Gizmodo

DECEMBER 17, 2021

have been put on high alert after claims surfaced that a meme was circulating on TikTok encouraging young people to call in violent threats against their own schools on December 17. Some school districts have even canceled classes in response to the meme. Educators across the U.S. Strangely, Gizmodo couldn’t find a… Read more.

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TechSpot

MAY 20, 2022

Yesterday, Musk posted a version of the still-popular Distracted Boyfriend meme that included the CEO, Tesla, and Twitter.

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The Verge

JUNE 2, 2021

AMC, though, they’ve elected to really embrace the whole meme thing. I’m hoping there are more announcements where they get meme-ier. Meme enthusiasm essentially saved the company. A lot of the meme stocks are shooting up again. CNBC even has a “meme stock” graphic now. You know what trades heavily on memes?

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

One of the photos from this Cannes photo shoot has been widely memed. I have a suggestion that I think most of the internet will be able to get behind — and we know the internet never collectively agrees on anything, so hear me out here: a way to block memes that are past their expiration date. Please make it stop.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 12, 2021

The dankest memes curated for your lurking enjoyment.” “Welcome to your new favorite place,” the headline of the website FrackFeed read at the beginning of December. Read more.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The preliminary results of Facebook's Hateful Memes Challenge suggest that multimodal tasks pose a challenge for AI. Read More.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 31, 2020

The memes are relatively simple to make, and San Francisco video-editing startup, Kapwing, even created a step-by-step tutorial (below) showing how to do it. The method uses a target image, a template video, two Tar files, and a Python script. The how-to video has only been posted for less than.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

regulators are investigating Robinhood after it temporarily blocked users from purchasing so-called meme stocks on its stock trading app amid the Reddit-fueled short squeeze earlier this year. Read more.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

GameStop’s stock has fallen back to something like a reasonable price and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy claims he lost about $700,000 , but the future of meme stocks is not yet written. And at least one New York-based quantitative fund seems to think there’s still a glimmer of gold to be found in the brain trust… Read more.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

After selling Nyan Cat as an NFT , its creator, Chris Torres, has found himself working on an even bigger event: a week-long series of auctions where classic memes are being sold on the blockchain by their original creators. The memes involved should be recognizable if you were on the internet in the early 2010s. 1 brand new NFT.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Tesla’s status as a meme stock has helped propel the Bay Area-based (and soon to be Austin, Texas-based) company’s share price into the stratosphere and make its CEO Elon Musk one of the richest people in the world. Which is not to say being a meme stock is a safe space to occupy. What a crazy year.”.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 24, 2017

From Bad Luck Brian to Confession Bear to Scumbag Steve, these are the best tech-flavored memes the Internet has to offer

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

You may have seen the many memes of Sen. Three cheers to Sawhney for this glorious meme generator. We’ve put him somewhere warm. Simply put in a location or address in the website, and after one button click, you’ll have an image of Bernie sitting wherever you specified. Bernie visiting Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Here are a few highlights from the conversation, edited for length and clarity: On becoming a meme. Sinofsky: “One of the things that aside from being [at Micosoft] for a long time that we both have in common is memes, and the idea that stuff we’ve done turns into memes. ‘Say the words!'

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Forrester IT

JUNE 22, 2022

Or, “How a natural-language image generation AI used as a meme generator by social media may impact your business.” ” Welcome to the future, it’s got AI-generated art. Let’s play a quick game – which of the below images were made by an AI system generating images based on word prompts? Let’s pretend you guessed […].

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The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2021

Dozens of people join the server every second, and one channel has a stream of memes that looks like pure chaos. Amateur traders are flocking to the Discord server to discuss stock movements, share memes, and participate in what feels like an online game. audio meme. Welcome to the world of r/WallStreetBets.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Case in point, this week YouTube removed the original upload of the “Ah f**k, I can’t believe you’ve done this” meme, rejecting an appeal from its creator (and the guy who can’t believe this was done) and claiming that the clip violates the company’s “violent or graphic content policy.”. Well, that's that then.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

So to lighten the mood and get the students interested, she and her co-instructor Reece Lyerly start every class with a meme of some sort. The meme has made it beyond the classroom and social media; Errichetti said Lyerly showed it to some colleagues at the National Institutes of Health. “So

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The Verge

MAY 6, 2021

Now, 140 million views and 11 years later, David After Dentist is becoming the latest mid-2000s meme to go up for auction as an NFT. “It DeVore says while his family dealt with their share of trolls — some who questioned his parenting — the meme has been a positive thing for their family, helping pay for his kids’ tuition.

