The Verge

JULY 31, 2021

Before the rise of social media accounts and company-run platforms, most fans for Korean artists basically were locked into direct engagement through fancafes — a kind of digital fan club that often required fans to prove their knowledge of a particular artist before gaining access to artists.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

New records for sales of the digital good seem to be reached each week with an upcoming sale of NFT artist Beeple’s ‘Everydays’ compilation went for $69 million in March, 2021 (source: The Verge ). The developers of the platform, artist and any other parties can then use the funds raised in the drop.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The owner of a fan account with over 233,000 followers, which posts videos, photos, and memes related to the South Korean band, claims that their original header and profile picture, as well as multiple tweets including their own screenshots and memes, have been taken down by the trolls over the past few weeks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” Not only does a hand-written thank you note make a strong impression upon the receiver, but it also makes you a better social media manager because it’s a practice in creative arts – and as all we know, the best social media managers are creative artists.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

These can be formatted as zoom backgrounds, sharable tiles/images/memes online, a Facebook cover image, or something small they can place in their electronic signature. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Certificates of appreciation (digital).

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M+R

AUGUST 23, 2023

These carousels are often used to share memes, be a meme, or take a viewer on a visual journey. Any images within this carousel can also be downloaded by viewers to save and/or share. This is a great way for your nonprofit to share facts, policy information, and “Did You Know” slides!

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

But Wales sees potential for NFTs to supplement the traditional ways artists make money, especially around internet culture. He points to examples of meme images selling as NFTs , something that doesn’t affect their availability but helps subjects benefit from online fame in a way intellectual property law hasn’t so far.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

takes the “you wouldn’t download a JPEG” meme (shared by both supporters and critics alike) and says “bet.”. Would it impact the artistic statement if someone finally finishes downloading it and discovers it doesn’t contain all the JPEGs? “On the internet, that means someone’s going to pirate it.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

.” Setting aside the hyperbole, SDXL does indeed seem on a par with — and perhaps even better than — the latest release of MIdJourney’s model, the model responsible for “ Balenciaga Pope ” (among other memes). The hands aren’t always… well, realistic.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine if you didn’t need an expensive camera, artistic mastery, or a ton of time to create what was in your mind’s eye. Note the clear language to identify the object, the action, the background or context, and then most importantly the artistic style that the output should create. A picture is worth a thousand words. 13 per image.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

In addition to music, Uppbeat now offers a sound effects and clips library which works well for “meme-style” content, via an expansion to the site in September 2021. Uppbeat artists, meanwhile, keep total ownership of their music and are paid on a rev share basis. The Premium subscription ($6.99/mo) Image Credits: Uppbeat.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

After BuzzFeed ’s article was posted, the two later responded to the situation with the “Web2 me vs. Web3 me” meme on Twitter, in which you essentially compare a photo of yourself in the real world with an NFT or avatar that’s supposed to represent you in the metaverse.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When I wrote in March about non-fungible tokens , or NFTs, I tried to dazzle you by rattling off some of the more impressive sales numbers from the time: $600,000 for the Nyan Cat meme, $5.8 There is more than a little of the mania that fueled this winter’s meme stock enthusiasm to be found on the crypto Discords.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

When Stan Smeets posted a video titled “I made a synthesizer that plays plant-based music using microscopes and sensors” to a synthesizer Reddit group, the users thought it was funny that he had stumbled into a meme. Joe Patitucci, the CEO of Data Garden, the company that produces PlantWave, is a musician and artist himself.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Internet memes aside, Tiger King is one of the more enjoyable Netflix shows to come out of 2020. This oddly satisfying reality competition pits artists, florists, and landscapers against each other as they try to build giant sculptures out of plants. Tiger King. Image: Netflix. Tiger King. You get The Big Flower Fight , of course.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

Additionally, you may see special characters used to create artistic typefaces for profiles on Twitter and Instagram. When she’s not helping build content strategy for world-changing clients, you can find her in the garden—scrolling memes and growing veggies. Rachel is a Social Media Account Executive in M+R’s Oakland office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. What is the most humorous COVID meme you saw in the last week that made you laugh? I’ve been working in my pajamas since the early 1990s, during the early years of the Web. What rainbow will I eat today?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Most of the memes are really funny, I got a good laugh out of them,” she says. Along with Bunny’s demands for scritches, Devine, an artist and self-identified nonexpert in dog science, fields hundreds of questions from humans every day. There are parody videos on TikTok and existential jokes on Twitter about Bunny’s sentience.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

Disaster Girl Meme ” (sold for $500k). Are there artists or other influencers who might be interested in partnering with your organization to support you through NFTs? Some well-known examples of NFTs are: . The original YouTube video of “ Charlie Bit My Finger ” (sold for $761k). How do NFTs work? Twitch and Tiltify: What are they?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

