It's mid-October and I was beginning to fear the only noteworthy meme this month was going to be the reactions to the plague known as Rick and Morty fans crying over Szechuan sauce. Then, a wonderful light shone through the darkness. “First of all ... (Oct 17, 2017, The Post)
It appears to be an exclusive club: shimmying Shaquille O'Neal, crying Michael Jordan, that one guy blinking a lot. But Kelsey Hammer wants to show students just how easy it is to make and star in your own GIFs. “I thought, 'Wouldn't it be cool if ... (Oct 17, 2017, The Daily Tar Heel)
Memes sweep through Twitter like ocean currents. Sometimes they help us vent collective frustrations in deeply personal ways, and on other occasions they become opportunities for self-referential cleverness. Though even the best memes grow old fast ... (Oct 17, 2017, Slate Magazine (blog))
One of the moments that Star Wars fans have been waiting for has finally arrived. The Han Solo spin-off has a title, and it's very short: Solo. Or, rather, Solo: A Star Wars Story. No, really. The message came directly from director Ron Howard, who ... (Oct 17, 2017, Bustle)
That, my friends, is the sentiment at the heart of the newest Twitter meme — simply called “first of all” — in which participants proudly interject in an imaginary conversation, setting the record straight about what's what. And, in the process, they ... (Oct 17, 2017, Mic)
Last week, the rapper unleashed a fiery verse that became an instant hit at the BET Hip-Hop Awards earning high praise, staunch criticism and a response from Saturday Night Live's President Trump character. In the politically charged diss, he hammers ... (Oct 17, 2017, TIME)
From 'Mocking Spongebob' to 'Blinking Guy' to 'Salt Bae,' the internet is literally chock-a-block with the kind of content that goes viral and occasionally crosses over into meme territory. The latest trend to capture the hearts and minds of internet ... (Oct 17, 2017, MTV UK)
Unsurprisingly, it didn't take long for social media users to turn the viral video into a hilarious meme. Someone has clipped all of the pregnant pauses in Eminem's rap into its own short video, and users are adding their own captions describing ... (Oct 17, 2017, Capital XTRA)
Amitabh Bachchan's set of standard lines from the much loved quiz show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' (KBC) have given birth to a thousand memes on social media. From 'Aap chahe toh quit kar sakte hai' to 'Aaiye me aapko is khel ke rules samjha du', there is ... (Oct 17, 2017, Hindustan Times)
The Cowboys are at their bye week, five games into the season. Things have gone right and things have gone wrong for the 2-3 Cowboys. But one thing that's only gone right: the meme production from you fans during and after every single game. Here are ... (Oct 16, 2017, Dallas News (blog))
As the Harvey Weinstein accusations continue to grow, thousands of women (and men) have banded together on social media using the hashtag, #MeToo. Under the viral hashtag, countless people are sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and ... (Oct 16, 2017, Revelist (blog))
I'm an avid /r/BlackPeopleTwitter user, checking it about once a day to brush up on my meme use. I've loved memes since the day I found them. Everything about them is so convenient, so genius, so simple: An overused, relatable picture to express the ... (Oct 16, 2017, Kulture Hub)
... distracted boyfriend, blinking guy, the Snapchat hot dog, and even Salt Bae, which feels like it happened years ago, only became a thing in January. The latest to make it into a very long list is the “first of all” meme, which might just be the ... (Oct 16, 2017, Belfast Telegraph)
Veteran Amitabh Bachchan who is back on small screen with the 9th season of the popular quiz show has been turned into a viral meme thanks to the template game rules recited by BigB every time he a new contestant seated in front of him. "Aap chahe toh ... (Oct 16, 2017, News18)
The latest bizarre viral craze taking over social media in 2017 is the “first of all” meme. The viral sensation is based on the premise of savagely responding to someone who said something stupid online. The craze has inspired some of the best memes of ... (Oct 16, 2017, Capital XTRA)
Eavan O'Donnell posted a clip of a captain slowly walking off a crumbling ship, while Daragh Keany shared a meme of actress Amy Schumer necking an enormous glass of white wine. Troops have been placed on standby and schools, government buildings ... (Oct 16, 2017, The Sun)
NYU students are no strangers to memes, as evident by the ever-popular Facebook page “NYU Memes for Slightly Bankrupt Teens.” Every day, students can take a break from the impending doom of midterms and bank loans and escape to a blissful world of ... (Oct 16, 2017, NYU Washington Square News)
The word “meme” was first coined by evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, in his bestselling novel, The Selfish Gene. Originally, the term referred to concepts, behavior, and even “things” that easily spread within a society — similar to the way in ... (Oct 15, 2017, Digital Trends)
By our deadline Friday the world had continued to spin without interruption—planes taking off and landing; men and women commuting home after another week at work—and if you're reading this then you survived the ObamaCare subsidy apocalypse of ... (Oct 13, 2017, Wall Street Journal)
The conference's most recent makeover comes out of Oxford and Ole Miss' vote to switch its mascot from a black bear to a Landshark, in homage to its fabled defensive moniker. The meme makers of the world weren't about to let an opportunity to create ... (Oct 13, 2017, SECcountry.com)
