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MEMES, Bonus: Overly Attached Girlfriend
Unlike some of the other everyday-people-turned-memes featured in this series, Laina Morris leaned in big-time when her parody entry in a Justin Bieb…
4 years, 7 months ago
MEMES, Part 10: Makmende
We know that there have been meme wars in America, and that Donald Trump has been called the “first president meme’d into office.” But in Kenya—a cou…
4 years, 7 months ago
MEMES, Bonus: The yearbook photo
For being the internet's poster boy for bad luck, Kyle Craven thinks he sure got lucky. In this bonus episode of our meme series, Ben and Amory chat …
4 years, 7 months ago
MEMES, Part 9: I'm Not Done Yet
Anybody old enough to remember life before cutting the cord has probably seen the work of TV pitchman Billy Mays. But people much younger still know …
4 years, 7 months ago
MEMES, Part 8: The Scream
If you typed “inauguration” into your web browser anytime between 2017 and 2020, you likely saw, near the top of your search results, an image of a p…
4 years, 8 months ago
MEMES, Part 7: Dead Giveaway
In 2013, four white musicians turned a local TV news clip featuring a Black man named Charles Ramsey into a song and uploaded it to YouTube. The auto…
4 years, 8 months ago
Hallomeme Bonus: Slender Man
When two 12 year-old girls attacked their friend in the woods of Waukesha, Wisconsin in May of 2014, they claimed to have done it to please Slender M…
4 years, 8 months ago
MEMES, Pt. 6: Call me... The Punisher
The Punisher has always been a complicated Marvel antihero: a man whose creator imagined him as a reaction to the failures of government at home and …
4 years, 8 months ago
MEMES, Pt. 5: The President of Kekistan
He is known by several names, but Gordon Hurd is the one this man-turned-meme adopted when he fled Cameroon for the UK more than two decades ago. Gor…
4 years, 8 months ago
MEMES, Bonus: Zoë Didn't Start the Fire
Most of us hate the photos our parents take of us. But what happens when one goes viral?
Zoë Roth was 4 years old when her dad took a photo of her sm…
4 years, 8 months ago