2018 was a scary, worrisome and exciting year. The internet hive mind continued to grow, boiling down the trials and tribulations of its users into the dankest of memes. KnowYourMeme is the ...
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Since memes swept onto the digital landscape over a decade ago, our favorite, crudely photoshopped images have evolved from things you text your friends to make them laugh to the de facto medium for ...
In Ancient Rome, citizens relied on self-constructed myths to give their lives structure. In 2018, in the United States (and around the world), we engage in myth building a little differently: We make ...
In a less than stellar year, memes were a saving grace in 2018. Like a lighthouse, bringing us to shore, memes truly rescued us from the dark abyss of the internet bringing us hilarious and utterly ...
Critical praise and awards are great, but in the Year of Gaga, it’s memes that are often the ultimate indicator that a song, film, or TV show has truly entered the pantheon of pop culture. Whether ...
In 2018, there were Tide Pods and their subsequent paranoia. There was that red-haired ASMR girl. Those moths and lamps and sinister riffs on obscure nursery rhymes (“Johny Johny Yes Papa” had its ...
Are we sure 2018 wasn’t actually five different years stitched together? If you live and breathe the internet, it probably felt even longer. But between the horror and absurdity of the last 365 days, ...