and fanboy hegemony. Perspective | This summer showed us that all kinds of movies can become hits on their own terms 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z His illusory availability, combined with his exotically imperfect looks and self-deprecating charm, launched a thousand adoring memes. Waiting for Cumberbatch 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Someone once superimposed a Clorox label on a picture of Gavin drinking from a mug, making reference to a morbid suicide meme. Meet Gavin, the eight-year-old with a face shared more than 1bn times 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z And that’s precisely why Chinn wanted to make a funny, heartwarming comedy about Florida, the most belittled state in America, the place that made the "Florida Man" meme a shorthand for ignorance and idiocy. Forget Florida Man: Summer belongs to the trailer park queens of "Florida Girls" 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z And all manner of famous quotes gone to the hogs, from movies to other memes: How 30-50 feral hogs invaded Twitter in 3-5 minutes 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Zodiac sign memes dominate Twitter, where popular accounts like @astrology serve “aesthetically pleasing astrology posts” and @poetastrologers rewrites horoscopes with literary flair. How Astrology Took Over the Internet 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z You can see it in intentionally bizarre “dank memes” and the catastrophically misguided missives of Weird Twitter. 'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z A new unauthorized biography of Melania Trump is titled “Free, Melania,” and although the words refer to the left-wing fantasy meme that the first lady is a prisoner begging for liberation, the comma demands unpacking. Perspective | Is Melania Trump sending coded messages, or are we just talking to ourselves? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z And even we, in our muddle of memes, feel something like the awe they must have experienced standing before these 600-year-old paintings, where human invention stretches toward the sacred. Jan Van Eyck’s Diamond-Hard Brilliance, as You’ll Never See It Again 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The meme moves inside the mainstream narrative, traditional media, the campaigns themselves. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z “No doubt the same fate arguably would doom an application for a viral internet meme if it were used ubiquitously by many users,” Peckham says. Lizzo is '100% that bitch' … but can she trademark it? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z He continues to position himself as all things to all listeners — tough and vulnerable, imperious and approachable, narcissistic and empathetic, tormented and carefree, man and meme — because YOLO. Started from the bottom, now he’s insufferable 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z A phrase that popped out of “Serial” producer Dana Chivvis’s mouth during a re-enactment of a crucial event — “There’s a shrimp sale at the Crab Crib” —became a tasty Internet meme. Dwight Garner Reviews the 'Serial' Season Finale 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z As the meme spread, it devolved into near meaningless: people are now posting photos of just about anything with the phrase attached. This Is the Joke That Liberals Need 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z “If there is a Picasso of memes, we may never know who they are.” How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The flub quickly became a dreaded Internet meme. Gwen Stefani mispronounced Stephen Colbert's name at the Emmys 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z After Oliver and his team won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, the Last Week Tonight host pushed the DC Public Schools meme even further. Why #DCPublicSchools Started Trending During the Emmys 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Jennifer Paxton suggests it's more likely that Celtic culture spread to the British Isles as a kind of Iron Age "meme," by way of a Celtic-speaking mercantile elite along the Atlantic edge of Europe. Hey, Irish Americans: Your "Celtic" tattoo isn't Celtic — because that whole idea was made up 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Today it’s an actress who loses her job because she posted a meme that compares America’s polarization to Nazi Germany. Outspoken conservative loses job over ‘problematic’ comments 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z The only way to process it all is through “these completely insane jokes,” Wally says, as if predicting memes and trolls, an absurdist’s stage where politicians provide entertainment and comedians supply the news. ‘My Dinner With André’ at 40: Still Serving Hot Takes 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z In addition to providing an outlet for those feelings of loss, the memes help to communicate the risk that the Delta variant poses. So, You’ve Been Cast as the Delta Variant 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Sadly, many of these memes were only a tad less cynical than similar jabs from far-right pundits. Perspective | 21 Savage is facing deportation. Curb your memes and locate your humanity. 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The best example I can give is from a meme that tends to go viral as soon as October 1 hits. It's always an "Ina Garten Girl" summer 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z She was a meme of 2011, a singer who emerged seemingly fully formed from the ether who was in short order revealed to be, get this, a singer who was not always fully formed. Music: ?Born to Die,? Lana Del Rey?s Debut Album 2012-01-25T15:42:22Z While some are warmed by the shots, others are exhausted by a meme that exalts a Clinton whose candidacy helped torpedo the Democratic Party to its lowest political power in years. The Hillary Clinton Selfie as Political Salve, or Weapon 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The mom’s reference to the tunes and other sound bites quickly went viral, with online users turning them into memes and original songs. Angry mom's bizarre road rage incident with Lyft driver, passenger goes viral 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z “He could create a situation where he’s promoting young meme creators and contributing to the community by tagging whoever created it or including watermarks.” Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z It's become something of an internet meme — a GIF response at the ready every time someone says something inane on social media. From "The Bear" to "The Menu," this was the year pop culture faced the horrors of fine dining 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Equal parts country twang and hip-hop bass, “Old Town Road” lent itself well to cowboy memes and line-dance riffs. From TikTok smash to Billboard record-breaker: How ‘Old Town Road’ gamed the system and won the summer 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Cain said there was a small social cost to pay for not staying current with every Internet meme. Unplugging Without FOMO 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Brown is thrilled that the kids raised on his characters and these important lessons grew up to celebrate them with memes – a great honor, on today's internet. "Arthur" creator on iconic cartoon's 25-year legacy and those "legendary" memes 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z In this regard, it is often not the brain that controls the mind, but the memes that compose the mind that control the brain. How religious fundamentalism hijacks your brain, as explained by a neuroscientist 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z I met him on Instagram after he commented on a meme I had posted. 'Painful, exhilarating, overrated': 16-year-olds on being in love 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Did you know your “Shout-out to all the pear” comment would inspire Internet memes? Rick Ross Talks New Album, Adele Remix and His Love of Pears 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z I haven’t yet seen this meme repeated in screenplays in this economic downturn, but there may be hints of it in fashion. | Lanvin: At Lanvin, Pricey Designs for Society?s Decline 2010-08-10T20:57:00Z Within hours, he’s become an Internet meme, his career jump-started not by artistic integrity but Twitter ubiquity. When you were at the movies this year, reality wasn’t too far away 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Her reaction to the ice cream cones has become a meme, with many people posting images of President Biden with his favorite snack along with the words “Ice cream so good.” How PinkyDoll Mesmerized the Internet 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z "This one got cut from #BieberRoast. I get it," he wrote, sharing a meme bearing the truth nugget. Hannibal Buress' 'transparent' Bieber roast joke is cut, so he shares it 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z That meme, like most, burned out quick as a Roman candle. What Was, Is and Will Be Popular 2013-09-06T22:52:30Z A meme that was created to poke fun at women's silly and sometimes justifiable spending habits began to be applied to the entirety of the female experience from dating, traveling, periods, friendship and makeup. Girl math vs. Boy math: an insight into the internet's tit-for-tat battle of the sexes 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z The company’s portfolio includes some of the most notable meme accounts on Instagram. Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Suddenly Drops Memes Everywhere 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z In recent years, memes have been deployed to influence election results, most notably in 2016, when Russia’s Internet Research Agency used them to spread propaganda and misinformation about Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton. Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z But it was “a very funny meme,” the undergraduate at Toronto’s Ryerson University student recalled. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z And that party, as it has evolved over the past four years, isn’t likely to be offended by a few Pepe the Frog memes or ugly conspiracy theories. Donald Trump Jr. and the future of Trumpism: He upended expectations four years ago. What is he now? 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z But Election 2016 has represented a turning point for the meme — at least as far as political imagery is concerned. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It has spawned t-shirts, mock trailers and endless memes. Barbenheimer cheesecake brownies are the darkest, pinkest treat of the summer 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z The meme features a picture of President Abraham Lincoln. Maya Angelou’s new stamp uses a quote that may not be entirely hers 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z So proclaims an ALL meme making its way across the internet. The Christian right needs Jesus: Why its leaders are so indifferent to human suffering 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Would that last brazen gesture become a meme today? Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z And most crucially, the people I followed on Twitter — a cross-section of what you might call The Very Online Left — was awash with jokes and memes about Mafia-related movies and shows. Why the left loves Martin Scorsese movies – especially right now 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z Among the Silicon Valley set, it’s become a meme to post screenshots of all the faces logging in for a video conference, like a dystopian version of “The Brady Bunch.” Hard times, soft pants: Life with the housebound white-collar workforce 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Earlier this week, B.o.B launched into a Twitter essay arguing that the earth is in fact flat, defending his claim with screenshots of trigonometry and conspiracy theory memes. Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Diss B.o.B on the 'Nightly Show' 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Where does he go after bringing home a gold medal, becoming a meme and taking the crafting world by storm? Tom Daley Is All-Around Gold 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Contrary to popular internet mythology, Keanu Reeves is not a human meme. Keanu Reeves on making “Siberia,” a movie set in Russia that’s not about politics 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z A 13-year-old girl called Rebecca Black became an ironic internet meme when "Friday", her cheesy pop video made courtesy of a bespoke service called Ark Music Factory, went viral and clocked up 10m YouTube hits. Justin Bieber and Katy Perry live 2011-03-20T00:05:30Z If you are sharing Columbine memes, maybe you don’t really “want” anyone to commit shootings, but you’re contributing to that culture. Why are women obsessed with true crime? Rachel Monroe has some answers 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Some internet memes require no explanation: an obviously funny image, for instance, or a play on a familiar phrase. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z By the time the season ended in December, the duo had become fan favorites, inspiring memes, think pieces, conspiracy theories and style tips. Simona Tabasco, ‘White Lotus’ Fan Favorite, on the Best Parts of Italy 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Pharrell’s ridiculously outsize hat from the Grammy’s was such a hit that it got its own twitter account, became a meme, and even ended up in a museum. The year in viral: From “Too Many Cooks” to the “Oh hi becky” tweet 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z I’m talking about the #CheerioChallenge, the viral meme in which doting dads compete to show the world just how much love they can pour upon their tiny sons and daughters. The #CheerioChallenge message to dads: you can still be an idiot after fatherhood 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Lawrence Fishburne as Gooding’s stern, politically woke father, Jason “Furious” Styles, made for one of the more memorable dads in screen history, his angry gaze making for many memes two decades later. John Singleton found a perfect marriage of movie and moment 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z “My meme account has definitely made me more independent,” Rowan said. Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z One detects this meme in the deep structure of works as different as “Oedipus the King,” “The Great Gatsby” and “The Hobbit.” ‘Meanwhile, back at the ranch’ and other storytelling tricks explained in ‘Plots’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z “This meme claims as collective something that otherwise might feel individual or unique. It finds a shared point of connection to bridge differences and create a community within large, amorphous and flexible boundaries,” she said. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z It is no surprise, then, that the most popular shows of the moment also generate the most memes. From Big Little Lies to Love Island: are memes shaping TV? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s become a meme, as 2016 winds down, to refer to the past twelve months as uniquely bad. Carrie Fisher and George Michael Were the Same in 1 Way 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Where we’ve seen it since: The Internet loves to point out the irony of Rose’s promise through cynical memes that play on the inherent cruelty of her impossible choice. Analysis | After 20 years, these 8 ‘Titanic’ moments still won’t die. Unlike Jack. 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z “It’s the new normal,” says Benjamin A. Lyons, a researcher who studies memes at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. “It’s the current background noise.” How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Because when the judges make a meme of staring at your bum, they are kind of asking for it. Dancing with the Stars Recap: J.R. Martinez Earns Two Perfect Scores 2011-11-08T14:15:00Z The Parents Television and Media Council recently cautioned that the “incredibly violent” “Squid Game” should be on parents’ radar, because children are finding ways to watch it and are also being exposed to violent memes. You don’t like violence but want to watch ‘Squid Game.’ These tips can help. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z It was around this time that a viral “Thank You Planned Parenthood” meme cropped up online. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z The meme quickly spread, with “Glee” and “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy tweeting, “These designers horrifying views are never in fashion. Their clothes are as ugly as their hate.” Dolce and Gabbana dig in deeper over “children of chemistry” 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z “Someone once said to me, our memes are what you call wholesome memes,” Galbo said, and in his next breath proved he was fluent in the online vernacular. How a federal bureaucrat uses astronaut babies and dogs riding pigeons to try to save your life 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Social media groups where cannabis-consuming parents can trade notes without fear of judgment are full of funny weed memes and short videos on topics such as “How to turn a pumpkin into a bowl.” Marijuana’s last taboo: Parents who get stoned 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The crossover between Web memes and rap music actually has a long history, stretching back to the birth of both genres. Hip-hop stays current by mining Internet memes 2011-08-16T19:17:00Z “Someone in my group chat was like, ‘LOL did everyone see how Elon straight up stole a meme that Miles made?’” Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z In addition to spawning countless memes and catchphrases, she also helped inspire a clothing line at Saks Fifth Avenue. The 16 Most Influential Fictional Characters of 2015 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Then a few months ago, I was scrolling through Twitter and came across a meme captioned, “When someone asks you to go have dinner at The Cheesecake Factory and it's not even the weekend.” The cult of Cheesecake Factory and its baffling, larger-than-life charms 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z His focus on African Americans in his community affirms that value, pithily summed up by the meme Black Lives Matter. Andre D. Wagner's stirring photographs tell it like it is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Teachers used computers with identifiable names, so teens — who had “dumb iPad names” — could easily distinguish adults’ devices and avoid looping them in on the memes, she explained. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z And rapper Curtis Roach made an anthem for the endless days at home with his song and meme “Bored in the House.” A year in 60 secs: TikTok lists top videos, creators of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The fiasco launched countless punchlines, memes and a probe of what went wrong. Academy 'deeply regrets' Oscars best film fiasco, as accountant is blamed 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z That’s not to say that there are not serious political positions at stake in the memes — “Big Bird LOL” did lead to an important discussion about the funding of public television. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z They tackle topics that range from breakups to parental abandonment to favorite TV shows, heartbreak and memes in an upbeat, sisterly way. Black Friendship, Broadcasted 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z She is a reliable generator of controversy, and a reliable generator of memes. Miley Cyrus Delivers Many Story Lines to 2015 V.M.A.s 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Though director Jennifer Kent is aware of the meme, she has not commented on it. The Babadook: how the horror movie monster became a gay icon 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The unusually precise wording caught the internet’s collective interest, sparking an abundance of memes and an entire Heinz campaign. How a cybersecurity attack at Clorox caused a Hidden Valley Ranch shortage 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Now, let’s say you’ve just fired off a hilarious tweet and are watching it transform into a viral meme in front of your eyes. Lizzo is '100% that bitch' … but can she trademark it? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z For her, the weekend was a celebration with a renewed sense of urgency: “There’s this meme that’s been going around that’s like: ‘It’s no longer Gay Pride Month. At New York’s Pride weekend, a noticeable cloud from the Supreme Court 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z When executed well, détournement is an exercise in getting the last word in, since art lingers longer than a snarky internet meme. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z It captures both the playfulness of the culture that has evolved around snapping and sharing images, especially memes, even as it suggests the darker side of surveillance and control latent in our social networks. Review | Museums wants 2 show u memez now. They shud be careful. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z They have come to infiltrate both our memes and our dreams. Digital Artist Yung Jake Scores With Emoji Portraits 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z On the side, in jaunty lettering, was that title, borrowed from a meme she spotted on Instagram that made her laugh: “My favorite season is the fall of the patriarchy.” With Big, Bold Art, Sarah Cain Redefines Seriousness in Painting 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The woman-focused entertainment site, The Mary Sue, even mocked the image with several memes. Marvel Is Actually Going to Publish That Sexist Spider-Woman Cover 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z “My TikTok For You page is flooded with Among Us memes. People are making parodies and voice-overs of Among Us scenes. It grew bigger than any other game.” With Nowhere to Go, Teens Flock to Among Us 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Josh Ostrovsky’s outrageous alter ego rose to fame over the past few years by sharing funny photos and memes with his millions of Twitter and Instagram followers, often without attribution. Meet the 30 Most Influential People on the Internet 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Though it's unlikely the extremely online folks who conceived the Barbenheimer meme expected the movies would have much in common, it turns out that they do. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z “Their objective is to do this to as many people as possible. Every meme page has encountered one of these people.” Instagram Bans Hundreds of Accounts With Stolen User Names 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z They skewer white privilege, dwell on its irrationality, and, in so doing, turn aggressors into mockable memes. The Summer of Coupon Carl, Permit Patty, and the Videos That Turn Cop-Callers into Mockable Memes 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z This week, it has begun rolling out across dozens of popular Instagram meme pages. Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Since then, the group has become a happy home to memes that center on the experience of being a second-generation Asian living in a predominantly English-speaking culture. The Story of the Subtle Asian Traits Facebook Group 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Those memes are, after all, at least a few weeks old — ancient history in today's supersaturated media. 'Vote or Die Laughing': Culture Clash fires off the jokes as fast as Hillary and Donald trade insults 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Analyses of memes that examine their specific content at face value often miss that virtually all election-related memes are inherently a critique of the election in general. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z The term virus is problematic because it references only proliferation, whereas a better epidemiology of the meme would also account for how the rapid explosion of attention might preclude durability. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z So let me break down the origins of this fast-growing internet meme, beginning with the phrase "girl math." Girl math vs. Boy math: an insight into the internet's tit-for-tat battle of the sexes 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z It simultaneously elevated meme creation to an art form and created a platform to validate everyone's voice equally, from marginalized communities to hate groups. 20 of the most important moments in internet history 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The worker pinch is even inspiring social media memes. As Diners Return, Restaurants Face a New Hurdle: Finding Workers 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z “In the pre-internet days, that was a meme,” said Alan Light, former editor in chief of Vibe and a contributor to The New York Times. Roxanne Finally Gets Her Revenge, 3 Decades After Her Hit Single 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z “This theme is harder to meme, for sure.” The White House Christmas Decorations Look Strikingly Normal 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z It was a meme in that sense, that it was in the cultural atmosphere and everyone was trying to rap over it. Hip-hop stays current by mining Internet memes 2011-08-16T19:17:00Z Online forums like Reddit, Discord and Twitter created digital homes for role-playing game subcultures to cross-pollinate and thrive, and from there, pieces of insider gaming lingo worked their way into the meme vernacular. Who’s Playing Dungeons & Dragons These Days? The Usual Fans, and Then Some. 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z And in high schools, AirDrop has become a tool for teenage mischief — with memes as weapons of rebellion. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Cue the beginning of "I Love Bacon" T-shirts, bacon scented lip balms and "Epic Bacon" humor, which is now a cringey slang associated with peak millennial meme culture. Here's how we fell in (and out of) love with bacon 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z He can’t completely avoid the fan following that Greg has cultivated, but he tries not to let the adulation and the memes infiltrate his performance. How the ‘Succession’ Star Nicholas Braun Elevates Cousin Greg 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Soon after quarantined Italians took to their balconies to sing the national anthem in unison, people made memes replacing the anthem with American pop songs. The Unending Anxiety of Coronavirus Content 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Last month the film enthusiasts of Twitter took up a new meme: A user would post the line “these two movies have the same cinematographer” and add two images. Do Cinematographers Have a Signature? Let’s Try a Test 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The “Hotline Bling” video is also the moment when Drake fully becomes a meme. Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Others feature light, chatty explorations of memes, schemes, or tweets, buoyed by the hosts’ breezy rapport and good humor. Three Podcasts To Listen to In August 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The concept springs from Glover's awareness of online culture and memes, including the stature "A Goofy Movie" holds among Black millennial nerds. Sometimes we can go home again: “Atlanta” comes full circle in its final season, only richer 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z A new flavor of an old treat, memes allow the individual to put the political process to work in the construction and maintenance of our own identities. