The Verge

JUNE 27, 2020

An inside joke about a TikTok meme among a group of friends on Twitter grew into a minor social media mystery before morphing into a fundraiser for anti-racism causes. On Thursday, the eye-mouth-eye emoji meme started appearing in people’s Twitter handles and almost immediately, the buzz started about what it all meant, Gizmodo reported.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Massachusetts-based PiiQ Media says social media bots promoted Dogecoin, GameStop, and other “meme” stocks in posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Shares in GME skyrocketed in January as Reddit users on r/wallstreetbets rallied around the stock in an attempt to squeeze hedge funds that had bet against the video game company.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

Reddit traders who have successfully profited off GameStop (GME) stock are now turning their attention to struggling movie theater chain AMC. Reddit board r/wallstreetbets has helped push GameStop stock to record levels in recent days, with the stock closing up 92 percent yesterday alone. The AMC memes appear to be working, though.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

GameStop, meme stocks, and the revenge of the retail trader. Webull, M1 and Public remove restrictions on ‘meme stocks’ after citing trade settlement firm as the cause. Robinhood told users that it would allow trading to begin in some fashion today in shares it had previously restricted. Today on the U.S.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Some are worried about losing their tabs, but Reddit users have found a way to recover them (via XDA-Developers’ Mishaal Rahman ). Reddit user avatar_ENG also discovered you can still get those tabs back by searching your Chrome history. It’s also been removed from the Chrome Web Store, with any links to it now leading to a 404 page.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

That's less than the stock sold for the week before it took off on a wild rollercoaster ride induced by Reddit retail investors and an unprecedented social media frenzy. There was always the chance of a rally (and I guess, technically, there still is), but it seems like the meme may truly be over. Image: Apple Stocks.

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The Verge

MARCH 24, 2021

Facebook employs a set of the former, and the latter is a central feature of Reddit and YouTube comment sections. That said, Reddit and comment sections tend to operate more anonymously than Twitter and Facebook, where users more commonly exist and post as their public selves.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

A meme from r/Accounting. On r/Accounting , users are already posting memes about busy season. On Reddit, many people are “more unfiltered with their frustrations,” says Joan, who quit her position at EY in November 2021, and who asked to use a pseudonym out of fear of retaliation. “So Reddit meme. Reddit meme.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Bonds are having a “meme moment” on Reddit, Bloomberg reported. A caveat first: The trend is not on par with WallStreetBets and its meme stock frenzy. The r/bonds subreddit forum only has some 8,000 members not 13 million.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

Apes together strong” is one of the mottoes of Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets community. Now, members of the financial subreddit are making good on one of their favorite memes by donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities supporting gorillas in the wild. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. Is there a lesson in all this?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Meme Streets. 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. May we humbly suggest: GameStop: Never Stop Stopping. Uncut GMEs. Short Stop. From Pre-Order to Stock Order. The Game is Up.

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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. There is a Reddit forum for this , r/WallStreetBets, which describes itself as being “like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal.” Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

offers a web app that enterprises use to monitor how their brand name is portrayed in social media posts, videos, links, and memes. Its 200+ customers include Reddit, Instacart, Pinterest, Duolingo, and Databricks. Enterprises are also using AI apps to protect softer corporate assets, such as reputation. billion valuation.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The idea of buying at $4 a share and selling for $400 obviously captured the public’s imagination , and millions rushed to give trading a try as the GameStop meme went mainstream — taking AMC and others along for the ride as investors realized they could pump those stocks too. Chart: Apple Stocks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2022

The meme stock craze of 2021 highlighted a crucial trend — people want to invest with the conviction of a community behind them. Individualism is out. Collectivism is in vogue. The game (doesn’t) stop.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Robinhood has had a rocky 2021 so far; in January, it halted trading as Redditors helped push up the prices of so-called meme stocks like GameStop and AMC Theaters. The incidents led to a congressional hearing where CEO Vlad Tenev testified along with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and trader Keith Gill aka RoaringKitty.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

And that Reddit’s CEO has a nice suit. That said, there were some good memes and jokes, so, let’s have some fun instead of being annoyed with our elected representatives: "Did you buy GameStock because you were not aware of payment for order flow" is an incredible series of words to put one after the other.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2021

If the sound of a video game company making a toaster sounds familiar, then you might be thinking of Razer’s toaster which, after years of memes, it claimed it was going to make for real in 2019. Someone on Reddit snapped a picture of it in Razer’s Las Vegas store, but there’s no sign it was actually available for purchase.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. These can be formatted as zoom backgrounds, sharable tiles/images/memes online, a Facebook cover image, or something small they can place in their electronic signature. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures.

