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Woman hits back at 'stigmatising' meme which says antidepressants are 'sh*t'
Writer and activist Jenni Chiu is hitting back at a meme which makes light of mental health and dismisses the help of medication for it. Sharing a photo of an image which on one half shows a forest, captioned with 'This is an antidepressant', and the ...
(Jun 3, 2016, Metro)
Anti-Semitic Trump supporters made a giant list of people to target with a racist meme
And this means more people are getting introduced to the racist memes popular in this corner of the online universe. This week, Mic wrote about (((echoes))), an anti-Semitic punctuation-based code for identifying Jewish people; a name appearing in ...
(Jun 3, 2016, Washington Post)
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So it's understandable that self-aware nostalgia has crept into Simpsons memes. A perfect example is “Simpsonwave,” a surprisingly popular and prolific genre of YouTube videos in which digitally altered clips from vintage Simpsons episodes are synced ...
(Jun 3, 2016, A.V. Club)
The Story Behind The Meme: Overly Attached Girlfriend
Laina Morris had just returned home from her part-time job at Pack 'N' Mail in Denton, Texas, when she remembered the Justin Bieber video contest she'd seen online. It was June 6, 2012. Morris had one more day to perform her own version of the song ...
(Jun 3, 2016, Refinery29)
Arts|Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won't Die
The Crying Jordan meme, which takes one of America's biggest sports stars and makes him small, indulges those impulses, but it also works on another level as a corrective to online chest-thumping. The meme's hold over online culture offers clues about ...
(Jun 3, 2016, New York Times)
How A Chinese Duck Meme Sidestepped Censorship on Anniversary of Tiananmen Square
Note: The rubber duck meme was temporarily removed by Chinese censors after it first appeared online in 2013, but reappeared the following year. Even the most subversive memes, it turns out, have limited shelf life. It's safe to say that this was the ...
(Jun 3, 2016, KQED)
It's a meme world after all
When Richard Dawkins first coined the term “meme” way back in 1976, he couldn't have imagined that 40 years later, the word would be appearing in Tinder profiles—as in, “Swipe right if you're really into memes.” Dawkins was offering a novel and ...
(Jun 5, 2016, The Kernel)
To whom do memes belong?
Whether they were searching “dat boi” or “frog on unicycle,” readers were curious about the meme, which was starting to crop up everywhere. Of course, as I've mentioned, dat boi is inexplicable by design—and I didn't try to make sense of it. The ...
(Jun 5, 2016, The Kernel)
How the internet reinvented a racist old meme to make it all about butts
One of the disturbing truths of the internet is that meme humor and virulent racism often coexist in the same place. In most cases, the racist jokes never make it out of hate sites and seedy corners of Twitter you can easily ignore, but this is the ...
(Jun 5, 2016, The Kernel)
The Meme of the Week Goes to Feminist Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling, the Internet's long-term boyfriend, spoke to the Evening Standard this week and went full Feminist Ryan Gosling in real life. “I think women are better than men,” the Nice Guys star said. “They are stronger, more evolved. You can tell ...
(Jun 5, 2016, Vogue.com)
Colorado official receives backlash from shared racist President meme
Colorado GOP Party Chairman Steve House plans to meet with Delta County Committee Chairwoman Linda Sorenson after party members complained she was taking sides in a party primary race, which is a violation of party rules. The latest criticism comes ...
(Jun 5, 2016, KRDO)
How The Internet Reached Peak Meme
2016 feels like it's already been a rich year for memes: we kicked things off with the delightfully weird “Don't talk to me or my son ever again” and then transitioned into the great (and perhaps truly timeless) unicycling Dat Boi frog. But, in sad ...
(Jun 5, 2016, Vocativ)
Crying Jordan meme - the tears flow on
NEW YORK • He won six NBA championships, is the greatest scorer ever and once netted 38 points while battling the flu. The logo of a billion-dollar sneaker brand is a silhouette of him flying through the air. But on Twitter, Michael Jordan is a loser ...
(Jun 5, 2016, The Straits Times)
Crying Michael Jordan meme just won't go away
The Crying Jordan meme, which takes one of America's biggest sports stars and makes him small, indulges those impulses, but it also works on another level as a corrective to online chest-thumping. The meme's hold over online culture offers clues about ...
(Jun 5, 2016, Charlotte Observer)
Roundup: A Takedown of the Crying Jordan Meme; Malcolm Gladwell's Podcast & Tony Kornheiser's Radio Run is Over
DeMar DeRozan's love for Toronto will be tested over the next few weeks as teams wine and dine him. [Sports Net]. A mediocre ranking of Jersey Shore towns, though Long Beach Island has to be in the Top 3. [Philly Voice]. Phil Mushnick is angry about ...
(Jun 6, 2016, The Big Lead)
Axl Rose Doesn't Want to Be a Meme
The years have not been kind to the former gods of glam rock—and particularly not to William Bruce Bailey, better known as Axl Rose. There's a minor meme, which pokes fun at the weight the once-lithe Guns N' Roses frontman has put on since his band's ...
(Jun 6, 2016, Gizmodo)
Is LeBron James the new 'Crying Jordan' meme?
When the Golden State Warriors crushed the Cleveland Cavaliers during Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday, Twitter wasted no time in hashing out a series of LeBron James memes – many of which feature the former Miami Heat player taking his talents ...
(Jun 6, 2016, Sun Sentinel)
Disney Star Skai Jackson Reacts to Being a Viral Meme
Disney star Skai Jackson has been making waves lately not only for her recent twitter exchange with rapper Azealia Banks, but also for being turned into a viral meme! The 14-year-old took the internet by storm last month when a photo of her getting ...
(Jun 6, 2016, Huffington Post)
Jenni Chiu's Response To A Stigmatizing Depression Meme Makes A Very Important Point About Mental Illness
When blogger Jenni Chiu came across a stigmatizing depression meme online recently, she couldn't not say something. Not only was the meme — which depicted an outdoors scene labeled "This is an antidepressant" above a picture of an antidepressant pill ...
(Jun 6, 2016, Bustle)
Here's The Story Behind Skai Jackson's Petty Meme
“It was like, really early there, like 6 a.m., which is really 3 a.m. LA time. So I was just like sitting down, preparing, falling asleep a little bit… I wasn't really like in tune. I didn't really know what was going on, and then that's when like the ...
(Jun 6, 2016, MTV.com)
