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Trump, Merkel and other world leaders star in new G7 Summit meme
You just can't keep US President Donald Trump out of the meme world for too long. Well, at least him and German chancellor Angela Merkel. On Friday, Merkel's social media team published the image to Instagram, where it received more than 65 000 likes ...
(Jun 11, 2018, Memeburn)
That Merkel Photo Is More Like a Meme Than a Renaissance Painting
What do you see in the now-famous photograph of Angela Merkel and Donald Trump at the G7 Summit? Perhaps you see a woman leader, in a room full of men, scolding a petty man refusing to cooperate. You might see a bold U.S. president patriotically ...
(Jun 11, 2018, The Atlantic)
Is The EU About To Ban The Meme?
Campaigners are warning that a strict interpretation of a new EU law on copyright could make memes illegal. Sky News reports that campaigners fear that policing people sharing quotes in memes would be impossible, despite the law requiring internet ...
(Jun 11, 2018, MediaPost Communications)
Did Charlie Chaplin Invent the Distracted Boyfriend Meme?
If you spend too much online, you're probably familiar with the “distracted boyfriend” meme. It shows a man checking out a woman on the street while his partner looks on in disgust. Meme makers typically put text on each of the three characters to ...
(Jun 11, 2018, Gizmodo)
Everyone used the LeBron meme to make fun of IHOP
The LeBron James screaming at J.R. Smith during Game 1 meme was already a thing. But it just took IHOP turning into the International House of Burgers (yes, really) to cement its meme legacy. When you find out @IHOb will stand for 'International House ...
(Jun 11, 2018, USA TODAY)
This is where internet memes come from
The word meme was coined by the biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, in which he suggested that ideas could replicate, evolve, and enter popular culture in a process analogous to the way genes spread. Today, a meme is ...
(Jun 11, 2018, MIT Technology Review)
Taylor Swift Dancer Apologizes After Sexual Assault Meme Sparks Outrage
Kim “Toshi” Davidson, a veteran member of Taylor Swift's touring dance team, has apologized after posting memes that made light of sexism and sexual assault on Instagram. “I would like to offer my sincerest apologies for the insensitivity of my social ...
(Jun 11, 2018, SFGate)
Video of Austin man's bad bartending goes viral, becomes meme ...
Video of Austin man's bad bartending goes viral, becomes meme ...
(Jun 11, 2018, mySanAntonio.com)
Everyone Had the Same Joke About Mean Girls About the Tony Awards
... to the classroom scene in which a visiting Santa Claus bestows holiday Candy Cane-grams upon some students (but not, unfortunately, Gretchen Wieners), internet jokesters had the perfect architecture to turn the Mean Girls loss into a Twitter-worthy ...
(Jun 11, 2018, TIME)
Mean Girls didn't win any 2018 Tony Awards, but they totally swept the meme category
It was actually the most-nominated show (along with SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical), but by the end of the night, Mean Girls the musical ended up as the Gretchen Weiners of the 2018 Tonys. However, the show's epic loss spawned the greatest meme ...
(Jun 11, 2018, HelloGiggles)
We might have Charlie Chaplin to thank for that 'distracted boyfriend' meme
Whenever a new meme goes viral on the internet, it's easy to assume the idea popped up that day. But when it comes to the "distracted boyfriend" meme, we might as well go back in time to the the Roaring Twenties and thank Charlie Chaplin. Remember the ...
(Jun 11, 2018, CNET)
Donald Trump G7 Meme of Angela Merkel Photo Becomes Highlight of the Summit
You may or may not have heard that the G7 summit took place on June 8th and 9th in Canada, and that it unwittingly sparked one of the best memes of the year. To put it as simply as possible, the G7 (Group of Seven) is a summit at which some of the ...
(Jun 11, 2018, Inverse)
This Hilarious Black Panther 'Infinity War' Meme Is Letting The People Know Exactly What 'We Don't Do Here'
Black Panther showed up in Avengers: Infinity War, and though his appearance was a bit brief, it doesn't mean his impact was not felt. One of the popular moments of the film is when Bruce Banner bowed before the royal family of Wakanda, prompting ...
(Jun 11, 2018, Blavity)
Twitter is convinced that Bethesda's Starfield is a Garfield game in space
Yes, the internet is here for the Starfield/Garfield meme. Garfield's last foray into the gaming space was Garfield Kart back in 2013. It reasons to believe that Garfield, Odie, and John are due for a comeback. But while we work tirelessly to confirm ...
(Jun 11, 2018, Polygon)
FACT CHECK: Did the 'Distracted Boyfriend' Meme Come From a ...
FACT CHECK: Did the 'Distracted Boyfriend' Meme Come From a ...
(Jun 12, 2018, Snopes.com)
People Are Making Fake Homophobic Memes About Millie Bobby Brown And It's Not Funny
The Stranger Things' star is constantly under a ridiculous amount of scrutiny, whether it be about her red carpet fashion or her relationship with boyfriend Jacob Sartorius, and now people have turned her into a violently homophobic meme - for ...
(Jun 12, 2018, PopBuzz)
President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's Pants Got the Full Meme Treatment
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's summit may have been a historic attempt at peace, but the more irreverent corners of Twitter were focused on the pants. After meeting face to face on Tuesday, the two leaders signed a ...
(Jun 12, 2018, TIME)
Researchers Studied 160 Million Memes and Found Most of Them Come From Two Websites
Researchers at University College London developed a new way to measure how memes are made and spread. What they found won't surprise anyone who's peered into the darker parts of the internet in the last few years: The most toxic, yet most effectively ...
(Jun 12, 2018, Motherboard)
Draymond Green hilariously trolls LeBron James at championship parade
The shirt is a remake of the famous Arthur meme, with three championship rings on the fingers, and the caption “Mood...”. It's a shot at a social media post by James during some of the Cavs' struggles earlier in the season; James posted a picture of ...
(Jun 12, 2018, Golden State of Mind)
The Success of IHOb Confirms the Meme Economy Is Doomed
Every day, some new meme manages to capture the attention of social media, network TV, and your office Slack channel. It could be political, promoted by an influencer, spawn from someone's five minutes of fame (hello, yodeling boy), or all three ...
(Jun 12, 2018, Inverse)