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Reddit's most popular meme forum was a hangout spot for Russian trolls
Reddit's r/funny is the social media company's second-most popular forum, where users share memes about current events, celebrities, and of course, corgis and the like. It's also a preferred target for Russia's armies of trolls to spread propaganda. On ...
(Apr 11, 2018, Quartz)
How many avocados for a houseboat? Curbed's spunky side Instagram mixes memes with real estate coverage
When Lin — the Curbed staff's most meme-articulate editor — pitched the idea for The Avocado Dream account, the promise was immediately obvious: The millennial-blaming meme could wryly communicate the difficult economic reality around the national ...
(Apr 11, 2018, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard)
Congrats to Kenny G on this impeccable sparkle meme
Life doesn't always make sense, and Kenny G is great at Twitter. The patron saint of elevator music already has the market cornered on "sax" jokes, but on Monday, he dipped a reed into another phenomenon: sparkle memes. And he did great! SEE ALSO: Why ...
(Apr 11, 2018, Mashable)
Paul Ryan's retiring, and the American people are meme-ing away
There's no way Paul Ryan thought he'd be able to announce his retirement from Congress without getting brutally and ruthlessly memed, right? Paul's a meme-able guy to begin with, and after the American people dragged his dabbing and emoji usage it only ...
(Apr 11, 2018, Mashable)
Facebook's CEO leaves a trail of them everywhere he goes
Like a barbecue gone bad, Mark Zuckerberg's getting a second round of grilling today in Washington before Congress. And that means we'll soon have a Twittersphere teeming with personal opinions about the Facebook CEO's performance from the chattering ...
(Apr 11, 2018, The Mercury News)
Something very weird is happening to Doge memes in 2018
The humble Doge meme, based on pictures of a cute Shiba Inu dog, was all the rage in 2013. The meme's quirky use of English syntax was such powerful and much creative, and for a year or so, it had everyone saying “wow!” Since then, Doge hasn't been in ...
(Apr 11, 2018, The Daily Dot)
Alabama football twitter account roasts Daniel Carlson with Spongebob meme over 'State Champs' comment
Nick Saban and Alabama have ribbed Daniel Carlson pretty hard for his State champs comments. Chris Kirschner/SEC Country. Connor Riley · @Kconnorriley. Posted 53 mins ago. Daniel Carlson has taken a lot of heat from Alabama fans and players regarding ...
(Apr 11, 2018, SECcountry.com)
The Angry American Chopper Argument Meme Has Gone Meta
“They die too young these days,” said one Reddit user. “When it becomes Vice's favorite meme it becomes everyone else's least favorite,” wrote another. Well, listen up, nerds, because it's two weeks later, and this meme is still going strong. In fact ...
(Apr 11, 2018, VICE)
Is Zuckerberg Happy to Share his Messages Publicly? No Prizes Guessing
As Mark Zuckerberg took to his seat with a boost(er) (pun not intended), in front of the US Congress, the world watched in silence… and then erupted in laughter. With Facebook broiled in its biggest controversy yet thanks to a massive data breach ...
(Apr 11, 2018, Entrepreneur)
This 'Stranger Things' meme takes mirror selfies to a whole new level
In the second season of Stranger Things, our favorite gang of Demagorgon fighters gets another glimpse of the mysterious Upside Down. Even though the new season premiered months ago, people have spent the past week creating elaborate mirror selfie ...
(Apr 12, 2018, Mashable)
The Meme Account Hilariously Exposing Creepy Asian Fetish Guys on Tinder
When Lillian (aka @thefleshlightchronicles) signed up for Tinder, the meme creator soon realized that her experience of the dating platform was dramatically different to that of her white counterparts. “I noticed that I was getting a lot of terrible ...
(Apr 12, 2018, Broadly)
Memes are art
Memes are unavoidable. Whether it be politics, pop culture, Wendy's franchises, or a dated meme texted to you from your grandma on “kids these days,” there is no escaping the fact that they have permeated our social fabric. If society holds these memes ...
(Apr 12, 2018, Dailyuw)
People dropping phones for hilarious Stranger Things meme – here's how to (safely) make your own
Create this meme with the very real risk of damaging your device; Once you're done, stop recording and do it all again, but this time try something different (an outfit change or a new pose). You'll have to apply a rewind effect to this second clip ...
(Apr 12, 2018, The Sun)
The team behind the meme: Facebook group creates sense of community online
Many UVM students with a Facebook account recognize the iconic photo of a frog framed by the words “Farm Fresh, Locally Grown Memes.” This is the cover photo for Make UV Groovy Again, a Facebook group dedicated to memes. The group has more than 3,400 ...
(Apr 12, 2018, Vermont Cynic)
Mr. Data Meme Proves Mark Zuckerberg Didn't Watch Enough 'Star Trek'
The biggest surprise to come out of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal and subsequent Congressional grilling of CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn't the fact that the private data of users was compromised. Instead, it's now become clear that Mark Zuckerberg ...
(Apr 12, 2018, Inverse)
'I believe because it is absurd': Christianity's first meme
Religious belief is often thought to evince a precarious kind of commitment, in which the degree of conviction is inversely proportional to correspondence with the facts. Exhibit A for this common characterisation of religious belief is the maxim of ...
(Apr 12, 2018, Big Think)
The 'American Chopper' meme just got the perfect upgrade
The American Chopper meme, which quickly became one of the most popular forms of sharing discourse, just got better. Twitter user @hipsterpelagius shared this version of the meme, which started out as a five-panel image featuring trivial arguments, as ...
(Apr 12, 2018, Mashable)
The Star of the 'American Chopper' Meme Didn't Know What a Meme Was
Paul Teutul Sr., the star of the gone-but-not-forgotten Discovery Channel show American Chopper, is the latest in the long line of people to accidentally become enshrined in the millennial art form known as the meme. It's nearly impossible that you ...
(Apr 12, 2018, VICE)
Catch Up with Antoine Dodson, of 'Hide Yo Kids' Meme Fame
The year is 2010. The Deepwater oil spill is caused an environmental disaster, Wikileaks published thousands of documents pertaining to military wrongdoing by whistleblower Chelsea Manning, and Antoine Dodson became a meme when he spoke to a local TV ...
(Apr 13, 2018, Papermag)
Memes, Teens and Admission Deans: How meme culture is shaping USC's image
Six thousand miles away from campus, USC was a dream school for Da Zhong Wang, a high school senior at the Western Academy of Beijing. And when he found USC's Facebook meme group, “USC Memes for Spoiled Pre-Teens,” last May, he knew he wanted to apply ...
(Apr 13, 2018, Daily Trojan Online)
