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'Just kidding': Trump takes aim at Broward County official and fires off a late-night Twitter meme
In a late-night tweet, President Donald trump referenced a meme circulated by conservative groups and took aim at Brenda Snipes, the Broward County Supervisor of Elections in Florida. In the meme, Snipes is covered with "I Voted" stickers, suggesting ...
(Nov 28, 2018, Business Insider)
‘R.I.P. to a legend’: ‘What are those?’ viral meme creator dies at 31
‘R.I.P. to a legend’: ‘What are those?’ viral meme creator dies at 31 Washington PostIn a matter of seconds and with only three words, Brandon Moore cemented his place in Internet history. “What are thooooose?” Moore, a social media ...
(Nov 28, 2018, Washington Post)
'My brain thinks in memes': The story behind the Duke Memes for Gothicc Teens Facebook page
'My brain thinks in memes': The story behind the Duke Memes for Gothicc Teens Facebook page Duke ChronicleWith more than 13000 members, the Duke memes page is part of a growing cultural phenomenon among elite colleges, an arms race to have the most thriving ...
(Nov 28, 2018, Duke Chronicle)
Trump retweets meme calling for imprisonment of his own deputy attorney general
President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning retweeted a meme calling for a number of prominent Democrats and law enforcement and intelligence officials to be imprisoned. Behind text that reads, “NOW THAT RUSSIA COLLUSION IS A PROVEN LIE, ...
(Nov 28, 2018, Vox)
SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg gave the internet language
Almost two decades later, people who grew up watching SpongeBob are the same people who are making memes — which is why, of course, there have been so many SpongeBob memes over the years. From Winded SpongeBob to Menacing Patrick to ...
(Nov 28, 2018, The Verge)
Large Adult President Loves Memes, Fan Accounts
On Wednesday morning, after falsely claiming that Special Counsel Robert Mueller “is viciously telling witnesses to lie about facts,” the president retweeted four posts from @The_Trump_Train, a fan account, including a meme accusing a host of prominent ...
(Nov 28, 2018, Rolling Stone)
Kanye West's favorite Instagram pose was inspired by a bird meme
Sick of the "Instasplit?" Thanks to Kanye West, there's a new social media stunt that's causing a stir. Lately, the rapper's been striking the same pose around the world: A low squat with one leg sharply extended, in a stance that bears a striking ...
(Nov 28, 2018, Page Six)
That really big cow is a steer named Knickers. Long may he meme.
Knickers the cow has temporarily delighted what seems like everyone on the entire internet by ... being a really big cow. Okay, more accurately, the 2,800-pound Holstein-Friesian is a steer who makes his home at farmer Geoff Pearson's cattle ranch in ...
(Nov 28, 2018, Vox)
ICE Nominee Vote Delayed For Meme Investigation
Concerns about Vitiello's nomination were raised by unions representing ICE employees, who are aghast about a meme he posted during the 2016 primary season. At the very least, they said in a letter to the Senate committee it indicated ““extremely poor ...
(Nov 29, 2018, New York Magazine)
What The 'What Are Those' Meme Creator Really Said In One Of His Last Interviews
I would've done a whole lot of shit different,” Busco explained of the meme in retrospect. “But like I said, I didn't expect for it to do all of that ... It took off right underneath my feet. I didn't know. And then like two weeks after I did it, I ...
(Nov 29, 2018, HuffPost)
About That 'Starving Migrant Refugee Checks Her iPhone' Meme
A meme that simultaneously demeaned a woman for her physique and for possessing a smartphone spread like a rash on social media in late November 2018 and became part of an ongoing campaign to denigrate Central American migrants hoping to reach ...
(Nov 29, 2018, Snopes.com)
Business manager becomes online meme sensation #SkipLady after promoting her hire firm by standing in a skip
A business manager has become an online meme sensation after trying to help confused customers seeking to hire her skips - by standing inside them. Non Harries, 57, came up with an idea to take photographs of someone stood inside company Greenacre ...
(Nov 29, 2018, Daily Mail)
Ladies, he's not your man. This meme is funny because it's sad and true.
Ladies, if he: is funny but formulaic; seeks attention; and goes viral after a tweet about our 19th president ... He's not your man. He's the new meme that's taking over the Internet. Most of us have stayed in at least one relationship past the point ...
(Nov 29, 2018, Washington Post)
The Infinite Lifespan of Memes
One of the more famous reworks—with over 50 million loops—features one young Vine user volleying the question to his grandmother, to which she deadpans: "They are my Crocs." In February of this year, the meme reached peak zeitgeist when the line was ...
(Nov 29, 2018, WIRED)
This Meme Performed Actual Magic
A meme has now resulted in one very lucky and internet-savvy young woman meeting Michael B. Jordan IRL. Bolu Babalola, @BeeBabs on Twitter, Photoshopped Jordan into a photo with herself and tweeted out a hilarious request. “I met this guy on holiday ...
(Nov 29, 2018, NYLON)
New Meme Reimagines Iconic '80s Moments as Clickbait
The world wide web, a series of tubes we call the internet, didn't enter households until the 1990s. Years passed before news sites moved their content online and starting publishing “clickbait.” Clickbait is almost the digital equivalent of tabloid ...
(Nov 29, 2018, Complex)
Laura Loomer's IRL Twitter protest has become ... a Twitter meme
Far-right personality Laura Loomer, who was banned from Twitter last week for an Islamophobic tweet about Minnesota representative-elect Ilhan Omar, has handcuffed herself to a door at Twitter's NYC headquarters in protest. This incredible Mad Lib came ...
(Nov 29, 2018, Mashable)
The "He’s not your man" meme gracefully targets bad men
The "He’s not your man" meme gracefully targets bad men QuartzTo top off a year of subversive memes, the internet offered us the treasure that is “He's Not Your Man” last weekend, a bait-and-switch meme that uses absurdist ...
(Nov 30, 2018, Quartz)
TikTok Is a Short-Form Monetized Musical Meme Machine
“In the same way that the Spotify model helped quell illegal downloading of music, TikTok can provide that more controlled and monetized platform for dance memes and lip syncing,” says Mike Soha, a communications lecturer at the University of New ...
(Nov 30, 2018, WIRED)
I'll believe it when I meme it
In an online experiment, Ms Read created a meme with a prejudiced message. Participants were told it was posted from either a Democrat or Republican Facebook group. The number and source of likes was manipulated and the participants were asked if ...
(Nov 30, 2018, Medical Xpress)
