The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Crowder, who is widely known as the face of the “change my mind” meme, has challenged people to debates in the past, including college students on campuses all across the country. Klein, known for his comedy skits and pop culture commentary, is admittedly not the best debater. This interview has been edited for clarity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

I am haunted by mulch posts. The most recent mulch video came to me in the middle of the night, when I was hours into scrolling through a particularly nasty bout of insomnia. The video was an edit of a tiny dog surrounded by a frame of glittering hearts, with an AI-generated voice narrating, “Today, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

Social media also helps fans create a sports culture that’s different and more inclusive than those in more mainstream men’s sports. Fans and supporters are fiercely protective of that culture, even as they relish in the growth of the league. American soccer meme power rankings: 1. USL memes 3.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2024

The new year marks the nerdiest holiday you maybe didn’t know about: Public Domain Day. But this year’s celebration is extra special. After years of legal battles, “Steamboat Willie,” a 1928 Walt Disney short featuring Mickey Mouse, is now public domain.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its built up to a certain quiet, cross-culture ubiquity. Theres a bring-your-own-meaning to it all that seemingly allows it to fit anywhere without the same cultural weight of donning a Dunk or a Samba. Special Offer For turning a color into a cultural moment It was Brat summer, and we were all just living in it.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Since NFTs exploded onto the cultural landscape earlier this year, we’ve seen plenty of early-to-mid 2000s memes being sold on the blockchain, with many of them fetching higher prices than I would’ve ever have imagined. I can see Nyan Cat on the internet whenever I like.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The publication, launched in 2016, creates and curates content around African youth culture for Gen Zs and millennials within and outside Africa. It also plans to further develop Zikoko Memes , a Giphy-like product focused on African memes, gifs and images the company launched in 2020.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

It’s hard to describe the absolute chaos around NFTs (non-fungible tokens) right now; tech reporters’ inboxes are flooded with the latest and stupidest additions to this trend of digital certificates for memes and other pieces of digital memorabilia. Okay so, listen, internet.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 14, 2014

In case you haven’t been on the Internet for the past two years, the Graphics Interchange Format – or GIF, for short – is a file format comprised of a series of photos strung together and looped to create the appearance of animation. It’s a phenomenon that have inspired things like Vine and Instagram video.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Nvidia’s system requirements include a dual-core 64-bit CPU (2GHz or faster) running Windows 7 or newer, 4GB of RAM, a GPU that supports DirectX 11 or newer, and at least a 15Mbps internet connection. became part of internet culture, a long-running meme about PC hardware requirements. But can it run Crysis ?”

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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

AUGUST 14, 2020

You’re typically sharing or saying something because you want to connect with a person over something you sent, whether it’s a link to a story, a meme, or a “what’s up.”. “A Just maybe picture someone sending a link or meme as them trying to connect with you — a head nod, or reaction, doesn’t suffice. Totally valid! It kind of sucks!

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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. Fortnite ’s in-game purchases, for instance, reflect a very specific vision of a functioning metaverse economy that relies on cosmetic skins and topical pop culture.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. As much as he had benefited from the rise of the mobile internet, he thought there was a far bigger opportunity building a consumer brand and applying the lessons he learned from programming to the manufacture of tangible products.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

Within days, hundreds of millions of clicks, reblogs, tweets, shares, and media stories, including a key Buzzfeed post , carried the argument around the Internet to every country in the world. The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

In the weeks that followed the big game, Left Shark has been a hit of internet memes , t-shirts and even a This is SportsCenter commercial. Left Shark has become the cultural touchstone for February 2015. As you plan your nonprofit’s next marketing endeavor, be careful about including popular cultural trends.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s the story of the internet, which is, ‘How do I find my people?’”. It’s the story of the internet, which is, “How do I find my people?” It was a social, cultural stigma to doing it. So the first wave is more and more people joining, [and] the social, cultural, stigmas falling. We span really two types of connection.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It works in areas with slow internet. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. So it’s a great tool for areas that have low internet connection. . Culturally specific communication is the second thing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Welcome to Gag City, the pink metropolis inhabited by stans and brands alike. In the days leading up to the release of “Pink Friday 2,” Nicki Minaj’s fifth studio album and sequel to her debut record “Pink Friday” that dropped on Friday, Twitter was flooded with AI-generated images of pink-toned cityscapes.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog – or that your highly effective advocacy campaign is run by teenagers. Grassroots campaigns can now spring up without warning, usually prompted by some dramatic development in the larger culture (see: the 2016 election). Of course, Parkland isn’t the only example of this new reality.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2021

