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Sad deflating Pikachu has become the most relatable meme
One minute you're minding your own business, synchronised dancing with 14 other identical Pikachus to 'You Can't Stop the Beat' from the 2002 musical Hairspray, and the next minute your being tackled by 9 men and carted off stage. That's exactly what ...
(May 6, 2017, The indy100)
Women Are Correcting the 'White Men Made Rape a Pre-Existing Condition' Meme
The latest less-than-truthful meme about Republicans' American Health Care Act (AHCA), passed by the U.S. House on Thursday, is that it makes rape a "preexisting condition" for health-insurance purposes. According to a host of women's publications and ...
(May 6, 2017, NewsBusters (blog))
Pepe the Frog: Meme-turned-hate icon gets killed by creator
The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog, a meme that was co-opted by neo-Nazis, has killed off the beloved character. Pepe was officially declared a hate symbol in September by the Anti-Defamation League, more than eight years after it first did the ...
(May 7, 2017, Newshub)
Pepe the Frog creator kills off internet meme co-opted by white supremacists
Pepe took on a life of its own online as a meme, before being eventually adopted as a symbol by the “alt-right” in the lead-up to last year's US election. In September, Hillary Clinton identified Pepe the Frog as a racist hate symbol, and Pepe was ...
(May 8, 2017, The Guardian)
Investor pockets $95k, responds with meme
An Auckland couple's Mt Eden rental property was flipped through different branches of the same realty firm - effectively selling twice in one day - with an investor pocketing nearly $100,000 on the couple's house. Barfoot & Thompson has apologised to ...
(May 8, 2017, Otago Daily Times)
Salman Khan's Tubelight poster results in memes on Twitter and will leave you ROFL-ing
Along with the excitement that it generated among the 'bhai fans', the poster is among the latest to become a fodder for meme-makers on social media. With the Internet picking on almost everyone— from Rani Mukerji in a coma from Har Dil Jo Pyaar ...
(May 8, 2017, The Indian Express)
'Pepe the Frog' creator kills off cartoon that became alt-right meme
The creator of the "Pepe the Frog" character has laid his popular internet meme to rest. In a special strip for Free Comic Book Day, artist Matt Furie drew a one-page special edition of his famous comic, "Pepe the Frog," in a casket at his funeral ...
(May 8, 2017, The Hill (blog))
Meme Marketing: How Brands Are Speaking A New Consumer Language
Believe it or not, memes have been around much longer than Instagram. An anthropological concept coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, memes originally represented the idea of “going viral” within a ...
(May 8, 2017, Forbes)
Harry Styles's Video for "Sign of the Times" Is a Meme Waiting to Happen
The clip for "Sign of the Times," the Baby Bowie-esque first single from Harry Styles' debut album Harry Styles, sees your boy out here smouldering like an upmarket catalog model, swept off the ground by the force of his own sheer emotion, gliding ...
(May 8, 2017, Noisey)
Pepe the Frog Is Dead: Creator Kills Off Meme Absorbed by Far-Right
Pepe the Frog, the meme that was transformed from a "once peaceful frog dude" into a symbol commonly appropriated by racist or bigoted internet memes, has croaked. Pepe's inventor, artist and illustrator Matt Furie, drew the green frog in an open ...
(May 8, 2017, NBCNews.com)
The New Harry Styles Video Has Already Inspired Glorious Memes
There are a few things in this life we can count on: death, sex, taxes, and Harry Styles memes. The former One Direction darling recently struck out solo, and he's doing quite well in case you hadn't noticed. These days he doesn't have to do much to ...
(May 8, 2017, Refinery29)
Bradley Beal's Game 3 flop against the Celtics gets the meme treatment it deserves
That wasn't enough, so another creative person on the Internet gave Beal's flop the full “Shooting Stars” meme treatment. The resulting 33-second video, which features Beal swimming with dolphins, as a contestant on the game show “Wipeout” and flopping ...
(May 8, 2017, Washington Post)
What the Kek: Explaining the Alt-Right 'Deity' Behind Their 'Meme Magic'
Usually it is brandished as a kind of epithet, seemingly to ward off the effects of liberal arguments, and it often is conveyed in memes that use the image of the alt-right mascot, Pepe the Frog: “Kek!” Kek, in the alt-right's telling, is the “deity ...
(May 8, 2017, Southern Poverty Law Center)
Who's Paying for the Meme War Against Alexey Navalny?
On May 5, the administrators of multiple major public groups on the Russian social media website VKontakte began receiving offers of payment to post memes criticizing opposition leader and political blogger Alexey Navalny. The meme scheme became ...
(May 8, 2017, Global Voices Online)
Here's a Bleak Meme to Remind You That in 2017 We Still Don't Have Flying Cars
Which, while unfortunate for those of us who take the C train instead of a flying car to the office, makes for an easy-to-use meme format. These disappointing-future memes have been popping up on Twitter for some time now, but seem to have reached ...
(May 8, 2017, New York Magazine)
Match Your Body Type to a Bottle With Today's Dove-Inspired Meme
Naturally, the Dove bottles quickly jumped from promotional gag to Twitter meme. Just pick a bottle — a wine jug, two liters of Cheerwine, a plastic container of Draino, one of those blender things swole people use at the gym to let you know how swole ...
(May 8, 2017, New York Magazine)
Spongebob Squarepants will gladly mock you in the internet's next, best meme
We love a good Spongebob Squarepants meme. They just always seem to capture our moods, thoughts, and feelings so perfectly that, really, why would we ever use anything else? There was caveman Spongebob, surprised Patrick, spiraling Mr. Krabs, and ...
(May 8, 2017, Mashable)
Cara Delevingne Instagrams Memes of Herself at the MTV Movie & TV Awards
The second playful photo is a meme that Cara reposted. The photo is of Cara's face, drawn into an exaggerated grimace. It's the kind of “mad” expression that makes it look like Cara was having a great time when the photo was snapped. The text of the ...
(May 9, 2017, TeenVogue.com)
Lil Uzi Vert's ballsy stage diving has spawned the best meme
We're all used to artists jumping into the crowd at shows every now and again. It's nothing new, but it is a great way to bridge the gap a little between musician and audience. Who doesn't want their favourite band, rapper or singer potentially giving ...
(May 9, 2017, NME.com (blog))
Pepe the Frog is Dead; Unfortunately, You Can't Kill a Meme
In 2005, cartoonist Matt Furie published a comic on his Myspace that involved an anthropomorphic frog taking a pee with his pants around his ankles. When his friend asks why he urinates with his pants pulled all the way down, the frog answers: “Feels ...
(May 9, 2017, CBR (blog))
