And thus a meme, or meme of a meme, was born.
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It's scored by DeMarco, a meme inside a meme inside in a very talented guy inside a meme again.
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It spawned meme after meme after meme, and basically laid waste to the internet for the remainder of 2016.
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The meme itself is similar to one using M&M's that's been used as an anti-refugee meme; that meme can even be traced back further to a 2014 feminist meme.
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Jerry Media CEO Mick Purzycki is leading a collective of popular meme accounts called Meme 2020, which has coordinated the meme postings on a variety of meme accounts, The Times reported.
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There isn't any documented explanation of the "pewdie" meme from mainstream sites or meme explainer publications like Know Your Meme.
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One such concept is "meme magic" — a mystical belief/joke among meme purveyors that they can meme things into reality.
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The internet meme and the scientific meme are not identical.
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Pick Your Favorite Meme CreatorThere are plenty of meme generating apps, such as Meme Creator/Viewer and Mematic, and websites like MakeAMeme.
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Meme pages, for example, have given way to ironic meme pages.
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A meme of a meme, a monster that will kill me.
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And the coat became the meme, the online meme and all.
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It's a song about a meme that became a meme itself.
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It's relating just a few metrics (where meme is synonymous with "potentially viral unit of information"): meme quality, meme popularity, attention, and information load.
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Fuckjerry sued for allegedly stealing meme Stealing a meme is morally wrong.
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It was designed to be a meme, and a meme it became.
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Is a meme still a meme when someone tries to sell it?
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Sinatra, serves as Meme 2020's primary liaison with the meme community.
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When I woke up to meme after meme of what I could only assume was Sauron's butthole, I too hopped on the #bigmood meme train.
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Other popular meme repositories include "Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash," a Facebook page that popularized the "Bernie or Hillary?" meme phenomenon, which started on Reddit.
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In fact, it'd be a solid meme even for a veteran meme-maker.
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A meme from Linder's timeline (left) and a meme from Cooper's timeline (right).
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Almost immediately after, our Twitter feeds were awash with meme after hilarious meme.
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In the pin game, there's an unspoken law: whoever pins the meme first gets the meme, and none shall encroach-eth upon the newly crowned Meme Lord.
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And after five years, the meme has grown so meta that Tumblr has reached next-level meme-ing, combining the reader's understanding of the ubiquitous nature of "It's Gonna Be May" with a completely separate meme about the ramen noodle nature of Justin Timberlake's late-period NSYNC hair to give us this meme-ception: But the "It's Gonna Be May" meme has had tangible effects beyond meme-ing for meme's sake.
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If a meme can be cooped or stolen outright, is it still a meme?
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Journalists being journalists, the phishing scam became an excuse to post meme upon meme.
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"I'm baby" as a meme goes back to 2017, according to Know Your Meme.
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"Ain't nobody got time for that" You know the meme, you love the meme, you have Oklahoma resident Sweet Brown (née Kimberly Wilkins) to thank for the meme.
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There you have it: The first meme of the decade is about being the first meme of the decade, anticipating the first meme of the decade, and dreading the inevitability of getting sick of and hating the first meme of the decade.
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A meme can never really grow up, lest it lose the meme-ness about itself.
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These CelebritiesThe Story Behind The Meme: Overly Attached GirlfriendThe True Story Behind This Scary Meme
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Harambe, though, is a different kind of meme; it's Schrödinger's meme, both ironic and sincere.
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It's the perfect twist ending to this internet-born-and-enabled saga: meme recognize meme.
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"The OK boomer meme is a rare meme that's actually kind of important," Lukasiewicz said.
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The cold, hard fact is that 'H' is a meme because it is a meme.
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According to Know Your Meme, the "Photograph" meme had a somewhat controversial start in 53.
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The life span of the First-Meme-of-the-Year-is-the-first-meme-of-the-year meme is inherently brief: It lasts only in the small window of time during which there isn't a real first meme of the year to overtake it.
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"During the American Priority Conference, a meme by TheGeekzTeam was part of a loop of meme videos played as part of a meme exhibit," Carpe Donktum said in a statement.
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The meme-tracking website Know Your Meme notes that a phrase from its commercials, "Why Do Kids Love the Taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?" is used as a meme template.
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The two most powerful fandoms in the world were going meme for meme, tweet for tweet.
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" Trump's fan base responded, circulating meme after very weird meme about McCain's military service and "warmongering.
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According to Know Your Meme the image was first used as a meme in November 20153.
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"I knew Nick Young as Nick Young and the meme as just the meme," Lim says.
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"Don't post a meme if you don't know what a meme is," she recalled telling them.
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I think I once had one scan the meme and tell me, 'This is a meme.
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As we learned when Harvard rescinded 10 students' admissions, a meme is never just a meme.
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On the meme page, you can instantly post a meme and it's seen by 10,000 people.
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"Dont use that weird spongebob mocking meme"Me: DonT uSe thAt WeIrd SpoNgEboB MoCkinG MEme pic.twitter.
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Mike Bloomberg launched an Instagram meme campaign with some of the top meme accounts on the platform, through a new Meme 2020 company led by the chief executive of Jerry Media.
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Recently there was the "Ivanka Trump gazing at Trudeau" meme, and then the "Trudeau on a date with Angela Merkel" meme, and of course the "Trudeau staring at Donald Trump's hand" meme.
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Like all Keanu's real-life actions, these wound up fueling his meme persona; see this recently recirculated meme from 20193: Keanu's relatability, however, was what really put him on the meme map.
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For Joe Biden, it's an Obama bromance meme, for Hillary Clinton, its a meme involving women's health.
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Dawkins, however, has stated that the internet meme and the scientific meme are clearly related and connected.
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Some people will try to tell you something is a meme because it's in a meme format.
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But now, if Coachella and Urban Outfitters were a meme they would be the "Friendship ended" meme.
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The best meme of all, though, isn't a meme: It's an octogenarian, serving Olenna vibes at Dragon Con.
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Raw with emotion, her face was screen-capped and shared widely across the Internet, in meme after meme.
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For starters, the great Harambe meme of 2016 has already shown us that gorillas + the internet = meme magic.
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In our post-meme culture, context is the enemy of humor, and so, the enemy of the meme.
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" It also says that the operatives created a meme known as "Borgar" to "infiltrate the international meme community.
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Just go on Twitter, where meme after meme of yon bat-eared green babe will flood your feed.
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This is precisely the kind of climate in which a meme format like the American Chopper meme is uniquely positioned to stand out, because it allows meme creators to present both sides of a debate.
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There are also dedicated, volunteer Trump meme makers, like Carpe Donktum, a Twitter user with more than 230,000 followers whose Meme World website enlists more than two dozen meme volunteers to make pro-Trump content.
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If you only see antifascists going meme-for-meme with self-described "alt-right" trolls, they're easy to dismiss.
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Hallo-meme is upon us, and that means meme costumes are popping out from all corners of the internet.
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On Tuesday, Gizmodo reported that a meme depicting whistleblowers being beaten was being shared on an internal meme generator.
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The show eventually launched an online meme database, also called Know Your Meme, which recently celebrated its 24th anniversary.
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Redditor st3v3n took it a step further, basically asking the internet to meme the video, and meme they did.
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Any meme that inspires someone to post that pic of the Doritos and the isopods is a good meme.
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The hot new meme of this moment — before the internet's collective attention spans reset — is the Arthur fist meme.
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I hate to say it, but meme thieves have gotta be the backbone of a really successful meme movement.
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A meme can hold much power and what we do with that matters since anyone can make a meme.
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The first meme of the year being about the first meme of the year is kind of a ritual.
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Avoid phrasing like giant meme or viral meme, which are redundant and often hyperbolic; OK as a verb, e.g.
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The meme generator is the easiest to useIt's called Meme Buddy and all you need to do is fire up Google Assistant on your phone and say "talk to Meme Buddy"—you then get guided through the process of creating an ultra-shareable, culturally cutting meme of your own just by describing it.
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In fairness to all you meme speculators out there, I actually think one meme economist got this one quite right.
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Denny's did meme correctly and with almost 200,43 likes, it's clear this wasn't such an awful attempt at meme-ing.
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Does laying out the history of a meme in a linear timeline actually help people understand why a meme happened?
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We give extra points for combining the format of the meme into the post about the makeup about the meme.
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In fact, there's a meme spreading that sums up that exact feeling: Remember, with a great meme comes great responsibility.
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I'm biased toward any meme that's ever involved Wishbone, but this meme about having range actually has the range, too.
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Once you buy a meme, which costs a certain amount of "Pepes" (MemeBroker's currency), it goes into your meme portfolio.
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A lot of people think that an internet meme is a picture with a silly joke on it, but a word is a meme…branding for a policy like the Green New Deal is also a meme.
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See here: His work on this bangin' track even led to a meme that now has a Know Your Meme page.
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Justin McIntyre here references a meme within a meme: that one time someone put Tide Pods on pizza and baked it.
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Cynics and jaded memers alike use "dank meme" as a description to indicate the meme has reached Normie levels of popularity.
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A website, Know Your Meme, which is dedicated to documenting internet phenomena, claims that the Florida man meme began in 2013.
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I love those memes where meme makers started making memes about themselves — like, kids who joke about being professional meme makers.
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The meme began recirculating Sunday night during the American Music Awards, when singer Billie Eilish had her own "copycat" meme moment.
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On Facebook in particular, despite its boomer-friendly reputation, Sanders meme pages – and meme pages that support Sanders – have grown popular.
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" Brad Kim, Editor-in-Chief of Know Your Meme, the internet meme database, agrees: "Brands are getting personal and more individual.
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King Nigel I of UKIP, one of the most popular pro-Farage meme Facebook pages, is still in meme production, however.
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Their satirical worship is what turned Pepe from a random internet meme into a racist and white nationalist meme symbol of hate.
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Katy Perry: I think now though, there's a meme, a Mission: Impossible laser meme with someone trying to get through a laser.
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Context, Segal argued, is key to understanding when a meme is just a meme, and when it could become something more important.
