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Media consumers are taking memes at face value, but they often contain misinformation
Memes make us laugh. They're accessible and condensed ways to share your views. And since the aim is to go viral, they often speak to universal truths creators hope will resonate and lead others to pass the meme on. We identify with the Gene Wilder ...
(Apr 5, 2017, PGH City Paper)
'Rick and Morty' just made a defunct McDonald's dipping sauce the hottest thing online
... Szechuan dipping sauce, briefly released in 1998 to celebrate the debut of Disney's Mulan. Mad scientist Rick's all-consuming obsession with the sauce was a major plot point in the episode, and now meme dorks online are just as fixated on it as ...
(Apr 5, 2017, The Daily Dot)
Meme mania: An interview with a founder of GW Memes
One of the biggest complaints students have about GW, valid or not, is that we don't have enough school spirit - but you wouldn't know it if you looked at GW memes for The most politically active teens on Facebook. In just six days, the group has ...
(Apr 5, 2017, The Rival (blog))
Kendall Jenner's Controversial Pepsi Ad Has Inspired a Powerful New Civil Rights Meme
Pepsi is on the defensive following a controversial new ad featuring Kendall Jenner. The short film, called “Live For Now,” shows the model posing for a photo shoot when she sees a protest outside (the cause is not specified—in fact, the protest signs ...
(Apr 5, 2017, Observer)
Meme Bete launches “Full Circle”, a Fashion Cocktail
PRESS RELEASE – Meme bete Ltd, one of the more prolific fashion houses based out of St. Lucia, is once again pushing boundaries with the announcement of the company's first ever Fashion Cocktail dubbed “Full Circle”. Full Circle will be held on May 9th ...
(Apr 5, 2017, St. Lucia News Online)
These Flying Harry Styles Memes Are the Internet's Best New Joke
Harry Styles is soaring back into pop culture prominence this week—literally. He's set to make a splash on Friday with the release of a hotly anticipated new single "Sign of the Times," but in advance of that, the internet has gotten ahold of what ...
(Apr 5, 2017, TIME)
'Nevertheless, she Pepsisted': Kendall Jenner made a Pepsi ad. The Internet made glorious memes.
By now, you've probably watched Pepsi's cringe-inducing (and short-lived) new ad featuring Kendall Jenner — and if not, The Washington Post's Elahe Izadi broke it down so you don't have to. It's an understatement to say the ad fell flat. The resulting ...
(Apr 5, 2017, Washington Post)
James Charles Just Responded To Those Ghost Memes In The Best Way
If the Demi Lovato Poot memes can teach us anything, it's that no one is immune to flashback (that moment when the flash from a camera reflects too much light, resulting in a Casper-like face that's forever immortalized in a photo). This week, Lovato ...
(Apr 5, 2017, Refinery29)
Vladimir Putin HATES this meme so much Russia banned it
A viral meme appears to have hurt poor Russian President Vladimir Putin's very sensitive feelings. Last week, the Russian justice ministry added an image of Putin as a gay clown to its list of banned extremist images. The government now has a list of ...
(Apr 6, 2017, Mashable)
“Quality Content” quips meme culture
“Who Can Say Where the Road Goes” by Enya, a song that played itself into meme history as a decibel-boosted background song, plays next to a shrine to the deceased gorilla, Harambe. Soren Iverson's senior art thesis, “Quality Content,” is a look at the ...
(Apr 6, 2017, Chimes)
Facebook Stories Update Leads To Hilarious 'Will Now Have Stories' Meme
New Delhi: When Facebook launched the 'Stories' feature last week, it faced huge criticism from users around the world for aping its rival Snapchat. Earlier in 2016, Facebook-owned Instagram too had launched the stories feature and faced backlash. With ...
(Apr 6, 2017, NDTV)
Which college meme group is the spiciest?
College meme groups have proliferated across the country, sending the message that today's college students are not only in a state of financial ruin but also crippling despair. These meme groups, which often comment on university administrations and ...
(Apr 6, 2017, The Tab)
Putin BANS meme showing himself as a gay clown in makeup
Russian President Vladimir Putin has banned an image of him as a clown that turned into a meme, dubbing it 'extremist propaganda'. The image shows Putin 'with eyes and lips made up' and suggests 'the supposed nonstandard sexual orientation of the ...
(Apr 6, 2017, Daily Mail)
Harry Styles Dangling Out Of A Helicopter Is Your New Favorite Meme
As dramatic and seriously artsy as the video will surely end up being, Harry fans couldn't ignore how hilarious Harry looked dangling helplessly from that 'copter. They couldn't pass up the chance to turn the pics into hilarious memes — as one does in ...
(Apr 6, 2017, Seventeen.com)
Generational Gap: What The “Don't Go To School” Meme Means To Teens vs Adults
The woman, who does not want to be identified, says according to her 21-year-old daughter, that there are hundreds of these memes on the internet, but it didn't start out the way we see it today. Most memes we found had cartoon characters or kids ...
(Apr 6, 2017, WKRG)
Can a Pro-Trump Meme Maker Get a Real News Scoop?
Last summer, I noticed that many of the most noxious and effective anti-Hillary Clinton memes on the Internet—that she had Parkinsons, for example—could be traced back to one man in Southern California, a former lawyer and self-help author named Mike ...
(Apr 6, 2017, The New Yorker)
Russia bans images of Putin linked to 'gay clown' meme
They are widely known online as the "gay clown" meme -- although not all the images resemble clowns. The law, which describes homosexuality as "non-traditional sexual relations," bars the public discussion of gay rights and relationships anywhere ...
(Apr 6, 2017, CNN)
We Analyzed Every Meme on the Internet
Using this data, we set out to analyze how memes have changed in these tumultuous times: Which themes, or people, are being increasingly meme-ified? Have they become more politicized? To answer these questions, we poured through our database of ...
(Apr 6, 2017, Priceonomics)
OPINION: This Colorado meme is all wrong!
This may be the dumbest thing you read today, but before you get angry at me, you clicked on a headline that said, “This Colorado meme is all wrong!” And I am going to deliver on that headline. The person who is wrong on the Internet today is whoever ...
(Apr 6, 2017, Denverite (blog))
Hillary Clinton reveals her favorite meme poking fun at Trump -- but she calls it a GIF
Former presidential contender Hilary Clinton revealed her favorite viral meme on Thursday -- poking fun at President Donald Trump for setting women's policy in a room full of men. She revealed the favorite meme, an image of dogs sitting at a round ...
(Apr 6, 2017, AOL)