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2020

When Quibi launched at the beginning of April, the app blocked sharing to platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit. But Katzenberg is hopeful that rolling out new features will help, including giving subscribers the ability to share content from Quibi shows on social media. Quibi currently has about 3.5

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Perhaps you recall last month, when GameStop stock shot up by as much as 500 percent, hitting a peak of $483 on January 28th, thanks largely to memes and a shitposting finance subreddit. I’m sure there will be entire academic books written on r/WallStreetBets. There is a paper already.) I hope Gill wears his formal headband.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Memejacking is simply a type of newsjacking that connects your communications to a meme — that is, a pop culture trend. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It did not appear as a series of ironic memes in a central feed to which students were glued. Nor can we say how much they benefited from similarly permissive policies on YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter. It promoted an abhorrent world view, but the page itself got very little promotion.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

When Stan Smeets posted a video titled “I made a synthesizer that plays plant-based music using microscopes and sensors” to a synthesizer Reddit group, the users thought it was funny that he had stumbled into a meme. There’s a] stereotype of synth people loving plants,” one user explained to him.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline. The NTC is the nonprofit technology's field largest gathering.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

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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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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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

SEE ALSO: Leftist meme creators are undeterred by Meta’s rightward shift The aforementioned content, according to one Reddit user , was a stream of Reels videos "full of street fights, school shootings, murder, and gore accidents." We apologize for the mistake," a Meta spokesperson told CNBC.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

And a Network Contagion Institute report found that “since November of 2019, mentions of boogaloo/boog have more than doubled [on Reddit] and show sustained and increasing activity over the COVID-19 period.”.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

And of course there are memes and TikTok videos. But young smokers often don’t have an idea about what is good or not, so they search on Reddit or join Facebook groups to find information and connect with fellow smokers, Janith said. Members post pictures of their cannabis plants in tiny pots grown in secret inside their houses.

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2021

Of course, Robinhood is still recovering from its involvement in the recent wave of “meme stocks,” which saw the company come under fire from users who were frustrated when it started restricting trades of popular stocks like GameStop and AMC when Reddit users from the r/WallStreetBets subreddit were frantically trading them.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Find funny gifs on giphy, memes on memes.com, political cartoons, ecards, or make your own funny content from jokes or funny celebrity quotes. Click around on Reddit It’s one of the top platforms for user-generated content and there are constant discussions (ranging from serious to, er, very light) on a huge variety of topics.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The most interesting part of his talk wasn’t the first half-hour or so, where he fielded softballs about colonizing Mars and his favorite memes, but later, when he invited Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev onto the stage. As Musk’s appearance highlighted, there’s a serendipity about Clubhouse that makes it compelling.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

But following Welch's disastrous launch of a dubious cryptocurrency meme coin called $HAWK, the roof came crashing down. He accused Welch of duping him into "pumping" $HAWK yet again, but failed to rip off her followers after her meme coin team "fumbled the bag, yet again." Other onlookers tend to agree with that assessment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

And when you dig into the lawsuit, you will find something that Amanda felt needed to be made fun of a bit, namely that Musk’s own meme tweeting made it into the lawsuit. Taylor writes that all Reddit users can now use GIF in comments. First, Taylor notes that a lawsuit has happened to force Musk to close the deal.

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Find funny gifs on giphy, memes on memes.com, political cartoons, ecards, or make your own funny content from jokes or funny celebrity quotes. Click around on Reddit It’s one of the top platforms for user-generated content and there are constant discussions (ranging from serious to, er, very light) on a huge variety of topics.

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Engadget

MARCH 11, 2025

Still, a Reddit thread from the Windows app's September launch held some entertaining reactions from the company's fans. Meanwhile, u/Shoddy_Eye7866 seized an opportunity to use the Xzibit meme: "Yo dawg, I heard you like Windows, so I took Windows App and put in your Windows so you can Windows while you Windows."

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