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Meme after meme appeared with Jennifer Aniston doing hair tosses, offering smirks, and glowing in victory after years of Team Jen vs.
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Editor: Hey, your favorite meme contribution is due on December 20th *December 21st arrives* Editor: Hey, your meme blurb is late Me:
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"Getting" a meme inherently defines you as being a part of a population that follows the social structure enforced by the meme.
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The Advice Dog meme first appeared in 2006, according to Know Your Meme, an online database dedicated to cataloguing all internet phenomena.
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This is true across -isms; the "mocking Spongebob" meme has been criticized for its ableism; the "Ugandan Knuckles" meme is racist trash.
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So when there's not really a meme to be the first meme of the year, the absence of content becomes the content.
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N. If you think about it, being horny is like when content trends before it becomes a meme (sex is the meme).
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Like the "Woman Yelling at Cat" meme, this was another two-panel meme where the images came from two completely different places.
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If a meme stays local to a particular LiveJournal, and people have a particular reaction to it, that is a successful meme.
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My friend Amanda Brennan is a noted meme librarian, meaning she researches and catalogs the evolution and taxonomy of internet memes — she's a curator of Tumblr's fandom trends and a former contributor to the internet meme database Know Your Meme.
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Know Your Meme even counts "Flat Earth" as a genre of meme, and provides a helpful timeline of its spread, mainly across Reddit.
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Meme Insider also features short fiction and interviews, including a discussion in the second issue with election 2016 meme-man Ken Bone himself.
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When a meme goes public (that is, hits the mainstream), the early adopters declare the meme dead in the water and move on.
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"The surreal meme community as a a whole ... it's very important for us to stay away from the mainstream meme community," she explained.
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What's more pathetic — Republicans using a scary Nancy Pelosi meme to boost their congressional candidates or Democrats exploiting this meme for personal gain?
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Now, he hasn't personally made a meme himself, but we fully expect him to now, because he totally is allowed to meme himself.
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According to the meme-tracking website Know Your Meme, joking references to Mr. Cruz being the Zodiac killer date to at least 2013.
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Lizzo is indisputably modern — a singer and a rapper, a meme-ready (or meme-biting) songwriter, a hilariously present personality in every sense.
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Read More: Redditors Made 'Meme Insider,' a Completely Insane Magazine About Memes Garlicoin was born as a meme, and has become one itself.
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Gourmet Makes and Saffitz's frazzled state are particular favorites for meme fodder, and one of the top purveyors is Meme Appétit, run by two guys in the UK. Meme Appétit is an Instagram account dedicated to Bon Appétit memes that has 239,000 followers.
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And from this weirdness emerged a particularly good genre of Twitter meme: A meme that dunks on the person who came up with Twitter.
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Turns out, the American Chopper argument meme is itself a perfect medium for discussing some of the various arguments and theories around meme optimization.
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At the time on Sunday when Cardi B addressed the meme, Billboard reported, the meme had not yet been removed from the Facebook page.
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The image was first used as a meme on Twitter in May, on an account that is now suspended, according to Know Your Meme.
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Even for the most recent Taylor Swift meme, the "name a badder bitch" meme, I tried for a while to just let it be.
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The daddy meme had been adequately explored, and like any meme that's been analyzed so thoroughly, the internet's daddy obsession simmered down a bit.
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Today, the internet meme (what most people now just call a meme) is a piece of media that is copied and quickly spread online.
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I suppose you could say that by trying to predict a meme, I'm making sure that it will never become a meme at all.
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The meme even has its own counter-meme now:Nevermind the fact that the population of the United States is actually closer to 319 million.
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Armed with that sweet, sweet drum opening and a relentlessly catchy (let's be real) chorus, it remains the meme that keeps on meme-ing.
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The brevity of the six-word "story" made the "baby shoes" meme the perfect meme for Twitter in its former 140-character state (RIP).
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Zero Wing may have spawned the first mainstream internet meme, and the first meme ever to be summarily run into the ground by nerds.
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But the defense, he said, could argue that the meme was being used to comment on the "Success Kid" meme or memes in general.
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Celeb couple Chrissy Teigen and John Legend's son Miles is becoming his own meme thanks to a funny resemblance to the Disaster Girl meme.
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In 2015, for instance, when Tumblr was at its cultural peak, debating the first meme of 2015 was the first Tumblr meme of 2015.
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You remember the "cats can have little a salami, as a treat" meme that Mashable called "the best kind of meme" back in November?
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One of the reasons the dump process differed from meme products is that in meme creation, any blank space is filled, translated, detoured, morphed.
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" Headed by a senior civilian or military leader known as a "Meme Management Officer" or "Meme and Information Integration Advisor," Prosser writes, "the MWC is designed to advise the commander and provide the most relevant meme combat options within the ideological and nonlinear battle space.
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But that can be a strange thing to watch for meme creators—especially if they weren't intending to create a meme in the first place.
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According to The New York Times, Bloomberg's team has tapped Meme 2020, a company founded by the mastermind behind the meme-makers at Jerry Media.
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" In a world where little is certain, the Jughead meme is, as my editor would say, "the meme equivalent of a bottomless cup of coffee.
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Vaisman and Wink say if enough firms submit the same meme, it will factor into the algorithm's decision to allow the meme onto the market.
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Making fun of a Facebook meme is always the next Facebook meme This little exercise hasn't been popular for more than, what, a few days?
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Also, anyone can create a meme and it's a mixture of quality of argument, creativeness, clever launching and pot-luck whether the meme "takes off".
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But the most recent meme, which rose in the ranks of popularity on Twitter on February 23, is the "Trudeau has a bubble butt" meme.
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Read These Stories Next:The Story Behind The Meme: Overly Attached Girlfriend The True Story Behind This Scary Meme The Viral Words You Need To Know
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But a company representative said that "the meme content happened on its own and spread organically." are you telling me Netflix made this meme pic.twitter.
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Classic Meme 5: Double Rainbow Double Rainbow became a meme after Jimmy Kimmel tweeted a video of a man freaking out over seeing two rainbows simultaneously.
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Such is the beauty of the wholesome meme, in which the meme-r employs the usually snarky format to convey a message of love and support.
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Months before that forum existed, however, the style supposedly originated on Tumblr at the beginning of last year, according to meme catalog site Know Your Meme.
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She's got a rad lineup of special guests, like tech experts and meme creators, who are here to share their strong opinions on everything meme-worthy.
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The name of the app really says it all -- Crying Jordan Meme Maker lets you bring the oh-so-good meme to any of your photos.
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All the exposure meant that everyone jumped onboard, latching onto him for clicks and attention, which is how he transcended from Hockey Meme to General Meme.
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Upon further research, Rogen's actual dog sadly does not look like the one in the meme, and furthermore he never made a tweet using this meme.
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"Owners of AirPods are rich idiots" quickly became a popular meme genre, and AirPods are an entire "subculture" on the internet phenomena database Know Your Meme.
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According to Know Your Meme, the meme began on the Russian social media platform VK, then made its way to English-speaking subreddits late last week.
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Read These Stories Next: The True Story Behind This Scary Meme Celebs You Should Be Following On Instagram The Story Behind The Meme: Overly Attached Girlfriend
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Many meme makers and users are protected from copyright infringement lawsuits because they're transforming the meme or making commentary on it, which are considered fair uses.
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Notable meme allies also include capitalism's cynical mistress, MrsDowJones, and politically-inconsistent meme factories like KaleSalad and Moistbudda as well as the oh-so-relatable MyTherapistSays.
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As for Palmer being a "walking meme," Shank points out that Palmer even created a mobile video game where the billionaire is literally a walking meme.
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"0 days since last time I was too scared to meme about a topic," one employee joked in a meme, riffing on a popular Futurama GIF.
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Here's an example of one of their split meme posts: With over 3 million likes, here's Female Thoughts, which seemingly now just posts split meme after split meme: And The Meaning of Life's Facebook page, with over a million followers, also posts split memes all day.
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B. What makes "on fleek" a crucial meme for understanding the 2010s is not simply why the meme was catchy, but what happened to the meme after it left the hands of its creator and what that says about the commercialization and monetization of memes — i.e.
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Anyway, here's what we talked about: VICE: I wanted to ask you, did you know what a meme was before this meme about your show became viral?
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The outlet also reported that the meme was still on her Facebook page when she first sent out the tweet, but the meme has since been deleted.
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What's more, other Instagram accounts – some for brands, some for individuals, and some for other meme accounts that didn't get the offer – are copying the meme format.
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Or, anyway, you do not need to know that Lakers guard Nick Young is the man in the meme above these words for that meme to work.
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The internet meme is typically deliberately altered by human ingenuity, while the scientific meme (invented before the internet became a thing) involves random change and accurate copying.
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The "cats can have little a salami" meme is the best kind of meme: a single sentence applied to every possible post like a gorgeous, nonsensical chorus.
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What Do You Meme Game, available on Uncommon Goods, $30What Do You Meme is the second wave of whatever Cards Against Humanity was — and it's really fun.
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"If a meme is sourced from extreme groups, then one must be very sensitive about where, when, and with whom they share the meme," the board said.
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It only gets better the closer you look—making it a good meme—and gets funnier once we enter the Photoshop Battle—making it a great meme.
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"The average meme produced is difficult to differentiate from a real meme and both variants scored close to the same hilarity rating as real memes," they wrote.
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I guess it's linked to the idea of the meme—Dawkins' meme—where you're treating the modern world of ideas and information spread like a biological system.
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Last week, Facebook announced that it would allow influencers and popular meme pages to post sponsored content for politicians after Bloomberg launched a meme campaign on Instagram.
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The Harambe meme was basically an intense online wake for a gorilla that exemplified the way dank meme culture can borrow weirdness and spawn more of it.
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Classic Meme 2: Chuck Norris Facts This meme, partially inspired by a segment on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, consists of untrue, hyperbolic "facts" about actor Chuck Norris.
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But though Sanders' chances of nabbing the nomination are slim to none, the Birdie Sanders meme lives on, as evidenced by this little guy: Fly on, little meme.
