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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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A new meme generator lets you drop Bernie Sanders and his chair around the world

The Verge

You may have seen the many memes of Sen. The site, made by NYU masters student Nick Sawhney , is pretty bare-bones, and it’s not exactly fast — though the fact that it’s getting a lot of traffic could be partially to blame. Three cheers to Sawhney for this glorious meme generator. We’ve put him somewhere warm.

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The most innovative companies in applied AI for 2025

Fast Company Tech

offers a web app that enterprises use to monitor how their brand name is portrayed in social media posts, videos, links, and memes. released its Compass platform, which lets individual users reality check or get greater context around suspicious claims made in social media posts, videos, links, or memes. In 2024 Blackbird.AI

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Sweeping new copyright measures poised to pass in spending bill

The Verge

Still, critics of the bill, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fight for the Future, argue that the CASE Act could fine ordinary internet users for engaging in everyday online behavior like sharing memes. The CASE Act is a terribly written law that will threaten ordinary Internet users”.

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8 Facts About Me Meme

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Soha El-Borno of Wild Apricot tagged me to participate in the 8 Random Facts About Me Meme. Before I started blogging, podcasting, and consulting for nonprofits, I worked for six years at an arts education nonprofit teaching autobiographical writing to San Francisco public middle school students using storytelling and theater.

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Robinhood has figured out how to monetize financial nihilism

The Verge

Robinhood was a part of the GameStonk mass meme, and also made almost $30 million on Dogecoin in the first quarter, a frankly astounding amount of money to make on a shitcoin. Robinhood is the brokerage for fun gambling on meme stocks and meme cryptocurrencies,” Levine writes. Okay, but what are the users getting out of it?

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The GameStop stock roller coaster has come to the dip

The Verge

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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