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Story behind heartbreaking dog meme will make you cry even harder
The comic, which was published by Übertool, features a dog thanking its owner for the love it has been given in its life before being put down. The man behind Übertool, Mark Gavin, told BuzzFeed News that he got the idea for the comic he drew in 2014 ...
(Aug 16, 2016, AOL News)
Watch a precious meme be birthed in real time
"This is the ideal make body," says the tweet, "You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like." Attached is an image of a man who appears to be mixed martial artist Fedor Emelianenko, standing uncomfortably in a photograph that ...
(Aug 16, 2016, The Verge)
'This Is Fine,' the Meme, Gets an Update
As brutally honest—and brutally gory—as the original comic might be, KC Green's updated one of his most famous pieces. His work first began to gather buzz after a silly strip about wasting paper turned into the ridiculous “Dick Butt Meme.” From there ...
(Aug 16, 2016, The Creators Project (blog))
dead gorilla meme won't die
As an internet meme, Harambe's second coming is mostly jokey tributes. "Memes have key signifiers, or hooks, that get repeated," Jean Burgess, an expert in digital culture and memes at the Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane. For a single ...
(Aug 16, 2016, Stuff.co.nz)
Ellen DeGeneres on criticism of Usain Bolt meme: Racist is 'furthest thing from who I am'
The image of Usain Bolt appearing to smile as he looked back toward his closest competitors in a 100-meter semifinal Sunday has since turned into a meme and gone viral. So it was no surprise to see Ellen DeGeneres, who has an active social-media ...
(Aug 16, 2016, Washington Post)
Olympic event has to be restarted twice, random official becomes meme
Olympic event has to be restarted twice, random official becomes meme. 1.0k. Shares. 1.0k. Share on Facebook Share Tweet on Twitter Share Share. What's This? After last night's keirin final in the velodrome, this man is definitely the most famous ...
(Aug 17, 2016, Mashable)
One does not simply make an exhibition about memes – meet the curator who did
If you've ever spent hours laughing at memes on the internet, you don't have to feel bad about falling into an internet vortex of Willy Wonka's face or a frog on a bike. Memes are in fact art – or at least according to one curator, who has made an ...
(Aug 17, 2016, Evening Standard)
Iconic Kim Kardashian Moment From 2011 Finally Gets Its Meme Makeover
The iconic businesswoman has given us a lot to thank for: an amazingly comprehensive video game, child deity North West, and the receipts that exposed Taylor Swift for the snake that she is. And, of course, lots of people were introduced to the lives ...
(Aug 17, 2016, The Daily Dot)
Ellen DeGeneres and Usain Bolt Meme Stirs Up Olympic-Sized Controversy
Usain Bolt's performance in the 100-meter finals on Sunday got just about everyone in the world talking. Not only did he make history by becoming the first person to win the Olympic event three times – doing it in back-to-back-to-back Olympics, no less ...
(Aug 17, 2016, RollingStone.com)
The Harambe meme is still going strong. And it's about a lot more than a dead gorilla.
In the two and a half months since he was tragically killed, Harambe the gorilla has transcended his lowly origins as some random zoo gorilla. In his afterlife, he has become a superhero, a mega-meme, the internet's gorilla. The "Harambe" meme takes ...
(Aug 17, 2016, Vox)
Meme Magic: Why We Troll
Truth is a deadly weapon, more ballistic than guns, more seeping than nuclear fallout. When the truth is spoken, it resonates like a match lit to life in pitch blackness. In the culture war for America's future, there is truth and obfuscation ...
(Aug 17, 2016, REGATED)
Ashley Benson Posts Oympic Meme That Reminds Her of Shay Mitchell
Ashley took to the 'gram to share a meme that fellow PLL costar Troian Bellisario sent her and Shay earlier today. The video shows two fierce synchronized swimmers with the caption, "When u and ur bestie walk into the function and already know ur the ...
(Aug 17, 2016, TeenVogue.com)
Usain Bolt and Andre De Grasse: A Meme Bromance For The Ages
Usain Bolt already has earned one gold medal and spawned one meme in Rio, but with his performance tonight in the men's 200-meter semifinal, he's on track to do both again. Bolt took first place in the semifinal, coming in just ahead of Canada's Andre ...
(Aug 18, 2016, New York Magazine)
The Ryan Lochte meme-fest is going swimmingly
Ryan Lochte is safe and sound with his playmate girlfriend in North Carolina, but his Olympic teammates aren't so lucky. Fellow Team USA swimmers Gunner Bentz and Jack Conger are stuck in Rio, where a judge ordered Wednesday that the trio's passports ...
(Aug 18, 2016, New York Daily News)
This Trump Surrogate Exchange Just Spawned An Incredible Meme
Incredibly, this exchange was the second meme-worthy dialogue Keilar was involved in today. The first one was when former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro described the Trump campaign as a "turd tornado." The better, more relevant exchange is brief, and it ...
(Aug 18, 2016, Refinery29)
Harambe the gorilla: whose meme is it anyway?
It often feels like the first time you hear about a meme you're also hearing its death knell. That's because it's popular to say that a meme has died once it has been reported on by the media and reproduced by the masses. Unicycling frog Dat Boi has ...
(Aug 18, 2016, The Guardian)
A photo posted by I Steal Memes For A Living (@amazing_turtels) on Aug 17, 2016 at 12:17pm PDT
The meme really applies to anything in your life. Find any photo from Arthur and put a caption about your life with it. As you scroll through the various memes created, you'll realize that you, Arthur, D.W., Buster, and everyone else share a lot more ...
(Aug 18, 2016, POPSUGAR)
Curt Schilling and Donald Trump Are Living Political Memes
Their messages are usually left in the comments of Schilling's posts, which are often memes shared from other ultraconservative Facebook pages. The square images with superimposed block text are the foundation of his internet persona. He posts them ...
(Aug 18, 2016, Newsweek)
The Internet Created Another Golden Olympics Meme
When you have an event like the Olympics, which is watched by millions every night, people are bound to notice parts of the coverage that seem — um — odd. While NBC's Rio broadcast has been criticized for being both one-sided and sexist, there have ...
(Aug 18, 2016, Refinery29)
Donald Trump Explaining Movie Plots May Be the Best Trump Meme Yet
No matter how you feel about his politics, you have to admit that Donald Trump is the meme that keeps on giving. Not only has the presidential hopeful spawned #SaysWho, a reaction to his lawyer refusing to acknowledge negative poll data, but last night ...
(Aug 19, 2016, Glamour)