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The meme is derived from a photo posted to Tumblr in 290, which depicted someone hitting a physical "Like" button, according to the crowdsourced database Know Your Meme.
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Kim readily admits that Know Your Meme can facilitate the amorality of meme culture, and the spread of ideas that he might not personally want to see flourish.
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"Have they learned nothing from the tide pod eating meme" this looks like a wine box, have they learnt nothing from the tide pod eating meme https://t.
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No matter what context the polling meme is used in, the meme creator is setting up their audience with a series of options, and then only picking one.
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People loved it, but resurfacing an old meme for a sweet little moment in the feeble suns of early June does not a meme of the summer make.
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Clinton also attempted to use a meme on Election Day, generating a video that showed her participating in the "mannequin challenge," a meme that had recently gone viral.
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This won't be the last time a politician tries to use a meme to appeal to donors and constituents, and meme creators are growing accustomed to getting paid.
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One of the things the "first meme of the year" meme demonstrates really well is that Internet culture is somewhat unexpectedly traditional in how it relates to itself.
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Logan Cook, known as "Carpe Donktum" online, was briefly suspended from Twitter on Monday amid controversy about a meme created by a contributor for his website, Meme World.
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Oculus founder and Trump meme connoisseur Palmer Luckey has left Facebook Oculus founder and Trump meme connoisseur Palmer Luckey has left Facebook Palmer Luckey — the 24-year-old, meme-loving, liberal-hating founder of Oculus VR — has officially left Facebook, which acquired his startup for more than $2 billion in 2014.
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The combination of Twitter culling 43,500-plus NPC accounts and the evidence that the meme was spreading misinformation suggests that the NPC meme has crossed the threshold from "just another meme going through its life cycle" into an important discussion about how that life cycle can produce real-life effects.
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Just because a particular meme had the good fortune to exist on Facebook instead of on Tumblr, does that mean it's inherently more "valuable" than a Tumblr-only meme?
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In trying to be a largely impartial reflection of meme culture, Know Your Meme has avoided accountability for as long as the rest of the internet has: until now.
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What Is 'Gang weed,' the Joker Meme about Society Here is a bonkers explainer from Brian Feldman about gang weed, and rarely has a meme needed an explainer more.
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"The internet is the modern form of culture," says Adam Downer, an associate editor at Know Your Meme, the biggest online database and chronicler of meme definition and history.
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Read These Stories Next: Every Time A TV Character's Death Just About Killed You The True Story Behind This Scary Meme The Story Behind The Meme: Overly Attached Girlfriend
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The meme: "Maybe this will make Radiohead seem fun for a bit," I thought to myself when the Thom Yorke "Gasolina" meme started making its way around the web.
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Variations on the meme spread until eventually we grew tired of it and moved on, but the joy of the meme stayed with us as we continued our journeys.
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The best "Trump withdraws the US from the Paris Accord" meme award goes to this variant of the long-running "cracking open a cold one with the boys" meme.
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But it also has a lot in common with other recent Twitter memes, like the "Future that liberals want" meme or the "nothing but respect for MY president" meme.
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The expression fit perfectly with the pixelated sunglasses "deal with it" meme that had been making the rounds at the time and, thus, a new Obama meme was born.
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The thing that caught my eye was that it went from one meme shared by one person, one day, then the next day a different meme shared by four people.
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Pepe first became a meme in 2008, and originally spread via people, largely on internet meme hub 4chan, reacting to various things they saw online by sharing images of Pepe.
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When you strip away the specifics, it feels a bit like the kind of blog meme or Instagram meme in which posters are encouraged to answer personal questions about themselves.
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In other words, this meme isn't just a meme, but a way of communicating and celebrating really personal things about ourselves through fandom, fanart, fanfiction, and the practice of shipping.
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The fact that such a conversation can exist, with such fervent advocates for multiple interpretations of the meme, almost three months after Harambe's death, makes the Harambe meme somewhat unprecedented.
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Pepe had long been a 4chan meme, but as the alt-right gained prominence on 4chan and other meme havens, he became a symbol of racist rhetoric and hate speech.
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German Invasion of Poland from HistoryMemes According to Know Your Meme, the meme was first used in 2014 as a reaction image to a string of racist comments on 4chan.
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Read These Stories Next: Director Admits This Rape Scene Was Nonconsensual & Designed To "Humiliate" Actress The True Story Behind This Scary Meme The Story Behind The Meme: Overly Attached Girlfriend
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"I've since changed [the settings] back as it seems the scare may have been unwarranted based on the content our meme page has," the political meme group admin told us.
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After facing massive backlash for deactivating a number of popular meme accounts, Instagram is trying to smooth things over by hiring a meme liaison who's in touch with youth culture.
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Now, there's no Newton's Law of Memes (that I know of), so I don't know how many instances of a meme being proliferated and spun off of makes a meme.
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It wasn't an intentional, insidious distraction, but it pushes at the limits of how much is too much meme-ing, specifically in regards to turning one's self into a meme.
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There's almost no better meme to represent the current moment in time than the "This is fine" dog meme, which depicts a cartoon dog in a house that's burning down.
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French meme-makers have deftly accepted the baton and are vocal about "Making France Great Again," even offering tips on how best to fight the Great Meme War on French shores.
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It's about whether attribution of a meme still matters if the meme is part of a larger collective community that all too often struggles to retain its linguistic and cultural autonomy.
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The head of a U.F.O. research center walked past a Roomba meme creator, a pornographic film star and another meme come to life: two men wearing giant Pepe the frog heads.
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One of the reasons that there's been some misconceptions in the media is the "clown world" meme, which is a very common white nationalist meme that popped up earlier this year.
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"Reports of similar meme pages making the switch spurred on a lot of buzz," said one admin from a political meme group with over 400,000 members in a statement to Mashable.
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The first version of the meme, according to Know Your Meme, superimposed the phrase "Secure the bag and spoil your mum" over a blocky 22019 created from underscores and vertical lines.
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I was a meme & laughing stock for 10 years.
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We're covering the ad wars — and the meme wars.
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Here is the famous meme — surely, you recognize it.
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We might be getting into " Inzane Johnny meme" territory.Possibly.
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As a meme, it contained an ironic embrace of corporate branding: People responded to the meme by simultaneously laughing at the video's white Vans worship while wanting to buy white Vans themselves.
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When Know Your Meme launched as a web series, the writers used philosophical frameworks from philosophers like Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze to riddle out the origin and spread of each meme.
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Read These Stories Next: The True Story Behind This Scary Meme Where Are They Now: 15 Of Your Favorite Celebs From 15 Years Ago The Story Behind The Meme: Overly Attached Girlfriend
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That means that this meme is still pretty much everywhere to this day — hell, by this point most people have probably forgotten this idea even started out as a meme at all.
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In talking to some members of Trump's meme army, I'm reminded of a conversation I had with Ryan Milner, author of The World Made Meme who wrote his Ph.D dissertation on memetics.
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Meme researcher Ryan M. Milner's book, The World Made Meme, was published by the MIT's university press last September and touches on the importance of cataloging this new breed of digital shibboleth.
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I hadn't created the meme as a boomer meme—I'd just written a chapter about the history of the dot dot dot, so I knew very well that this punctuation mark dated back to older styles of casual writing—but The Discourse cared not, and the meme came back to me like, I suppose we could say, a boomerang.
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Let me just say, when you saw that, when you did not see ever have a meme, this was the first meme, it was the most delightful thing you ever want to see.
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As tends to happen with internet memes, the popularity of Crying Jordan has led to increasingly baroque implementations that tend to reference the meme itself rather than incident that inspired the original meme.
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But the meme started blowing up on my Facebook feed (and probably yours) over the weekend when a newly created meme generator allowed the ability to insert your own name instead of Bill's.
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The demand for so much commentary inside of one dank meme will only be interpreted as 'spectacle,' and the substance of the meme as a micro-art piece will not be fully appreciated.
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If the American Chopper meme is the format for facilitating hard-hitting discussions about toxic masculinity and U.S. interventionist policies, Eric Andre's new "Who Killed Hannibal?" meme is for refusing to take accountability.
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But the real trigger point that led to mass production of Nazi and other offensive Pepes was after Hillary Clinton released a denouncement of the meme, which is a milestone in meme history.
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Two of the most popular ones were Barnie Sandlers and Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash, two Facebook pages that operated on the same joke, that Bernie was running on a pro-meme platform.
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This parodic quality was seen repeatedly throughout this year: the song figured prominently in Twitter's giant "This Is Just To Say" meme as well as the end-of-year "play this song" meme.
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Despite some tweets decrying it as a bad first meme of the year, the SpongeBob rumor appears to be based on old content that resurfaced in late 2019 as a minor YouTube meme.
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Popular meme Instagram accounts pretty uniformly make their sponsored ads look like any other meme on their page, for everything from their own merch to sketchy lash gel to dubious vaginal steaming products.
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The next day a different meme shared by 16 people.
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At least send something funny like a joke or meme.
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Meme creators matched portions of the speech in which Mrs.
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What happens when the #10YearChallenge meme is applied to Earth?
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Even Timberlake's bandmates are getting in on the meme action.
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Luckily, there's a meme that sums up this sentiment perfectly.
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And huge news for America's meme purveyors and internet lurkers.
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To his credit, Astley took the meme in good humor.
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"This is going to become a bad meme," he said.
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Ever since, Gendry has become a meme among the fandom.
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The lifespan of an internet meme is a precarious thing.
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Hopefully this meme will continue for many years to come.
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Sometimes it takes a hilarious meme to mend a country.
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The alien on #DoctorWho tonight was essentially a meme pic.twitter.
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He, like Jaylez, was just trying to enjoy the meme.
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" Trump Jr. captioned the meme "It's funny cuz it's true!!!
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A meme made by Mexican digital marketing firm Victory Lab.
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It's cute, weird, and well paced for a visual meme.
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"This is going to become a bad meme," Todd replied.
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Stripped of Garner's oeuvre, the meme isn't that applicable, unfortunately.
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This is the kind of line that becomes a meme.
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This boredom has inevitably turned into joke and meme creation.
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Because but first, coffee is a meme for a reason.