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GeekWire

MARCH 5, 2021

“Corporate meme warfare has commenced,” noted Bloomberg columnist Tae Kim. Side note: the subject of the meme that Shopify tweeted is actress Kathryn Hahn, who previously starred in “I Love Dick” and “Transparent” … on Amazon. — Shopify (@Shopify) March 5, 2021.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 13, 2021

Once a meme that delighted the internet, the Xbox Series X-shaped mini fridge is becoming a reality. At the end of its E3 2021 showcase on Sunday, Microsoft announced that it would be selling “the world’s most powerful mini fridge” this upcoming holiday season. Read more.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

In the short term, at least, deepfakes are going to be obviously fabricated and instant meme-bait. I’ve been following the AI space, following the meme space, following the deepfake space, and just saw the opportunity to do something cool.” The Wombo app launched late last month from Canada after a short development process.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2021

Shyam Sankar, COO at Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR), commented on the stock’s popularity with meme traders on Thursday, saying he’s excited to have investors who have “really dug into” the company’s background.

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The Verge

MAY 5, 2021

And hey, if you want to see those memes, it seems like the web version of Twitter on desktops is still susceptible. (Or at least it is for me, someone who follows a ton of artists and is tired of scrolling past poorly cropped drawings that actually end up being really good.). Hide on, tiny cat. Tweet: @ademYz_.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest person after Tesla Inc. shares slid 8.6% on Monday, wiping $15.2 billion from his net worth. Tesla’s biggest decline since September was […].

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Forrester IT

MAY 5, 2023

First appearing in The New Yorker, this meme illustrates the difficulty of establishing identity and, by extension, validating claims on the internet. “On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog” is an oft quoted maxim from the 90s attributed to Peter Steiner. Over three decades later, we still face the same challenges. In this […]

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After a rollercoaster of a year on the stock market fueled by WallStreetBets retail trading, GameStop is going full meme and looking to build a “Web3” platform, according to a flurry of job listings posted to its careers site on Monday. Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 11, 2020

But in recent weeks, it’s become a hub of anti-fascist gator memes, inspired by alligators’ appetite for feral… Read more. It’s fitting that in a Twitter landscape cluttered with accounts like @RatsEveryHour and @PossumsEveryHour that a natural predator would emerge. GatorsDaily , run by 22-year-old Seth Kaplan, began as a joke.

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TechSpot

APRIL 5, 2024

Microsoft's report, titled East Asia threat actors employ unique methods, notes that Chinese campaigns have continued to refine AI-generated or AI-enhanced content, creating videos, memes, and audio, among others. While their influence might not be too impactful right now, it may prove increasingly effective down the line as it becomes.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The announcement was made in the most fitting of fashions, of course: the “ Sad Wolverine ” meme from the original show. The classic X-Men: The Animated Series is getting a sequel series on Disney Plus in 2023: the newly announced X-Men ‘97 , which “explores new stories in the iconic ‘90s timeline of the original series.”

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CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2021

It’s a meme now to say “In these unprecedented times”, but it sure does fit doesn’t it? As we look back on 2020 and the “interesting times” we find ourselves […].

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Gizmodo

MARCH 28, 2022

The Oscars has long been struggling for relevance for a number of reasons, and this year their floundering seemed more like a cry for help than an actual attempt at importance. Amid a confusing year for cinema, the Academy decided that the best way to get people to tune into the broadcast was to conduct two Twitter… Read more.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Elon Musk tweeted an image comparing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to German dictator Adolf Hitler early Thursday. And while Musk’s legion of fans will no doubt claim it’s “just a joke,” it’s still jarring to see the richest person on the planet compare world leaders in functioning democracies to… Read more.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

Microsoft has been the subject of many memes about its Xbox naming decisions in recent years. That’s led to the internet making memes about one Xbox One X box, and a series of Xbox Series X boxes. After many Xbox box memes, Microsoft has now started openly mocking its Xbox naming decisions. The Xbox box meme.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 19, 2020

For a brief moment on Friday night, spectacularly bored and homebound Twitter users marveled in delight at a strange phenomenon on the social network: Everyone was tweeting the word “carp.” Questions abounded. I’m missing something, right? Read more.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 11, 2019

At the start of the new year, a meme called the 10-Year Challenge went viral. The premise is simple: Post a photo of yourself in 2009 and a photo of yourself in 2019 to highlight certain changes that may have taken place in that time. Besides the security concerns of social media sites potentially mining […].

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TechSpot

JULY 11, 2022

Musk's takeover of Twitter looked in doubt from the moment he announced it was on hold in May as his team looked to confirm reports that the number of fake accounts on the site represented less than 5% of its userbase.

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