Futurism

MARCH 27, 2025

Right after OpenAI debuted its new GPT-4o image generation capabilities , tech bros flooded the internet with AI-made cartoons and memes imitating the style of the iconic Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. The wave of ersatz Ghibli art was inescapable in AI spheres. One particularly viral example depicted JFK's assassination.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Sometimes, the internet’s most viral memes may seem entirely incomprehensible (like when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne), but the things that captivate our attention online matter. Can you believe that it was only this summer when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne?

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

If meme stocks can be a thing, what’s to stop audio meme sharing from going viral!? Dank audio memes anyone? Plus a cacophony of over-enthusiastic Internet memes in audio form. “As we’ve seen with memes and GIFs, people love to create their own very creative content.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

One of the photos from this Cannes photo shoot has been widely memed. I have a suggestion that I think most of the internet will be able to get behind — and we know the internet never collectively agrees on anything, so hear me out here: a way to block memes that are past their expiration date. Please make it stop.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

That song, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, quickly also became the soundtrack to an Internet meme —that is, an idea that spreads online (“ I Can Has Cheezburger? That’s right, a widely recognized nonprofit organization has created a parody so that it can propagate a meme. Why meme at all?

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 19, 2009

When the venerable Fieldstone Alliance surprised its readers this week with 25 Random Things that Make the Nonprofit Sector Great , picking up on a popular fad that’s been making the rounds of Facebook, it was a strong hint to take a closer look at that odd phenomenon of online culture, the meme. What’s a meme? read more ).

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

After selling Nyan Cat as an NFT , its creator, Chris Torres, has found himself working on an even bigger event: a week-long series of auctions where classic memes are being sold on the blockchain by their original creators. The memes involved should be recognizable if you were on the internet in the early 2010s.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Early Internet communities poked fun at the sequence by creating and sharing gag images that had the silly text inserted in various ways,” writes Ars author Sam Machkovech. The meme didn’t really take off until the video, uploaded on February 16th, 2001, was posted to Newgrounds. Now, you have to advance the meme to participate.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In the ad, Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger mercilessly makes fun of himself, fully leaning into the “Photograph” meme and its usefulness in explaining all sorts of graphs and in illustrating framed copies of other memes , as Kroeger instructs viewers to “look at them” in his unmistakable, raspy voice.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For those who weren’t online last week, here’s what you missed: a not-so-subtle group of strangers on the internet banded together to try to buy one of the remaining thirteen copies for the constitution. More of that, we reckon, and less of the meme-wars wouldn’t be amiss. With crypto.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

Microsoft has been the subject of many memes about its Xbox naming decisions in recent years. That’s led to the internet making memes about one Xbox One X box, and a series of Xbox Series X boxes. After many Xbox box memes, Microsoft has now started openly mocking its Xbox naming decisions. The Xbox box meme.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Whether it wants to be or not, YouTube is a guardian of internet history, with countless classic videos sitting in its archives. The video has been remixed and re-memed in countless ways since it first went viral in the mid-2010s, and Weedon himself has an interesting relationship with the content. Well, that's that then.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After a rollercoaster of a year on the stock market fueled by WallStreetBets retail trading, GameStop is going full meme and looking to build a “Web3” platform, according to a flurry of job listings posted to its careers site on Monday. When you’re dealing with an Internet mob, though, attention eventually fades.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The original “Top 12 Internet Memes for Nonprofits” received such a positive response, that a few more have been created. Look for more nonprofit memes in the future. Don’t recognize one of them? Then check out knowyourmeme.com. Research & Trends'

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

On Monday, congressional leaders unveiled their massive spending and coronavirus relief measure, including a handful of controversial copyright measures civil liberties activists fear could penalize internet users for everyday online behavior. The CASE Act is a terribly written law that will threaten ordinary Internet users”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Precursor Ventures’ Charles Hudson on ‘the conversation no one has during an upmarket’ Internet is the new Miami. To quote Winnie CEO and co-founder Sara Mauskopf, “Internet is the new Miami.” And Chief Meme Officer Turner Novak finally debuted Banana Capital’s debut fund launched with $9.99 million in funding.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2021

The song became a lasting part of internet culture thanks to the Rickroll meme and reached the impressive milestone a couple days ago. The meme was also put to excellent use when the San Diego Padres trolled the Boston Red Sox just as fans thought they were about to belt out the chorus to “Sweet Caroline.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

He started the meme about asking for NGO related resources by pushing it out to Nancy White , Hell's Dire Agent , Jennine , Taran , and Declan. Note to self: This is all needs an inspiration map to show the relationships and how the content of the meme has morphed.and some reflection on memes.)