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z But consider what the “polls are biased” meme asks us to believe. “The Pollsters Are Biased” Is the New “The Reporters Are Biased” 2012-09-25T14:14:06Z A picture of the cat became an all-purpose Internet meme in late 2012; from there, Grumpy Cat became a small merchandising empire. Grumpy Cat’s Lifetime holiday movie: Claws out for Claus Will win: “Pose” is up against the behemoth “Game of Thrones,” which triggered parodies and homages, memes and talk show publicity. Emmy Predictions: Amid newcomers, will ‘Thrones’ slay again? 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The meme is therefore rooted in black American internet culture, says Attiah – an attempt to find humour in real-world racism and oppression. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The craze for the sandwich began almost instantly, with people sharing memes on social media favorably comparing the new sandwich to its competitor, Chick-fil-A. Popeyes announces Chicken Sandwich has sold out month early, expected to be gone by end of week 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Rainere — much like Ghislaine Maxwell, another bizarrely enigmatic figure accused of sex trafficking — has the sublime appeal of an internet meme, which is how he has been cast since “The Vow” premiered last month. Nxivm Had a Cult Leader Made for the Internet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The meme, she said, was meant to articulate an experience that other nonbinary people might relate to. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Brangelina fans basically broke the Internet speculating about the cause, wallowing in their feelings about it, and finding the appropriate memes for the occasion. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's Wax Figures Have Split Up 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Books have been written, blogs have been started, memes have been made extolling the sensorial ecstasies associated with a ground beef patty, a slice of cheese, a pillow of potato roll and a blood-red tomato. Beauty is in the mouth of the beholder: why veggie burgers deserve a chance 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z This isn't the most dignified origin story for a cartoon character, but it is light years away from the figure that stars in memes intended to dehumanize and intimidate. In PBS' "Feels Good Man," Pepe the Frog is the "superhero" who gets vindication 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z There’s nothing quite like this show, but if you like “Baskets” and weird but wholesome memes, it might be for you. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z This quickly became a go-to Twitter meme as the combination of a relentless news cycle mixed with the droll, repetitive reality of life in lockdown, giving existence in 2020 a Groundhog Day-esque quality. The 20 Phrases That Defined 2020 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Almost every time I read “meme” it’s in a different context. Letters to the Editor 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Economic problems, tensions between competing groups, discussions of political power, are all addressed not through political action, but through meme and symbol — the Nazi salute, the swastika, the inspirational film. The “Dead Poets Society” takeover of America: How memes ate our politics 2014-02-26T23:59:00Z Often, memes revolve around an inside joke — say, a screen capture from an obscure video game — but just as often they make jokes of the source material. A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme 2010-09-16T12:56:00Z “We build people up and we tear them down,” Radel added, citing Ken Bone, the red sweater-wearing undecided voter who became a meme before the Internet dug up his less-than-wholesome online comments. How we ended up vetting celebrities as carefully as politicians 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z These graphs of the trending popularity of various memes from the 2012 election show, as you might expect, a steep rise and sudden decline. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z The memes are funny, like those about rescuing aliens from Area 51, but a lot less fanciful, as they’re talking about an actual oppressive regime, not the possibility of E.T.s in the desert. Did Storming Area 51 Teach Us Anything? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Eubanks said this particular meme worked because it reflected constancy in life. The Future Teen Stars of America Live on TikTok 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Corona beer became the butt of dark-comedy memes premised on the notion of plummeting sales; its owner, Constellation Brands, issued a defensive news release saying that in fact sales were up. ‘Covid’ is a word most of us dread. But some think it could make a good branding opportunity. 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z But here's a quick rundown of some of the best moments from Stranger Things season 2 told through a very post-1984 medium: memes on Twitter. The Best Stranger Things Season 2 Moments in 10 Memes 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z As is happening with Williamson, the memes themselves fueled viral fascination with Trump. Marianne Williamson’s fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday, Aug. 31: our contest for a metaphor or meme to describe 2020. Style Invitational Week 1399: The lie-zy days of summer 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z He spoke with me on the phone this morning about how the meme began. How the 'Kanye West is Tracy Jordan' meme started in Seattle 2010-09-28T20:49:00Z The 26-year-old “Harlem Shake” producer proves he’s more than just a chapter in Internet meme history with his debut album, Aa. 9 Albums to Listen to in March 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z A frenzy of memes ensued, comparing them to everything from Beatles’ albums to journalism and even vaccine statuses. Ball Gowns Galore! And Other Cannes Film Festival Fashion Statements 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z “Unreasonably dark joke,” read a coronavirus meme circulating on social media in recent weeks. It’s OK to Find Humor in Some of This 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z A photo that was snapped during one of the takes eventually became a meme last fall. ArtsBeat: Anatomy of a Scene: Video of ‘Under the Skin’ 2014-04-03T19:20:58Z In April 2020, he shared a meme created by a comedian that included a photo of her dog, which some say Mr. Musk tried to pass off as his own. Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z By Wednesday, the original design had transitioned into a fully-fledged internet meme, altered and hastily reconfigured much like last years pervasive image of Hillary Clinton texting from the belly of military plane cargo hold. Fighting for equality, one meme at a time 2013-03-29T15:50:00Z In an age when editors of monthlies must compete, seemingly impossibly, with the daily dopamine hits of ’grams and memes and TikToks, The World of Interiors appears to occupy an earlier, more dignified era. Inside The World of Interiors, Condé Nast’s Secret Weapon 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The vitriol was so widespread that multiple topics and memes related to the two-hour film trended throughout the night and over the weekend. Fans, Timbaland rip Lifetime's Aaliyah biopic on social media 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z You might recognize Acaster from British panel shows or from the meme of his appearance on the celebrity version of “Great British Baking Show,” which he speaks about at length here. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z You might see it on a poster, or on an Internet meme; it’s done for the sake of provocation, for the sake of expressing anger. Trump isn’t Hitler, but let’s talk about fascism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Affection for it has become a personality trait; memes of people running late to class or work with an iced coffee in tow are a long-running joke on social media. Does Anyone Drink Hot Coffee Anymore? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z “Finding recovery memes helped me get through it.” How Memes and a Good Laugh Can Help People in Recovery 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Which reminds me: "Watch the Throne" has one other reference to a meme star. Hip-hop stays current by mining Internet memes 2011-08-16T19:17:00Z But if meme makers typically bypass the creators of the original image, certain artists are using memes to make their own statements. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The two men’s charm is not a result of keeping up with the latest memes and trends. A printing press operator and a snail expert? These museum workers have become unlikely TikTok stars. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Swanson has been a breakout character on the show, inspiring a legion of tributes and memes on the Internet. Nick Offerman mans up at the Moore 2013-03-14T23:54:43Z She's also not surprised that people are using memes as a means of describing and asserting their regional identities. Which hot dog are you? The enduring appeal of regional food in the global digital age 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Schimkowitz notes that “a lot of people who are creating memes are teenagers” who don’t automatically protect their viral creations with trademark applications. Lizzo is '100% that bitch' … but can she trademark it? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z I adore the twists and turns of a meme’s journey. From Distracted Boyfriend to Unhelpful Teacher, I love the twists of a meme’s journey | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z She got a deluge of SpongeBob memes before she switched her AirDrop off, but she did get a kick out of an image with a teacher’s face edited onto a giraffe. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z No, I’m talking about the sort of scenes that start reaction memes. 'Game of Thrones': 9 Especially Gut-Wrenching Moments 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Maybe another Trumpist — say, Don Jr., who speaks in Twitter-troll memes and hosts an online show called “Triggered” — will be its next interpreter. President Trump’s Show Has Been Canceled 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z She understood memes years ago – the fascination with heart-shaped potatoes in The Gleaners and I is very now – and Faces Places is a riposte to celebrity culture, promoting “ordinary” people as photographic subjects. Agnès Varda, the queen of the meme 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z But I done been through way worse things in my life than somebody putting me on a meme. 21 Savage on ICE Detention, the Grammys and His Uncertain Future 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Young fans on Twitter christened themselves the #BongHive, while the film generated as many playful memes as it did brow-furrowed think pieces. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 1 – Parasite 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Drake is something of a meme artist himself, or at minimum a meme archivist-historian. Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The Year of Our Lord 2019 yielded a most beautiful meme, a two-word phrase whose very utterance was enough to evoke rapturous sighs and flushed cheeks: Hot Priest. "The New Pope" is still sexy and it knows it 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Regarding today’s hot takes and memes: “Woke me when it’s over.” A Liberal Uneasy in the World of #MeToo Feminism 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z She posts negative memes on Facebook about how ugly she is, how depressed she is and how bad life is. Perspective | Ask Amy: Reader wonders how to help a depressed friend 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z “I would be down — bread is bread,” said the teenager who runs the meme page @BigDadWhip. Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Suddenly Drops Memes Everywhere 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The members of One Direction remain the musical embodiment of the Ryan Gosling “Hey Girl” meme — limpid, malleable, sensitive, here for you. One Direction made it to ‘Four,’ which is more of a feat than ‘Four’ itself So how did pink wine, only recently purchased from the bottom shelves of the Safeway wine aisle, become the only acceptable drink of summer, a meme and a rallying cry? Rosé, really? The story of pink wine’s path from tacky to chic. 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z As his meme accounts grew in popularity, so did his status. Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z It’ll be like one of Warhol’s movies, but better because Warhol never invented a popular meme. Meme team: after Rihanna-Lupita, what if other viral moments became movies? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z To calm everyone’s nerves, Mr. Dempsie provided an answer of sorts a few years ago, tweeting that he was “still rowin’” — a remark that prompted countless memes and kept hope alive for the character’s return. Joe Dempsie on ‘Game of Thrones,’ Gendry and Shirtless Scenes 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Then came the Kardashians, the “Real Housewives,” a fire hose of memes and an army of spunky aestheticians waving hypodermic needles on TikTok. The Art of Botox 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z He also wants to decouple the character’s image from the meme who “stuck around the internet long enough to become an institutionally recognized hate mascot,” an experience that Furie describes as “a nightmare.” Pepe the Frog’s creator raises $20,000 to reclaim him from the alt-right 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z When she walked off the stage, a reporter asked her to rate her performance and she replied, “I’ll tell you later when I see the memes.” Ironic Occultists for Marianne Williamson 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z And who among us hasn’t accidentally called for a revolution by sharing a meme they liked on Instagram? Zip it, Kim Kardashian – Taylor Swift is the Marmite we're all coming to love 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z His lengthy rants in the film became a recurrent meme with subtitles laid over the footage to create parodies of everything from sporting events to current affairs. Bruno Ganz, actor who played Hitler in Downfall, dies aged 77 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z His image — the hippie locks and earring, that scruffy Elizabethan beard — is the Mona Lisa meme of literature. Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z You might expect a defamation trial pitting one movie star against another to unleash a fire hose of debased memes in both directions, but that’s not what’s happening here. TikTok’s Amber Heard Hate Machine 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z But then one day, I looked around and realized that the precious leisure time I used to give to literature had slowly been overtaken by memes and exhaustion and Netflix. My phone helped me fall in love with books again 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z This was an administration whose “Downfall” bunker memes wrote themselves, marking a political period many observers saw as the inevitable result of Americans’ infatuation with the amoral swagger and sharkskin impunity of classic gangster movies. Perspective | Trump’s bizarre post-election behavior isn’t a tantrum or a coup. It’s fan service. 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z So how do you extend the life of a meme? Marine asks out Betty White on YouTube 2011-07-18T17:30:00Z "Old Town Road" is his first bona fide hit, ascending first on the video app TikTok and inspiring countless memes and tributes. Lil Nas X and "Old Town Road" expose the myth of Nashville's country-purity standards 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Like all meme jokes, it stops being funny when you write it down. The Worst Year Ever, Until Next Year 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Several users posted memes using Pringle’s photo that poked fun at the toddler’s looks, insinuating that Anderson was ugly or resembled a leprechaun. Mother of Toddler With Rare Disorder Fights Daughter's Online Bullies 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Chas Steinbrugge, 19, a college freshman who runs the meme account @Trigomemetry, is also the creator of Meme Citations, a website that provides the origins of memes in Modern Language Association format. Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z An Internet meme that turned into a massive in-joke that the news media keeps falling for. Normcore: Fashion Movement or Massive In-Joke? 2014-04-02T21:56:25Z “No one cares about Bart Simpson anymore,” Ben Lashes, a “meme manager” who helps Internet celebrities broker appearances and sell shirts and stickers, says in the documentary. ”This is it. ArtsBeat: Lil Bub Hits the Tribeca Film Festival 2013-04-25T12:00:18Z It’s like a digital scrapbook — one that now happens to be mixed up with people’s furious political rants and cringey “Minions” memes. Leaving Facebook? Easier said than done. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The literary interpretations of Dracula among readers range from rhetorical analysis to memes of the vampire, said Gorski. How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z For whatever reason, his pink coffin resonated online and was quickly transformed into a meme. Swans. Pineapples. Angel wings. How the novelty pool float conquered Instagram. 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z In fact, unwitting creation is a feature in many of the best meme origin stories. From Big Little Lies to Love Island: are memes shaping TV? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Every autumn, when pumpkin-spice lattes befall us, nerdy memes and essays circulate about the difference between simulated experiences and the real deal. 9 Seattle-area art experiences you won’t want to miss this fall 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Her self-serious response to Ms. Kardashian West’s raucous exposé — “I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative” — soon curdled into a mocking meme. The New Celebrity Diet: Cyberbullying 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Often, these interpretations are compressed into vivid slogans, memes or aphorisms: information "wants to be free"; the "long tail" is the future of retailing; "Facebook just seized control of the internet", and so on. Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z O’Lear had been following the many memes proliferating online about the missing Titan, including some which irreverently mocked the wealthy victims. At Attractions About the Titanic, Pondering the Fate of the Titan 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z “This is a good thing because there are so many television series that, to be noticed, one way or another, it’s always very important. I’m happy that it is a meme on Twitter.” “The Young Pope” creator is “happy that it is a meme on Twitter”: “I’m happy that it is a meme on Twitter”: Salon interviews Paolo Sorrentino 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z This is only further illustrated by ranch's frequent appearances on meme sites like Middle Class Fancy. The story of ranch, the "Cool American" condiment that has divided a nation (and taken over Etsy) 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z But the Crying Jordan meme radiates affection even as it burns. Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won’t Die 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z She is also known in meme world as being the most boring Hollywood star ever. Teen-Heroine Smackdown: 5 Ways Katniss Is Better Than Bella 2013-11-20T10:45:36Z There, too, the movie offers up another, even more extravagant series of gleeful, grand-scale special-effects inventions that also include another strangely extractable and powerfully political meme: turning the clock back in Hong Kong. The Giddy Cosmic Spectacle of “Doctor Strange” 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Dark Brandon is the antithesis of several memes deployed against the president. Biden embraces his ‘Dark Brandon’ alter ego in 2024 campaign 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The posting went viral, memes were generated and 13,000 people applied. They got their dream job away from it all – but what happened next? 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Are you tired of the meme or thirsty for more? Pepsi, United Airlines and Sean Spicer skewered with ‘Hold my beer’ jokes on Twitter 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z People will share resources and propagate information in a viral manner, like the hand-washing meme that captions panels showing the 20-second sanitation process with the lyrics of your favorite pop song. Coronavirus is a test that no one knows how to pass 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z His speech, thanks to the very social media middle-aged Renton excoriates, has become a meme. ‘Choose Facebook, revenge porn, zero hours': what does the Trainspotting speech mean today? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The comments were flooded with memes about how IPA actually stands for "if pinecones were alcohol" and the original tweet likely made a beer nerd somewhere punch a wall. IPA: Why the love-it-or-hate-it beer is here to stay 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z It was enormously popular, in part because of Ms. Carne and the running gag that became a national meme. Judy Carne, ‘Sock It to Me Girl’ on ‘Laugh-In,’ Dies at 76 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z The people sharing the meme tracked down her identity. The rise and fall of Ken Bone: This is what happens when real humans become Internet memes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Though those who viewed the tweet, which gathered nearly 4 million views as of Monday afternoon, weren’t buying it and continued to send memes and comments referring to the cat’s murderous potential. Twitter reacts to video showing cat slide knife under bathroom door: 'Is that a threat!?' 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z “It’s very difficult to talk about something like this without seeming like you seem mad about it,” said Patrick Monahan, 37, a comedian and podcast host whose meme was shared by Mr. Musk without credit. Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z “It was like, ‘Oh my god, I’m a meme,’” Ms. Huddleston said in an interview. The Accidental Celebrities of the Impeachment Inquiry 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z “Because basically what it is is like a machine that creates memes and legends, and it kind of virally propagates on its own.” What Is Randonautica Really About? 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z It’s not a coincidence that the Jordan meme took off just as N.B.A. stars used the sport’s biggest stages to model humility and playfulness. Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won’t Die 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Even if NUL does revise its advertising, it will be tough to police thousands of gellers’ bogus social media posts – including their vast library of gel memes, one of which pictures a flaccid-looking banana. A 'miracle' healing gel, a cult-like following, and a fiercely protected empire 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z A #Fbrape meme on Twitter Tuesday has already inspired a deluge of tweets and some possible hopeful actions. Facebook’s hate speech problem 2013-05-21T20:15:00Z But the protests - the country's first large-scale demonstrations led largely by a generation raised on the Internet - were originally conceived of as "the Occupy Wall Street meme" and made its name by its website: OccupyWallStreet.org. Internet memes sprout around Occupy movement 2011-11-23T20:21:11Z Ten years ago, and a few weeks after "Game of Thrones" premiered, the Internet in its infinite wisdom birthed the Stupid Ned Stark meme. On the Iron Anniversary of "Game of Thrones," here's hoping Joe Biden doesn't go Ned Stark on us 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z The Muppets are comedic national treasures, but they have also appeared in bad car commercials, bad animated spin-offs, a few bad movies, and as bad memes. Remember When the Muppets Were Subversive? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The interviews are performance art masterpieces, so filled with colorful language and astute reporting that he trended on Twitter and was the subject of Internet memes and an Auto-tuned song. Charles Ramsey's turbulent 15 minutes of fame 2013-05-08T20:21:10Z Musk’s embrace of memes on social media — “Who controls the memes, controls the Universe,” he tweeted in 2020 — has also annoyed creatives for his habit of cropping out their name when he shares their work. How Elon Musk became a new kind of celebrity 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z And then there are the parodies: the internet memes, the New Yorker cartoons, the rap songs. Charlie Sheen deserves our pity not our admiration 2011-03-04T12:29:01Z They also created one of the more memorable memes of the show. The Carpetbagger: From Jolie-ing at the Oscars to a Sundance Ovation 2013-01-23T15:00:22Z The media scholar Henry Jenkins has likened photoshopping a meme to writing a letter to the editor: just another mold for citizenship, cracked open to new groups. United We Stan 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Enamored fans loved these details enough to create memes mashing Hopper into the old Tom Selleck series, and they’re heroes for doing that. "Stranger Things 3" gives us a meaner Hopper, and we're not loving it 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z She’s swiftly dismissed as hysterical, and an image of her face is gleefully seized on for the full meme treatment. Can Works Like ‘Don’t Look Up’ Get Us Out of Our Heads? 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z “We were looking at playbacks, and he was like, ‘This is totally going to be a meme,’ ” Ms. Scott told Complex. Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Already, its premise has provided ready-made memes for rubbernecks assuming the author isn’t in on the bit. Striver, Burnout, Lover, Scrub: A Debut Novelist Lays It Bare 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Comedic monologues and memes are not, traditionally, the hoped-for result of any scandal resolution, particularly when the issue seemed so clear cut. NBC keeps Brian Williams fiasco in the news cycle 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In spite of that, Tumblr remains a home to art, fandom, memes and social critique. Tumblr’s enduring appeal reveals the potency of the web’s cultural memory 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z At one point a meme went around, a picture of Snoop and Martha from the holiday brownie episode of her show, clad in a three-piece suit and a holiday sweater, respectively. Forget the handmade wreaths. Now Martha Stewart hangs with Snoop Dogg and makes weed jokes. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z A masked man stood nearby with a platter of golden battered and fried cephalopods, and social media memes schooled in their wake almost immediately. Night two of the virtual DNC held aloft the party's true stars: America and her people 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Someone who, if placed in the same room as Gangnam, might burst the meme mainframe, disrupt the space-time continuum. Can anyone kill Gangnam Style? 