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The Unexpectedly Horrifying Meaning Behind "Pepe The Frog"
Pepe was shown urinating with pants down while saying, "Feels good man," which became his catchphrase and propelled him to quickly achieve popular meme status. By 2015, he even ranked number 6 "on Daily News and Analysis' list of the most important ...
(Feb 16, 2017, YourTango)
Internet memes are the new Congressional soapbox
Culturally savvy members of Congress have finally figured out how to move their political messages beyond the quiet broadcasts of C-SPAN: if you meme them, they will spread. In accordance with regular procedure, members of Congress are allowed to ...
(Feb 16, 2017, The Verge)
Donald Trump's Latest Press Conference Gave the Internet Yet Another Glorious Meme
As President Donald Trump addressed reporters and the nation in his latest press conference, the internet was hard at work trying to meme every moment it could. It was the only activity that kept some people laughing as Trump went on rant after rant ...
(Feb 16, 2017, POPSUGAR)
Shaq Singing Your Favorite Songs Is the Meme You Need Today
One has to admit, the internet truly does go above and beyond sometimes, at least in the meme department. The latest trend swooping across social media, namely Twitter, features none other than Shaquille O'Neil and needless to say, we're more than here ...
(Feb 16, 2017, BET)
Meme On Fire
I retweeted the “cash me ousside” meme last week, but I wish I hadn't. In the YouTube video that has since gone viral, 13-year-old Danielle Peskowitz Bregoli joined her mother on an episode of Dr. Phil, where the two hashed out their turbulent ...
(Feb 16, 2017, MTV.com)
This meme is the perfect reaction GIF to throw some shade on Twitter
Salty reaction GIFs have a special home on Twitter. Sometimes they just work better than anything you can write in 140 characters. Though a GIF of Giant Bomb's video producer and podcaster Drew Scanlon has existed in the gaming community for quite ...
(Feb 16, 2017, Mashable)
The day N'Golo Kanté became a Reddit meme
The Internet is a weird place. I think that much goes without saying. It's also a wonderful place, and a scary place, and, sometimes, even a useful place. Of course it's not really a place at all, not exactly anyway, but whatever. It all just adds to ...
(Feb 17, 2017, We Ain't Got No History)
'He's a meme every night he plays:' Nick Young's one-of-a-kind NBA career rolls on
Young has played for an assortment of (mostly awful) teams, starred in countless absurd memes and headlines, gotten engaged and unengaged to an international pop star, launched his own clothing line, become a regular on TMZ — and played in more ...
(Feb 17, 2017, Washington Post)
Dutch sculpture becomes Russian meme star
Meet "Zhdun," the seal-headed meme taking Russia by storm. Nicholas Connolly reports on how a statue in the Netherlands has become the country's new "national symbol." The sculpture 'Homunculus Loxodontus' in Leiden. It all began in a doctor's waiting ...
(Feb 17, 2017, Deutsche Welle)
The 2016-17 Internet Meme All-Star Team
As the ramp-up to the 2016-17 NBA All-Star Game reaches its apex, we here on the Internet, too, prepare to pay homage to this year's biggest performers in the digital sphere. Thus we celebrate the 2016-17 All-Meme All-Stars—the inaugural award weekend ...
(Feb 17, 2017, FOXSports.com)
Top 6 Meme Cryptocurrencies
Throughout the past few years, there have been quite a few cryptocurrencies which are based on memes. The idea of such a cryptocurrency is nothing new, albeit some of them have become rather popular in the process. It is interesting to see how these ...
(Feb 17, 2017, The Merkle)
How Will Donald Trump Feel About Becoming a Meme?
In his month as President, Donald J. Trump has been portrayed by his many detractors as either an authoritarian with no respect for the rule of law surrounding himself with yes-men, paid crowds, and a cabal of wealthy, amoral cronies intent on bringing ...
(Feb 17, 2017, Gizmodo)
I Hate This Blob With Arms Meme So Very Much
Except, Zhdun has now taken on new life as a meme in Russia, thanks to the sculpture's rising popularity on Russian social networks and websites like Pikabu and Vkontakte. Just look at those placidly folded human hands and patient eyes that will haunt ...
(Feb 17, 2017, New York Magazine)
Pepe Le Pen: Can the alt-right really "meme" Marine Le Pen to victory?
Memes aren't taken very seriously – which is fair enough, because they're memes. But over the last year, viral images have been "weaponised" by various internet fringes to become, whether you like it or not, a political tool. “We actually elected a ...
(Feb 17, 2017, New Statesman)
'The Schulz': How Germany's Social Democrat candidate became a meme
Recreating the iconic "Hope" posters from Barack Obama's 2008 US presidential campaign, not to mention riffing on Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan, the poster (pictured above) is just one of many memes to bear the face of Social Democrat ...
(Feb 17, 2017, Deutsche Welle)
How the “isolated man-boys” of 4chan turned a meme into the president of the United States
These days, 4chan is often explained as being responsible for some early popular memes like “rickrolling.” But this is an understatement. 4chan invented the meme as we use it today. At the time, one of the few places you saw memes was there. The white ...
(Feb 17, 2017, Quartz)
Behold the latest meme taking the internet by storm: Tiny Trumps.
The edited images of the President first appeared on a new Reddit community called Tiny Trumps on Thursday night. Now the internet has now been flooded with memes of Trump looking about four feet tall next to other big world leaders and even his wife ...
(Feb 18, 2017, Daily Mail)
'Yeh bik gai hai Gormint' meme goes international
After becoming extremely popular in Pakistan, the 'Bik Gayi Hai Gormint' memes and tweets have gone international. After Pakistanis had enough of the 'Bik Gayi Hai Gormint' memes and tweets, the Indian media has also started using the 'famous' slogan ...
(Feb 18, 2017, Geo News, Pakistan)
Tiny Trumps: The diminutive Donald meme taking over the internet
For a man so concerned about how the public perceives his stature, one wonders what the 45th President of the United States would make of Tiny Trumps, a new online craze for photoshopping pictures of the Donald to make him look smaller. The meme has ...
(Feb 18, 2017, Telegraph.co.uk)
Government by Meme: Trump's Tweets Trade on Supporters' Anger
A meme is an idea, a catchphrase—“read my lips”—or even a tune or image that has grown into a cultural phenomenon. Richard Dawkins in “The Selfish Gene” called a meme “a new kind of replicator” which leaps from “brain to brain” with a speed that we ...
(Feb 18, 2017, Newsweek)