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

In the two decades since its 2005 debut, this glorious film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel has forged a rich internet legacy, birthing memes, thirst posts, and more.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

The currency is based on an au-courant- as-of-2013 meme of a Shiba Inu, and was intended to satirize bitcoin. For those of you fortunate enough to have avoided internet-related brainworms: a bunch of people probably thought this was a reference to a phrase used by internet traders, “to the moon.” Well, kids, the joke’s over.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. s Alex Steed.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Kjellberg disavowed the “subscribe to PewDiePie” meme after the phrase was used by the gunman who murdered more than 50 people in the Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand. Even if Kjellberg is done with the meme, it’s clear the internet is not.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In addition to the difficulties of simply staying up on the internet, it came to light that Parler may have had some privacy issues. His last post was a Bernie Sanders meme with the text “I wish that John guy would hurry up already.”. It might also have something to do with the company getting run into the ground under his watch.

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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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The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Microsoft first revealed the Xbox Series X nearly a year ago, and the internet went wild and immediately compared it to a fridge. A meme was born , and Microsoft embraced it to reassure us all that the Series X is, in fact, smaller than a fridge. Microsoft has now embraced the meme even further and actually created.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 28, 2020

His off-the-cuff personality touts priceless internet cred.

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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

Characters and artwork from the show will become NFT collectibles — because why let the internet GIF your show for free when you can sell them GIFs as NFTs? NFTs of some well-known memes have proven lucrative for their creators, including Bad Luck Brian , Grumpy Cat , and Keyboard Cat.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As ever, Know Your Meme has the definitive rundown of Hinton and Dench’s viral story. Variety notes that the pair have become minor internet celebrities, with over 150,000 followers on Twitter between them. Somebody grandma is coming in clutch this year!! pic.twitter.com/QGrx83nHLl — Jamal Hinton (@Jamalhinton12) November 15, 2016.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Have you ever played Pokémon Go and thought, “I wish this game let you earn small amounts of Bitcoin by engaging with internet finance memes and a cryptocurrency debit card system?” The game is filled with cryptocurrency and meme stock in-jokes, featuring mechanics with names like “Diamond Hands.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This technique is the " hold a sign meme " where you ask your community to send photos to flickr of you (or your animal) holding a protest sign. Here's some points: This is a great example of multi-channel marketing with integrating social media along with other more "traditional" internet tools like email.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

The Reddit meme that bludgeoned a hedge fund There are three things to remember as you watch the chaos unfolding with GameStop’s stock price. Second, the internet is real life. These days, you can just buy video games over the internet instead of going to a soul-killing strip mall in Iowa City to buy a physical copy of the game.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Meme Streets. The Bankrupting of the Hedge Fund Melvin Capital by the Internet Message Board WallStreetBets. But just in case yes , we imagine this set of completely disparate productions will need some excellent titles going forward. May we humbly suggest: GameStop: Never Stop Stopping. Uncut GMEs. Short Stop. The Weeb of Wall Street.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2020

TikTok has exploded in popularity in 2020 to become one of the biggest social media networks on the planet, with everything from internet memes, comedy sketches, and even a full-fledged Ratatouille musical. In other words, it’s the most fun place on the internet right now. Paprika Recipe Manager. Paprika Recipe Manager.

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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.” The auction will kick off on the video’s 14th anniversary.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

This week the team — Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace — recorded a bonus Equity Shot to help our listeners make sense out of the GameStop trading bonanza happening all over the internet. GameStop, meme stocks, and the revenge of the retail trader — This piece dug into what the initial story was about, with some jokes.

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