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‘Disaster Girl’ has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500,000

The Verge

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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YouTube removes PewDiePie diss track for violating cyberbullying, child safety rules

The Verge

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. By the end of March, T-Series overtook Kjellberg as the most subscribed-to channel on YouTube, which he acknowledged with a new music video.

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‘May be an image’: what it’s like browsing Instagram while blind

The Verge

Memes usually involve rapidly evolving iterations of undescribed images with tiny words in weird fonts. Oh, that must be somebody dancing,” thinks McCann when she encounters a TikTok with no audio besides music. A lot of the memes that people share, they don’t add alt text to it,” says Steven Aquino, a legally blind journalist.

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12 great apps for your new iPhone in 2020

The Verge

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 10 best streaming shows on Netflix for 2020

The Verge

Internet memes aside, Tiger King is one of the more enjoyable Netflix shows to come out of 2020. What makes this an intriguing watch is that it accurately depicts some of the same feelings many of us likely had due to the COVID-19 pandemic: fear, uncertainty, isolation, and loneliness. Tiger King. Image: Netflix. Tiger King.

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

Clothing, electronics, toys, automobiles, musical instruments, furniture — you name it and you’ll find a manufacturer in China who can turn your intangible concept into mass-manufacturable reality in mere days. In addition, the quick turnaround allows agile brands to take advantage of that most ephemeral of IP, memes. customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rickrolls or other fun internet games - this shows you are a bunch of fun and has people trying to do the same for you. Spreading as many internet memes as possible is good. as the musical notes make for lots of questions. or something else funny (sometimes used to offset potentially racy comments???if if you didn???t

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