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Edgar Allan Poe is uniting all your 2016 social phobias in one surprisingly durable meme
On Tumblr, recent pop-culture trends have yielded one of the year's funniest and most random internet memes: a celebration of Edgar Allan Poe's short story “The Cask of Amontillado.” Tumblr denizens are using the short story to comment on everything ...
(Oct 14, 2016, Vox)
9 Halloween costume ideas based on memes that aren't terrible
Why this costume idea isn't terrible: When the punch line of a meme is literally a smaller version of a person or animal (usually thanks to Photoshop) beside its life-size counterpart, it's relatively hard to corrupt. "Me or my son" is offenseless - as ...
(Oct 14, 2016, NOLA.com)
Ken Bone and the 4 Stages of Viral Fame
Bone's memeification has followed a pretty standard trajectory as far as internet celebrity goes — a Joseph Campbell–style mono-myth viral cycle consisting of four stages: Memeing, Interviewing, Cashing In, and Falling From Grace. Most human memes and ...
(Oct 14, 2016, New York Magazine)
Trust No Meme
The Meme Outrage Cycle has accelerated to a discombobulating speed. It took less than 24 hours for the Great UnBonering to hit. “Actually, Ken Bone Is Bad,” Gizmodo wrote, just one day in. “Ken Bone is actually kind of an awful guy,” the New York Post ...
(Oct 15, 2016, The Ringer (blog))
What Do You Meme?
Through the clever use of imagery and aptly descriptive text, memes can sum up any situation that one may come across in their lives; plans being cancelled, hating a job, not having a stable sleeping pattern - whatever it is, there's a meme for it ...
(Oct 16, 2016, Redbrick)
Russell Wilson Rumors: Ciara's Pregnant, Ex-Wife Ashton Meme Cheated And More
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is no stranger to gossip. While some of the scuttlebutt is nothing more than fiction, there are a few that could possibly be true. Some of them have been listed below: 1. “I Bet” singer Ciara is pregnant ...
(Oct 16, 2016, International Business Times)
You NEED To See This Hilarious Meme Of Zayn Malik Dancing to Little Mix's Diss Track 'Shout Out To My Ex'
Let's face it, the Little Mix ladies absolutely slayed their first performance of new track 'Shout Out To My Ex' on the X Factor results show last night. The diss track is widely speculated to be about Perrie's ex Zayn Malik, which was made even more ...
(Oct 17, 2016, MTV UK)
Pepe the Frog's creator is using positive memes to #SavePepe
What do you do when your most well-known creation gets transformed into a hate symbol through bigoted memes? For Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog, you fight back with memes of your own. Furie announced last week that he's teaming up with the ...
(Oct 17, 2016, Engadget)
Pepe the Frog creator launches campaign to free meme from Donald Trump supporters
The creator of Pepe the Frog has joined with civil rights groups to try and rescue the cartoon frog from being used by the alt-right. Pepe the Frog is a cartoon green frog that became popular as a meme in the late 2000s. He was initially famous simply ...
(Oct 17, 2016, The Independent)
Living the Meme: What happened to Azeem Ward and his flute?
After international news coverage, Ward – as all memes inevitably do – appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to discuss his newfound fame. On 16 May, he had to turn hordes of people away from the 500 seat recital hall, and over 55,000 individuals tuned into a ...
(Oct 17, 2016, New Statesman)
Meme Alert! Anime Inspires Chest-Balancing Challenge
The meme, it seems, started in South Korea, but now Japanese Twitter users are also uploading their efforts. The hashtags for this meme are #타와와_챌린지 and #たわわチャレンジ, which translate into “Tawawa Challenge.” The short-form streaming anime ...
(Oct 17, 2016, Kotaku Australia)
Meet Kevin, the male Hillary voter. Photo: Barbara Kinney/Hillary for America
As the 2016 election cycle limps toward November 8, the male vote continues to be of particular importance to both candidates. One candidate is not a man, and the other is a man — a man whose supporters have semi-seriously suggested repealing the 19th ...
(Oct 17, 2016, New York Magazine)
Trump's 'rigged election' meme and GOP voter ID laws have the ...
Trump's 'rigged election' meme and GOP voter ID laws have the ...
(Oct 17, 2016, Daily Kos)
Rep. Ellmers Reiterates Meme From Bill Clinton's Sex Scandals: 'Let's Move On'
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) repeated a popular meme from the 1998 sex scandal and impeachment of former President Bill Clinton when she said “Let's move on” in response to accusations that Donald Trump groped a number of women ...
(Oct 17, 2016, CNSNews.com)
Popular Meme Costume Ideas For 2016
If you're still someone who says "Damn, Daniel," then you clearly love memes and everything the internet creates. This year, the internet had plenty of material to work with, from SpongeBob SquarePants to Arthur's fist. Of course, this means you have ...
(Oct 18, 2016, POPSUGAR)
Alolan Dugtrio is the latest pokémon to achieve meme stardom
The demo for Pokémon Sun and Moon dropped last night, and boy, is it full of surprises! Not only did it leak the entire pokédex, revealing that there will be 800 pokémon in Sun and Moon, it also gave us a preview of the most fabulous new pokémon out ...
(Oct 18, 2016, The Verge)
'Rigged?' Western PA Republican circulates fake meme about ...
'Rigged?' Western PA Republican circulates fake meme about ...
(Oct 18, 2016, Billy Penn)
"Dumpster Fire" Is 2016's Meme of the Year
I'm curious. The term "dumpster fire" has been thrown around a lot throughout this campaign, particularly as an unflattering description of the Trump campaign. Before this year, I have never heard this phrase used about anything or anybody. Am I just ...
(Oct 18, 2016, Mother Jones)
A Meme About Billy Bush Donating His Salary To Women's Groups Is So Good People Want To Believe It
Say hello to #ThanksBilly, the Twitter stunt throwing unflattering light on the guy across the microphone when Trump got up close and personal with his thoughts on grabbing genitals. Today outcast Billy Bush, who resigned in the kind of disgrace that ...
(Oct 18, 2016, GOOD Magazine)
Here's how bad government math spawned a racist lie about sexual assault
Now of course, it's not worth responding to every idiotic meme that circulates in the backwater swamps of the racist internet. But, as Cohen notes, this one seems to have become unusually viral. And we're in an election year that racists have claimed ...
(Oct 18, 2016, Business Insider)