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Can BI Replace Digital Networks? Meme Global Says Yes
With everything on the internet it is almost impossible not to run into some form of digital advertising. Whether it's being retargeted on YouTube, or ads covering your website, this billion dollar business is completely thriving. However, because of ...

Meme culture is our culture
Memes have become a humorous means of communication and expression. From “l337speak” and “LOLcat” to “rickrolling” and Trump's toupee, memes have gathered quite a bit of attention — and infamy. Memes are a means of cultivating interest in a topic ...

How Spammers Nearly Destroyed the Biggest 'Simpsons' Meme Page
It might be simplest to explain the page as a place for Simpsons memes, but that doesn't quite speak to the essence of "shitposting," which encompasses content of aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor quality. Incoherent jokes, hasty ...

Meme this, dude! It's the Tampa Bay Times' weekly caption contest
Hey, man, whether you're a Big Lebowski fan or not, you can probably come up with a caption for this classic movie image. Just remember, this is a caption contest. There are rules! Send your caption to [email protected] by Tuesday, August 30, at 8 ...

ShittpostBot 5000 Is Better at Memes Than Nearly Any Human
Chess. Jeopardy! Doing it. All of these were once human pursuits that have now been solved—harder, better, faster and stronger—by machines. Could memes be next? An excellent Facebook page called ShitpostBot 5000 makes the case that they can and ...

The Complicated Appeal of the Harambe Meme
The meme has also been used to spread harmful messages and revive racist tropes: One high-profile example is the harassment of the “Ghostbusters” actress Leslie Jones, whose website appeared to have been hacked Wednesday when a video of the ...

Army's Hillary Clinton Insider 'Threat' Slide-Turned-Meme Jettisoned by Pentagon
The U.S. Army has removed from a presentation to soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, a slide that labeled Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and retired Army Gen. David Petraeus as insider “threats.” The presentation had to do with ...

The Oral History of Memes: Where Did "Show Me the Receipts" Come From?
Memes are everywhere. They've taken over pop culture and began to find their way into almost every facet of our lives. From "Hey Girl" to "The Most Interesting Man" to "I Can Haz Cheezburger"—to invent a meme is to live on forever in infamy. But as ...

As U.S. Election Deteriorates, Could Socialist Memes Seize Power ...
As U.S. Election Deteriorates, Could Socialist Memes Seize Power ...

'Vagenda of Manocide' Meme Turns Into a Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton
Does its warning of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's impending “Vagenda of Manocide” make you squint your eyes, take a somehow extremely masculine pull on your vape, stare off into the middle distance as if you were Clint Eastwood, and ...

ShitpostBot 5000 Is a Viking Funeral For Memes - Gizmodo
In our post-meme culture, context is the enemy of humor, and so, the enemy of the meme. Sometimes, it's up to the shitposters to preserve the meme's ...

Twitter couldn't resist turning Hurricane Gaston into a Disney meme
I have an unfounded theory that whoever's in charge of picking storm names before hurricane season starts is a Twitter user who knew this would be their one chance at meme glory. Few of us know any actual people named Gaston, but many will recall the ...

Twitter meme shows changing times
I recently heard about a Twitter meme called #firstsevenjobs. A meme, if you don't know, is an activity or image spread rapidly by internet users. The objective with this particular meme is to list your first seven jobs, starting from the first time ...

Americans want meme-god Gary Johnson in presidential debates - poll
A Gary Johnson Super PAC just spent $30,000 on memes, but they may have the last laugh, as a wide majority of the nation wants to see more Johnson, according to a poll released Thursday. With presidential debates looming, voters in the US stuck between ...

Justice for Leslie Jones, Spies Target Apple, Manocide the meme ...
Justice for Leslie Jones, Spies Target Apple, Manocide the meme ...

Clinton's Speech Denouncing Meme-Toting Racists Interrupted By Meme
The alt-right is a fringe political movement, primarily concerned (as far as we can tell) with disseminating Trumpism via memes. Their favorite is Pepe the frog. In her speech denouncing these internet users this afternoon in Reno, Nevada, Hillary ...

Usain Bolt's girlfriend slams his Rio cheating episode by liking meme
Yesterday, Bennett (24), a law student who has been dating Bolt for two years, expressed her disappointment at his actions when she liked an Instagram meme showing a side-by-side image of her and Duarte accompanied with the caption: “When your girl is ...

#TheZuckening Is the Next Stage in Meme Pages' Crusade Against Facebook
It's no secret that the meme pages of Weird Facebook are in open revolt against the social media platform. As more and more groups are deleted, seemingly without warning and for unspecified community standards violations, the meme vanguard has ...

A meme for every mood
Richard Dawkins coined the word "meme" in his 1976 bestseller, The Selfish Gene. The word means a packet of information that spreads from person to person within a culture. The term has since been grabbed by the internet to mean an image, video, piece ...

'That's Jason Bourne' Meme Becomes Possibly More Popular Than the Movie That Spawned It
Even though Jason Bourne itself might not have been that inspiring, a meme that came out of it sure is. It all comes from a prominent moment in the movie's trailer when Ato Essandoh's character, Craig Jeffers, sees something unbelievable — an ...

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