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Facebook meme groups are the lifeblood of modern college culture.
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Maybe we can meme the wholesome stuff into reality, too.
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No, we don't process our feelings, we meme about them.
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There's also the confessional nature of this kind of meme.
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We are in the golden age of Facebook meme groups.
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Remember the "flower crown meme" from way back in 2011?
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They "naturally" expected the other person to understand the meme.
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And thus is the lifecycle of a meme in 28.
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Now onto one of the biggest meme queens of 263095.
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KS: It is fascinating that little meme that goes back.
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Listen to "Minds Behind The Meme: Woke Charlotte" on Spotify.
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Listen to "Mind Behind The Meme: Quinta Brunson" on Spotify.
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What is the best meme you've harnessed for safety messaging?
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Has the meme economy driven our nation's children to stupidity?
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And, she absolutely slayed every other version of the meme.
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Consider this meme: Name one thing in this photo pic.twitter.
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Chaim: I never understood the whole "justice for Barb" meme.
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Follow VICE's resident beleaguered meme correspondent Peter Slattery on Twitter.
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For men, meme clothing is an in-joke — it's loving.
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Last August, Schilling tweeted a meme comparing Muslims to Nazis.
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As excitement for JoJo mounted, the meme began to coalesce.
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Luckily, a handy guide to common acronyms became a meme.
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Are these the first casualties of the college meme wars?
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" WATCH: "Ugliest cry… it is the new Michael Jordan meme.
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It's surprising thT meme culture hasn't spawned more dedicated apps.
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With the Chopper meme, you don't need to choose. pic.twitter.
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" On the flip side, that recurring meme: "Trump that b----!
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So what was the election meme that finally broke you?
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Nice to see you back in the meme circuit again.
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The meme group and DJ Khaled have really united us.
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You may meme this if you would like, internets. pic.twitter.
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The song has morphed into a meme for 2018, though.
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Hilton has a meme for when you're late to brunch.
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On Tuesday, the meme started popping up again on Reddit.
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In 2019, meme creators are abandoning the typical resolution for
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So it only makes sense to meme them all together.
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A couple's innocent selfie is turning into a devilish meme.
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Its flagship app, available in Taiwan now, is called MeMe.
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The "Arthur's Fist" meme is a glorious example of this.
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According to one internet meme, she's about 7 feet tall.
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And he's definitely loving his newfound status as a meme.
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Since then, the two panels have become a popular meme.
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What sort of money is made off of a meme?
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Whether or not you meme it is up to you.
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Damn, Daniel, the life cycle of a meme sped up
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"This is going to be a bad meme," he said.
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However, most of the Harambe tributes are coming via meme.
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Not even a Crying Brady meme for crying out loud.
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Following its premiere, it reached peak meme status almost immediately.
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One of the internet's earliest meme pioneers is no more.
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The meme is not likely to disappear any time soon.
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Cover: Pepe the Frog is a common white supremacist meme.
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And people used the meme to troll Justice's own tweets.
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The password to the dump is a goddamned 4chan meme.
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Someone even called it the Convention's own Crying Jordan meme.
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Interest in the meme has been spiking again all spring.
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In today's world, any one meme has lots of competition.
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What causes one meme to replicate more successfully than another?
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Maybe. But that would probably only lead to another meme.
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These Celebrities The Story Behind The Meme: Overly Attached Girlfriend
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Real life, while definitely dank, is not a dank meme.
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The meme Kardashian posted has been causing quite the stir.
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The meme first started before the movie was even released.
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They're like miniature niche Facebook meme groups, but only temporary.
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Facebook Bill is the first big social media meme 2016.
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Perhaps the legacy of a meme it has never met.
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When times get tough, at least you can still meme.
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My mom made this meme don't let her down pic.twitter.
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To anyone who shares a Spongebob meme that isn't Viacom?
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It is practically a meme among drivers at this point.
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This meme is best done with a group of friends.
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In fact, Twitter is now a veritable RompHim meme paradise.
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The impossibility of understanding Friston had become an online meme.
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I know this because I helped spread the avocado meme.
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She's been kinda getting the meme treatment ... no arguing that.
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The potential for Photoshop battles and meme creation is endless.
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Some just lacked the staying power of a quality meme.
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Now, remember the human meme known as LeBron James Kid?
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Johnny has made a recent comeback as a killer meme.
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None of Jenner's children have reacted to the meme yet.
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Have you considered quitting your job to start a meme?
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A meme is a much more general concept than that.
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Rock tweeted a meme of Gomez from her Revival tour.
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"Why am I sticky?" is a meme in the making.
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There's no material barrier to creating and posting a meme.
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What happens to a meme, really, in its middle age?
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This isn't the first time AirPods have been meme fodder.
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No meme has ever been denounced by a presidential candidate.
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Kevin is the subject of a meme called "Lonely Kevin."
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You never really know how people are sharing a meme.
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School photos, in addition to a meme, are a scam.
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It's been reworked so often that it's acquired meme status.
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A while back, a friend shared a meme in Finnish.
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I am retiring the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" meme on Jan.
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Drake is a master of knowing how to meme himself.
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All and all she's taking being a meme in jest.
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Its downfall demonstrates the new life cycle of a meme.
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Living meme Taylor Swift has a documentary heading to Sundance.
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Meanwhile, Furie's still not sure if he's saying "meme" right.
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The phrase became a rallying cry and eventually a meme.
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"Do it for the meme!" someone yells from the back.
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When the boy fell asleep, he became a meme sensation.
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"Going private" is a known growth hack among meme pages.
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A meme strategy is not necessarily new to presidential politics.
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And thus, a new meme has been bornhub – er, born.
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Do not use this meme; it is already too late.
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The meme is about "positivity and celebrates achievement," she added.
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D'Amelio's "Renegade" dance is so popular, it's become a meme.
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Well, Trump tweeted a Nickelback meme earlier this month. Remember?
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Then, "ok boomer" is more than just a dismissive meme.
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EST dbrand responded to my request with the following meme.
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More than Baby Groot, Baby Yoda lives in meme form.
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But to stay a meme is a much harder feat.
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Sonic was a meme in 22018, and he was horrifying.
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You love to see it ("it" being a good meme).
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Rubio had been demoted to a meme: a talking machine.
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That is, until the "VSCO girl" meme craze of 2019.
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But the meme turned from playful to harmful in March.
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Netflix tweaked the meme to encourage other companies to respond.
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"You guys can't even fact check a meme," Trump tweeted.
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It ain't about the meme, it's about the bigger picture.
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That's the concept of a meme, it can be manipulated.
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"I think meme magic is going global," Ferréol told me.
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Earlier this week, the popular early internet meme machine YTMND.
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Lest we all turn into a viral photo or meme.
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People have said the smiley [emoticon] was the first meme.
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What do you think is the best meme right now?
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Some of her other moves also have their meme moments.
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Polygon called the meme problematic, which is putting it mildly.
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Oh okay, there was some other alligator meme as well.
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Many criticized the meme as both offensive and factually inaccurate.
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Each episode will tackle a different facet of the meme world and the mark they leave on our culture: from uncovering the story behind the "Woke Charlotte" meme to viewing memes as street art.
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Politicians like Pelosi, who became a meme during the last State of the Union address for her pointed clapping, have a lot of clout and publicity to gain from keeping their meme streaks going.
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And one thing that happens on the internet is that when a joke has been made enough times it becomes a meme, and simply repeating the meme becomes a way of making a joke.
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If you were the kind of person wanting to use the Harambe meme as an excuse to be offensive and juvenile in the name of whimsical fun, then the Harambe meme was all yours.
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Each sponsored post appears to be a DM conversation between the candidate himself and the meme account in question, with Bloomberg's messages petitioning the account to make him go viral with a funny meme.
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Even beyond specific subreddit rules, there's a perpetual push within the surreal meme community to keep the memes as surreal as possible, imposing a divide between purists and the rest of the meme economy.
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By taking the image and applying the term "current mood" — a common meme across social media platforms — Perry took what for some is a holy image and made it into a "current mood" meme.
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And so I wondered if the editorial board at Meme Insider—a Reddit magazine that publishes some of the most thoughtful writing about the memes—had ever pondered the subject of ethical meme sourcing.
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With the internet's adult meme-makers taking the meme in directions like this one, a new wrinkle has emerged in the form of a massive copyright crackdown by the video's creator, Billion Surprise Toys.
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Even though the "meme magic" narrative has been grossly oversold, it's worth considering just how seriously the right takes its shitposting, and how impotent the left's attempts to engage in meme warfare have been.
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Chang had a very specific reason to take issue with Adams's comment: Pepe the Frog, a right-wing meme that has come to represent the worst of this election cycle — a meme Adams fully supports.
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The pop culture gods have been generous, too, bestowing upon us characters to love, music videos to gawk at, and moments to meme-ify — most recently, A Star is Born has gotten the meme treatment.
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Similarly, Beyoncé and Jay-Z's "APESHIT" sparked a meme and a challenge, and while it doesn't have a meme per say, Ella Mai's "Boo'd Up" has gained traction on social media in its own right.
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One of the first uses of the internet meme idea arose in 1994, when Mike Godwin, an American attorney and internet law expert, used the word "meme" to characterize the rapid spread of ideas online.
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I first heard about the proposal through the meme page, and when both a protest and a counter-protest broke out outside the Student Government meeting, the meme page was first to highlight the event.
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A quick search online reveals a simple graphic meme that purportedly allows users to choose "your new cat name" and then post the results, along with the meme itself, on their own social media feed.
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The meme has its origins in Timberlake's misheard line from "It's Gonna Be Me." Someone simply exchanged the "me" for "May" and we now have a viral meme dedicated to welcoming the month of May.
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Insights into how popular with teens is Chinese video music app TikTok and meme sharing led Facebook to launch a clone called Lasso and begin developing a meme-browsing feature called LOL, TechCrunch first reported.
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"The concept of 'internet/meme culture' has become so diluted, and in many cases, so hollowed out and filled with Nazis, that it's hard to know what 'meme/internet culture' even means anymore," Phillips said.