2012-11-14T20:30:00Z Maybe at their best, memes bring power or celebrity or influence down to the level of the crowd. The Dank Memes That Are “Disrupting” Politics 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z But Run the Jewels is a festival favorite, a meme generator, and creator of its own hip-hop universe, one that doesn’t reject the mainstream so much as pay it no mind. Run the Jewels, Still Insisting on Old Hip-Hop Values 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z “The whole orb gang community is tapping into the power of memes to reflect back on, and multiply, the sort of pulsing undercurrents of our collective unconscious,” the person wrote in an email. Marianne Williamson’s fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The error was predictably ripe for plenty of jokes and memes but it also prompted many people to wonder: on a show that costs $15m an episode to produce, how exactly did this happen? See you latte: how did the Game of Thrones coffee cup get missed? 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z What I love about memes is the way they bring out the best in people: their wit, their absurdist thinking, their quick turns of phrase. From Distracted Boyfriend to Unhelpful Teacher, I love the twists of a meme’s journey | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z To his credit, at S.O.B.’s even Mr. James appeared a little fatigued by himself in a slow-motion set that couldn’t possibly match the rapid rise of “All Gold Everything” as a meme. Critic’s Notebook: Future, Young Scooter, Trinidad James and Atlanta Rap 2013-02-02T01:50:26Z Each day his alarm went off at 6 a.m. and he would roll over in his twin bed, grab his iPhone and start looking for memes — viral images and videos — to share on Instagram. Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Animals are the stars of endless social media memes, fascinating enough to build entire channels around their cuteness, their conservation and their rescue. “Planet Earth II”: Celebrating nature’s majesty in an era of its endangerment 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s in the fact that there is a phrase for it, that this bruising feeling is so universal and ominous it can be packaged in sarcastic memes, named, dissected. Declutter so you can reclutter – Kondo has a new master plan 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z The line became a meme of sorts, which inspired her song "Foreva." How Rapper Cardi B Rose to Number One 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Also notable: "Wiggle Drip" sort of attempts to start a dance meme. Video: "Wiggle Drip" by Butts tells story, starts dance meme 2010-10-06T22:08:00Z Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart, has echoed her support in the modern fashion: on an Instagram meme criticising The Simpsons’ slack reluctance to engage with the debate, she has simply commented “Love this”. No laughing matter: how can The Simpsons solve its problem with Apu? 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Almost as soon as the meme took over TikTok, it was gone. The Future Teen Stars of America Live on TikTok 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Usually, online randomness doesn’t cohere: video clips and cat memes fit randomly alongside disturbing headlines or worrisome data points. What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z She was only vaguely aware that they were happening until the memes began cascading onto her phone. Ironic Occultists for Marianne Williamson 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z After the own goals, the midges, the taunts, the dives, the stoppage-time goals, the spits and the memes, here we are: Croatia and France face off for the World Cup title today. What’s on TV Sunday: The World Cup Final and ‘Who Is America?’ 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z After it was announced that “Riverdale” had been renewed for a seventh season, a lot of memes popped up imagining your reaction when you heard the news. Cole Sprouse on Finding a Healthy Balance in Hollywood 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z She also executes her famous finger wag and utters her “It’s a good thing” meme. Martha Stewart Welcomes You to Generation Ageless 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The election will be over, but its memes will live on. No doubt Grumpy Cat would approve. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z But such responses can overshadow or diminish the complexity of a subject, narrowing into a reductive meme or hashtag rather than opening up a thoughtful debate. On Social Media, Some Are Susceptible to Internet Outrage 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Many meme account followers, however, were more skeptical. Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Suddenly Drops Memes Everywhere 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Even with all of the Internet memes celebrating introversion, though, we still live in a culture that champions outgoing leadership, vocal collaboration and visible performance. How parents can help introverts thrive (without trying to turn them into extroverts) 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z It was almost inevitable that they would join the meme age because, as digital rhetoric scholar Heather Woods points out, inherent to memes is an invitational quality. Which hot dog are you? The enduring appeal of regional food in the global digital age 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z The existence of any meaningful debate about a meme campaign focused on women is encouraging, says Katherine DeLuca, an assistant professor of English and communication at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Women embrace #challengeaccepted, but some ask: To what end? 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z It deserved all of the attention it got, in that moment—every meme, tweet and also the angry reactions to the made-up idea of “transracialism” as a phenomenon akin to being transgender. Of course Rachel Dolezal isn’t black: Her sympathetic comeback media tour proves it 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z One user posted a meme that shows Homer Simpson sitting at a crowded bar with the show’s masks pasted over everyone’s faces. Squid Game Halloween costumes are going to be big this year 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Bran become one of the show’s biggest meme generators during its final season because of his blank facial reactions and curt speaking pattern. Isaac Hempstead-Wright first thought Bran’s finale twist was a joke: "Oh s**t, it’s real?" 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z What will the memes be from this season? Ready for “Russian Doll”? Here are 5 things to watch out for 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z No word yet if Gimenez, who wants to cash in on her “devotion,” is going to try to claim copyright of the meme too. Octogenarian restorer: I want royalties! 2012-09-23T12:30:00Z “What do you think of this one?” the ad says, referring to a photo of Bernie Sanders that has become a meme in recent weeks. Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Suddenly Drops Memes Everywhere 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Internet memes zoomed in on her changing facial expressions to try to interpret how she was feeling at that moment. Melania Trump is booed while speaking to students in Baltimore 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z In the meantime, posts on the dragon Viserion’s blue flames, memes on the hookup of fictional characters Jon Snow and Daenerys and chatter about potential battle strategies indicate that there is plenty to ponder. Can "Game of Thrones" teach us about the meaning of life? 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Fans lit up social media with memes and jokes about the stray cup, with some inserting the company’s green and white logo on photos of castles featured in the series. 'We're sorry!' says 'Game of Thrones,' as Starbucks makes a cameo 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Like the aforementioned pizza, most of these radiator cooking experiments seem to ride that line between a grave risk of food poisoning and a gross-out culinary meme akin to the nauseating "spaghetti table" TikTok trend. Steamed: The weird and wild world of winter radiator cooking 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z It is, in my opinion, the best meme of the week. Zookeepers are recreating the now-iconic “Jurassic World” raptor training scene 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And there was the time Schroeder watched as her son scrolled through the “Explore” screen on his Instagram account and she caught a glimpse of a meme depicting Adolf Hitler. ‘Do you have white teenage sons? Listen up.’ How white supremacists are recruiting boys online. - The Washington Post 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The photos, shot last December for Time’s Person of the Year issue, have “instant meme” written all over them. Paul Ryan flaunts his political muscles 2012-10-11T21:07:00Z A repeated meme was life at “The Daily Show,” where the former host said he served primarily as Ms. Williams’s first exposure to the frailties of seniors. A Birthday Party With ‘2 Dope Queens’ and One Jon Stewart 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z He later issued an apology, saying he “copied it” from elsewhere on Facebook and that the meme didn’t “reflect his personal views at all.” Amazon removes shirts with offensive meme referencing Kamala Harris 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Recently, the "empowered" capitalist woman has gotten the meme treatment with the popularizing of "girlboss" jokes online. “Put the fangs back in feminism”: Author Rafia Zakaria on how feminism loses relevance to whiteness 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z In this social media age, where the conversation of the moment is driven by screen grabs and memes, the art of creating viral imagery is crucial to influence. The Lessons of the Women in White at the State of the Union Address 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z In June 2014, two academics from the Essex CFS/ME service at Southend University Hospital posted an article on the website of the British Medical Journal, speculating that chronic fatigue might be a “meme”. ‘It was like being buried alive’: battle to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z He used meme knowledge and a social media base to turn “Old Town Road” into the longest-running No. 1 single in Billboard history. What Happens When You Get Famous Off One Song? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Now the superfans’ meme is the rapper’s mantra, and on his new album’s title track, “KOD,” Cole is quick to remind us that other rappers “ain’t worthy” of appearing next to him in song. Review | J. Cole is the most divisive rapper in the world. Which side are you on? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Stories of supposed historic massacres have been turned into memes, making them easier to spread and appear more authoritative, despite the fact there isn’t a shred of evidence to back them up. Halloween myths and urban legends that just won't die 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z That’s partly because club music often contains little more than a single idea: a meme or a sample set to an irresistible break beat. Pop & Rock Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The phrase became one of China’s most popular Internet memes. Jackie Chan's Son Has Been Detained in a Beijing Drug Bust 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Recently, memes and health fears have collided: now kids are going viral by warning each other to stop Juuling. The Juul Is Too Cool 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z But the wine mom label has stuck, likely because it is big business: T-shirts, message wine glasses, memes, those signs that "SNL" mocked. What it means to be a red wine mom in Netflix's "The Woman in the House" 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Sen. Bernie Sanders wore to the presidential inauguration, sparking endless quirky memes across social media? Bernie Sanders’ mittens, memes help raise $1.8M for charity 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z “By customizing a meme with their own personal ‘it’ jokes, it makes everybody feel part of it,” Berger said. Bill Cosby was accused of rape eight years ago. Why is the story is going viral now? In that meme, salad became a shorthand for a particularly gendered sort of self-control or deprivation. From sidekick to superstar: the rise of the salad 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z To paraphrase a popular meme: Could the island do both? Greek Party Islands Chill Out 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Occasionally there is a marriage of artist and medium so perfect it trumps everything that came before: think Drake’s ability to anticipate and generate memes, or Rihanna’s early Instagram. For DJ Khaled, Snapchat Is a Major Key to Success 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But the memes are moving so swiftly and savagely, they also threaten to supersede campaign image control. Memes, Myself and I: The Internet Lets Us All Run the Campaign 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The cover was revealed less than an hour ago, and it’s already the stuff great memes are made of. Kanye West's Yeezy Season 3 Extravaganza 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z A cross-section of Carrboro parades through this sprawling coffee shop, which doubles as a study lounge and living room decorated with Internet memes in needlepoint and a “wreath” constructed from sneakers. 36 Hours in Chapel Hill-Carrboro, N.C. 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The Congolese children, for instance, who watch the Oscars to unwind after a day down the cobalt mine surfacing the materials necessary for people to make memes on their phones about the red-carpet outfits. How do you know when the Oscars have gone vegan? Answer: they keep telling you 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z I search through my catalog of photos and memes, some from Occupy Democrats, a group I would have crossed the street to avoid 11 months ago. Mama is a Trump troll 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The Guardians’ personal stories are continuing to emerge, and the meme that’s in circulation is family, which at times makes it feel as if the movie is taking cues from the “Fast and Furious” franchise. Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ Wants That Loving Feeling 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z In contrast, some men on the internet wielded the girl math meme against women, you guessed it, to be misogynistic. Girl math vs. Boy math: an insight into the internet's tit-for-tat battle of the sexes 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Still, there are sometimes small moments — Tommy Lee Jones' Grumpy Cat meme, Jennifer Lawrence delivering another awkwardly endearing speech — that leave a lasting impression. Golden Globes are just meaningless fun -- except for these 5 races 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z It captures her very funny shorthand with friends and colleagues, using pop-up memes and head-on shots for phone dialogues. ‘The African Desperate’ Expands the Movies’ Narrow View of the Art World 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, a selfie meme associated with the Grand Avenue building is already emerging. Museum selfies are having a moment 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z "It's crazy how when we did that conversation pit, photos of it just exploded on the internet with memes," Steely said. Conversation pits could make a comeback - here's what's sparking interest in the retro design 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z I noticed if one were to respond to one of Donald Trump’s tweets with a meme of the Prima Donald superimposed on a prison, it got his basket of deplorables really really really upset. Mama is a Trump troll 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z But by inviting visitors to dematerialize the Ceiling Cat sculpture back into an Internet meme, the curator seems to say: “This was all in good fun.” Review | Museums wants 2 show u memez now. They shud be careful. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z And, of course, there are memes devoted to Clinton’s deleted emails — which brings us an only-in-the-21st-century information loop that consists of a meme that inspired an investigation that inspired more memes. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z And pro-Trump meme pages that propagate conspiracy theories and misinformation have spread on social media. Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z During the Democratic National Convention, the Republican Party shared a popular meme to Twitter: a two-frame comic of a dog sitting at a table with a cup of coffee. Why ‘This Is Fine’ Is the Meme This Year Deserves 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z I can just say “My cat’s a meme” and people get it. Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s Would Like to Talk to You About Memes 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z In art installations, apps and memes, both new and old technologies are grappling with Trump’s words and their context in the wider world. The ‘Daily Show’ Twitter library is just one of many art projects about Trump’s tweets 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Strong Balls is probably going to look at a tweet or look at a meme, even though that person or that prototype could learn so much and be able to connect with you. The "race-obsessed liberal" nightmare: "We have to fight for a country that doesn't love us back" 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Users have adapted this more accessible AI into something of a meme template. We asked an AI to draw its favorite food. The results were bleak 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In their works, you see memes and trends — including the assimilation of photography into contemporary art — that would continue to resonate in ensuing decades around the world even up to today. ‘For a New World to Come,’ Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The reaction was swift and whiny, thereby providing overwhelming evidence for the thesis embodied in the two-word meme, which is that Boomers take themselves way too seriously. New "OK Boomer" book tries to heal generational rift between Millennials and Boomers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z As Warren advocates progressive reforms, the meme is fundamentally conservative in its valorization of the polite competency of the individual. United We Stan 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z He seems like a living meme — something unexpected, usually wonderful, or puzzling, with a uniquely strong image.” Jeff Goldblum’s a movie star, jazz pianist and an inescapable meme. What’s behind his enduring appeal? 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z What is a viral meme featuring a handsome actor wearing holy garb and flaunting his sex appeal as a part of everything those robes imply, not as contrast – if not an artistic feat? "The New Pope" is still sexy and it knows it 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z If the meme “the worst person you know just made a great point” were a movie, it would be “Shortcomings.” ‘Shortcomings’ Review: Dazed and Confused 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Ironic memes and videos aside, the level of consumption is no joke. It's a White Claw summer — like it or not 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Hence the decline in meme popularity is precipitous. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z A popular meme started spinning across the Internet and beyond in 2020. Covid brought ‘manifestation’ back. But you can’t simply will your way to a better life. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Two weeks later, she flew to New York, where she appeared on “Good Morning America,” gave an interview to Forbes, and dropped by Time Magazine for her close-up as meme of the moment. Books Of Style: The Year of the Cat — Books of Style 2013-04-26T22:46:31Z The result played so well on camera that it was used in the movie’s trailer and became a meme. Benicio Del Toro, Hollywood’s Instant Antihero, Goes the Distance 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Anyone who keeps up with viral memes knows exactly what this is referencing. There's a little bit of Larry King in every decent interviewer, whether they like it or not 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Congress may have apologized for slavery at some point, I think, I don't know if it was a meme. “What is fair?”: Rosie Perez on the complexities of playing a federal prosecutor on "Your Honor" 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Or rather, remember “ain’t nobody got time for that”? Even popular memes have a brief shelf life, remixed and shared wildly for a time but quickly replaced and forgotten. "'Shia LaBeouf' Live," an oral history of the Internet's most bombastic meme on its anniversary 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z President Trump is so self-absorbed, he thinks the word “meme” has two syllables. Style Invitational: Cast your Bred here — a new 4-line-poem contest 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In conservative media, the word is still brandished as an insult, or a meme, to undermine any accomplishment of the Kennedy family, which remains the focus of dark conspiracy theories. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The meme that she was so smart and so savvy and so well prepared and so qualified was destroyed when she lost to the ultimate Con Man: Donald J Trump. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Now rappers can work at the speed of the Internet, and it's really accelerated the process of making songs that can include culturally relevant material, like memes. Hip-hop stays current by mining Internet memes 2011-08-16T19:17:00Z The broader goal, Luckey explained, was to prove that “shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real”—maybe to create something that might be the inverse of Shepard Fairey’s catalyzing “Hope” or “Change” posters. The Dank Memes That Are “Disrupting” Politics 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z He dressed as the Samantha doll for Halloween and created a series of memes made with American Girl dolls. Dolls and Drinks for Likes and Clicks 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z As the number of Holocaust survivors continues to dwindle, today's students may be more apt to find a Hitler meme online before they discover testimonies of Holocaust survivors. 5 websites to help educate about the horrors of the Holocaust 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z I love meme accounts like Gary From Teen Mom and goofy astrology accounts. Diablo Cody’s Week: ‘I’m a Phone Addict’ 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z By decree of the admins, the memes are supposed to be wholesome, and mostly they are. "Govern me, daddy": Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear a clean-cut sex symbol for the coronavirus age 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z It was only a matter of time before the lyric became a meme. One Night at Mom’s Spaghetti 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Those girls, who scroll through American Girl memes after their daughters go to bed. American Girl says the ’90s are ancient history. American girls agree. 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The tune enjoyed its biggest streaming week to date, as Apodaca's clip quickly turned into a popular meme, and started receiving sporadic Top 40 radio airplay. Why Fleetwood Mac's music resonated so deeply in 2020 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z So I’m not in favor of yanking threatening T-shirts off the street or punishing people who get their sick pleasure by making horrific memes and videos. Perspective | If Trump doesn’t condone violence against journalists, he should stop inspiring it 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z You can also look behind the scenes at the moment three Spider-Men recreated the "two Spider-Men point at each other" meme: Benedict Cumberbatch: "Doctor Strange 2" will be as big as "No Way Home" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The march harnessed the power of the cat meme, and a couple in front of me carried a sign reading “Three Doors Down: LOL.” A Spiritual March on Washington 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z He created a Discord server called The Fallen with over 200 other teenagers whose meme accounts were also deactivated, mostly in two major waves over the last 12 months. Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Well, as the popular “Mad Men” meme goes, it’s “Not great, Bob!” Two Netflix Original Dads, Incarnated by TV Favorites 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z They disagree aggressively and usually with strong language, post nerve-grating memes, and poke fun at each other’s politics. Gillian Laub’s Divided House Is Still Standing. What About Yours? 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z “That was the first time I had seen AirDrop used as a method of group self-policing rather than just meme drops,” Haasch said. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z This year, the internet has exulted in “Christian girl autumn”, a meme building off the format of its better-known counterpart “hot girl summer”. There's something about autumn: why do people love fall so much? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “We found that memes that were intended to be explicitly anti-Trump weren’t as persuasive as those that weren’t so explicit,” Mr. Purzycki said. Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Also, the nosebleed thing has been done before, better, on 30 Rock, which I would rather watch, so I will--right now, after I make a meme comparing Jenna and 11.... Did You Watch ‘Stranger Things’? Let’s Talk About It 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z And if Brown's wrong, at least we'll always have the memes. "Arthur" creator on iconic cartoon's 25-year legacy and those "legendary" memes 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z “The meme weather was good for me,” Lantz said, of the game’s rapid success. The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of Clicker Games 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% too late to copyright this meme because Lizzo is already in the process of doing so. Lizzo is '100% that bitch' … but can she trademark it? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z I knew the difference between a vetted piece of information and a random meme from an email. "It was damning": Brian Stelter excavates Fox News' culture, the Big Lie and Tucker Carlson's exit 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z But then, she also describes herself as a "meme." The strange case of the undead writer 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z I was sitting in my car on Monday, waiting outside of the building where my next meeting was scheduled to soon begin, scrolling through my Twitter feed, reading tweets about articles and laughing at memes. I never planned on seeing 40: How do I get over believing I was destined to die young? 