9 Best Articles in 2021
Stratechery
Mistakes and Memes
Stratechery
~15 min read · Feb 9th · Information on the Internet is conveyed by memes, which can be anything and everything. The real world impacts are only now being understood.
CB Insights
Memes That Kill: The Future Of Information Warfare
CB Insights
~19 min read · From 2018 · Memes and social networks have become weaponized, while many governments seem ill-equipped to understand the new reality of information warfare. How will we fight state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda in the future?
BuzzFeed News
Our List Of The Top 2020 Memes
BuzzFeed News
20+ min read · 2020-12-11 · I am once again asking you to read about these memes.
make-everything-ok.com
The magic button — Make Everything OK
make-everything-ok.com
1 min read · From 2012 · The Magic Button who makes everything OK
Social Media Examiner #SMMSociety
How to Use Memes: A Guide for Marketers
Social Media Examiner #SMMSociety
7 min read · 2019-08-07 · Discover how your business can use memes to engage and connect with people.
danluu.com
Dunning-Kruger and other memes
danluu.com
~11 min read · From 2015 · Dunning-Kruger and other bogus memes It’s really common to see claims that some meme is backed by “studies” or “science”. But when I look at the actual studies, it usually turns out that the data are…
kapwing.com
Kapwing - the online video meme maker
kapwing.com
From 2017 · Create video memes online with our free video editor.
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WIRED UK
The bitcoin elite are spending millions on collectable memes
WIRED UK
9 min read · Feb 24th · We used to download images from the internet. Now people are paying millions in crypto to feel like they own them
Ars Technica
An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later
Ars Technica
5 min read · Feb 16th · Back in our day, memes didn't benefit from centralized services like YouTube, Twitter.
Axios
How memes became a major vehicle for misinformation
Axios
2 min read · Feb 23rd · Memes are hard for AI to understand.
The New Yorker
Some Medieval Memes
The New Yorker
1 min read · Feb 24th · What doomscrolling, spying on your ex, and more looked like as memes in the Middle Ages.
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MIT Technology Review
How memes got weaponized: A short history
MIT Technology Review
6 min read · 2019-10-24 · Memes come off as a joke, but some people are starting to see them as the serious threat they are.
imaginarycloud.com
Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need
imaginarycloud.com
5 min read · From 2018 · Like it or not - personal opinions and memes aside - web-brutalism is moving from something edgy and almost punk, to something very mainstream and commercially viable.
The Atlantic
The Joke’s on Us
The Atlantic
~16 min read · 2020-09-30 · In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously?
The Daily Beast
Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Near Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine
The Daily Beast
7 min read · From 2016 · Palmer Luckey—founder of Oculus—is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton.
The New York Times
Meet the Creator of the Egg That Broke Instagram
The New York Times
6 min read · From 2019 · He works in advertising.
The New York Times
Tracing a Meme From the Internet’s Fringe to a Republican Slogan
The New York Times
3 min read · From 2018 · In less than two weeks, the three-word phrase expanded from corners of the right-wing internet onto some of the most prominent political stages in the country, days before the midterm elections.
TNW
Meme Trends is like Google Trends but for the dankest memes
TNW
3 min read · From 2017 · With meme culture getting more popular than religion, this Google Trends-like tool will help you track the dankest memes on the internet right now.
BuzzFeed
The Far Right's Most Common Memes Explained For Normal People
BuzzFeed
3 min read · From 2017 · So you can identify them when you see them out there online.
The Verge
Facebook will let people claim ownership of images and issue takedown requests
The Verge
3 min read · 2020-09-21 · What about the memes?
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