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But even before Billboard stepped in, Lil Nas X had found fans through his popular meme-filled Twitter presence and a fast-growing TikTok meme dubbed the "Yee Haw Challenge" that centered on the song.
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Turns out the image is from a Guy Fieri-inspired Facebook meme page called Guy Fieri's Post-Ironic Meme Vault, which is so fantastic it almost makes up for the fact that the costume's fake.
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Past Sanders meme efforts have generated controversy, but it's all a net positive for his campaign, based on the Trump playbookHaving a lot of meme power behind him doesn't guarantee Sanders any sort of win.
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Over the last few months an astounding number of words have been written trying to understand the role "meme magic" and Donald Trump's meme army played in the 2016 election and our national political discourse.
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Early viral images like the Dancing Baby and meme-ish GIF-based websites like YTMND (You're the Man Now, Dawg, a reference to a famous early meme) laid the groundwork for the later GIF-splosion.
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Brammer professed his admiration for queer Babadook in February (around the same time Broderick noticed the meme taking shape): good morning the Babadook is openly gay But the meme really started breaking out this spring.
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Know Your Meme traces the meme back to late 2014, and since then it caught on less as a message than as a format, with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr accounts dedicated to starter packs.
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The first famous "Bend the knee" was the prank call meme.
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TL;DR: Fun and raunchy games from What Do You Meme?
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Your crush when you show her your huge meme collection pic.twitter.
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People like to make memes, make another meme out of this.
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Slenderman is a figure created in a meme, of all things.
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The scene spawned the one of the best meme formats ever.
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The jokes were part of a meme using the hashtag #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown.
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Nobody wants to see the meme because they already saw it.
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And it could just be the first legendary meme of 2017.
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There was one Very Good meme in the bunch, seen below.
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Cyrus tweeted a pretty hilarious and definitely NSFW meme at Hemsworth.
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Donald Trump was the first meme to ever be elected president.
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It led to a Star Is Born/Lady Gaga meme, obviously.
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In better news, a beautifully meaningless meme is on the rise.
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The distracted boyfriend meme definitely appears to belong to the latter.
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Miley Cyrus is the latest celeb to share an egg meme.
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Man your battlestations, fellow meme warriors!" goes one Reddit post. "Centipedes!
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In late March, Reddit declared the American Chopper argument meme dead.
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Rating: 4/5 This one's like the meme conversation from before.
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Repurpose an image for a meme and suddenly you're violating copyright.
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Kirk mostly tweets meme-ified videos of himself supposedly owning liberals.
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But before he was a meme, Jordan was a basketball player.
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Someone please give this man a lifetime meme achievement award ASAP.
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Prince Harry and Usain Bolt "bolting" in 2012 started the meme.
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Exactly, that's a really good example of an actual racist meme.
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Grumpy Cat quickly became a meme, and was thrust into stardom.
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But that's precisely what the George Soros meme is all about.
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The offending content was the inclusion of the Distracted Boyfriend meme.
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AirPods — unlike the iPhone, unlike the MacBook — are indisputably a meme.
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"I want this to be more than a thought-provoking meme."
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The "Harlem Shake" was a wildly popular meme at the time.
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He also posted a meme of Floyd in the blackface sweater.
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Perhaps I could "pivot" and embrace a new meme in 2016.
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However those in Meme 2020 have a significantly larger audience base.
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Know Your Meme chronicles and makes order out of that chaos.
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According to Billboard, the meme appeared on her verified Facebook account.
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The meme-reliant trolls of the world are a unique bunch.
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On Tuesday night, J.K. Rowling shared the following meme on Twitter.
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But this meme might make them a little less nerve wracking.
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Or, if you're Joe, just text him your current favorite meme.
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The idea for the movie came from a well-known meme.
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No, it's Brexit man, vote leave's best and only living meme.
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He's been intriguing the internet lately with his meme-influenced kit.
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Twitter has channeled its carb-loaded rage into a new meme.
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There's a whole sub-meme of other songs with the lizards.Watch.
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Constantly ranking things to show people, what's the most popular meme?
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But just like a biome, a meme only benefits from biodiversity.
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"Hopefully, this will be the last meme you post," implored another.
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Young Busco, who originated the "What are those?" meme, has died.
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This meme is completely inaccurate at best, and dangerous at worst.
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The meme was intended to reference Trump reimposing sanctions on Iran.
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Once a meme has been approved, it needs to be categorized.
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Different groups define the "peak" of a meme by different standards.
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An uncle wants someone to explain a Facebook meme this Thanksgiving?
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We're officially on the tail end of the Smash Mouth meme.
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But reaction to a new TikTok meme does the complete opposite.
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Unlike Furie, Jenkins hasn't tried to fight the meme from spreading.
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And so was born the Ovechkin Dances to [X Song] meme.
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Although this mockery is heavily censored, the occasional meme slips through.
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The meme of the moment is here and it's pretty creepy.
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Relax. One thing you don't want to become is a meme.
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The president retweeted a violent pro-Trump Reddit meme about CNN.
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This belief is echoed within the split meme complaints found online.
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"You have already left kudos here" is a lowkey internet meme.
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Is it time for a new "I don't know her" meme?
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"I said 'hey, is Nick Young the meme guy,'" Lim remembers.
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But obscurity implies that a meme exists within a select community.
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"Conscious uncoupling" has become something of a snarky pop culture meme.
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Elizabeth Warren has mastered the art of delivering meme-worthy moments.
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It's the meme-iest moment of the 29 Olympics so far.
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The apparent winner for this year is the "distracted boyfriend" meme.
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There's a reason his intro scene has already become a meme.
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Another meme joked about throwing migrant children over Trump's mythologized wall.
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ATTENTION, INTERNET: Joe Biden has chosen his favorite Obama bromance meme.
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On the surface, the meme is shocking and in poor taste.
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This meme about Brown is an exercise in sincerity versus absurdity.
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We all got the text* so we all get the meme.
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Even after many thought its moment had passed, the meme persisted.
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There is actually something about the meme that's a little gross.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday tweeted a meme mocking Democratic Sen.
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But what's the secret formula that makes SpongeBob so meme-able?
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And what's the best way to counteract a meme about yourself?
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At this stage the dad's reaction is rapidly entering meme territory.
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Yet another meme has opened a new chapter in its existence.
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Is this the beginning of meme culture's expansion to the runway?
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However, this meme omits the full picture that the EPA presented.
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Today, Meredith has been revived as a meme on the internet.
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The Sad Dawson meme was being shared more than Distracted Boyfriend.
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Others counter that the meme is about mocking the slogan itself.
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We've also had movies based on basically every internet meme imaginable.
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Unlike the gorilla himself, the Harambe meme simply will not die.
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I find it to be an extremely useful meme, with caveats.
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Thankfully there's a meme that sums up the self-awareness perfectly.
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"She put you in the friend zone," one chilling meme begins.
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Spent about 22 hours stitching this feminist art meme 😂 pic.twitter.
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Netflix on instagram is a meme account I tell ya pic.twitter.
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A meme of two angry men recently stampeded across the internet.
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Unfortunately, the meme stops being funny when it escalates to harassment.
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I meme, I play Fortnite, I procrastinate to do my homework.
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Only when the meme happened, it became a much bigger thing.
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Others, like Big Sean, probably just spawned another meme of themselves.
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Imagine a world where we stopped turning everything into a meme.
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How does your life change after you've become a racist meme?
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Or it could mean giving the internet something solid to meme.
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Until then, this meme is going in the hall of fame.
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CLAYTON: What's the inside jokes, what's the last meme she sent?
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"This Is Fine" is unique as a meme for two reasons.
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This rendition of the "Big Enough" meme may never be topped.
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For our more viral meme costumes the turnaround is very quick.
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And then it became a meme, and I was pretty shocked.
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When did you start getting interested in meme culture and virality?
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Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash has over 440,000 members on Facebook.
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The YTMND Meme ebaum took that started the whole war pic.twitter.
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Or, you know, Ryan Murphy could take inspiration from the meme.
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Sometime around 2015, a hilarious meme caught the attention of Twitter.
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My intent wasn't to claim that the meme is inherently dangerous.
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Then, a Twitter meme campaign by the Cosby team went awry.
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Others, like the "Thanks, I hate it" meme, can live eternally.
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If that is a meme... it's a metaphor for life really.
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A word for when a good meme gets a second chance.
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She has embraced the "I have a plan for that" meme.
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The meme had the structural depth of a knock-knock joke.
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But once you acknowledge this meme, unfortunately, it stops being dank.
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Capital One's chat bot is not about casual, meme-filled conversation.
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Naturally, social media captured the instantly meme-able and memorable moment.
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The meme is pretty adaptable, which gives it more staying power.
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This idea is expressed through an expanding brain meme I made.
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Even Cinnabon itself has gotten in on the meme-sharing fun.
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The hot dog quickly became a meme online across social media.
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It's quite a high-level meme made by an internet prosumer.
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And it wasn't long before the headline was entering meme territory.
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"Ambien made me racist" had already entered meme territory. (Chanting)WE!
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The "Damn Daniel" meme has already inspired a handful of copycats.
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Now that its original meaning is obscured, the meme is innocuous.
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We'll all be putting this meme on our collective internet fridge.
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It's the opposite of an inspirational meme, and yet, more inspiring.
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Meme pages give prospective students an honest understanding of campus life.
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"Cool but why," one asked in response to the Queen meme.
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At that point, the meme was more than eight years old.
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Facebook quietly released a meme-creation app called Whale last week.
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If Neil Gorsuch gets confirmed, will he also become a meme?
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Because if you don't meme about it, did it really happen?
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It was a borderless meme, ready to travel across cultures and
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Any meme made from "This Is America" misses its point entirely.
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The other side of the ball is much more meme-heavy.
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MUNCHIES got down to the bottom of the meme-maker's motives.
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But at night, I guess I'm an incognito pamplemousse meme guy.
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Phil is always ready for a good meme but come on.
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Oh, and in the process, he created a pro-Clinton meme.
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I call it "the men in meetings meme" and it sucks.