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z NBC's decision to station a camera in the swimmers' wait room produced the meme of the games in Michael Phelps' grumpy face. Taking stock: NBC learning about changed viewer habits 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Have you seen all the memes that have generated from emo Bran this season? ‘Game of Thrones’: Isaac Hempstead Wright on Bran’s Powers and Ties to the Night King 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z It seems fitting that the meme proving U.S. Bernie the Snowman? Connecticut artist sculpts mittened Sanders during cold snap 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Much as I enjoyed meeting an obliging human meme, I was distracted by unwelcome thoughts all night. A Sprinkle, a Snapshot, a Sensation: My Dinner With Salt Bae 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Phillips told the Times the video was played as part of a “meme exhibit” and was not associated with or endorsed by the conference “in any official capacity.” Calls for Trump to condemn violent parody video 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Lots and lots of "Shrek" memes, some safe for work and others not so much. Why “Shrek” memes shutting down anti-abortion snitch hotline are just the beginning 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z The viral meme infiltrating our fraught politics began obscurely on a New Zealand radio show on which the hosts help rationalize absurd, illogical purchases their listeners share with them. Girl math vs. Boy math: an insight into the internet's tit-for-tat battle of the sexes 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z He was particularly popular online, where he has remained a popular meme even though his last major political campaign ended with his failed presidential bid in 2012. Ignoring Alex Jones may just make him stronger 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Callaghan connected with Doing Things Media, a company founded in 2017 that had built a network of popular meme accounts, in the hopes of brokering a partnership. He Had an R.V., a Camera and a Plan to Document America. Was That Enough? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Working through the series over the past few weeks, my mind started opening a bit, like a real-time expanding brain meme. How to re-watch “Entourage” 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Maybe the fans tweeting fraud memes are deeply attuned to other valences of American immigration. ‘90 Day Fiancé’: An Anti-Fantasy for Troubled Times 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z To borrow a popular meme construction, Netflix’s new teen soap “The Society” is “Lost,” but make it Connecticut. “The Society,” Reviewed: A Teen Dystopia, but with, Like, Socialism 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Long before Adejuyigbe made the song into a meme, "September" was the unofficial theme to the end of summer, with its lusty refrain of "ba-dee-ya!" pulling us into one last dance with sandal weather. On this Earth Wind and Fire Day, remember "September" as a beautiful case of accidental magic 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z It inspired her to spend the rest of the ceremony sending her classmates various memes she had saved on her phone. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z More than perhaps any other artist, Drake understands the power of a meme. Meet the 30 Most Influential People on the Internet 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z He’s taken with some of the theory — or at least the memes — surrounding Dogecoin. The Assorted Teachings of Dogecoin 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z As the rapper discussed how the film, which chronicles Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight to break down barriers blocking black voters, “awakened my humanity,” Teigen, 29, got emotional — and spawned a new meme. Memes of Chrissy Teigen Crying at the Golden Globes Are Now a Thing 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The meme became so popular that the song was heard more than 10 billion times on the site just between February and May this year. beabadoobee Made Bedroom Pop. Now She’s Turning Up the Volume. 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z He’s been the subject of several needling memes, the internet’s tool of casual disrespect, making him an avatar of befuddlement or physical awkwardness. Hip-Hop Is Evolving. Just Ask Its Superstars. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Look Again is a column about images that make news, from photojournalism to memes, selfies to red carpet moments. Statement Dressing in a Red Carpet Kurta 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The Christian girl autumn meme, which once represented everything wrong with our society, had come to represent almost everything right. Christian Girl Autumn was once a joke and has now become a seasonal inspiration of coziness 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z It's in memes; it just shows up all the time. "I want to believe": Alice Hoffman is always seeking magic, practical and otherwise 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z Worst: True Detective – Season Two Once #TrueDetectiveSeason2 became a viral internet meme, it was obvious that the expectations for HBO’s anthology series were sky high. The best (and worst) US culture 2015: TV 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Reached by email for comment on this article, Mr. Musk responded with two uncredited memes: Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z But celebrity is nothing if not an exercise in crafting an image, which becomes even more layered when the meme in question is a celebrity performing an iconic role. Adam Scott vs. Mitch McConnell: Who decides what a GIF is for? 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z “Making memes is part of my recovery, but it’s not everything.” How Memes and a Good Laugh Can Help People in Recovery 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z One meme, according to the Crimson, compared the corpse of a Mexican child to a piñata. Harvard’s Ugly Offshoot of Campus Meme Culture 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The red that spawned an immediate host of associations in online viewers and related memes, with multiple comparisons to “Game of Thrones,” fire and brimstone and Rita Repulsa of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Kimberly Guilfoyle, Woman in Red 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Peddlers and readers of made-up news and inspirational memes. Brows, contour, lips, lashes: How the ‘full-beat face’ took over the Internet 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Cosby’s team tried a PR stunt on Twitter by asking users to “meme” the comedian. Bill Cosby was accused of rape eight years ago. Why is the story is going viral now? Twitter accounts like No Context Among Us and Among Us Struggle Tweets publish memes about the game to hundreds of thousands of followers. With Nowhere to Go, Teens Flock to Among Us 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Yet these Trump memes are not just a form of readily shareable Internet activism. Trump: The Man, the Meme 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z The “echo” is the first officially recognized symbol to emerge from the “alt-right,” a movement of white-and-proud extremists who are as obsessed with cultural memes as they are with white nationalism. For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z To further clarify, the term differs from the late-Aughts "Stuff White People Like" meme born of a blog of the same name. "Tiger King" and the schadenfreude of seeing privileged insanity run wild 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z If today’s world can seem incomprehensible, so, too, can the ways we discuss it; last week’s news, takes, memes, and trends quickly dissolving into so many ancient runes. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z YouTube changed all that, providing a place where “reaction” videos share space with meme videos with videos like G. Dep’s 2001 “Let’s Get It,” a clip credited with bringing the dance broad popularity. The Harlem Shake Is Dead; Long Live the Harlem Shake 2013-02-22T20:07:23Z The result was a #Fugazi1888 meme, one that Spin's Chris Martins playfully acknowledged in a follow-up post called "Our Typo Could Be Your Meme." Friday Coda: Meredith Graves, Minutemen, U2, #Fugazi1888 and more 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Concerts or other events teeming with superfans generate a lot of AirDrop activity: It’s easy to blast a hilarious meme of the artist to the masses, spreading a shared inside joke among fans. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z I've been up for only a few hours this morning, and I've already seen four memes with the same punchline: "How to eat candy corn? The first step is to stick it in the trash." How candy corn became the villain in our modern Halloween lore 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Initially, the meme seemed harmless, but Pepe evolved into symbol of white nationalism, anti-Semitism and violence. ‘Feels Good Man’ Review: The Evolution of a Poisonous Frog 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Bill Baptist, a photographer working as an independent contractor for the NBA, was fired from his position after posting the meme to his Facebook account last week. Amazon removes shirts with offensive meme referencing Kamala Harris 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z They’re tough, innocent, and hilarious; they have an urban oomph that most animal memes lack. Sunfish vs. Pizza Rat: The Week in Memes 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z ABC’s breakfast show Good Morning America also engaged with the meme when one of its anchors attempted to apply makeup to his co-host while blindfolded. Netflix warns viewers against Bird Box challenge meme: 'Do not end up in hospital' 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Online, autumn is heralded as the dancing pumpkin man wakes from hibernation, and seasonal cartoons and memes proliferate. There's something about autumn: why do people love fall so much? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z These stories then take on lives of their own, becoming culturally embedded memes. West Elm Caleb and the rise of the TikTok tabloid 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z An ebullient anthem of empowerment, the song has thoroughly penetrated pop culture, appearing in online memes by everyone from teenage TikTok users to Hillary Clinton. A Songwriting Dispute Brews Over ‘Truth Hurts,’ Lizzo’s Biggest Hit 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z That’s a question for KnowYourMeme.com, a Web site that catalogs Internet memes and produces funny videos that explain how certain memes came into existence. A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme 2010-09-16T12:56:00Z Next to the products were monochromatic memes with slogans such as “Own less stuff. Find more purpose.” The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z On his Facebook page Monday, he referred to a meme posted by The Lad Bible. “I put on weight. Big f**king deal”: Wentworth Miller shuts down body-shamers over cruel meme 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z One of the most satisfying memes of the last few years celebrates macaroni and cheese. Famous Photographs of Fabulous People 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Crying Jordan recalls other memes inspired by famous men caught in introspective moments. Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won’t Die 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The film itself became a phenomenon, permeating pop culture in a way that has endured through the advent of social media and Internet memes. Analysis | After 20 years, these 8 ‘Titanic’ moments still won’t die. Unlike Jack. 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z When Ireland legalized gay marriage, the author shared a meme about Hogwarts’ most cherished headmaster and The Lord of the Rings’ heroic wizard taking a trip to Ireland to make it official. The 50 Most Important Things We've Learned From J.K. Rowling 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s something sillier — a whole new digital currency named after a meme. Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s that simple composition that became the meme we’re seeing online. Fighting for equality, one meme at a time 2013-03-29T15:50:00Z Actually, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term “meme” in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, using the term to describe a unit of cultural information analogous to a gene. From Big Little Lies to Love Island: are memes shaping TV? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z “Anything you say, people can be like, ‘OK, well, whatever, KAREN’ – but that’s not even how the meme is supposed to be used. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z “VSCO girls” like Emma and her crew are all over the internet now, spreading their easygoing and vaguely environmentalist aesthetic while also inspiring memes. What Does VSCO Think About the ‘VSCO Girls’? 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The way I like to think of the show is that Twitter meme where they're like, "I support women's rights but more importantly I support women's wrongs." Nicole Maines talks "Yellowjackets" 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The memes that proliferate, on and offline, are not what any of the campaigns planned. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z The willful overlooking of Generation X by mainstream news organizations and popular culture has become a meme. Reality bites, so of course Generation X was always going to sell out and vote Republican 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z After the feature’s Dec. 1 release, the hashtag #SpotifyWrapped trended for a couple of days, and the memes have been endless. When Did Spotify Wrapped Get So Chatty? 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z As Mr. Rout uncovered new permutations of the meme, he was anything but freaked out. A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme 2010-09-16T12:56:00Z A meme that does both, Mr. Purzycki said, is “the holy grail.” Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Who knew that the guy behind “School Spirit” would wind up as a walking “how do you do, fellow kids” meme? Review | Kanye West’s ‘Ye’ is the unedited ramblings of the world’s oldest adolescent 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Whether it’s through hip-hop, R&B, Top 40 radio or Internet memes, Drake is a ubiquitous presence on our cultural landscape. Is this the year that African music will conquer the United States? 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The intersection of sitcoms and Internet memes has a brief but notable history. Television: ?Parks and Recreation? and Other Sitcoms? Hashtags and Memes 2011-12-09T22:31:54Z “I was Karen before Karen was a meme,” she laughed. Suzy Nakamura Informs Herself With ‘The Dollop,’ Sister Wendy and Her Mother’s Diary 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Not to mention multiple memes and a heated debate around age-gaps in relationships. ‘I didn’t go looking for someone younger’: Dennis Quaid on his new love and new roles 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z If memes are about rejecting a passive consumption of the election, they are equally about asserting individual autonomy in choosing what to share and repositioning a major news event as a statement about ourselves. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z Think of the memes that now clog the internet — grumpy cats, sleeping kittens and more. Just Say ‘Cats,’ and Watch the Fur Fly 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z This song — named for the gorilla killed by the Cincinnati Zoo in May in a security incident that has inspired controversy and no shortage of memes — is one of the album’s best. The Playlist: Young Thug Turns the Summer’s Big Meme Into a Standout Track 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the much-discussed “OK, boomer” meme is chucked at anyone, whenever they were born, who expresses an opinion deemed unforgivably out of step with the times. It’s easy to dismiss boomers as know-nothings – but they got some things right, OK? 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z All of these strike me as little more than hopeful memes sold over the very platforms they are intended to legitimize. An Antidote to Digital Dehumanization? Live Theater. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Internet memes may tell you "there's no such thing as leftover wine." — a joke about drinking that misses the point that very often in daily life we might not finish an open bottle. How long does that open bottle of wine last, really? 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z And while White Claw definitely saw its popularity spike thanks to countless memes, cider’s audience, which is smaller than that of the hard seltzer brand, points to a cross-demographic appeal. Don't force a White Claw fall — hard cider is the ideal late summer libation 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Of course, the ad eventually became an Internet meme. The Carpetbagger: Sleepwalking and Time-Traveling at Sundance 2012-01-27T18:43:33Z In that context, the meme took on a darker humor. Martha Stewart's brand has always been subversive 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z I thought the pictures would just be used by businesses and websites, but I wasn’t expecting the memes. Experience: my face became a meme 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z If you want to avoid becoming a meme on the Internet, it is a mistake to display exorbitant possessiveness over a romantic partner. Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Art Hackathons Hackathons were already a huge meme in the technology community, but this was the year they infiltrated the art world. 10 pivotal moments for digital art in 2012 2012-12-31T14:00:00Z And it was so infectious, it prompted appearances on the late-night talk show circuit, two best-selling books, memes, tattoos and offers for television shows and commercial sponsorships. The Next Act for Marcel the Shell (and Jenny Slate) 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z In one meme, a Twitter user joked about personal finance using the tone of the Spotify campaign: “Your checking account balance was in the bottom .003%. Weird flex but ok!” When Did Spotify Wrapped Get So Chatty? 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z “The ideal way to reclaim communication and to retain the bonds between those microfactions are memes.” Can Society Scale? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z But both reboots were met with minimal ratings and a buzz-killing lack of memes. Love Island USA: are Americans ready to crack on with the remake? 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z And never mind the fact that Sanders’s distinctively unruly white corona has become a badge of his outsider credentials, embraced by his supporters in memes and unofficial logos . Why does Bernie Sanders dress like that? Because he can. 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z “As the 400 celebrations are going I kept seeing those internet memes, you know those ones: ‘Shakespeare invented all these phrases and words,’” Mr. McInnis said in a phone interview. Shakespeare Didn’t Actually Write That 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z And now, you might be thinking, isn't it about time for her to join Trololo Man and Dramatic Hamster in the realm of classic yet cooled down memes? Can Rebecca Black have a real music career? 2011-07-11T22:12:00Z What was the last electric-guitar riff to become a cultural touchstone — or even a meme? Why It’s Time to Take ‘Rock’ Out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2012-10-10T12:00:41Z The primary function of a meme is to replicate itself. Study: Three-quarters of American donations go to religion 2013-12-05T13:45:00Z When I ask about the current state of their relationship and whether the two ever talk, Ridley adopts an airy hauteur, reminiscent of that Mariah Carey meme in which she claims no knowledge of J-Lo. Guerrilla's John Ridley: 'As Three Kings went through the system, George Clooney was unblackified' 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z D.C. has always been the city of second chances; now it just moves at meme speed. Benny Johnson got fired at BuzzFeed. You will believe what happened next. 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z But the violence Stormfront commits is bloodless, a poison seeping into ears and invading hearts and minds by way of memes. "The Boys": With new superhero Stormfront, fascism dons a mask and cape of female empowerment 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Last week, Yale’s meme group paused to debate the same question that students at Harvard were considering: Was the university’s decisive disciplinary action justified? Harvard’s Ugly Offshoot of Campus Meme Culture 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z This meme has been floating around the stagnant white-supremacist backwaters of the internet since about 2008, disappearing and then resurfacing as dependably as herpes ever since. They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z The White House’s director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty, said he tweeted the meme from an official government account so it would have to be recorded in the historical archives. Biden embraces his ‘Dark Brandon’ alter ego in 2024 campaign 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z But none have sparked the torrent of memes, slogan T-shirts bearing lines from the book, and even, apparently, tattoos of its quotable mantras. Elisabeth Moss on the Handmaid’s Tale: ‘This is happening in real life. Wake up people’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Though Instagram has previously banned meme accounts for violating terms of service, Thursday’s crackdown is the most public and decisive action Instagram has taken against people manipulating the platform for financial gain. Instagram Bans Hundreds of Accounts With Stolen User Names 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z And from there, a new photo meme was born. Nutscaping, the latest selfie trend: Dudes shoot their balls inside beautiful landscapes — because they can 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z They don’t aspire to be much more than Internet memes, but you can see in them something of Mr. Kelley’s concern for the human yearning behind sad clichés and inadequate forms of expression. Art In Review: JOHN MILLER: ?Suburban Past Time? 2012-02-16T22:48:16Z On the lowbrow end of the spectrum animal attacks and rogue pets are staples of cable television, and YouTube is an infinite virtual menagerie of cat videos and creature memes. Animals Continue to Fascinate Humans: Films Prove It 2012-03-31T06:36:09Z Eastwood's nearly 12-minute-long speech, partially directed to an invisible Obama, has fired up a social media meme that shows no signs of cooling. Did Eastwood's RNC act cause trouble for 'Curve'? 2012-09-06T14:17:11Z The last presidential contest featured Russian Twitter bots, hacked emails and a frog meme hijacked by white supremacists. ‘I don’t blame the scream speech’: Howard Dean on the first Internet campaign 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Exotic was, actually, an exploitative man who tried to have a woman killed, and is wildly racist by all accounts, treated as a sympathetic and goofy meme because of white privilege. New “Tiger King” shows offer Joe Exotic more undeserved attention and rehabilitation 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z A rabid online fandom vigorously deconstructed the show’s pivotal scenes after each episode aired, and the memes began to spread. 'They're damaged': Succession’s Jeremy Strong on sibling hell – and that cringey rap 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z As Winter Storm Stella settles in, this name has been shouted in posts, tweets, and memes to express or mock pre-blizzard hysteria. Blizzard or not so much, you’re home now, so revisiting the Seinfeld episode that launched a million Stellaaaaaaaas: “The Pen” 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z One of the wonders of the online world is the Downfall meme on YouTube. How Google made me get into bed with Hitler 2013-03-17T00:05:49Z His countrymen were less circumspect, ridiculing Trump with scalding hot memes from the frigid Baltic north—pictures of themselves carrying rakes, fulfilling a kind of national duty to tidy up the forests. The Best Jokes of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Today, it’s mostly considered the province of women’s magazines and Instagram memes, at best a harmless fiction and at worst a pernicious pseudoscience. Astrology Is Hard, Even if It’s Fake 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z In the Oval Office, a candid photo captured a hesitant expression on Trudeau’s face, which quickly became an Internet meme. Watch: Trump-Macron handshake grabs internet’s attention 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Yet the key to reanimating these artifacts can be found in the most unlikely, if not most relevant source: memes. How memes are breaking down elitism in the fine art world 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z But there's a dark side to that viral meme of the stick-figure best friends, Sally, a Democrat, and Bob, a Republican, who are both presumably white. Meghan McCain’s legacy at “The View” exposes real-life problems with across-the-aisle "friendships" 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z So they decided to call the conference Web 2.0 and launched the meme upon an unsuspecting world. The death of Web 2.0 is nigh 2011-08-06T23:06:05Z Success requires artwork that can immediately catch a viewer’s attention, usually with some combination of internet culture, human anatomy and dank memes. The Boom and Bust of TikTok Artists 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z This song — which has spawned a thousand memes — is among her best, an optimal use of autobiography that feels neither forced nor resentful. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Q. When did memes become a force in American politics? How Pepe the Frog and Nasty Woman Are Shaping the Election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z People poked fun at the now meme, comparing the video to rapper Azealia Banks also dancing while welding a machete. Leave Britney Spears alone – yes, we're talking to Britney fans also 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Like cat videos, something about a sardonic princess meme is simply irresistible. Disney Gets Its Head in the Bad Lip Reading Game 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z And this isn’t the first presidential election to feature prominent memes. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The stories are often remarkably similar: Anti-government memes and posts dismissing the coronavirus or vaccines give way to announcements about feeling sick and testing positive for the virus. They Died From Covid. Then the Online Attacks Started. 