LatestWhat is an image macro? The history of Impact font, LOLcats, and advice animals, and why this captioned-image meme format still rules the internet in 2026.
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Memes & Internet HistoryThe history of the rickrolling meme: how a 2007 4chan prank turned Rick Astley into a billion-view internet…
Memes & Internet HistoryWhat is irony poisoning? The slow drift from joke to belief, how the meme economy speeds it up,…
Memes & Internet HistoryThe history of longcat, from a 2005 Futaba Channel photo to 4chan mythology, Tacgnol, the Catnarok prophecy, and…
Memes & Internet HistoryAn 80s television car that has not turned a wheel in over ten years got pulled over by…
Memes & Internet HistoryEurovision has been smuggling weirdness onto European television for seventy years. Bread baking grandmas, hard rock zombies, a…
Memes & Internet HistorySemifinal 1 happened. Vienna got loud, the staging crew earned their hazard pay, and the internet went feral…
Memes & Internet HistoryHistory of cat memes from 1870s Victorian cabinet cards to AI brainrot in 2026. LOLcats, Grumpy Cat, Nyan…
Memes & Internet HistoryThe Devil Wears Prada 2 opened on May 4 and pulled $233.6 million in its global debut, the…
Memes & Internet HistoryThe 2026 Met Gala happened on Monday night, and by Tuesday morning the internet had already finished processing…
Memes & Internet HistoryAn AI startup whose whole pitch is “Stop Hiring Humans” plastered a 13-year-old human-made meme across a San…
Memes & Internet HistoryYesterday was April 30, which on the internet is no longer a date. It is a holiday. A…
Memes & Internet HistoryThe history of internet memes is the history of how a billion strangers learned to speak the same…
Memes & Internet HistoryBigfoot is having the kind of year that should worry his publicist, if he had one. In the…
Memes & Internet HistoryIn 2007, Werner Herzog pointed a camera at Antarctica and filmed an Adélie penguin breaking away from its…
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