You know a meme when you see one. Silly image. Impact font. Chortling punchline. You know when something goes viral on the Internet too. It's all over Facebook. Every site you go to has a post about it. You keep seeing it for three weeks. But you've never seen memes and Internet viral hits like this. This is art. Read More >>
You've seen hundreds of 'em. You hold a few dear to your heart. You love seeing that Impact font. You laugh at those who call it meh-meh or mimi (even if you once did). You think you know the Internet, so you think you know what a meme is. But how did memes take over? Probably by being memes. Read More >>
Featured comment by vshirokov:
"It's unfortunate that a good concept, devised by Dawkins, is lost to many just as a name for redundant cat pictures." More »
Information can only travel so fast—but even if it can travel at the speed of light, there would be a natural delay before memes could traverse the entire universe. So where across our neighbouring star systems might some of our favourite pop culture references have ended up by now? Read More >>
Featured comment by eadingas:
"This is exactly what I wrote a short story about a few years ago.
(you can buy it on Amazon as part of my anthology ;)" More »
Warner Brothers — a company all too keen to leap on anybody infringing its copyright — is being sued for unauthorised use of the Nyan Cat meme. Oops. Read More >>
Alison Brie, the gorgeous actress that somehow juggles Community and Mad Men without creating a black hole in the Internet, is a pretty funny fellow. Oh and she's also really, really pretty. But funny! But pretty. Anyways, she was tasked at recreating the faces of popular internet memes (think grumpy cat and overly attached girlfriend) with her own facial expressions and her effort is pretty admirable. Plus, it's absolutely adorable. [HyperVocal] Read More >>
Featured comment by MrMysteryPenguin:
"I've watched most of the first season she's definitely less annoying in that but the show just isn't that funny. The best parts are the 10 sec or so s..." More »
Created by illustrator H. Caldwell Tanner, this wonderful, mind-numbing visualisation of the internet's very essence brings together more past and current memes than you probably ever knew existed. Read More >>
An admittedly rather impressive shot at getting an entire plane load of passengers doing the Harlem Shake dancing meme has ended in trouble for all involved, with US aviation experts claiming the Frontier Flight 157 could've been put at risk by having so many idiots bouncing around inside. Read More >>
Featured comment by warriorscot:
"It is a numbers game. Even at the most I have never seen an isle packed in flight to an unsafe degree. The risk of injury is a relatively minor concer..." More »
Bad news first. Guys—Keyboard Cat is dead. The same cat you're still splicing into videos and GIF-ing as fast as your little fingers can fly is, in all likelihood, rotting 6 feet below some nondescript, Midwestern-United States backyard. For it appears that, one night in 1987, our beloved Keyboard Cat (formerly known as Fatso) raised his paw to his keyboard to sound one final, solemn note before slipping into eternal, musically-inclined kitty slumber. Read More >>
The BBC's unbearably smug sports quiz has set an incredible new shark-jumping record. It got all of its cauliflower-eared, guffawing ex-sport stars to do a version of the Harlem Shake meme that's currently horrifying every sane person on the internet. It makes you long for the good old days of Gangnam Style. Read More >>
Because every single person on the Internet decided to force induce viralness by not really doing the Harlem Shake while making those ridiculous Harlem Shake videos, it's time to kill this meme with a "Harlem Shake" video that no one can ever top: Porn Stars doing a naked "Harlem Shake". Yep, naked. Read More >>
If you're looking for an Internet anthem, here it is: a Journey - Faithfully parody that soulfully expresses it love for its favourite Internet memes. It's pretty much what we all do on the Internet every day, in song. Which means looking at picture of animals, watching silly videos, GIF crawlin', and guffawing to Impact font memes. Read More >>
Because the Internet has such a short memory span, and moves at such a breakneck pace, it's hard to remember what happened on it in any given year. Like was Rebecca Black a 2012 thing or a 2011 thing? (Hint: it was 2011) But if you consider yourself an advanced Internetter, you should have no problem figuring out the 20 things that happened in 2012 that are depicted in this image. Right? Read More >>
"Memes I'd Like to F**k" is a pretty self-explanatory idea, really. It's internet memes, acted out by porn stars—with their clothes on, mostly. They're by porno house Wood Rocket, and actually, they're probably a smart way to get wider exposure for the sex-actors. As it were. Read More >>
Much like anyone else who is an avid user of the Internet, we quite enjoy the odd rage face now and again, and sometimes we do wish we could plaster a troll face over a ridiculous photo that simply screams for it. And I'm sure you have too, but now you can, as Mememize! lets you do exactly that from the comfort of your iPhone. Read More >>
If you didn't get your fill of Google's nerdy inside jokes that Google workers make with Google's internal meme generator, Memegen, here's more: this set pokes fun of a lot more people and companies (Google included) than just going for straight nerd humour. Read More >>