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z But when a student captures the moment on his phone, transforms it into a shocking meme, and shares it widely, angry protests tear up the normally staid campus. Through "The Chair" Sandra Oh and Amanda Peet take an academic view of cancel culture 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z After much mocking — the incident sparked its very own Internet meme — the hit program appears to be taking it in stride. Downton Abbey Cast Laughs Off Water Bottle Gaffe 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z In response to the unexpected absurdity of the feral hog question, the internet’s meme machine went into overdrive. How 30-50 feral hogs invaded Twitter in 3-5 minutes 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Gritty was the subject of dozens of funny memes, but my favorite Gritty joke came from the creature himself. The Best Jokes of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The institutions are updating themselves in hopes of staying relevant in a world where video killed the radio star — and where Snapchat killed the Facebook meme. How museums are adapting to 'selfie culture' 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The Williams sisters very wisely schooled their expressions to not show overt outrage, but that hasn't stopped the internet from sharing Venus' forced smile as a meme. Jane Campion’s "petty" acceptance speech highlights the issues with insidious white feminism 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Otherwise, why, as a popular meme suggests, are time travelers to the past so often warned that even a random small act can impact the future? Gotta get back in time: The current explosion of time travel novels goes beyond sci-fi and fantasy 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z One of the memes, which is aimed at registering voters in Florida, a swing state, shows a mail-in ballot application for the state on a phone screen. Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The protests went viral, but they've also spawned all kinds of more playful Internet memes that highlight the dual nature of the Web to an American protest movement. Internet memes sprout around Occupy movement 2011-11-23T20:21:11Z Ash herself runs an “affirmation” account, where she makes and posts funny, glass-half-full memes that play on her school’s inside jokes and culture. The Latest High School Prank? It’s a Snooze. 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The diminutive yet Force-full character, designated The Child by producers, leapt into pop culture and meme stardom after its reveal at the end of the first season’s first episode. New episodes of Disney+ hit ‘Mandalorian’ coming in October 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Mendelsohn also reminded the journalists covering that press conference that Frank's face was used in a meme posted to the Facebook page for a Rhode Island sports bar during one of this summer's heatwaves. With "The U.S. and the Holocaust" Ken Burns makes a sobering addition to the American story 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z A tweet from a major brand signals the point where a meme is reaching the beginning of the end of its life span. We Should Probably Have a Conversation About ‘Damn, Daniel’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z What rises to the top of the site’s page for most popular reviews ranges wildly: There are obscure memes, diaristic essays and sprawling screeds packed with pseudo-academic jargon. Is Letterboxd Becoming a Blockbuster? 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Know Your Meme, a database for the internet’s inside jokes, runs with the help of 38 volunteer moderators known as the meme council. Seoul’s Bumping B-Boy Scene 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z The comedian compared members of the GOP to the famous Kermit the Frog meme, where the Muppet character sips iced tea. Seth Meyers compares Trump’s “desperate” denials of Russian conspiracy to a murder suspect’s 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z While we're all waiting for the memes, here are some tweets responding to the sordid tale's success: Fifty shades of grey is trending! Fifty Shades of Grey: a conversation with Twitter 2012-07-10T17:37:00Z I blitzed it very quickly, so now I can finally understand all the memes and parodies on Twitter. 'Succession made me glad I was born poor': Susan Wokoma's lockdown TV 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Joining in on the girl math vs. boy math memes, AOC insinuated that the speaker was incompetent for his inability to keep the government open as the clock ticks and a government shutdown looms. Girl math vs. Boy math: an insight into the internet's tit-for-tat battle of the sexes 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z "This is going to become a bad meme," he said. John Oliver rips into Rudy Giuliani — “the Ken Bone of 9/11″ — over his “truth isn’t... 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The film’s end credits attribute Slender Man’s creation to a single person, Eric Knudsen, whose internet appearances as “Victor Surge” inspired the crowdsourced fiction and graphics that made the character an internet meme. Review: In ‘Slender Man,’ Horror Emerges From the Internet 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z What you may not know about that now famous meme is that in context, it's not actually about subtlety at all. "Arthur" creator on iconic cartoon's 25-year legacy and those "legendary" memes 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z In this arena she might take some lessons from a newly-minted social media celebrity whose status as meme du jour was thrust upon him without his knowledge or participation — by his own mother, no less. What Taylor Swift could learn from the #NotHim son: How to handle being smeared in the culture wars 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Beethoven memes, YouTube shares and heated debates over whether the Ninth Symphony was “a banger” when it “dropped.” Perspective | The best way to honor Beethoven’s 250th? Listen to every note he ever wrote. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The fee for that commercial changed my wife’s mind about the meme. Experience: my face became a meme 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z And given those themes, the friends I mostly discuss the show with, trading theories and memes over long message threads, are women. In praise of "Yellowjackets" hubby Jeff, who elevates the mediocre white man to an art form 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z A few nights ago, “Toddlers & Tiaras” legend and walking meme Honey Boo Boo graced the stage of studio 6B in Rockefeller Center. Honey Boo Boo is a monster: What reality TV did to the pint-size pageant queen 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The event spawned countless alien rescue memes, whose levity, Mr. Lazar thought, sent the wrong message. Did Storming Area 51 Teach Us Anything? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Morris emphasizes Bannon’s own skillful manipulations of media, his own effectively staged photo ops and meme machines, and “American Dharma” plays like an effort to compete with him on the same stage. “American Dharma,” Reviewed: Errol Morris Lets Steve Bannon Off the Hook 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The result is a captivatingly sly, 70×70-inch oil-on-canvas work that depicts series stars including Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross in character and part of a riff on the “sipping tea” meme. Johnsons are ‘sipping tea’ for ‘black-ish’ family portrait 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The meme of the disgraced politician and the sad-eyed wife in the background is hardly new. Anthony Weiner and The Good Wife 2013-07-24T16:50:29Z “It’s both wholesome and sexual, handmade but shared through social media, brash enough for the meme era but also somehow incredibly sweet.” The D.I.Y. Revolutionaries of the Pussyhat Project 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Many of the memes on the Unicorn Mom page are joking complaints about husbands, children, housework, and conventional expectations. The Quiet Protests of Sassy Mom Merch 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z There’s being that girl in your bedroom, releasing songs and organically building a fan base via your own memes. How Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek and Christine and the Queens Navigate Pop 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z I know you probably see all the goofy memes and fake gangster jokes. An open letter to NBA star Ja Morant about your latest gun controversy: Soar, Ja, soar 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z One of the purest moments online was right after this story first broke and Black Twitter dissolved into gleeful memes. The Performance of Racial Passing 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most successful intentional meme was Obama’s reference of “bayonets” in the final debate, though even this did not proliferate like the others. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z Kanye West still walks among us, turns up in memes and appears on shows popular with right-wing America. As of 2022, we're (presumably) done with Kanye West. But what does that mean? 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Drinking memes and “quarantini” recipes are everywhere, and off-premises booze sales surged by 55 percent in mid-March as people started turning to alcohol to deal with the stress, anxiety and grief brought on by isolation. Quarantinis are a meme of this crisis. But relying on alcohol could lead to serious problems. 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z But it’s a role that Hahn played to the hilt, earning attention, praise and a series of internet memes. Kathryn Hahn Talks About Her Insidious, Perfidious Role on ‘WandaVision’ 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose – the more things change, the more they stay the same. "Emily in Paris": Why it’s so hard to admit love for the show despite it being so popular 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z No one has sent me that meme since. Perspective | Walmart’s new line of wines is just the juice that bargain-hunting Americans need 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z While memes tend to evolve organically, it’s also possible to create them intentionally – this is the work of digital teams and social media managers – but memetic engineering, like genetic engineering, is beset with potential pitfalls. From Big Little Lies to Love Island: are memes shaping TV? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z At the end eight stars appeared, an internet meme meant to be a censored version of a sexual expletive and then the governing party’s initials. A Rap Star Agonizes About His Role in Poland’s Culture Wars 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Several people noted that the meme was an example of the ways in which the internet has enabled people to express a wider range of identities. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Justice Ginsburg’s status as a pop-culture figure has been solidified recently through memes, books, a popular blog and, earlier this year, this documentary, which traces her rise. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘RBG’ and ‘King Lear’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Then she stood up and actually did Da Butt, becoming a meme only minutes later. "Nomadland" wins big at the 2021 Oscars, which made history — and some unfortunate choices 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z The nearly 20-year-old Emmy-winning show is based on the children's book series by Marc Brown, who did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment about the internet memes. 'Arthur' network 'disappointed' in explicit memes 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z It's the same reason astrology meme pages have a widespread appeal. Why zodiac-themed food and drink is having a moment 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z That it happened “without a meme, without a dance, it makes it that much weirder,” he added. How Cardi B’s ‘Bodak Yellow’ Took Over the Summer 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z By people whose online faces are Union Jacks, whose waking moments are spent sharing memes about Trump, torture and cheeky little frogs. The trolls think they are winning, but a change is on its way | Eva Wiseman 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z While the phrase was intended first for preschoolers, it became a consolation meme to all ages circulating the Internet habitually during times of crisis. Broadway's 9/11 musical "Come From Away" lands on TV, offering kindness & laughter in dark times 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z His remarks were met with cheers and howls of laughter that night and were captured in endless memes for weeks afterward. How a Former Fugee Helped Elect the President of Haiti 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Or, to adapt the famous broken English internet meme, "all your memories are belong to us". Why digital photographs won't be around forever 2011-08-13T23:05:54Z I chat with my best friends almost every day over text messages, or we send each other funny memes. They have our lives in their hands. So we asked an airline pilot how she takes care of herself. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Aguilar suggests canny artists have gravitated toward drawing the meme of the moment in order to expose more potential fans to their work. The Strawberry Dress That Ate TikTok 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Like all memes, the Delta variant ones “offer an opportunity for a collective, collaborative writing of the past, present and future,” said Dr. Woods. So, You’ve Been Cast as the Delta Variant 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z But there was one thing that the Mummy star had never seen before: a series of viral memes of the action hero clinging to a things. Tom Cruise Can't Stop Laughing at These Memes of Him 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z “I do not discriminate,” Rosales wrote in Spanish on a meme of photos of herself in blackface and as Princess Leia from the Star Wars movies. Mexican TV network criticised for brownface parody of Roma star Yalitza Aparicio 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z It's everything from the little jokes we laugh at, the little memes and things that we let slide, you know? Me Too founder on her healing memoir and creating change: "All of us contribute to rape culture" 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z On Twitter, its message of self-discovery and forgiveness was quickly embraced as a meme, linking noteworthy exes in popular culture with lessons learned. Ariana Grande’s new song teaches us the joy of ex 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Catch it at the right time of day, and it looks like an inspirational meme waiting to happen. In Havre de Grace, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay, a rich maritime history — and ducks, lots of ducks 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Dubbed “Christian girl autumn,” the online meme quickly yet unexpectedly entered the cultural sphere. Christian Girl Autumn was once a joke and has now become a seasonal inspiration of coziness 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Goats have long been a popular subject of videos and online memes. The Year of the Goat 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Today, he is a brand name, a meme, the mad professor from central casting with his clipped accent, deliberate manner and sudden explosions of Old Testament rage. Werner Herzog: 'I'm fascinated by trash TV. The poet must not avert his eyes' 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Long before it became a soundtrack nugget and an internet meme, it was just a rock band’s attempt to land a radio hit. How Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’ Got a Second Wind From Memes 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z So I said ‘OK! Give me the memes!’ The Caretakers of Women’s Pandemic Stories 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Last year, Bed Bath & Beyond enjoyed a brief resurgence as a meme stock, shares of a company that go viral and are snapped up by investors thanks to social media. Bed Bath and the great Beyond 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z While the gifs and memes are certainly lolzy, there is something to be said about taking the help from the grocery store, or perhaps even delegating dishes to certain guests. Is store-bought really fine? Our favorite tweets about Ina's semi-homemade Thanksgiving 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Maroney, who came into the games as the reigning queen of the vault, has, in the short space of Olympic competition, become something else – a full-blown meme. McKayla Maroney isn’t a “mean girl” 2012-08-07T15:45:00Z But the fact that Elon Musk frequently steals memes has become, essentially, a meme in itself. Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z And also the wearer of the gray hat with the large, rhinestone-studded bow that launched a thousand memes at Obama’s second inauguration. Which artists have made the most visits to the Obama White House? 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The human drive to anthropomorphize animals is alive and well in today’s Doge and Grumpy Cat memes — but at least one earlier expression of that urge was a lot more extreme. PHOTOS: Bonkers Victorian Taxidermy, Now Getting the Documentary Treatment 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z “I will make them into hilarious memes, and I’ll send them to all my friends.” ‘S.N.L.’ Features Halsey in Dual Role and Dips Into Bezos Photos 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Gone were the sultry selfies, the memes and the glamour shots. Rihanna Makes Triumphant Return to Instagram After Six-Month Hiatus 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Here’s Watergate as a 1970s pop-culture meme, along with purple bell bottoms and Jackson Five singles. For Filmmakers, Watergate Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z It wasn’t just about manifesting Internet memes or freeing “them aliens.” At the Area 51 ‘raid,’ the real alien invaders were the friends they made along the way 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Now, as with the Oscars, the live spectacle is shredded, right away, in a wave of quasi-democratized punditry—and then the most popular Twitter and Facebook memes, in turn, guide the coverage. Watching the Republican Convention 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Her eye rolls became memes, and she was once featured in a roundup of “the 7 most hated people in fashion.” Olivia Palermo Got a Lot Out of That Internship 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z What started as a fringe offshoot of several conservative memes soon soared in popularity. Biden embraces his ‘Dark Brandon’ alter ego in 2024 campaign 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It reminds you that Florida is so much more than a meme. How an Author Found the Real Florida 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The meme is no longer the subject of nasty angling and baseless assumptions. Christian Girl Autumn was once a joke and has now become a seasonal inspiration of coziness 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z “I saw the memes with the silver people,” he said. Kanye West Gives Lincoln Center an Opera for Christmas 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The campaign didn’t immediately have figures on how much Dark Brandon merchandise it has sold in the last day, but an official speaking on background said the meme “has been energizing.” Biden embraces his ‘Dark Brandon’ alter ego in 2024 campaign 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z “Political Animals” is the latest signifier — alongside poll numbers, Internet memes and her former enemies’ compliments — that Hillary Clinton has really crossed the long bridge into the land of likeability. “Political Animals”: Hillary Clinton gets her starring role 2012-07-12T17:50:00Z And like most Internet memes, cute animals — such as otters clinging desperately to one another — factor into other iterations. Analysis | After 20 years, these 8 ‘Titanic’ moments still won’t die. Unlike Jack. 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z “When they lay down, because their bodies are so thick, they literally look like loaves of bread you can slice,” so there are loads of memes about Wonder bread, a popular Halloween costume for corgis. God save the corgi 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z But “Karen” is far more popular than “Kyle” – and the fact that an older woman’s name has been made an internet-wide figure of fun has led to criticisms of the meme as misogynistic. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z “I was thinking about how the fictional Johnson family would respond,” he said, when he hit on the meme. Johnsons are ‘sipping tea’ for ‘black-ish’ family portrait 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The luxury music festival – a Bahamas-set Coachella with villas and supermodels, it promised – collapsed into financial fraud and memes of drunk twentysomethings scrambling for Fema tents and styrofoam tray meals, all direct to our screens. Fighting Fyre with Fyre: the story of two warring festival documentaries 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z For comedians and content creators, memes are valuable intellectual property. Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The expressive way she contorts her face in these videos, to emphasize her shock as she marvels over the splendors of a “fancy” date, drove her to meme status. Quinta Brunson’s Viral Fame Knows No Bounds 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z The video, inspired by a current Internet meme on what all sorts of groups of people say, is simple enough. Viral video spoofs the, er, stuff New Yorkers say 2012-01-20T23:48:08Z This moment of full meme absorption comes just as Drake and the art world have been dancing around — and sometimes with — each other. Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z One text post reads “white parents: my child can play two instruments//chinese parents: 奇怪的flex但是可以,” which translates the “weird flex, but O.K.” meme into Chinese. The Story of the Subtle Asian Traits Facebook Group 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z I downloaded it in January on the repeated recommendation of my group chat, who share zodiac memes with surprising frequency for a bunch of extremely down-to-earth women. I don’t even believe in astrology, so why am I addicted to this horoscope app? | Stephanie Convery 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z A viral meme was born -- and with it, the inevitable fantastic riffs. What's behind the "worst music video ever"? 2011-03-14T15:15:00Z Facebook feeds and tweets are rife with satirical clips and memes that come to us from both professional satirists and what I call “citizen satirists.” Satire’s war on stupid: This prank on the Democrats and an ACLU brief reveal our nation’s biggest battle 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Despite all of these inexcusable behaviors, throughout the nation's brief, collective obsession with "Tiger King," the Netflix series led many to find Exotic quirky, sympathetic, likable — a meme more so than an attempted killer. New “Tiger King” shows offer Joe Exotic more undeserved attention and rehabilitation 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z We live in an era in which image memes are lobbed as political salvos. Curator Nato Thompson shines a light on art and the culture wars in 'Culture as Weapon' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z How could they have ever known, years later, that that was the meme that was going to come out? Kathryn Hahn Talks About Her Insidious, Perfidious Role on ‘WandaVision’ 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z Cardi B, 24, has no supporting meme, at least not yet — she is her own engine, a forceful personality and a technician who’s more suave than she seems. How Cardi B’s ‘Bodak Yellow’ Took Over the Summer 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z “This is the kind of meme where it has the potential for being subversive, ironic and really challenging things like traditional gender roles and binaries,” she said. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z The meme has new resonance in the time of coronavirus, increasingly being applied to those who are protesting against social distancing measures or treating the pandemic as permission to unfairly police others. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z I love that he has a phone now so I can send him sort of memes of geese and stuff. Lucy Moss Unwinds With Songwriting and TikTok Cleaning Tutorials 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z There’s buzz, and meaning, memes, and some strange sort of solidarity in the air. The limits of white compassion: Imagine if Black lives mattered as much as one gorilla’s 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z The ceremony was performed by Bunny Michael, a musician and self-proclaimed higher-self healer whose prescriptions include a fair number of New Age memes. With These Rings, She She Weds 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The post quickly became a meme, with people sharing photographs of their own, more menacing “private islands”. A meme is born as Kim Kardashian West tweets about private island birthday party 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z One of the issues I have with our American culture right now is we're backsliding into a meme that we should keep things frozen in a "right and proper time." To Stay Married, Embrace Change 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z King’s question became a meme almost instantly, before most of us knew that word. The Unrest That Led to the L.A. Riots, Twenty-Five Years On 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z The film was inspired by an ad in a publication geared to rural American survivalists, which then became an internet meme. Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z This new meme campaign is primarily focused on vote-by-mail registration, which Mr. Trump has repeatedly falsely stated would lead to a “rigged” election. Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z More than three decades later the feisty Deveraux still pops up in Internet memes, bedecked in sequins, her masterful side-eye lending silent commentary to current events. A starlet of the civil rights era, Diahann Carroll looks back on a career of firsts 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Solnit’s 2008 essay “Men Explain Things to Me” helped give birth to the term, which has been canonized by the Oxford online dictionary, been translated into multiple languages and inspired countless memes. Perspective | Rebecca Solnit on mansplaining and her new book, ‘The Mother of All Questions’ 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z But we didn't because we were swamped with other things — work, binging "Succession" so you finally know what all the memes are about, existential dread, just existing amid a pandemic. A procrastinator's guide to Thanksgiving 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z As Twitter users watching the alien memes unfold, we were alienated. Did Storming Area 51 Teach Us Anything? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Hanson told the Washington Post he was taking a marketing exam when everyone he knew started texting him about his mother's tweet, which went viral and turned him into an instant meme. What Taylor Swift could learn from the #NotHim son: How to handle being smeared in the culture wars 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Like ALL’s meme and Mother Teresa’s homes, these religious directives promote suffering over patient choice in dying: The Christian right needs Jesus: Why its leaders are so indifferent to human suffering 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z The group will be introducing more memes this summer and through the fall. Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z “It spread so fast it may be more a meme than a word.” ‘Toxic’ Is Oxford’s Word of the Year. No, We’re Not Gaslighting You. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z It only took 20 minutes for the service to be thoroughly seasoned and roasted through an assortment of memes and from every angle. "Love Is Blind" promised a live reunion, only to stand us up. So, what did we learn? 