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What Pepe The Frog's Death Can Teach Us About The Internet
His creator killed the frog in a comic strip, after the character spent much of 2016 tied to the alt-right. Pepe's sad tale is a modern parable of how awful the Internet can be.(Image credit: Josh...
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Who's Entertaining Who?: How The Internet Picks Up Drake's Slack
Drake's latest No. 1 hit "In My Feelings" shot to the top of the charts thanks to a viral dance challenge that had little to do with the rapper himself.(Image credit: Michael Steele)
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'Baby Shark' Has Crashed Into the Pop Charts. How Did It Get There?
The uber-viral children's song "Baby Shark" landed in the top 40 of the Billboard charts this week, years after it debuted on YouTube.
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It's Waiting There For You: Toto's 'Africa' Is Playing On Repeat In A Desert
The life of Toto's "Africa" has perhaps reached its logical end with Max Siedentopf's absurdist art installation Toto Forever, which will play "Africa" in the Namib Desert "for all eternity."(Image...
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Will Posting Memes Or Pro Wedding Pics Land You In Copyright Small Claims Court?
Jeff Sedlik's Miles Davis portrait shows up all over the Internet, rarely with his permission, and there's not much he can do to protect himself. Enter the CASE Act, which sounds dull ... but isn't.
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Can't Let It Go
A special episode from our friends at NPR's Planet Money: A show all about the things we're obsessed with. Sam joins Planet Money co-host Karen Duffin to dig into obsessions including the Beyoncé of...
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'Disaster Girl,' The Stuff Of Memes, Sells For Nearly $500,000 As NFT
Zoë Roth was just 4 when her dad took a picture of her standing in front a burning house. That photo launched uncounted memes, and now the original copy has sold at auction as a nonfungible token.
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Memes about COVID-19 helped us cope with life in a pandemic, a new study finds
Memes could be a valuable way to help people deal with stressful situations.(Image credit: Chris Delmas)
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Know your economeme
From the depths of econ twitter straight to your podcast feed – this is economemes. Our guests bring us their favorite economic memes and explain what they mean. Can econ be funny? Only you can...
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Gen Z is suddenly obsessed with Snoopy — and not just because he's cute
Gen Z is feeling the love for Snoopy, who is flying off store shelves and going viral on TikTok. Here's why teens and twenty-somethings are newly obsessed (not that there has to be a reason).
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Meme-ifying 2024: how some young organizers are working to get their peers...
Democrats are counting on young voters to come out in big numbers in 2024. And strategists say a strong online presence is a key way to keep them engaged. Which in part means, here come the...
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