Top 12 Internet Memes for Nonprofits
sgEngage
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Who doesn’t love a good Internet meme? Those clever little images and captions …
‘Disaster Girl’ has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500,000
The Verge
APRIL 29, 2021
Another internet meme has sold for big bucks online: Zoë Roth, best known as “ Disaster Girl ” for the popular image macro taken by her father in 2005 of her smirking at the camera while a house burns down in the background, has sold the original copy of the meme as an NFT for 180 Ether, worth almost $500,000. Photo: David Roth.
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AMC is giving free popcorn away to meme stonk investors
The Verge
JUNE 2, 2021
Look, when the internet learns a new trick — like it did in January, with GameStop — it’s a pretty safe bet that people will play the trick again. AMC, though, they’ve elected to really embrace the whole meme thing. I’m hoping there are more announcements where they get meme-ier. Meme enthusiasm essentially saved the company.
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How Memes Can Help Your Nonprofit Blog
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 internet moments that defined 2023
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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Old memes are Bill Murray, dodging them is Tilda Swinton
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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New on SSIR: You can has memesez?
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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Nyan Cat’s creator is running an event to sell memes like Bad Luck Brian and Keyboard Cat as NFTs
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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Financial flash mobs meet fundraising memes
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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Google and Nickelback really want you to look at your photographs
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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Even Microsoft is mocking its Xbox Series X name
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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Ah f**k: YouTube takes down classic ‘I can’t believe you’ve done this’ meme
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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GameStop memes even harder with ‘Web3 Gaming’ and NFT job listings
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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12 More Internet Memes for Nonprofits
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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Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar
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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Sweeping new copyright measures poised to pass in spending bill
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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Thanks to the Rickroll, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ hits 1 billion YouTube plays
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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130 ‘I will never recover from this’: The internet is spiraling over the Duolingo owl’s untimely death
Fast Company Tech
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Nor could the company pass up the opportunity to mention the viral meme that confuses Duo with pop star Dua Lipa: We appreciate you respecting Dua Lipas privacy at this time, it wrote. Over time, Duo evolved from a simple mascot into an internet-wide meme with his own lore (he once harassed Drake and appeared on Netflixs Squid Game ).
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How to track the big stuck boat
The Verge
MARCH 25, 2021
I’m sure you’ve heard, but in case you haven’t, welcome to the first major spectacle the internet has collectively rubbernecked to this degree since those llamas cavorted around an Arizona town in. Stuck boat memes abound , but if you want to keep the closest eye on the beached MV Ever Given, you have a few options.
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Tracking the Currion Meme
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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Dogecoin is on a run, has escaped the yard, and is headed to the moon
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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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 26, 2014
2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. It goes beyond what is known as “ newsjacking ,” to analyze public reaction and also have the agility to strike while the iron is hot. (2)
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Mulch and the enduring appeal of internet absurdism
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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Let The Change Blogging Meme Hit The Road.
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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YouTube removes PewDiePie diss track for violating cyberbullying, child safety rules
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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Parler’s CEO has been fired
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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Public domain Mickey Mouse is the first meme of 2024
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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Microsoft made an Xbox Series X fridge that it’s giving away
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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How Elon Musk became the internet’s most loved, and hated, meme
Digital Trends
JUNE 28, 2020
His off-the-cuff personality touts priceless internet cred.
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Netflix is turning viral Thanksgiving Mom tweet into a movie
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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‘May be an image’: what it’s like browsing Instagram while blind
The Verge
JULY 30, 2021
Memes usually involve rapidly evolving iterations of undescribed images with tiny words in weird fonts. A lot of the memes that people share, they don’t add alt text to it,” says Steven Aquino, a legally blind journalist. Those false assumptions often mean that people are left out of fun cultural moments on social media.
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Niantic and a crypto debit card company made an AR game where you earn Bitcoin
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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The Flickr Hold A Sign Meme: Protesting Wendy's Frosty Attitude Towards Animals
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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How r/WallStreetBets gamed the stock of GameStop
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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Please GameStop it, Hollywood
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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12 great apps for your new iPhone in 2020
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 ‘Charlie bit my finger’ video is being auctioned as an NFT — then deleted ‘forever’
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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Robinhood stops the games
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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The NFT Bay asks if you would steal all the JPEGs
The Verge
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
As a site, it seems to do what it says on the tin, but as a statement it could spark an interesting discussion around what it means if you claim ownership over something on the internet. On the internet, that means someone’s going to pirate it.” You want to claim ownership over something,” it asks. “On
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Zillow reportedly needs to sell 7,000 houses after it bought too many
The Verge
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
It’s not the only one with this business model either — competing real estate site Redfin has a similar program, and there are entire companies dedicated to internet-based home-buying, like OpenDoor. It’ll then deal with any repairs or quick renovations and then sell the house itself.
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Charlie bit us all, if you really think about it
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. Not to mention the confusion you’re creating among buyers.
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Don’t tweet about $ASS
TechCrunch
MAY 20, 2021
And after doing that obviously stupid thing, my Twitter feed became chock-full of ass-related imagery, memes, and $ASS coin stans breathing on me. And while it’s hard to be serious about a butt dog-themed bit of Internet money, $ASS is, well, very 2021. Earlier today I tweeted about $ASS , a cryptocurrency named after a dog.
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