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z It has led to enthralled thinkpieces, pieces on the pieces to read about Cheer and a cache of memes. Leading the way: how Cheer became a Netflix megahit 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z This is especially the case when the meme is a religion. How religious fundamentalism hijacks your brain, as explained by a neuroscientist 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Over the semester, he filled her phone with innocuous memes. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z At one point during the night, Huling texted a meme of Lewis, who died last year, that included the words “Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.” A Black senator from Georgia 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z While the meme tries to suggest that people see the graphic differently based on whether they’re using the right or left side of their brains, theories like these haven’t been proven. Viral optical illusion has some seeing donkey, seal or something else 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z The melodic moment soon went viral and became something of a meme among Jenner's friends and fans — and of course Jenner took notice. Kylie Jenner selling 'rise and shine' sweatshirts inspired by her viral meme-ified moment 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Within 24 hours, that gaffe turned into a full-blown meme, mostly in the form of captioned image parodies. How Pepe the Frog and Nasty Woman Are Shaping the Election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Buckingham filmed his own version of the meme, atop a horse, even if he didn’t realize that’s what was happening at the time. Lindsey Buckingham Has Survived It All 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Peg fits comfortably in this category, and her bon mots would lend themselves to memes. Perspective | Why Peg Bundy was the true ’90s-sitcom domestic goddess 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z To try to hijack the meaning of the meme is “a pretty Karen thing to do”. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z He blunders through links and interviews, guffawing at his own jokes and pronouncing meme as “memm-eh”. Ron Burgundy brings his classy touch to true crime – podcasts of the week 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z The point is that Gendry’s loose end has become a meme. The fate of Gendry: is Game of Thrones’ biggest mystery about to be solved? 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z As high-profile as the "Aquaman" star was before the trial opened, Heard is currently known by way of the mocking memes and clickbait takes that now flood every corner of the internet. With the Depp-Heard trial, courtroom television's exploitative tricks reached new misogynist heights 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Take its introduction of “Woke Charlotte,” a sticky meme in which Charlotte’s dialogue is rewritten to respond to the show’s more politically anachronistic moments. Cynthia Nixon Confronts Miranda on the Campaign Trail 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z With the meme gaining real music legitimacy from Billboard, the song—if not the video-making frenzy—shows no signs of vanishing as quickly as it appeared. The Harlem Shake Is Dead; Long Live the Harlem Shake 2013-02-22T20:07:23Z No. He was a meme in the weirdest presidential election of our times. Seth Rich wasn’t just another D.C. murder victim. He was a meme in the weirdest presidential election of our times. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Rule 34 is one of those internet memes people keep talking about. What is Rule 34, you ask. Let Charles Stross explain 2011-08-11T11:25:12Z Tide Pods "challenge" panic: This one, along with the deluge of accompanying memes, technically started in 2017, but the media blitz caught up early this year. 2018 has been the longest year ever 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Poor guy, to be saddled with a name so freighted with stale internet meme baggage. ‘Boi’ Review: Being Driven to Distraction 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Lyons likens memes to “digital folklore,” images that are “repurposed by each new teller of a tale.” How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z What Internet memes do not need is a full-length movie. Internet memes transition to feature film in "The Chronicles of Rick Roll" 2011-02-24T16:47:00Z Adapted for a film in 1973, the play made an indelible imprint on British culture, its title becoming a meme, echoed in newspaper headlines and magazine cover lines. Anthony Marriott, British Playwright, Dies at 83 2014-04-28T04:22:30Z The memes work because we both see ourselves in SpongeBob and aspire to be him. Stephen Hillenburg: the naive genius who made SpongeBob a cultural titan 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Bryce is shy but sharp and obsessed with memes in a way I might have been had I grown up Gen Z. Alice has little use for adults, as I still don’t. First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related. 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z When a CNN reporter asked her how she did afterward, she reportedly replied: “I’ll tell you later when I see the memes.” Marianne Williamson’s fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z If you can’t beat her, the thinking seemed to go, then make a bunch of sexist, ageist memes accusing her of witchcraft. Perspective | There was nothing soft about Nancy Pelosi 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z These lessons from the 2012 election allow us to reflect on the life cycle of the meme and the ecology of attention in general. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z The book in which he used meme for the first time is mostly about the gene as the primary unit of natural selection, or the Darwinian idea that only the strongest survive. Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year 2012-12-05T14:42:08Z “It’s just an Internet meme, it’s a joke. It’s more about the conspiracy than about Epstein himself,” said Benzenberg, who notes the sweater is the second-best seller for the ERetailing-owned company. Santa’s a sleazebag. The elves are drunk. How did Christmas sweaters get so raunchy? 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Or they saw Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's Instagram take, in which he also calls King a b***h and goes on to post insulting memes. How the media at large failed Gayle King 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z On the surface, many memes might appear one-dimensional and frivolous. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The film, which airs on HBO on Jan. 23, explores how an Internet meme helped turn two tweens into possible murderers. 7 Chilling Revelations from HBO’s 'Slenderman' Documentary 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z I saw the memes friends posted, chastising people on welfare. Why I came out as being poor 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z “When I talk about understanding the meme,” Adam22 said, “he gets it.” The Rowdy World of Rap’s New Underground 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The meme may have started in jest, but it raised a genuine question: Is it possible to detect the signature of a cinematographer? Do Cinematographers Have a Signature? Let’s Try a Test 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Expert media commentators are the reason that much of the American public has decided to get its information on current events from memes. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Russia Mania, covfefe and the Category 5 weirdness of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z He suggests that Trump and his followers and supporters on the racist far right are actually master manipulators of human emotion, storytelling, collective psychology, symbolism and memes, with a remarkable ability to create chaos. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z She later said that she was not aware of the origins of the meme, and had reached her view after seeing “white misogynistic men use it towards older women”. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Probably just “a kind of digital-age playacting in which young people dissatisfied with decadence pretend to be fascists and Marxists on the internet, re-enacting the 1930s and 1960s with fewer street fights and more memes.” Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z AirDrop is a more direct way to share irreverent memes that might offend school officials, rather than risk posting publicly on Instagram. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z But it’s the spirit behind that meme that is the force of the show: Anyone can find common ground over a good meal, even two people who seem so different. Forget the handmade wreaths. Now Martha Stewart hangs with Snoop Dogg and makes weed jokes. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Re Elizabeth Bennett Hillary did not win the election- stop flying that inaccurate meme. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z It was the kind of straight-faced reporting of manifest absurdity that creates a richly ambivalent environment for memes to thrive. Ironic Occultists for Marianne Williamson 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Now that it’s been ID’d, the Bagger expects ‘Spielberg Face’ to quickly become a pop culture meme, alongside the various Kim Jongs looking at things. Carpetbagger Blog: Staring in Awe? It's 'the Spielberg Face' 2011-12-19T19:47:06Z Is “Women Laughing Alone With Salad” the first play inspired by an Internet meme? 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad': A playwright's raucous riff on sexism and body shame 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z But most campus meme groups take measures to discourage overly provocative postings: visuals must relate to university life, and bands of student moderators are tasked with deleting irrelevant content. Harvard’s Ugly Offshoot of Campus Meme Culture 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z She has been caught in the act only once: While seated in an airport terminal, Ferguson took out her phone and scrolled through her collection of memes. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z This convergence of viral culture and fine art is not a short-lived meme, or even new. How memes are breaking down elitism in the fine art world 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z She didn’t win, but she was victorious in becoming the best meme of the night. Analysis | Golden Globes: 11 things to watch, from Oprah’s speech to Seth Meyers’s monologue 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The title of this specific initiative was inspired by Donald Trump’s calling Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” in the final 2016 presidential debate, an epithet that rapidly became a meme and a feminist rallying cry. Rewriting Women Back Into Film History 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z “Today I found myself the subject of an Internet meme,” Miller wrote on his Facebook page. 'Prison Break' Star Wentworth Miller Shuts Down Fat-Shaming Meme 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, noted that the main appeal of such memes is their participatory nature and their openness to interpretation. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z So it makes sense that bands should use them to increase their online meme power. Klaxons, Best Coast and Wavves are all cool for cats 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z There’s an Internet meme that’s come up in response to this: “Don’t Read the Comments,” which admittedly is pretty solid and tempting advice when it comes to the unmoderated swamps of many political comments sections. On Anna Gunn, the Skyler-Hating Sexists, and the Billion-Megaphone Era 2013-08-26T15:13:37Z Beyond the hashtags, memes, celebrity endorsements and requisite calls for Wadler to run for president, it’s in moments such as these that we realise these young people really are marching for their lives. The 11-year-old who galvanised a global movement at the March for Our Lives 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z At CNN’s Iowa Democratic Town Hall, Gipple rose to pledge his allegiance to Sanders before Hillary Clinton, a moment that quickly became a political meme. Should Millennials Get Over Bernie Sanders? 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z And a single photo — say, of Obama and Clinton sharing a hearty laugh or Trump’s hair getting caught in a gust of wind — can serve as fodder for dozens of memes. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z A plethora of people have taken to social media to meme the disaster at Burning Man this past weekend. Mocking Burning Man's muddy catastrophe is just the latest example of how we cope with the rich 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The comedian and actress spent years providing the internet with viral videos and memes that did most of the talking for her and inspired people online to express themselves using her image. Quinta Brunson’s Viral Fame Knows No Bounds 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z The charitable name for this kind of work is “meme curation,” though others have called it “plagiarism.” At the first-ever SopranosCon, meet the fans who never stopped believin’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z We were ready for the onslaught of offensive, hand-drawn internet memes. Building the Great Wall of Vulvas: 21,000 drawings (and 103 Volvos) later 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The group’s learning process is perhaps best depicted in a meme consisting of three panels, each with a different expression of Pikachu alongside a caption. The Story of the Subtle Asian Traits Facebook Group 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s a missed opportunity, lacking the exuberance of the phrase, the sentiment, the meme and, ultimately, the summer. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Pointed Protest, and 8 More New Songs 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Typically during and following big government events like this there's a tremendous outpouring of witty statuses, tweets and memes that capture the political zeitgeist. Today was #MuellerTime, but did anyone at home do the reading first? 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z “I do want the hate to stop. I want the picking sides and the abusive memes and the language, and all of that … I really hope on both sides it can stop,” said Westbrook. James Charles ends monthlong hiatus following Tati Westbrook controversy: 'It's been a very, very crazy month' 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Unlike the meme in which a pristine pickle or onion is revealed to be a cake, these versions are intentionally imperfect, with their crinkly — sometimes crude — piped icing and psychedelic color palettes. Pandemic Baking Just Got Weirder 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z A few commenters even went as far as to say they think men should take initiative when it comes down to snow shoveling, which they expressed in written and meme formats. Canadian politician's tweet about wife shoveling snow after 12-hour hospital shift takes unexpected turn 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Liberals responded that they did, in fact, want that future — and mocked the sentiment by turning it into a meme, sharing nonsensical photos with the same caption. How drag queens have snatched the political spotlight in the Trump era 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z It now takes just a minor breeze of Internet attention for a wife to catch fire as a meme. Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z But this year, it’s broken from its original meme mold. 3 internet language trends from 2019, explained 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z A meme is some symbol, image, phrase or little cultural unit or concept that spreads. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Aiming to replace planking – extreme lying down – in the affections of pranksters, the leisure dive is the latest photography meme spreading across Facebook and beyond. Internet picks of the week 2011-08-05T23:08:37Z Just days after the meme attained notoriety, Covington took to Twitter to push back on the online taunting. Christian Girl Autumn was once a joke and has now become a seasonal inspiration of coziness 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Even if memes, Twitter, and toilet humor never existed, Mounds would still be the punchline of candy bar monikers. In defense of loving Mounds candy bars 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z A big part of his job is flagging memes and whatever is catching viral fire on Twitter. ‘Lit’ Is Over, and Other Things You Can Pay Teens to Teach You 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z The second lesson is about the wisdom or otherwise of trying to block memes. How Google made me get into bed with Hitler 2013-03-17T00:05:49Z This depiction, along with their general, unassuming likeability, made unlikely pop stars of the two attorneys and resulted in an national fanbase and even Tiger Beat-style love memes and think pieces about their heartthrob appeal. Make Dean Strang proud: If you really care about criminal justice reform, stop trying to get out of jury duty 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z On the other, it's an exhausting reminder of why the "silence, brand" meme skyrocketed to popularity in 2019. KFC's sexy Colonel Sanders Lifetime movie is the perfect distillation for this year's brand madness 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Her vague threat to the audience — “cash me ousside, how bout dah” — became an enormously popular meme and was even remixed into a minor Billboard hit. Review | Bhad Bhabie goes from Internet meme to real-life rapper, and it’s a little complicated 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z I also think that’s just how it started as a meme. “This is fine” cartoonist on why it’s not fine, after all: It’s “a response to how weird and bad 2016 has made me feel” 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Mr Creosote was co-created by Jones and Palin, and rewritten by Cleese and Graham Chapman, and his aggressive greed has become legendary – a meme before there was any social media to fit it into. Monty Python film director Terry Jones: full of fun and innocence – and a very naughty boy 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z A meme circulates online: the elderly lady from the movie “Titanic,” in the scene where her mind drifts back to the ship sinking in her youth. Sick of being shocked by the news? Don’t worry, it will get worse. 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Whether you watched the conventions and debates on one screen or three, there’s a good chance you encountered discussion of Internet memes afterward. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z In a world of GIFs and memes, most of us are accustomed to processing instantly the tiniest snip of human movement. Perspective | ‘Fortnite’ fight: Can a rapper claim a dance? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z This kind of meme - unlike the viral protests themselves - runs counter to the movement's seriousness. Internet memes sprout around Occupy movement 2011-11-23T20:21:11Z Unlike the rest of the cast, Ms. Scott doesn’t actually wear one of those unflattering orange jumpsuits that have become a pop-culture meme, thanks to a certain Netflix series. Review: In ‘Whorl Inside a Loop,’ Inmates Shape Their Stories 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z While meme art like “Heart on My Sleeve” may quickly become “a real cultural force,” she added, “the novelty will eventually be exhausted.” An A.I. Hit of Fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Rattles the Music World 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z “Folks running for president in the digital age are controlled by memes and discourse that takes place online — it’s faster,” explains VaNatta Ford, an assistant professor of Africana studies at Williams College in Massachusetts. Perspective | Cory Booker and Kamala Harris wade into pop culture — and experience the age-old drawbacks 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z History and the present, politics and poetry, the sublime and the ridiculous can now be digitally compressed into clever memes. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z But sometimes good things happen to those who wait– or rather, good memes. In case you missed them: the Guardian's unsung heroes of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z With a virtual mountain of tweets, memes and thinkpieces, the reaction has been staggering. Martin Freeman: 'I’m not horrible or unfriendly. But I’m my own person' 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Making a meme of a celebrity can be a way to sort through complex feelings of fandom. Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z And, of course, there were the memes and the accompanying meme accounts. How ‘Lord of the Rings’ Became ‘Star Wars’ for Millennial Women 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z For memes to persuade, however, they must be seen as authentic. Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z “I do not know how those offensive images could be defended,” one said. A flurry of insouciant memes, posted to the main thread, made light of the students’ fate. Harvard’s Ugly Offshoot of Campus Meme Culture 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z “Now it’s, ‘Did you share that meme that Parks posted on their Tumblr last night?’ How Parks and Rec Brings Pawnee to Life Online 2013-02-28T13:00:41Z In a lot of ways memes dumb down stuff, but conceptually I love what they have brought to our lives. Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s Would Like to Talk to You About Memes 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Affleck became the subject of an internet meme after his apparently sorrowful reaction to the news that Batman v Superman was suffering poor reviews was caught on camera last month. Ben Affleck 'humiliated' by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice reviews 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z For more than 200 years, starting in the Colonial era, Lady Columbia was a popular historical meme “representing nationalism and welcoming immigrants,” according to Berg. To photograph America’s diversity, he visited 64 locales all named Columbia 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Even people like him, who have “very little to complain about, job-wise,” can appreciate these text conversations, which frequently go viral and have become a kind of meme. Quitting Your Job Never Looked So Fun 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Likely, the one meme to rule them all will be a line we didn't see coming, just like that 6 train. Ready for “Russian Doll”? Here are 5 things to watch out for 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But if a #GhostbustersReboot meme takes off a la #TrueDetectiveSeason2, there will be enough hypothetical dream casting to keep fans busy until whenever it arrives. Report: Ghostbusters Reboot May Star Female Leads 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump and other candidates have used memes to influence public opinion. Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The Trump campaign adopted the meme on Friday, using it as the visual backdrop as the candidate began his Miami rally. How Trump isn't the first to use 'Les Miserables' music as a political rallying cry 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z To “Silver Bells” Facebook timelines, countless meme Vines, Stressed with horrible bile. Style Invitational: Do over the do-over — enter any of the year’s contests 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Years later, that private photo became “ERMAHGERD Girl,” one of the most enduringly popular memes on the Internet. The rise and fall of Ken Bone: This is what happens when real humans become Internet memes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Know Your Meme, a Wiki-style site that defines internet culture, added “Karen” last year as an extension of the “‘Can I speak to the manager’ haircut” meme, born of Black Twitter back in 2014. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z It snowballed and the ensuing memes feminized Drake. Drake, it's time to give up the soft boy gimmick: Why the rapper's lover boy persona is a sham 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z But we have become unignorable in the social-media age; fully incorporated into the story in 21 Jump Street, this dramatisation of our cultural preferences, done with meme precision, has given the remake a new alibi. From 21 Jump Street to Baywatch and CHiPs: how Hollywood remade the remake 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Like my younger students, I send text messages, check Facebook incessantly, and relish certain favorite viral videos and Internet memes. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z When he started sharing memes and quotes on social media, it was all self-generated. Respectfully, Justin Laboy moves from online stardom to TV 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Not only has it spawned a huge number of memes and gifs, phrases like "fetch" and "word vomit" have fallen into common parlance. Why Tina Fey's Mean Girls is a movie classic 2013-01-29T11:28:56Z So in every tragedy, people search for a way to express that solidarity, and often do so via hashtags and image memes. Is posting support for Paris on Facebook narcissistic, or heartfelt? 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z A variation of the meme, "I'll be a teenage girl until I'm 27" makes the rounds every so often online, and it makes sense. From "Barbie Girl" to Girl Dinner and beyond: What's behind our obsession with the girl-ish label 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z The meme – derived from a larger comic strip published by artist KC Green in 2013 – took off online in 2016 as capturing the collective disbelief at the election of President Trump. In case you missed them: the Guardian's unsung heroes of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The tweet in August, which followed a popular meme about pandemic disappointment, drew more than half a million likes and 75,000 retweets. Finding Memories, and Mom’s Sewing Stuff, in a Reused Cookie Tin 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Many people on the internet share other people’s memes without giving the creators credit, in part because credit can be hard to discern. Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z That hat began a thousand memes and reintroduced him as a benevolent, playful figure of modern R&B-pop. VMA Contenders Include Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus and Pharrell Williams 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The photo of her caught in the act of catching the crustacean has gotten the attention of "Star Wars" fans on social media with hundreds of comments and retweets of memes fans have created. 101-year-old lobsterwoman goes viral with 'Star Wars' fans for using 'the Force' 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The costume also spurred a slew of internet memes, with fans referencing the classic "Would You Still Love Me If I Was a Worm" joke. The 13 most buzzworthy fashion statements of 2022, ranked 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Beside the headline was a photo of the Internet-famous primate, who became fodder for memes after his death at a Cincinnati zoo last year. ‘These are all fake news,’ said the honor student. He was wrong. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z “During these uncertain and lonelier times, people need an escape: cue the cute puppy memes and photos,” a spokesperson for Busch in a statement to People. Busch to give '3 months' of beer to people that adopt or foster a dog during coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z In 2008, Pepe began to appear in a series of memes produced across a number of platform, many of which reflected the character’s original spirit. Pepe the Frog, mascot of the alt-right, dead at 12 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z He references an often-circulated meme: “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet just because there’s a picture with a quote next to it.” Maya Angelou’s new stamp uses a quote that may not be entirely hers 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z He uses it while lamenting the polarized, post-factual world of politics and media, in which everything is noise, in which profound truths can be overtaken by a pink-eye meme. The chaos of the Olympics has arrived. Fortunately, we have Bob Costas. 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z On Chinese social media, it is used as a meme to connote forced positivity in an otherwise uncomfortable situation. Meet Gavin, the eight-year-old with a face shared more than 1bn times 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z “Problematic fave” became a well-worn meme; even after I stopped posting, my blog was cited in books, articles, podcasts and think pieces. My Year of Grief and Cancellation 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z He has deployed an army of meme makers, enlisted mural artists to transform campaign spaces and hired at least one comedian to secretly punch up his speeches. Did Mike Bloomberg waste $500 million running for president? We’re about to find out. 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Twitter users found the video to be both shocking and hilarious, particularly one victim’s facial reaction, which was turned into its own meme. TikTok video shows woman snatching 'free' food from strangers at mall 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z "People naturally want to talk about and riff on things that are internet memes and cultural touch points, like movies, music, and TV," Bugbee said. TV film 'Sharknado' inches to cult status with midnight showings 2013-08-03T00:17:03Z But, the shelf life of a meme is fleeting. The Four Seasons Total Landscaping debacle is finally getting the documentary treatment it deserves 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z I'm not here to pass judgment on the people who have made jokes and memes about Burning Man or the missing submarin;, I'm also a part of the problem. Mocking Burning Man's muddy catastrophe is just the latest example of how we cope with the rich 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z At the time, it was the most popular design the company had yet had, and Threadless rushed it into print to take advantage of the merging of two then-popular memes. Keyboard Cat owner claws Threadless 2011-06-30T23:38:00Z Retro editorial cartoons are shared alongside hyper-referential memes, between statistics about the wealth gap and updates about union drives at Amazon. Quitting Your Job Never Looked So Fun 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z It's inspired GIFs, memes, movie poster spoofs and no doubt many, many upcoming Halloween costumes featuring floppy hot dog fingers and googly eyes. Directors on the ADHD theory of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z The images of people gathering on Florida beaches conjure the dynamics of the Florida Man meme, which delights in the broad-brush painting of Floridians as criminally stupid hicks. The Social-Distancing Shamers Are Watching 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z "I noticed that the humorous memes, particularly Grumpy Cat, got a lot of likes and shares, so I started emphasizing that, and it grew," he says. Actor-activist George Takei takes command in cyberspace and beyond 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z He even fights Chuck Norris, the real-life karate champion turned action hero turned internet meme. How Bruce Lee Exploded a Stereotype With a One-Inch Punch 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Maybe he was here to get in on the ground floor with some Sopranos memes. At the first-ever SopranosCon, meet the fans who never stopped believin’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The first one involves how social media platforms like Twitter provide a leading opinion-making role to a few key – and connected – individuals, amplifying their voices and allowing videos and memes to spread. Why ABC reacted so swiftly to Roseanne’s racist tweet 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z I look at bullet scars every day, so it’s like, a meme, bro? 21 Savage on ICE Detention, the Grammys and His Uncertain Future 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z One meme that is running as a paid Instagram video advertisement features a tweet from Mr. Trump in which he refers to supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement as “THUGS.” Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z I saw the most depressing “motherhood” meme recently. Avoid playgrounds and eat the last biscuit: how to keep your sense of self as a parent 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z He also owns Bacon Today, a Web site for bacon memes and recipes, which his staff tests every week. It may cause cancer, but these bacon-lovers refuse to be cured 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z But as the meme has become more prominent in online discourse, its meaning has become confused, and criticism has been voiced that it is sexist – with real-life Karens caught in the crosshairs. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z “With YouTube I want to get big enough so the people that inspired me are my friends. It was like that with my meme pages,” he said. Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Biden’s team quickly caught wind of the meme and embraced it, too. Biden embraces his ‘Dark Brandon’ alter ego in 2024 campaign 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Now, when a brand uses a meme for marketing purposes, it generally asks for permission to share the image, and credits the owner. Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z A butt-clenchingly awkward moment, albeit one that gave birth to a fiercely hilarious meme that swept the world for months afterward.. Jodie Foster and the art of dropping acceptance-speech bombs 2013-01-17T17:36:59Z Hours later, that moment became part of a ridiculous press conference that transformed a small family-owned landscaping business into a meme and local landmark. "Four Seasons Total Documentary" captures the Trump campaign's emperor-has-no-clothes moment 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z “Yeah, we build some meme products, but we also build mission-driven things. We want to build a more positive internet, things that help people.” Gen Zers Say Silicon Valley Is Elitist and Exclusive. Can They Build a New System? 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Its transformation into the better-known Rick Rolling is unfortunately not as well-documented, but one thing is for sure: Once this meme started rolling, it kept rolling and rolling. Anatomy of an Internet freakout: The long, slow death of “Rickrolling” 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The phrase “Netflix and chill” may have morphed into a euphemism, but the meme began as a straightforward sentiment – people tend to use the platform while horizontal in the comfort of their home. Can Netflix save us from the Great Romcom Shortage of 2018? I watched 11 films to find out 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Garten has used the phrase a fair amount on her longrunning Food Network program "The Barefoot Contessa," to the point where the internet has turned it into a kind of an ironic meme. Store-bought is (actually) fine: Letting go of the pressures of perfection in the kitchen 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z In fact, he became such a hero that a Photoshopped image of him in Ukrainian military attire soon took hold and became a national meme. Javier Bardem, Jon Voight and the celebrity punditocracy 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z It seems like every hour brings with it some new hashtag or meme, viral video or bizarre piece of internet ephemera that people just can’t stop clicking on. The year in viral: From “Too Many Cooks” to the “Oh hi becky” tweet 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z In the midst of the pandemic, people are turning to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to share news, updates and funny memes, while others are just hoping to find some type of distraction. What is Instagram's 'First Photo Challenge'? 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The Soviets had the Iron Curtain; Mr. Putin, with his troll armies and cynical meme warfare, has the Irony Curtain. Ukraine on TV: We’ve Seen This Before. And We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Because when it comes to memes, when it comes to the quickness with which black folks find a reference and align it with something in the current zeitgeist, it can’t be matched. What Amanda Seales knows: On comedy, authenticity and success on her own terms 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z The lies that launched a thousand memes have become a staple for late-night comics and pundits. What made George Santos lie so much? Experts weigh in on his deception. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z He did so in a manner so nonchalant that it triggered immediate shock and outrage; photos and videos of the incident shot across the globe in meme form. California education’s painful decline 2012-10-02T17:01:00Z Perhaps if enough people share these memes, the thinking goes, it will act like a social-media version of Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here,” and wake others up to the threat of creeping Fascism. Trump: The Man, the Meme 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z It was the dream meme stock, and the film’s subjects recall using the trading app Robinhood to execute their plan to rob the rich and give to themselves. ‘Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets’ Review: Is This Loss? 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z It started as an astrology meme, one of those images some of my friends post on social media, and I scroll past. For 2023, I'm giving up loneliness 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Platforms that fed me soothing cake decoration tutorials and “Sopranos”-themed therapy memes now served up regular dispatches from the proceedings, all filtered through the glorification of Depp and mockery of Heard. TikTok’s Amber Heard Hate Machine 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z There are “Succession” memes, GIFs, drinking games, remixes of Nicholas Britell’s hypnotic, brittle theme. ‘Succession’ Is Over. Why Did We Care? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z In this way, political memes say more about the people sharing them than they do about any specific campaign issue; the meme is personal is political. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z “Who controls the memes controls the universe,” Mr. Musk tweeted last summer. Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z I once saw a meme about the “dating pool” in midlife that featured an empty swimming pool with lawn chairs and debris blown into it. Some People Flip Real Estate. I Flip Men. 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z I follow every “Sopranos”-related Instagram account that there is, every “Sopranos” meme account — these “Sopranos” Reddit conversations just bring me so much joy. Kiernan Shipka Is Relaxing with Tony Soprano and a Margarita 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Some strangers took things a step further, starting a number of Josh Swain Reddit pages, which feature countless memes. ‘Josh Fight’ began online a year ago. Last weekend, a crowd of people named Josh showed up to duel with pool noodles. 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z While debate viewers on Twitter certainly responded to her presence on the stage, the reaction largely took the form of jokes and memes rather than serious contemplation of her answers. "Marianne Williamson for Secretary of Crystals": The bonkers break-out character of NBC's debates 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z And while some of the jokes and memes circulating during the days following the al-Qaida leader's demise may have been funny, some people wondered whether "it was too soon to laugh." "Too Soon?": Internet makes light of the London riots 2011-08-10T23:11:00Z As arrogant as it was ridiculous, Medvedev’s side flop has stuck with me all this fall as a Gen-Z master class in how to stay human in a world of memes. 10 Works of Art That Evaded the Algorithm This Year 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z In other words, the photo of Mr. Rout’s son had become an Internet meme: an idea, image, catchphrase or video that goes viral, mutating via amateur remixes into unexpected forms. A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme 2010-09-16T12:56:00Z The phenomenon has even inspired a meme of sorts: social-media pages have lighted up with messages, half annoyed and half in admiration, that “Aaron Paul keeps turning on my Xbox!” For Aaron Paul, seeking good after 'Bad' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Classical music is better, truer, more noble: That’s its meme, as it were. ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ and entertainment’s classical-music problem 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z I urge you to do a quick Google search of "BBL Drake" memes to understand this persona even further. Drake, it's time to give up the soft boy gimmick: Why the rapper's lover boy persona is a sham 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Most Self-Aware Set: Drake Is there a rapper more knowledgeable about his own Internet memes than Drake? The Best Things We Saw at Austin City Limits Music Festival 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The return of “Arrested Development” early this morning on Netflix is likely to provide new one-liners for the show’s army of aficionados to repeat to one another, transform into Internet memes and print on T-shirts. ArtsBeat: What’s Your Favorite Joke From the New Season of ‘Arrested Development’? 2013-05-26T14:00:04Z Burke’s interviews are passed around online as treasured memes. In Praise of Doris Burke, Basketball’s Best TV Analyst 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z We stop retweeting and reblogging a meme when its ability to express a unique authentic identity diminishes into the mere performance of mob conformity. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z The “boogaloo kit” post on social media is another recent example of the meme bridging the gap with real life. What Do You Do When Extremism Comes for the Hawaiian Shirt? 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The bathroom mirror alone plays a key role in many of TikTok’s most popular memes. We’re All in the Bathroom Filming Ourselves 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z After her right leg inspired its own meme at the 2012 Oscars, she is now dressing discreetly. Why the red carpet is bad for fashion 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The taut, dainty, orange fruit is still sufficiently exotic to American consumers; plus, Asian beauty trends and the ancient-geisha-wisdom meme are big right now. Is your persimmon soap infused with geisha wisdom? The precious world of artisanal beauty. 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Now, I object to the sexism of the meme. My Name Is Karen. What Can I Do About the Meme? 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z On Night 2, they made bingo cards filled with anticipated Democratic convention cliches like “White person speaks Spanish” and “Someone tries to reference a meme.” Democrats, make some nooooise! Wait, you’re muted. Hello? 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Over the past several months, Cyrus has turned herself into a meme, time and time again. Miley Cyrus Strips Down (Her Songs) and Grinds With Madonna in MTV Unplugged 2014-01-29T06:21:29Z I’m not the only one who despises this little meme. Time to retire “haters gonna hate”: With Taylor Swift’s apology, the bright new post- “Shake It Off” era is born 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Purzycki said the group is keeping the first round of memes broad partly to gauge influencers’ “willingness to participate in any type of political campaign.” Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z These memes often pull from the language of 12-step-based programs, incorporating experiences and vocabulary known only to members of that community. How Memes and a Good Laugh Can Help People in Recovery 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z It's prompted hilarious memes, while simultaneously inspiring conversations about capitalism and inequality. Netflix execs and "Squid Game" VIPs are playing from the same out-of-touch handbook 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Several prospective Harvard students who enjoyed the public meme thread but avoided its darker counterpart told the Crimson that they supported the decision. Harvard’s Ugly Offshoot of Campus Meme Culture 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z For them, memes are a way to commiserate with fellow bankers, especially those contending with the long hours of summer internships and first-year analyst positions. Smashing the Finance Patriarchy With Memes 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The movement is “winning the meme war,” an alt-right blogger calling himself Lawrence Murray wrote last month. For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z That series combines such mainstays as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” with more recent cult fare like “The Room,” and the preshow is a compilation of related internet comedy and meme videos. Now Playing: The Movies Before the Movies 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Satire is booming online, from the Onion to countless parody accounts and social media memes. ‘Vanguard of opposition’: SNL adds Spicer to satire’s resurgence under Trump 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Matter of fact, the only things that didn’t suck this year were “Squid Game” memes and all the mighty fine music Washington artists put forth into the world. 16 of the best Seattle albums from 2021 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Don't solely rely on a meme or a hashtag to express your feelings. White allies: Here's a basic list of do's and don'ts to help you with your helplessness 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z When Jordan made a rare public appearance in April, showing up at an N.C.A.A. tournament game at his alma mater, North Carolina, the meme threatened to turn meta. Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won’t Die 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Regardless of the "BBL Drake" memes, the rapper's soft personality was also cultivated through his angsty, pining emotions in his music from the classic Drake albums "Take Care," and "Nothing Was The Same." Drake, it's time to give up the soft boy gimmick: Why the rapper's lover boy persona is a sham 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z But mostly, Apu imprinted himself on the viewer’s psyche with his accent, a clucking singsong that made “Thank you, come again!” a meme before memes existed. He loved ‘The Simpsons.’ But Hari Kondabolu has a problem with Apu. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z A large part of this meme’s success is owed to Black Twitter, which Dr. Washington described as “a virtual community” but also a linguistic one, marked, in part, by “collaborative journalism.” How Nicknames for the Pandemic Became a Popular Online Trend 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z All memes have a shelf life, and yassification fatigue has already set in. What Does It Mean to ‘Yassify’ Anything? 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Museums, galleries, magazines and art schools have happily absorbed cultural production from well beyond their borders, from folk art to popular dances to memes themselves. Beeple Has Won. Here’s What We’ve Lost. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z They follow astrology podcasts such as “Stars Like Us,” buy zodiac-themed candles and fragrances and crystals, and share astrology memes from Instagram accounts such as Drunk Astrology and Not All Geminis. How app culture turned astrology into a modern obsession 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Forget the annoying “This would never have happened with the NHS” memes, because that series was about a man embracing all the old resentments that had already eaten him alive before the cancer diagnosis. 'S’all good, man': How Better Call Saul became superior to Breaking Bad 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Interviews are intercut with the memes that these cheery forum trolls shared when they believed they were in for a fortune. ‘Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets’ Review: Is This Loss? 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Today, it’s hard to scroll through social media without spotting “Shrek” memes, which have become their own language. ‘Shrek’ at 20: How a Chaotic Project Became a Beloved Hit 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps what’s most fascinating about the Christian girl autumn meme is its transformation from a joke to an inspiration. Christian Girl Autumn was once a joke and has now become a seasonal inspiration of coziness 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z It was a moment repeated at nearly at every stop on her cross-country tour, screamed as a rallying cry and an identity statement, even finding a secondary home as a minor meme online. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The book is playing on the meme to kind of go into what is now a cultural touch point. New "OK Boomer" book tries to heal generational rift between Millennials and Boomers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z “Mr. Tank:” an ad on @Tank.Sinatra begins, “I’ve been waiting for my meme for so long that I learned how to make memes myself in photoshop.” Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Suddenly Drops Memes Everywhere 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Staying up all night posting racist memes is not “alpha.” Perspective | Wolfie James and the insidious role of female white nationalists 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z “It’s a lot easier to do a meme than it is to produce a political poster,” says Carol Wells, founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Culver City. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z That’s part of why these memes have been so wildly popular — they all poke fun at the absurdity of this romantic fantasy, while at the same time reveling in it. Manny Pacquiao loses his crown 2012-05-16T18:50:00Z I think we have to remember posting an anxiety meme is not the same as going to therapy. "True equality is embracing mediocrity": Aparna Nancherla on imposter syndrome and fear of failure 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Here we media are, desperate to make sense of every “How could he say that” and “Did he go too far” moment with think pieces, fact checks and memes/video mashes. If only Hunter S. Thompson could have lived to take on this election 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z “It’s fun for you to be a meme, but if they rewatch the show they’ll really see who the Delta variant is,” Mr. Pratt said in a text message on Thursday. So, You’ve Been Cast as the Delta Variant 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z He enjoys the group — “The memes are great and a lot of them I agree with” — but is reluctant to post. Can Society Scale? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z But a durable meme, like “Crying Jordan” or “This Is Fine,” allows people to use it as cultural commentary. Why ‘This Is Fine’ Is the Meme This Year Deserves 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The male equivalent might be the “Kyle” meme: an angry, aggressive white teenage boy, characterised by his penchant for Monster energy drinks, Axe body spray and punching drywall. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z “They invited other meme kids, like David After Dentist and Side Eye Chloe and Backpack Kid, so I got to meet their families and trade stories.” Meet Gavin, the eight-year-old with a face shared more than 1bn times 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z It's easy to imagine these tools transforming the way people make images and communicate, whether via memes, greeting cards, advertising – and, yes, art. Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art? 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Social media posts and memes about DiCaprio's preference for dating women barely old enough to rent a car quickly went viral. Dating Leonard DiCaprio: What his history of younger girlfriends may say about him and about us 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “When we think about TikTok it’s this mobile-first platform and there’s so many things about the format itself that speaks to meme culture,” Ms. Pappas said. TikTok’s Biggest Hits of the Year — and Its Predictions for 2020 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Today, the meme is an inspiration to many and remains a topic of discussion when people yearn for the sheer bliss that comes with fall. Christian Girl Autumn was once a joke and has now become a seasonal inspiration of coziness 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z The early months of 2021 trapped many of us inside again with nothing but devices, memes, and a false sense of importance. I grew up in the city, not hiking or camping. As an adult, I want my family to enjoy nature's beauty 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z On the picture, the meme under Clinton read: “Everyone remembers my whistleblower.” Washington is again captivated by an anonymous source. It’s different now. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z This is a popular meme among the conservative punditocracy, as well. Our great healthcare denial 2012-06-17T12:00:00Z As with almost every TikTok meme, the concept falls apart with too much explanation, especially because the jokes on TikTok are constantly changing as they are copied, expanded upon and shared. The Future Teen Stars of America Live on TikTok 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z And while monetizing memes may be a modern phenomenon, Schimkowitz points out that “marketing people taking trends from teens is not a new thing – that’s being happening since they invented teenagers”. Lizzo is '100% that bitch' … but can she trademark it? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Drake was 16 when that future meme hit the internet, a Canadian teen actor with rap star dreams. Drake: Rap’s Biggest Fan 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Rowan’s meme account was not his first business. Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Internet meme, whose catchphrase “That’s hot,” was the “We the best” of the mid-two-thousands, is also well aware that the public can turn against you on a dime. “The American Meme” Records the Angst of Social-Media Influencers 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z While malarkey's history is shaded, meme's roots are easily traced to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, a Brit who coined the term for a unit of cultural inheritance, not unlike genes and DNA. Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year 2012-12-05T14:42:08Z Numerous memes landed online and several commenters weighed in on the fractured state of journalism. Brian Williams' potential move to MSNBC is skewered on social media 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z “The whole house of this thing was built on memes,” he says. Crypto artists have been building a rebellious, underground community of outsiders for years. Now they’re making a living selling NFTs. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z “Her photo, to everyone’s surprise, became an internet sensation many months later and the basis for a ‘meme’ known as ‘Texts from Hillary.’ Are You There, Angela Merkel? It's Me, Hillary! 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z And unfortunately, there are limits to what even the best "Shrek" memes can do to protect women and pregnant people. Why “Shrek” memes shutting down anti-abortion snitch hotline are just the beginning 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z “Here’s the thing, we’re just spending so much more time together, so there’s more of everything. More talking. More learning what memes your son finds hilarious. More eating dinner together, “ she said. Some good did happen this summer. Just look at what these children accomplished. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The first season was hardly over before the internet got the #TrueDetectiveSeason2 meme trending worldwide. Rip it up and start again: why so many shows press reset for their second season 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z For about three days, I’d been exposed to hundreds of news stories, social media posts, eulogies, obituaries, memes, appeals for mental health care, hotlines, media insensitivity and testimonials. The media’s obsession with Robin Williams’ death made my own depression worse 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z In the week leading up to the Iowa caucus, the internet was abuzz with a Bernie Sanders/Hillary Clinton meme that highlighted the pair’s ideological differences. Bernie bros, stop this meme: Your dumb joke about Hillary’s music taste isn’t funny — it’s predictably sexist 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z He’d only realized his family approached things differently at the age of 16, when he began laughing at “anti-vaxxer memes” on Reddit, but soon realized that his family might be the butt of the joke. 'God knows how I’m alive': how a teen defied his parents to get vaccinated 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z These slurs would spiral into an indefatigable pop-culture meme that has haunted generations of women accused of intruding on male genius. The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Of course, the sheer volume of Internet memes — and the general anonymity of their creators — means that few have a shelf life that lasts more than a few days. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z What’s it been like seeing the world’s reaction to your show’s success, with all the different memes, parodies and challenges out there? Lee Jung-jae Thinks ‘Squid Game’ Critics Should Watch It Again 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z “A24 is just Disney Channel for advertising majors who went to Bard College,” one of their earliest memes reads. Who Is the Ion Pack? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Their works will be used for billboards, building signs, subway advertising, Internet memes, social media and select print advertising, potentially even yard signs, and ultimately an art show at the Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea. A ‘Super PAC’ Where Art Meets Politics 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Like all the best memes, the “Queen of” rubric is sardonic in form and cheerful in content. Carly Rae Jepsen’s Ecstatic Hymns to Love 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z And, as her nearly 5 million Twitter followers will tell you, she knows her way around a “Jolene” meme. Is There Anything We Can All Agree On? Yes: Dolly Parton 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, social media users embraced Brooks’ response and “it’s above me” quickly became a meme. Hotel worker refuses to give room to guest that called him a racial slur: 'It's above me now' 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z A: It's a funny thing to have a trademark on a cultural meme like that, but in fact they do. Lagunitas drops lawsuit against Sierra Nevada after Twitter backlash 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z These memes come off the assembly line of jingoistic conservative Facebook groups with names such as the Citizens Mandate and the Great American Movement, which have 160,000 followers between them. What is Ginni Thomas saying now? The evolution of an unusually outspoken Supreme Court spouse 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Bach, the Ion Pack began on Instagram by posting niche memes making fun of the often self-serious and protective film scene in New York. Who Is the Ion Pack? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z In a 2020 video, “No Comment,” cat memes, online mapping programs and a stream of surreal text and images seek to dislodge the viewer from taking online narcissism for granted. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Eichinger is on record as loving the meme – and who wouldn't be? Bernd Eichinger: a career in clips 2011-01-28T10:58:00Z “My friends and I don’t share memes in our group chat anymore,” she said. Sidechat Wants to Be College Students’ Main Chat 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z People ask me to talk about my story, to demonstrate the power of memes. Experience: my face became a meme 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Frantic online cultural production swarms around Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg whenever she experiences a health scare, as if memes alone could sustain the octogenarian’s life. United We Stan 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z It seems like the only person who didn’t monetize the meme was the young black woman who created it. Lizzo is '100% that bitch' … but can she trademark it? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Do they think it’s attractive or is it an internet meme? Should I put the word 'feminist' in my online dating profile? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Did you think a meme was the best way to kill off a hipster crush? Ryan Gosling: Only God Forgives, but why does the whole world still worship? 2013-04-19T10:56:52Z A couple of weeks ago, it was reported that the virtual-reality billionaire Palmer Luckey had been quietly bankrolling an online group responsible for generating and spreading anti-Clinton memes of similarly “dank” quality. The Dank Memes That Are “Disrupting” Politics 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Eventually, the song leaked beyond the gamer realm, becoming the backdrop to goth girl memes and a video of a cockroach dashing to evade insect repellent. How Roblox Sparked a Chaotic Music Scene 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z "Y'all means all" – that's a wonderful phrase that seems to be popping up everywhere, from T-shirts and book titles to memes and music. ‘Y'all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Every once in a while, a meme rises up from the wondrous bog of entertaining nonsense that is the Internet. We Should Probably Have a Conversation About ‘Damn, Daniel’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z "I was worried we were past the expiration date of the meme," Glazer says. Viral video spoofs the, er, stuff New Yorkers say 2012-01-20T23:48:08Z She came to her subject matter by way of an Internet meme made viral by the feminist website the Hairpin in 2011. Sheila Callaghan plays with gender identity in 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The melodic moment soon went viral and became something of a meme among Jenner's friends and fans — prompting the 22-year-old beauty mogul to quickly release the sweatshirts and cash in. American Airlines flight attendant's song inspired by Kylie Jenner goes viral 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Given the unique opportunity, Drake chose to become the meme. Drake: Rap’s Biggest Fan 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z In the wake of the abortion law, his friends have been posting anti-Texas memes. They came to Texas for the big houses and barbecue. They also got new laws on abortion, guns and voting. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z As her reign entered the internet era, widely circulated images of Elizabeth looking unamused behind the wheel of a hulking Range Rover earned her a new crown: meme queen. Queen Elizabeth: A Visual Dictionary 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z For the past couple of elections, meme production was dominated by Democrats. Memes, Myself and I: The Internet Lets Us All Run the Campaign 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z But now meme culture has grown to reach the Facebook outposts of red staters. Memes, Myself and I: The Internet Lets Us All Run the Campaign 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Advertisement The most ambitious memes, however, did more than marry the video to new audio; they tweaked the video. Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z If you watch the internet, you’ll see thousands of memes of girls and boys and men and grannies dressed up as “The Girl.” A Dutch Museum Celebrates, and Reflects 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Sofia Pace, a 21-year-old student at Baruch College who grew up in the East Village, mentioned in a phone interview a meme she saw recently on Instagram. This Is the Summer the Youth Own New York 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Even if memes, Twitter, and toilet humor never existed, Mounds would still be the punchline of candy bar monikers. In defense of loving Mounds candy bars 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Donald Trump Jr. posted a meme of someone who had decorated the top of their tree with a Trump figurine. Bask in the absurdity of this 2018 #MAGA gift guide 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Inevitably there are websites and blogs and memes devoted to gossip about these sacred and profane spaces, places to get a fix of favourite dramas before the next series is uploaded. Secrets of the TV writers’ room: inside Narcos, Transparent and Silicon Valley 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z Hourly digesting everything from funny memes, fights, cooking tutorials, to sports highlights, and clips from our favorite movies. The dangerous spectacle of racist violence viral videos: Who are those images for? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z The meme pokes fun at a person’s failures, but it also turns them into an internet-wide game, one in which everyone messes up, and everyone receives the same absurd rebuke. Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won’t Die 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z This is how a hate symbol rises in 2016: A podcast sound effect becomes a Twitter meme and a browser extension before it finally slithers into the physical world. For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The AF1, currently in its 40th anniversary, is a hip-hop staple, mentioned in countless songs and worn by countless artists; it is the subject of endless memes; it has been endlessly copied and iterated on. Louis Vuitton Meets Nike in Virgil Abloh’s Dream Sneaker 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z But with the birth of social media and meme culture, slang words are increasingly hitting our eyes before our ears. ‘Jeuje,’ ‘Zhoosh,’ ‘Zhuzh’: A Word of Many Spellings, and Meanings 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z The new documentary adds to the fame, of course, but also reveals how it emerged and why it’s unexpected, given the life that preceded the meme. The new film ‘RBG’ reveals how Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a meme — and why that’s so surprising 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The debate was later resolved with an explanation of color constancy, but in the end, it remained a hot meme and point of dissent for many. Is This a Photo of Shiny Legs or Legs With White Paint? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z I’m like, “You guys realize this is real life—this is not a meme, or an internet game.” Dee Snider’s still not gonna take it: “I don’t know what ‘great’ [Donald Trump’s] talking about. Is that when we had two sinks, colored and white?” 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z “I’m going to have to look at another crying meme for the next” and was cut off by laughs and howls from the crowd. Tears from a comic, a mom and a legend mark Bryant memorial 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Ahmed, who lives in New Brunswick, N.J., keeps up with “Euphoria” for social reasons; she loves discussing the drama with her friends and seeing memes about the show on Twitter. Doom Watching ‘Euphoria’ 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z In just a few short days, he’s posted 88 times, sharing old promotional photos, concert footage, and plenty of memes. Prince Just Officially Joined Instagram 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z It is that privilege that the meme sets out to skewer. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Many of the videos are set to the song “Black Beatles” by Rae Sremmurd, making it the unofficial anthem of the meme. Mannequin Challenge Is the New Viral Video Sensation You Probably Can’t Avoid 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z The point of the meme is that our work and personal lives often don’t look all that different. The Complicated Business of Personal Lives 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Florida Man — christened as a meme in the previous decade but perhaps as old as the state itself — is the guy who straddles an alligator cage, in defiance of conventional wisdom, and hollers, “Watch this!” Does Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis know what he’s doing? We’re about to find out. 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z But he did think the image, as a meme, was “wonderful.” An AI-generated ‘Balenciaga pope’ fooled us all. How much does it matter? 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Online, fans on both sides of the Atlantic have circulated memes featuring Michael Griffiths, a firefighter, brandishing a plastic wineglass as he calls Amber Gill, a beauty therapist, “childish,” in a thick Liverpool accent. The Glorious Depravity of the British “Love Island” 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Her rapidly growing fan base wanted to know, and as the days went on, it became a mystery intensifying with each meme posted on the page, as people asked, “Seriously, Linda?? Do you sleep?” One woman dominated a local fair’s food contest. The internet went looking for her. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z It’s not just all looking at selfies and cute bunny memes, even though that is a huge factor, I’m sure. Shock! Horror! Do you know how much time you spend on your phone? 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z First, the #TCOT live stream is meme-driven, so there’s a significant delay between the time news breaks and the time it takes an old man to build a meme in Word 97. “We need Trump to stop all the PC crap”: Right-wing reaction to the Harriet Tubman $20 bill is (another) new low 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z But certainly her profile, well outfitted as it is, provides a glimpse into her business — and like the meme decrees, business is boomin’. How Naomi Osaka Became Everyone’s Favorite Spokesmodel 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z His therapist makes an intermittent appearance; at one session, O’Connell starts telling her about internet memes and ends up talking about the psychologist Steven Pinker’s hair. ‘Notes From an Apocalypse’ Is a Timely Tour of Preparing for the Worst 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z But what I sense through so many of these viral statuses, posts, memes, and think pieces about secret parenting is the heartache of solitude. Forget leaning in or out: There's a third way for women juggling work, family and a hectic life 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z “My friends are constantly sending me funny Kathy memes,” she said. Kathy Hilton’s Calling 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z She had only recently learned of the meme, and saw it as just a bit of fun: “I’m sure there are people out there that will take offence, but it doesn’t bother me.” What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Backed by a band that too often mistook lethargy for melancholy, she proved herself to be far more active as an Internet meme than as a human being onstage. Music Review: Lana Del Rey at Bowery Ballroom - Review 2011-12-07T23:04:18Z While the internet currently runs on parodies, send-ups, mockumentaries, memes, and partridges in pear trees, the turn of the century parody boom was a relative novelty at the time. Scream of laughter: how today's best-loved pop culture grew from parody 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Its arrival reliably inspires a number of screenshots and memes on social media. When Did Spotify Wrapped Get So Chatty? 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z “It’s made me understand people much more,” Rowan said of his meme account. Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z To those who aren’t zealots of this particular stash—and Facebook has plenty of other choice meme repositories—the Stein tweet felt like a blatant ploy to court a young, fringe constituency. The Dank Memes That Are “Disrupting” Politics 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Twitter’s epigrammatic styles change rapidly; grammar itself is a meme there. Planned Obsolescence 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Is there a meme shared by supporters of both major party candidates? How Pepe the Frog and Nasty Woman Are Shaping the Election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Well, this is an example of what we can call "meme magic." Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The meme’s appeal comes, in part, from its adaptability. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Though, in a year in which the election has been rife with talk of hand size and cartoon frogs and the weight of a former Miss Universe, memes perhaps best capture the zeitgeist. How the 2016 election became the year of the meme and mostly cut artists out of the conversation 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z "I think we have to remember posting an anxiety meme is not the same as going to therapy." "True equality is embracing mediocrity": Aparna Nancherla on imposter syndrome and fear of failure 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z For a meme to really take off, it has to be relatable; it has to contain a truth universally acknowledged, as Jane Austen would put it. From Distracted Boyfriend to Unhelpful Teacher, I love the twists of a meme’s journey | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z It is a meme, and it’s making its way in the world.” The Composer Pauline Oliveros Stays Busy at 80 2012-08-11T22:02:08Z The retired professor at the University of Oxford made up the word in 1976 for "The Selfish Gene," a book he published light years before the Internet and social media's capacity to take memes viral. Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year 2012-12-05T14:42:08Z Historian Liam Hogan has traced all of this and he's shown that these memes and internet narratives are all being propagated by white supremacist groups. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Or the memes: "Find someone the way that Helen looks at James here," or "Find someone the way James looks at Helen here." "All Creatures Great and Small" star on animals, slow-burn romance & what makes a Scottish Christmas 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Since the show's launch, Berman said he's been flooded with photos of people's sock drawers and memes inspired by the show – even his rabbi praised the unscripted show. Marie Kondo's Netflix show inspires viewers to 'tidy up': 3 popular organizing tips 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z But a 15-year-old’s virtual world is a chaotic, crowded place, and boring old STI facts area easily drowned out by high school gossip, Ryan Gosling memes, and all the latest Likes. Can Facebook promote safe sex? 2012-11-24T16:00:00Z Capitol and the ensuing protracted situation to break their vow and reach for the bottle, as evidenced by jokes, confessions and memes ricocheting around Twitter and Instagram. So Much for Dry January? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z For instance, is there anything that can't be made into a meme or joke? Perspective | A parent of a teenage boy wonders: What happened to my kind kid? 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Jackson Weimer, 22, the administrator of a meme account called @hugeplateofketchup8, said he has encountered hundreds of people who engage in this type of behavior online. Instagram Bans Hundreds of Accounts With Stolen User Names 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z This dank meme; this well-lit photograph of a mountain near your parents’ house; this witty observation about Brexit – do they spark joy? 'We tenderly drop the vibrator into the bin': how I Marie Kondo'd my whole life 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Like everyone else addicted to social media, parents gravitate toward like-minded people for parenting advice, articles, clever memes and book recommendations. My food paranoia wake-up call: The EWG wants us to be afraid of the food we feed our kids — here’s why I refuse 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z For most members, Subtle Asian Traits is just a meme group, a place to brighten a Facebook newsfeed with short and silly posts; but, for others, it’s a springboard for in-real-life friendships and new understandings. The Story of the Subtle Asian Traits Facebook Group 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Apparently, they've been trading cruel memes about these perceived faults for the past year and a half. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Her sister-in-law has the starring role in a mean girls group chat 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Watching it can be a crash course in production and a study in the ridiculousness of modern memes. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z A 37-year-old woman in Melbourne has asked her parents not to send her and her husband off-color jokes and memes, but they won’t stop. Our group texts are blowing up during the pandemic. And we’re taking the drama personally. 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Kendall quickly became a fan favorite and inspired a torrent of memes — sad Kendall, babygirl Kendall. ‘Succession’: Jeremy Strong on Kendall’s ‘Catastrophic’ Ending 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s where aficionados go to discover the latest pipes, the dankest crops and endless memes of cartoon characters getting high. Cannabis cleanse? Why big tech is giving pot businesses the boot 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Lifetime is casting a voice actor, and the film will also include “cameos from other famous Internet memes,” said The Hollywood Reporter. You're Getting a Grumpy Cat TV Movie for Christmas 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It has inspired many sombre reviews that recommend the show for being socially important, as well as a bevy of tongue-in-cheek memes on the preteen-centered social network Musical.ly. “13 Reasons Why” Makes a Smarmy Spectacle of Suicide 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z In 1973, long before Tolkien’s characters would become internet memes and Lego figures, the British don died and left behind a pop culture landscape that was quickly being populated by elves, orcs, and hobbits. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z What people who watched the video actually got was a riff on an old internet meme. In New Season of ‘Westworld,’ Violence Serves a Purpose 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z In the Instagram age, we’re too awash in images for any one portrait of any one rapper to become truly iconic, so instead we get memes. Perspective | On Lil Uzi Vert’s ‘Eternal Atake,’ mixed emotions swirl toward the void 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z He expects the meme culture he has implanted at the safety commission will — as good memes do — evolve and spread across the public sector. How a federal bureaucrat uses astronaut babies and dogs riding pigeons to try to save your life 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z WallStreetBets may look like a wall of slang, memes, jargon and inside jokes, largely populated by men, and it is. Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s that time of year again. As many of us get ready to start the school year, we are bombarded by articles, stories and memes that mock students and denigrate the professors that teach them. Students suck, professors don’t care and other myths you shouldn’t let ruin the start of the school year 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z In her tweet, AOC refers to the gender-swapped version of the girl math meme going viral on social that implies some type of illogical thinking or ineffectual action based on real-word situations. AOC slams Speaker Kevin McCarthy's "boy math" with a government shutdown looming 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Harper published this thought on Twitter and has since inspired a hashtag, spin-off Kanye Jordan Twitter accounts and a graphic representation of the meme by Funny or Die . How the 'Kanye West is Tracy Jordan' meme started in Seattle 2010-09-28T20:49:00Z For the best-selling Christian novelist Karen Kingsbury, the meme came as a little welcome light relief. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z With the meme campaign, Cosby employees had inadvertently hit on another key ingredient to make something go viral: Give people a chance to participate in the news. Bill Cosby was accused of rape eight years ago. Why is the story is going viral now? Great character development, insanely funny at times and a loving and well researched look at historical themes, memes and fashions from 60s and 70s America. From Buffy to Boardwalk Empire: your favourite boxsets ever 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The results in the newly introduced category was determined by online votes from fans but also received widespread ridicule and became a meme. Actor Ezra Miller arrested for disorderly conduct, after winning a fan-favorite moment at Oscar 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z She posted a meme and left this lengthy caption on the post. Iggy Azalea gets into it with paparazzo; not 'fuming mad' at Snoop Dogg 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The neighboring wall was covered in Sopranos memes, images sourced from the Facebook group that started it all. At the first-ever SopranosCon, meet the fans who never stopped believin’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Suggestive as the comparison is, they miss the opportunity to comment on the Internet’s general atmosphere of garage-ness, with its dank memes and moldy conspiracies. How the Garage Became America’s Favorite Room 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z |
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