" Artist Jenny Odell used digital cutouts from Google Maps to create some striking images. Can we all collectively promise to let that meme drop? XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. "Farmville is so huge! Then there's the next level: HTML 5.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Participate in memes , blog carnivals and challenges. You can email your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com. Try writing shorter posts (200-300 words). That's about how many words the average person can read in a minute. Use bold subtitles.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

People are urged to BUIDL, pronounced “biddle,” a play on Bitcoin’s HODL meme. He gave an enthusiastic performance, opening with an old meme by singing “hey, hey, hey” to the crowd and getting the crowd to sing it back. When music went online to MP3s, it was no longer scarce, and it became harder for artists to make a living.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

The realistic Tom Cruise deepfakes that went viral on TikTok, for example, required an experienced VFX artist, a top-flight impersonator, and weeks of preparation to pull off. In the short term, at least, deepfakes are going to be obviously fabricated and instant meme-bait. Releasing the product was “an enormous joy,” he says.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I say freelance X because all of my photographer friends, makeup artists, all creative freelancers have the same problem. We found that meme pages and petfluencers tend to really undersell themselves, which is interesting and also might make sense considering there’s not a human likeness attached to it. We talk about this all the time.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Today let’s talk about another of them: a startup called Royal that hopes to upend the traditional relationship between music labels and artists, with potentially significant implications for the kind of culture that gets created. Occasionally, an alternative artist would strike out on their own and start an independent label.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Chris Torres, the artist behind Nyan Cat, has remastered the original animation and will be selling it through the crypto art platform Foundation. Last year, the digital artist Beeple sold a series of works for more than $3.5 You also get to directly support an artist, and I think that is really exciting for people.”.

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The Verge

MARCH 20, 2021

Artists are seeing their work showing up in NFTs they did not mint themselves The artist Derek Laufman woke up last weekend to a couple emails from his followers, who had a question for him. I thought the point of NFT was that the artwork and artists needed to be verified? Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

Another iconic meme is going up for auction as an NFT : the text and sunglasses used to popularize “deal with it” GIFs. The meme was listed by Ryder Ripps, the designer / creative director / “ art prankster ” who recently made headlines for falsely claiming to be behind the dystopian redesign of the CIA’s website. Image: Ryder Ripps.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier told advertisers during its upfronts presentation on Monday that “as an advertiser-focused, artist-first and animation-obsessed company, Fox is going to take advertisers into the world of Blockchain-powered tokens, including NFTs.”

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Co-directors Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe infuse Katie's excitable perspective throughout the film by working in internet memes , social media-style reactions, and blitz of bonkers visuals. It’s a bold move that might alienate some viewers but has largely won the acclaim of critics and kiddos. * — K.P. — J.A.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In part because it feels like doomscrolling — a constant in our lives thanks to COVID — but also because it felt so tied to the passive nature of people seeing some meme on a social feed and just believing it without any validation. Out of all the sketches Tyler shared, these resonated immediately. William Joel, creative director.

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The Verge

MAY 18, 2021

The “baddie games” tie to Turkey makes their queer bent a bit more exciting, flickering with the possibility that they’re giving Turkish queer developers and artists a space to create. Homosexuality is legal in Turkey but institutionally suppressed. But when pressed on the topic in the past, Rollic has been deliberately cagey.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

But far beyond getting the ick, she's getting bizarre and threatening memes from an unknown number. A wife, mother, and professional make-up artist, Melissa's plate is pretty full even before her convicted killer father (played by a snarling Dennis Quaid) barges into what peace she has built. Annaleigh Ashford stars as Melissa Reed.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Clair, the artist joked that the multi-hyphenate business owner's penis " is probably non functioning " due to his avowed ketamine usage (which can indeed result in erectile dysfunction.) As the fine folks at Know Your Meme report , the Twitter-happy rapper is an extremely non-credible source, on Musk and pretty much everything else.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

I’m at home, staring at the future face of the metaverse and trying valiantly not to think about memes from a TV show known for its exploration of ethics and humanity. “There are four lights!” Picard shouts defiantly. Of course, I’m not being tortured.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Borrow like an artist Steal content from your other platforms and see what similar organizations are doing to engage their audience. Find funny gifs on giphy, memes on memes.com, political cartoons, ecards, or make your own funny content from jokes or funny celebrity quotes. Tap into the meme stream Not just visual memes, either!

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Borrow like an artist Steal content from your other platforms and see what similar organizations are doing to engage their audience. Find funny gifs on giphy, memes on memes.com, political cartoons, ecards, or make your own funny content from jokes or funny celebrity quotes. Tap into the meme stream Not just visual memes, either!

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