When culture is molded on social networks, it sucks to lose out on a shared social language because you can’t see the images everyone is talking about. Those false assumptions often mean that people are left out of fun cultural moments on social media. I think that’s one big misconception: ‘Oh, well, they don’t care about pictures.’

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Context for the event from Rory Cellan-Jones: Prevailing ethos of the web has been libertarian, optimistic about the potential of the internet to be a medium of free expression and break down barriers. Andrew Keen (via video), author of Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Facebook is limiting the spread of pages and groups linked with the word “boogaloo,” an internet slang term used in some far-right extremist circles to refer to the idea of an impending second American Civil War, as first reported by Reuters. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Bring people behind the scenes Show your impact in action, but also consider your company culture. 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! Take the Course 12.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In my unprofessional opinion — I stopped skateboarding seriously at age 17 and fell out of the culture shortly after — I consider it a swan song of the skate video as a cultural artifact. Online skate culture is more inclusive and accessible than ever before. hahahaden22 This trick needs a name ? original sound - _sad.soundds.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

At first, BuzzFeed focused mostly on quizzes and memes, but in December 2011, Peretti hired Ben Smith from Politico to build out a news division. Other media companies scrambled to catch up with how BuzzFeed was reinventing the culture of a newsroom. People shared news, too, after all — and sharing was the point.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

They’re embedded in just about every aspect of our culture. If your internet and home network is strong, Nvidia’s GeForce Now will give you a free virtual PC for an hour at a time that you can play free games on. I think it’s safe to say that games and pop culture are now synonymous. It’s the ultimate cheapskate move.

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The Verge

MAY 18, 2021

The aesthetics of the games themselves also gesture at queerness and online culture more broadly. A lot of “baddie games” are centered on exaggerated gender performance, much like drag or ballroom culture. It’s queer culture.” And I like queer things being celebrated in pop culture.” I burned through it in two weeks.

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Bring people behind the scenes Show your impact in action, but also consider your company culture. 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! Take the Course 12.

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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. Then came the internet. Creativity always leads culture in a lot of ways. The future of music.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But while Democrats are now calling for his expulsion from Congress and his accounts to be banned, the incident has drawn new attention to Gosar’s long association with far-right meme culture. Gosar’s video is just the latest example of a long-standing interest in the meme culture that’s popular in far-right internet communities.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 19, 2025

A new study examining meme creation found that AI-generated meme captions on existing famous meme images scored higher on average for humor, creativity, and "shareability" than those made by people. Even so, people still created the most exceptional individual examples.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

As Elon Musk’s X continues its transformation into a right-wing fever dream , the platform’s dwindling population of irony-poisoned meme enjoyers has found a new reason to be annoyed: an onslaught of Stake gambling ads. Why is its logo on all these memes? And now, it’s getting even worse.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Tech’s censorship-prone gatekeepers — as well as the broader pattern of businesses sanitizing, and then monetizing, queer culture — leave many LGBTQIA+ folks reasonably wary of social media. Apple, which sets the ground rules for mainstream apps through its App Store, is also totally prude. Another wrote: “Let’s keep it.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

This zany 2021 release centers on a family who's battling back the robo-apocalypse with togetherness, internet savviness, and a wall-eyed pug named Monchi (voiced by social media icon Doug the Pug). The Mitchells' adventure into chaos begins when daughter Katie (Abbi Jacobson) is poised to go off to college.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

According to the internet, these are all recession indicators. Cultural trends like these appear out of nowhere; they're often shaped by our current economic and political realities. It's an interesting correlation that highlights how our cultural output via memes and trends often mirrors economic and social shifts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

Charity Jacking goes one step beyond “Social Media Meme Morphing.” ” A social media meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the Internet. Phase 2: The Ice Bucket Challenge: From Fundraiser to Social Media Meme.

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