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But it's on the third point that this meme really shines.
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Other "meme producers" have crafted tracks with a similar comedic intent.
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The final response, a meme, was simpler but maybe more incisive.
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Last night's Met Gala felt a bit like the Meme Gala.
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This is the time to introduce you to an evergreen meme.
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Friedman, the meme goes, endangers peace and is a vile guy.
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This year, meme culture has outgrown its longstanding, left-leaning edge.
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ASMR became a huge meme, and it boosted almost everyone's channels.
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The animal becomes a meme, a product, a unit of sale.
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There's this whole meme that he's going to be King Trump.
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For Lil Nas, a former meme maker, this is by design.
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And maybe it was the fact that it was a meme.
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And how many officers came by that meme and shared it?
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"You have already left kudos here" is a lowkey internet meme.
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Her plans are so voluminous that they've become their own meme.
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A meme posted this week to the Queer Exchange MPLS-St.
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Do you think the meme is true to what you meant?
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As you know, the Russian troll factories have professional meme farms.
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As you know, the Russian troll factories have professional meme farms.
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Could the basic act of hand-washing itself be a meme?
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Her struggles with weight were, at this point, a cultural meme.
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Dolly Parton has given rise to a new viral meme challenge.
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As his meme accounts grew in popularity, so did his status.
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"My meme account has definitely made me more independent," Rowan said.
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This is a gift for meme lovers and proud anarchists alike.
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If you're still confused, we explained the meme more fully here.
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But the meme posted by Stone suggested a conspiracy was afoot.
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How about when older people use it without understanding the meme?
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Or maybe it's when the meme lands someone a book deal?
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A pissed-off baby boomer looking for revenge over the meme?
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Unfortunately, the meme died once Jenner tried to trademark the phrase.
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"This meme content, people will get bored with it," Bern said.
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The "I don't know her" meme was due for an update.
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Tiny Trumps have become a classic meme during the Trump Administration.
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Turn this image into a meme based on your book. 22015.
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Years ago, the birth of a meme was cause for celebration.
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Then I saw the meme that made the rounds on Monday.
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Mick Purzycki is the lead strategist of the Meme 2020 project.
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More recently, some of Instagram's most popular meme accounts were targeted.
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The meme page grew beyond what we ever could have imagined.
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The meme was then posted on the Democratic Governors' Association's thread.
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Her delivery method varies as she utilizes many different meme formats.
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Some used the meme to pay respects to their personal heroes.
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This meme shows exactly what people want when they buy cars.
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Buckley has spoken a bit about the meme over the years.
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Gökçe later turned his meme-dom into a chain of restaurants.
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"I was in a meme and I had a straight face."
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But in internet lore, she'll find new life as a meme.
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You become a meme, and people want you to be that.
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So naturally, they turned "ED SHEERAN GOT HOT" into a meme.
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Twitter's epigrammatic styles change rapidly; grammar itself is a meme there.
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Please milk this meme before it becomes stale by Wednesday pic.twitter.
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The meme that Woods posted in July said #LetWomenDecide and #NoMenMidterm.
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So how would you describe what a meme is in words?
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Even if the meme weren't racist, it would still be obnoxious.
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After all, a meme is just a joke in image format.
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Message delivered: Do not start a meme war with Carrie Underwood.
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But Ferrari's growth rates, if any, shed doubt on that meme.
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The next text is a meme you don't understand at all.
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The debate would be a major event in the meme war.
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In her wake, other Hitler/Swift meme accounts have popped up.
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"Africa" is so popular on the web it's practically a meme.
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What does the everyday life of a meme artist look like?
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Axl Rose used DMCA to stop an unflattering meme about himself.
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LG: What do you type in, you type in Trump Meme?
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Some used it to lament the end of summer: Others used it to express their shock that the we're only halfway to the weekend: And some couldn't believe where the meme came from: According to a contribution to Know Your Meme, the meme first began to circulate on Tumblr in the form of GIFs and video clips, and spread to Twitter shortly after.
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Cheese says the most valuable thing about the Know Your Meme project in its early days was that even as blogs like Urlesque and The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed became interested in meme culture, they didn't have the same passion for tracing the way they move, what makes someone pull a meme out of one community and post it in another.
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Here's an example of the meme in its originally intended spirit, courtesy of perennial meme-maker High School Musical 2: But this meme has also gone beyond song lyrics to include Shakespearean monologues, rap verses, and really great lines from movies and television — for instance: Best way I've seen so far to make sure you wash your hands for long enough!
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In 2014, according to Know Your Meme, Tumblr users began tracking the "meme of the month," which basically meant figuring out which meme from that past month most defined the culture on that site Although Tumblr's influence on the broader Internet culture has since waned, the idea that we are all experiencing "online" together has not, even if that's not entirely true.
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Of course, because this video of David Cameron exists as a meme, it's now entered the league of the ultra-meme wherein it's been reshaped and reshifted like putty by the willing hands of the Internet.
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But "Is it a pigeon?" and its cousins may be serving as a counter to the American Chopper meme because they allow the meme creator to frame an issue completely through the static image they're presenting.
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Johnny Johnny Yes Papa explained by the internet's best meme creators Sometimes a meme comes along at the perfect moment, and as soon as you see it, you know why it has captured the internet's imagination.
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Vine burst into the meme world at a time when the dominant language was rage comics and when the dominant way of generating new memes and meme formats was on a computer or a desktop website.
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The "eating Tide Pods" meme continues to be one of the more baffling parts of 2018 — which is impressive since we're just four weeks into the year — but the ramifications of the meme continue to rise.
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A Senator Actually Referenced The "This Is Fine" Meme In His Closing Statements About Russian Interference Someday, it will not be news when a sitting US senator references a popular meme in discussing the day's events.
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So at some point, this meme transitioned from in-joke to something much less palatable—the exact kind of racist meme one might want to avoid if they were, say, tweeting from a major brand account.
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The retailer debuted a shredded, denim patchwork miniskirt on their site recently that features the Pepe the Frog meme, a product of the Internet's bountiful meme culture that started out as humorous, but quickly turned sour.
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The "We live in a society" meme poked fun at art trying to be too deep and highlighted underrated media, but at the end of the day it's just people categorizing themselves in meme format again.
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The Harry Potter star, who is currently promoting his Broadway run in The Lifespan of a Fact, was a damn good sport on The Tonight Show on Wednesday, offering up genuine enthusiasm for meme after meme.
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The Bird Box Challenge wallowed somewhere in between being not-a-meme and a meme-in-embryonic-state earlier this month when Netflix tweeted a warning to its users not to engage in this dangerous activity.
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Many of Instagram's socialist meme pages share a DIY aesthetic that subverts and satirizes the hegemony of mega meme culture and its typical aesthetic format—black text on a white background above a photo or tweet.
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The internet being the internet, a few ironic versions of the meme cropped up too, including a whole bunch about a mobile game called Mafia City, whose infamously shitty ads are an entire meme unto themselves.
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The video game's poor English translation has fed the internet meme machine for decades with the nonsensical phrase "All your base are belong to us" since "at least" 1998, according to online compendium Know Your Meme.
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According to Lantagne, many lawyers would be very hesitant to say that someone sharing a meme violates copyright law—it would undo meme culture and shut down social media sharing and generally be bad for expression.
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The comment section quickly morphed into the same text copy and pasted over and over again, proving that, even if deprived of the opportunity to meme, the YouTube community will invent its own way to meme.
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It's a "Joker" meme, of course, in which "All the Americans, Australians, and Europeans trying to post the 1st Meme of the Decade" are hit by a car driven by u/Dr_K07, a resident of Samoa.
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Jackson Weimer, a writer for Meme Insider who has also created several successful Instagram meme pages, said he thinks the union is a "good idea" and a necessary way to get Instagram to finally take memers seriously.
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In fact, this meme has been making the rounds for years, in various iterations — but it's surfaced over the past month or so in a specific form, as part of a specific contemporary trend in meme-making.
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The face is that good, and the meme is that good, and that is why the Baffled Nick Young Meme achieved sufficient escape velocity to break out of NBA Twitter and become reliable internet shorthand for confusion.
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The Distracted Boyfriend meme exploded in part because it provided a simple blueprint for expressing any sort of outrage around hierarchical priorities; if you've ever liked something more than something else, it was a meme for you.
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In September 2017, in response to that super viral Distracted Boyfriend meme, Chen shared the following cartoon on social media: When I saw that "guy checking the other girl" meme, I knew I had to draw this.
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Read: We Asked a 'Meme Scientist' What Makes a Meme Go Viral Since Friday, Asheville, North Carolina, has been terrorized by bogus $100 parking tickets getting stuck under car wipers across town, a local ABC affiliate reports.
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The role is in part an attempt to placate one of the platform's most vibrant communities: According to a statistic provided by Instagram, meme content gets shared seven times more than non-meme content on the app.
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Supporters picked up the thread, making a popular meme of going green.
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Once you get underneath its meme-filled homepage, Reddit becomes incredibly expansive.
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Let's all celebrate the birth of a brand new meme, Spicy Homer.
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But the league has never seen a meme as cute as this.
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It was, once again, a perfectly meme-able moment from the star.
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Where does the meme end, I kept wondering, and the person begin?
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He also has the dubious honor of becoming a massive internet meme.
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This meme allegedly began many online absurdisms do: on the website 21989chan.
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Please witness the beginning of a brand-new meme dubbed Frog Nephew.
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There's now a meme going around saying it was impossible to fix.
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Now, in 2018, the meme shows absolutely no sign of slowing down.
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We'd just like to remind you that this is a meme war.
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So is this meme posted by direct-to-consumer health startup Hers.
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The "Keanu walking to music" meme is really hard to beat, though.
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The "this folder is empty" meme is here to take over Twitter.
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However, the "Woke Charlotte" of the meme does not stand for that.
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Harambe's death caused an uproar online, with #RIPHarambe becoming a popular meme.
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"Must NOT become a meme," writes Amber on her pre-wedding list.
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It is every meme you've ever hated or celebrity you've found pointless.
