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GameStop memes even harder with ‘Web3 Gaming’ and NFT job listings

The Verge

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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Please GameStop it, Hollywood

The Verge

Meme Streets. The Bankrupting of the Hedge Fund Melvin Capital by the Internet Message Board WallStreetBets. Okay, screenwriters, directors, authors, and production companies — we get it. But just in case yes , we imagine this set of completely disparate productions will need some excellent titles going forward. Uncut GMEs. Short Stop.

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How r/WallStreetBets gamed the stock of GameStop

The Verge

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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Quibi will add sharing features as the app struggles to find subscribers

The Verge

When Quibi launched at the beginning of April, the app blocked sharing to platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit. Now, Katzenberg and the team are working on ways to ensure Quibi is “less walled off from the internet.” Quibi currently has about 3.5 million app downloads and 1.3

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Memejacking: Does Your Nonprofit Dare?

Tech Soup

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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How real-world violence led Facebook to overturn its most controversial policy

The Verge

A long-tenured professor of engineering had used his university internet domain to post his denialist views, which he had originally published in a book. It did not appear as a series of ironic memes in a central feed to which students were glued. Students, faculty, and alumni all called for the webpage to be removed.

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The most popular posts on Facebook are plagiarized

The Verge

1 post in the report, a meme from the motivational speaker and author Gaur Gopal Das. The meme had been posted to Twitter two weeks earlier by the Ghanaian rapper M.anifest. (It His tweet is the earliest instance of the meme I could find using Google’s reverse-image search, though.). Take the No. But it wasn’t original to Das.

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