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Crying Jordan Meme Brings up a Good Point About Men
The entire meme relies on the idea that it's funny to see a grown man cry. In 2009, Michael Jordan broke into tears as he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. However, it wasn't until six years later that the meme was born ...
(Jun 7, 2016, ATTN)
The 'dank' election meme takes off
Stand aside, meme-generators. The country kid of political internet jokes has arrived. The Nationals now have their very own page dedicated to poking fun at Labor and the Greens using the 2016 election campaign's newest communication tool: the dank ...
(Jun 7, 2016, SBS)
No on A Goes Meme in Closing Days
Lacking the money and resources to unleash a barrage of closing mailers, the No on A campaign has gotten creative with a series of meme's – photos that some may see as humorous and others will see as vicious attacks meant to attack the Nishi Gateway ...
(Jun 7, 2016, The People’s Vanguard of Davis (subscription))
Axl Rose Seeks to Strip Internet of 'Fat' Meme
The legendary Guns n' Roses frontman wants to spiff up his Internet image. The rocker has issued a takedown request with Google for a concert photo of him onstage at a show in Winnipeg, Canada in 2010. In the photo, a performing Rose is wearing a ...
(Jun 7, 2016, TIME)
Facebook Can't Handle This 'Transphobic' Garlic Bread Meme
“It shouldn't take some shitty, transphobic, bigoted and ignorant joke to make a quality garlic bread meme.” “I didn't know garlic bread was an asshole who cares too much about shit that probably doesn't even affect their personal life.” “Transphobia ...
(Jun 7, 2016, Observer)
Facebook Removed a Stanford Rapist Meme and Users Are Pissed
While identical memes can still be found on Facebook (here, here, and here, for example) and have been shared thousands of times, Facebook confirmed to Gizmodo that at least one original posts (which was then re-shared an unknown number of times) ...
(Jun 7, 2016, Gizmodo)
Denver group calls for GOP chairwoman's resignation for posting racist meme
The regional chapter of the NAACP called for the resignation of the Delta County GOP chairwoman Tuesday, nearly two weeks after she posted a racist meme about President Obama on Facebook. The NAACP and the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial ...
(Jun 7, 2016, The Denver Post)
Axl Rose Wants 'Fat Axl' Meme Scrubbed From The Internet
Rose's latest gambit, however, is perhaps misguided. As reported by TorrentFreak, Rose's camp has filed a DMCA takedown notice with Google. They want to erase, from the internet, an image that the public has turned into a meme. Here are some examples ...
(Jun 8, 2016, LAist)
Meme wars: The online pitch for your vote
From April this year the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (or AMWU's) Twitter account started churning out so-called dank memes. That means memes that are intentionally bizarre or cliched; the basic idea is to trade on the irony of being ...
(Jun 8, 2016, ABC Online)
The month in memes: Dat Boi and a big-screen bow for Slender Man
In tribute, the first proverbial amphibian to be dismembered for nobody's benefit this month is, in fact, a literal one. The Dat Boi meme, which has enjoyed a rapid rise to internet ubiquity in recent weeks, is a graphic of a frog on a unicycle ...
(Jun 8, 2016, The Guardian)
Modern variations on the 'Trolley Problem' meme
A recent article in the Huffington Post huffs about the "inexplicable" and "absurd" popularity of a trolley-problem-memes page created and run by two philosophy students (freshmen!) from Slovenia. The article's author describes the trolley problem as ...
(Jun 8, 2016, Recode)
Meme me! It's the Tampa Bay Times' weekly caption contest
We'll select the best caption, turn it into a meme, and publish it next Wednesday. We'll also send a copy to the person who submits the winning caption. If you want to share our caption contest at your workplace or anywhere else, just print out this 8 ...
(Jun 8, 2016, Tampabay.com)
Brock Turner, Cory Batey meme causing stir on social media
A meme shared on Facebook Monday has caused a stir on social media by contrasting the rape conviction sentence of a white Stanford student athlete and former Vanderbilt University football player Cory Batey. The meme shows Brock Turner, a former ...
(Jun 8, 2016, The Tennessean)
Axl Rose wants the unflattering photos that spawned the 'Fat Axl' meme scrubbed from the Internet
The photos caught the attention of Gauntlet, a heavy metal news site that republished the photos under a very different headline: “OMFG Axl Rose is fat.” This was the beginning of “Fat Axl,” a mean Internet meme that involves rewriting Guns N' Roses ...
(Jun 8, 2016, National Post)
Dudes tried to take credit for a woman's viral Hillary Clinton meme, because of course they did
She points to the infamous case of the “Hi Becky” meme, or “the Fat Jew's entire existence”: Basically, there's no standards for attribution in viral culture … which is how people like Matt McDermott can get a funny text and tweet the joke out himself ...
(Jun 8, 2016, Washington Post)
You're Only Making Things Worse, Axl Rose
In 2003, photos of Barbra Streisand's home leaked onto the internet amid a collection of 12,000 unrelated photos of California's coastline. Streisand attempted to sue the photographer for $50 million, but in doing so, drew so much attention to the ...
(Jun 8, 2016, Esquire.com)
Inside the civil war at Garlic Bread Memes
About three months ago, Cassondra–a senior at a high school in New Jersey—responded to a post seeking moderators for a Facebook page she had liked some time back. The page was titled “Garlic Bread Memes.” The internet now knows the page for its ...
(Jun 8, 2016, Fusion)
'It is Wednesday, my dudes' is the perfect meme for Wednesday
That's right: According to a meme frog that is neither Dat Boi or Pepe, it is Wednesday, my dudes. This photogenic li'l guy—technically Lepidobatrachus laevis, but colloquially known to many as "Budgett's frog"—has been informing the internet of ...
(Jun 8, 2016, The Daily Dot)
The Story Behind That Viral Hillary Clinton Emoji Meme Is Actually Kind of Ironic
Hillary Clinton became the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee on Tuesday night. She will become the first woman in U.S. history to secure the presidential nomination of one of the country's two major political parties. (Photo by Drew ...
(Jun 8, 2016, Yahoo Food)
Facebook Accused Of Removing Brock Turner Meme
On March 30, Brock Turner was found guilty on three felony counts: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a ...
(Jun 8, 2016, GOOD Magazine)