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His campaign is the closest thing 2020 has to a living meme.
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This, viewers, is the noble "meme": always present but hard to catch.
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But whatever happened here, at least it gave us a new meme.
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There's no meme I haven't seen, or Tastemade video I haven't watched.
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According to the meme, the problem isn't that insulin is too expensive.
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Not even a "lol good 1" response to your Bernie Sanders meme.
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"2015 memes" have been popping up lately on niche meme Instagram accounts.
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The internet has a new viral meme, all thanks to gay porn.
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The front page, the Daily News has realized, is the ideal meme.
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And used it as an 'O' to create Owen Wilson's famous meme.
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No, sorry, you aren't getting through this list without a Trump meme.
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Writer Jill Gutowitz, an active participant in the RWTM meme, thinks so.
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People are very impressed that this was the first meme she's made.
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Instead, she took a moment to celebrate the birth of a meme.
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But the left finally has a way to take back meme culture.
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Every political moment is now a potential meme—and politicians know it.
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Here is your new bust-a-move meme, Dancing Winnie The Pooh.
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It appears as if eatmyaesthetics just rehashed an old internet meme. Â
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Sunblock. 13. If the eclipse were a meme, what would it be?
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It's the "Black Panther spoiler but I don't give you context" meme.
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It became a quickly became a meme and a pop culture phenomenon.
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How quickly this entire meme was co-opted to mock Leslie Jones.
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On Facebook, Bahnhof used the meme in a post about recruiting talent.
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Freshman Congresswoman and meme queen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is headed to Netflix.
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It's already a meme and you don't want to be left out.
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Now Nickelodeon is working on the second wave of SpongeBob meme toys.
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It's called the "Queer Eye but" meme, and it gets weirdly specific.
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The meme is the handiwork of a 19-year-old named Giovanni.
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Now, as things do, the tip/meme made its way to Twitter.
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As a result, TikTok hosts its own unique meme formats and challenges.
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Below, for example, is one of the earliest iterations of the meme.
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Clapback: Zendaya shut down a Twitter user for a repulsive rape meme.
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The meme seems to have originated with a Tweet from Daniel Alexander.
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However, VSCO the company didn't need a meme to boost its business.
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And after tweeted hints, meme review has arrived via YouTube star PewDiePie.
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The Internet lost a little piece of meme history over the weekend.
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But we care a lot less, because those expressions aren't meme-able.
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It's remixable because it's a meme—that's one of a memes traits.
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Honestly, it's almost too good not to be immortalized in meme form.
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Now, the whole meaning of the meme itself is being commented on.
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Everyone has that one meme that leaves them belly laughing for hours.
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In an instant, everyone's favourite World Cup meme had taken a turn.
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Old iterations of the floppy disk meme are not hard to find.
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It is still unclear how the meme came to the President's attention.
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Like jokes, dreams, and teen culture, it's uncool to explain a meme.
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It's TikTok's split screen that's directly influenced the latest Overwatch meme iteration.
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What has been your favorite meme to come out of the show?
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"This isn't a costume," a 'grammer dressed up as the meme joked.
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Behold the magic, and celebrate the joys of the cybergoth dancing meme.
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Personally, my vote goes to the guy from the "distracted boyfriend" meme.
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These jokes are separate from the meme-based web humor that pervades.
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The most popular Tumblr version of the meme has over 66,000 notes.
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He's basically one Facebook meme away from launching World War III.[Politico]
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This time, she decided to make the meme herself: Behold, the egg.
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"It was the ugliest cry … the new Michael Jordan meme," he joked.
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It's just too easy to bully the Naruto character with this meme.
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This isn't the only meme-worthy moment Meghan has incited this week.
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Or, you know, maybe we're just always here for good meme content.
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There's nothing I love more than the return of a good meme.
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Alternative facts, troll farms, meme warfare—he would be spoiled for material.
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The meme has already caught the eyes of the Stranger Things cast.
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Well, forget all those people, because there's a new meme in town.
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And he's clearly not a one-meme wonder... What tactic is this?
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Apple has banned the alt-right's favorite meme from its App Store.
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So much meme nonsense accumulated that the page was rendered completely useless.
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One viral meme shows a blindfolded family paddling away in their bathtub.
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So does this mean the Harambe meme is in play once more?
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And, yes, this is what gave birth to her iconic "tragic" meme.
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GUTFELD: Twenty three meme, he found that he was from a table.
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Will we get another Teigen face to meme for all of eternity?
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That inescapable "#292YearChallenge" on social media is just a harmless meme, right?
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Best time to get in on a meme as a brand 13.
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Many a meme format has proven useful for sharing one's (bad) opinions.
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The internet continues the endless cycling of meme-ing President Donald Trump.
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Technically, Tebele's statement came after the meme was allegedly stolen from Coker.
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It didn't take long for the latest Beyoncé meme to go south.
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YouTube star PewDiePie apologized for posting a controversial meme earlier this week.
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That's an ethnocentric meme that perpetuates the problems of "otherness" and invisibility.
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Woman are taking back their country, one dumb meme at a time.
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We would call the line "On Fleek," but she's the meme professional.
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It's increasingly possible that the meme of Herzog is surpassing the man.
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The world witnessed the birth of a brand new meme on Sunday.
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The thesis of this meme is that all hateration stems from jealousy.
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A bust of Albert Einstein is remodeled as a "cat breading" meme.
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Gwyneth Paltrow has become a meme, and she's totally okay with it!
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Sometimes, too, Florida is more the Florida Man meme than palliative getaway.
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Sarah Jessica Parker shared the meme on her own Instagram, Us reports.
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Even more naturally, they more or less immediately became a massive meme.
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Around 2015, a new kind of meme began to proliferate on Twitter.
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But the design was quickly turned into a meme, for obvious reasons.
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Populist, radical-ish candidates like Sanders and Trump dominated the meme race.
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Until then, just sit back and enjoy this Furby meme he posted.
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King has taken some heat since the meme appeared on his page.
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And how great does Keanu Reeves look as a pro-choice meme?
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The main character of that Jerry Seinfeld movie that became a meme?
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This meme is perfect because it can mean a billion different things.
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And that's basically the premise of the best new meme on Twitter.
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He's extremely cute and floofy, and his posts are bizarrely meme-like.
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Two more by Lexus Perez prove that she's the meme makeup queen.
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A picture of Musk taking a hit marijuana quickly became a meme.
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President Trump retweeted a meme this morning of him "eclipsing" Barack Obama.
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The meme was traced back to a white supremacist message board. 2.
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Posting a meme of Grumpy Cat (RIP) can instantly relay your disdain.
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Because this meme calls out everything and anything problematic on the internet.
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That's why the return of 2014's best meme is so odd.
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There's something about the commodification of a meme that suffocates its joyfulness.
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Which means I must remember the brilliant meme that game inspired: Geddan.
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Geddan, my favorite meme, has been all but erased from the internet.
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"Send your dankest Mac meme or Mac related gif" read the ad.
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But DiSanto's not the first official to draw condemnation over the meme.
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It has become a shitty meme rather than a producer's side-project.
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Even internet queen Chrissy Teigen needs help with a meme or two.
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Since Chrissy Teigen is a meme herself, you know she means business.
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This meme was not created by me or any of our writers.
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The true meme experts have blended Dunkirk themes with the new video.
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The tweet has inspired karaoke-like requests for the greatest meme hits.
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Now imagine describing a meme to someone who can't see it, period.
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The video of the incident was quickly transformed into an internet meme.
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It's like a handy meme-generator tacked on to a video game.
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We're not sure which category that Be Like Bill meme falls under.
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Katy Perry is embracing the meme-worthiness of her 2019 Grammys ensemble.
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So of course, it would seem — That Ariel's sidekick's already a meme.
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The event even spawned its own meme cycle and, reader, it's good.
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This comment thread and meme says it better than we ever could.
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After all, who knows when we'll have another Obama/Biden meme opportunity?
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The Dank Meme Stash admins do their best to keep it positive.
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Dank memeing isn't always easy, even for the dankest of meme makers.
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They're the meme queens of the friend group (an extremely underrated role).
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And the meme got a nice signal boost from Luke Skywalker himself.
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T-Mobile took Twitter heat for ripping off an old internet meme.
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What started as a meme is now an international movement toward reforestation.
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For students, meme pages have become the primary source for campus news.
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The Eric Andre Show is a formidable fountain of surrealist meme fodder.
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Like cat videos, something about a sardonic princess meme is simply irresistible.
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Celebrities are posting an Instagram privacy policy meme that is a hoax.
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Therefore, re-posting a viral meme won't exclude you from those terms.
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It has been shared thousands of times as the "Distracted Boyfriend" meme.
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The memo, written in Sharpie, prompted the internet to meme-ify it.
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Have you ever been tempted to just make a meme-able song?
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It is also perfect meme fodder, and the Photoshops are rolling in.
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When he tweeted the string of letters "covfefe," it became a meme.
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They shared their bewilderment in hilarious GIF and meme form on Twitter.
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" Favorite meme:"A golden retriever sitting with a chemistry set, wearing goggles.
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On Sunday, the singer posted a funny and defiant meme on Instagram.
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One of Dangerfield's high school teammates, Meme Jackson, is a Tennessee freshman.
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In its original version, the Skittles meme was about poisoned M&Ms.
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Harambe was a gorilla who inspired a meme that will never stop.
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There was a Facebook meme circulating recently that best summed this up.
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Have you seen this "To the girls who let him go" meme?
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It's sad, this procession of meme-burgers and clickbait-y garbage nachos.
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Probably a smart move: The Kim cry meme is completely necessary here.
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He is the future: a walking, living, breathing meme in the flesh.
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There's a meme I've seen on Tumblr which I find oddly haunting.
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At the height of his global infamy, he was our human meme.
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The strength of the meme is in dabbing dude's incredible facial expression.
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And not all of it is as pure as the karma meme.
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Yet this newfound devotion to the sesh represents more than a meme.
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"I feel very detached from the meme, to be honest," Morris says.
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First and foremost, the aesthetic—the dank immigrant parent meme is ugly.
