That’s the first word that came to mind when I saw President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that he will host a dinner for the 220 top holders of the ...
From Pepe the Frog to the Arthur Fist, millions of memes are shared on the internet every day. There’s no doubt that memes have rapidly grown to be a fundamental part of social media, but what do the ...
We live in a county where personal freedom and individualism are core values. We like to think we’re self-sufficient. We like our First Amendment right to speak our minds and our Second Amendment ...
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The official trailer for The Batman, the latest iteration of the caped crusader starring Robert Pattinson, dropped over the weekend. If there were any doubts, it would appear that director Matt Reeves ...
With the rise of social media and internet culture, a new type of humor arose: memes. Memes are often humorous images with a caption, edited to fit a certain scenario. Think of Bad Luck Brian from the ...
Three days before his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump launched a meme coin, a type of cryptocurrency whose value is buoyed by social media and internet culture, rather than any sort of ...
Perhaps some of today’s great thinkers write not with ink and quills, but with Instagram create mode and comment sections on X. Memes are becoming culturally and linguistically important unto ...
I get it: Meme coins are dumb. Unserious. A waste of time. They give the impression that the crypto industry is trivial. Full of speculators. Vitalik Buterin is probably right to say the whole ...