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But she did this after that meme had already started to fade.
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Increased meme use could also add to polarization between the two parties.
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Other people might take the meme and go in an opposite direction.
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So what ingredients went into the making of #KennethBone as a meme?
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GIF databases, threaded tweetstorms, Twitter-based meme culture, and so much more.
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In 2019, he said, he is looking to help end the meme.
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Ten years later, another well-known skeleton meme appeared: 'Still waiting, OP'.
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But he has worked hard to promote the meme crowd as well.
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Similarly, Sanders's tweet is trying to latch on to another Twitter meme.
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The problem with the meme-ification of this particular passage, however, is
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Specifically, Bacon used his meme to promote the importance of self-quarantining.
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An Oscar meme Jennifer Garner was caught off guard at the Oscars.
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Shakira blessed us with the first meme of the Super Bowl LIV.
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Rob Kardashian is not over his younger sister's latest viral meme trend.
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You can choose to text your crush with a Michelle Tanner meme.
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The comfortable truth in Parton's meme is that people like self-deprecation.
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For the past couple of elections, meme production was dominated by Democrats.
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In person, in a photo, on a pen or in a meme?
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" Its bio was changed to, "THE #1 worst meme account on Instagram.
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Is it when all the thinkpieces about the meme start to hit?
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Either way, the meme-to-merch pipeline flows on faster and faster.
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Baby Yoda is the wholesome meme we didn't deserve, but all needed.
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The meme was applied to issues like reproductive rights and domestic abuse.
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"These types of articles is why the meme was made," another replied.
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"I'm going to have to look at another crying meme," he said.
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The cause was complications of postherpetic neuralgia, his daughter Meme Rhee said.
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He who lives by the meme, can also be wounded by it.
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RIP meme accounts — killed by Twitter, survived by Planters and its shame.
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We like to call it memesplaining; you might call it meme-ruining.
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Here's the good news: You don't have to participate in this meme.
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Want to be a meme but don't want to compromise on terror?
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My wife sent me this horoscope meme to make me feel better.
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People began to use the clip as a meme, with hilarious results.
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"Uber for X" became both a business plan template and a meme.
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Normally, a tropical storm in the Atlantic isn't fodder for meme-makers.
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Out of them all, "Bye Pumpkin" is my favorite New York meme.
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It reminds you that Florida is so much more than a meme.
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"OK, boomer," she fired back, harnessing the power of a viral meme.
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Make America great again with your meme magic, centipedes of The Donald!
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Where I'm from, all my friends consider me the resident meme god.
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Melbourne streets from pics Unfortunately, brand Twitter might have killed the meme.
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Sadly, the man who inspired the meme died in December 2019. —J.
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Nooo don't stop being a meme in 2020 you're so funny aha.
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"Here's the motherfucking tea" was another huge meme that started on TikTok.
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I started juuling because juuling is a meme, and I wanted in.
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Many people on social media interpreted it as an awkward internet meme.
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This meme of Vladimir Putin as a gay clown has been banned.
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The "Italian AOC" meme was born that day, and it's-a beautiful.
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Perhaps, like the baffled elderly couple in this meme, they're merely startled.
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Here are some of the many iterations of the meme so far:
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In your opinion, what makes a character or a scene meme-worthy?
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What's the difference between a "meme" and a piece of "viral content"?
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I wouldn't, say, use the word "meme" to describe an image macro.
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It's a vile and racist meme elevated by YouTubers such as PewDiePie.
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Vernon has posted multiple pro-Trump videos and an anti-Clinton meme.
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Remember how him bringing a lint-roller was a year-long meme?
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Infinite Meme-able Moments As impossible as it may seem, if there's one thing Beyoncé is even better at doing than singing and dancing, it's accidentally creating the most meme-able moments of the year, nay, the decade.
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Sometimes, depending on the meme, you'll have to click through to even tell that the top half is a video because it simply contains a static image throughout, indecipherable from the bottom half photo part of the meme.
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But O'Neill pointed out that the meme could make it easier for Facebook since users were creating a "clean, simple, helpfully labeled set of then-and-now photos" under the guise they were participating in an innocent meme.
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The moment Nancy Pelosi pointedly clapped at Trump's bullshit was, without question, the greatest part of the evening, and it also made for an equally strong meme: But Pelosi wasn't the only one to get the meme treatment.
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First, suspense: Now that the meme has solidified itself in meme consciousness, anyone hitting play on a bath bomb Vine understands they're not going to see an actual bath bomb, but they don't know what they will see.
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Anything that could be the basis for an evolutionary process is a meme, simply by becoming more frequent in the population, in the meme pool, in the same way the gene becomes more frequent in the gene pool.
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This group, which calls itself the "groyper army" — "groyper" being a reference to a meme of Pepe the Frog, itself a meme overtaken by the alt-right — purports to be supporting "traditional values" within conservatism, like immigration restrictionism.
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I'm sure you are familiar, but it goes like this: Meme becomes somewhat popular on Twitter or Reddit or a body-builder forum; bloggers talk about the meme because it is their job; national morning shows try to understand the meme because they've been told to start treating the internet like a real thing; local businesses participate in the meme because maybe they'll be on TV for doing so; nightly news programs drive irrational panic about the meme because this is the purpose of the nightly news; bloggers are obligated to comment further, with needlessly detailed explanation, because now the posts will get oodles of search traffic; the subculture from which the meme originally sprung splits into two factions: people willing to debase themselves by making lowest common denominator versions of the joke that will spread quickly and keep them in the spotlight, and people who will double down on encrypting the meme with in-jokes and croissant-intricate layers of irony and sarcasm that make it indecipherable to an outside world that will, nevertheless, attempt to decipher it.
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Many copycats are clearly using the meme format for self-promotion or to get in on a viral joke – which is exactly how memes normally function, making it a feature, not a bug, of the Meme 2020/Bloomberg campaign.
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But its musical appeal is nothing next to its meme appeal, and the song's spread will most likely happen through its accompanying meme, the #liluzivertchallenge, which has been a popular hashtag on Instagram for the past week or so.
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Moreover, Phillips maintains there is "absolutely no data supporting" meme magic—the idea that the "power of the meme" can be harnessed to shape politics and contributed to Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 US elections—to begin with.
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Consequently, it makes perfect sense that meme culture — which tends to reflect our collective social and political anxieties — has jumped at the chance to revive the Evil White House Christmas meme, but in a darker and more pointed fashion.
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And memers have taken the story into their own hands — in some cases with extremely dark results: In essence, it seems to be the rare meme that appeals to every kind of meme-maker and every kind of audience.
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The Fish Tube meme, and the science behind giant fish waterslides, explained Look, the "salmon cannon" meme is already a couple days old, and originated from a years-old video that was recently re-cut and promoted by Cheddar.
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The vitriolic turbulence of 2016 may indeed have transformed the beloved Pepe the Frog meme into a symbol of hate in the eyes of many, but it looks as though 2017 is already looking up for the meme-sphere.
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Correction: No, walking Bitconnect meme Carlos Matos is not calling bitcoin a scam.
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On sale for Prime Day, you'll find the original What Do You Meme?
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And now, that feeling has been encapsulated in the "don't say it" meme.
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Introducing, the "Phelps Face," also known as the best meme from Rio 2016.
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They will have a son that will be the meme to save mankind.
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The instantly iconic line from Beyoncé's "Formation" became a meme basically right away.
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You can select a Facebook header, a book cover, or a snappy meme.
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Now the "beautiful view outside my window" meme shows limitations can bolster creativity.
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A-Rod watching #JenniferLopez perform is the new "You're doing amazing sweetie" meme!
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A mockup of a "meme generator" being developed by AIQ for Texas Gov.
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That's why there is now a John Mulnaney Jokes As… Everything meme. Musicals?
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It quickly went viral on the Internet and became something of a meme.
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Joe Biden has a favorite Obama-Biden meme THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
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The new self-deprecating meme imagines a conversation between you and a therapist.
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"It's disrespectful" is a common criticism directed at the meme-makers and sharers.
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For The Grumpy Cat Lovers (RIP) The perfect meme for your grumpiest friend.
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Of course, the smooch sparked many a Spider-Man meme, Hello Giggles reports.
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What's even worse about the meme, is that it gets bigger every year.
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Ed Sheeran is dreaming of a meme Christmas with his girlfriend, Cherry Seaborn.
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Researchers attribute the high Indian death count to a very specific cultural meme.
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A great meme is like a fine wine: Eventually, they turn to vinegar.
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This one captures Shen Yun, the epic Chinese dance-show-turned-meme, perfectly.
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This is not the first time Sanders has become a widely-circulated meme.
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Sonic has played muse to countless fan fiction authors, meme farmers, DeviantArt illustrators.
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It gets weird, but what good meme isn't a little nihilistic and surreal?
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For Super Bowl XLIX, the meme was staring us all in the face.
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Those were salad days for the left shark, every meme another viral success.
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Sometimes you have to evolve with the times to make a good meme.
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She found the meme on Twitter but could not remember who posted it.
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Many now claim to be true believers in the power of meme magic.
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And somehow, one YouTuber's "crocodile tears" apology video has now become a meme.
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But what secures the top spot for this meme is its staying power.
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Other figures on YouTube have begun pushing to end the meme as well.
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"THE RIGHT SIDE WAS TOTALLY ME!" one person commented on the above meme.
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Just remember that Millhouse is not, nor will he ever be a meme.
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Then consider Meme Insider, a volunteer-run publication now in its second issue.
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It's a meme sequel, a visually dissimilar version of something we already know.
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Netflix is making a sequel to the meme-able classic A Christmas Prince.
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In good fun, his coworkers decided to Photoshop him into his own meme.
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Take a recurring meme, slap Jon Snow's face on it, and we'll laugh.
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Nevertheless, they're starting to use Instagram to indulge in some animal meme content.
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If anything, this just gives fans even more fuel for their meme fires.
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The ombudsman found that the meme was discriminatory against both men and women.
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It's so easy, in fact, that tweeting "from" random places is a meme.
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Today, it happens to be sex advice that has been turned into meme.
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