Memes

Harris’s presidential campaign is embracing Gen Z trends like “brat summer” and memes that have spread like wildfire across the internet remixing some of her most cringe-worthy public flops.

The internet exploded with pro-former President Donald Trump memes after a failed assassination attempt on Saturday during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The attempt on Donald Trump’s life Saturday night was an unnerving and historic moment in American politics, and the former president’s supporters rose to the occasion with memes celebrating his fighting spirit and lampooning the left’s hysterical hatred.

In the two days since his calamitous appearance in New York, memes mocking Robert De Niro have flooded social media, with some drawing inspiration from the actor’s filmography, including “Mean Streets,” “The Irishman,” “Joker,” and even Comedy Central’s Roast of Alec Baldwin.

Shares of video game retailer GameStop skyrocketed up more than 70 percent on Monday after Keith Gill, known as “Roaring Kitty” on social media and the leader of the meme stock movement posted a photo to his X/Twitter account for the first time since 2021.

Following the recent unsealing of documents related to disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, most onlookers seem underwhelmed by the lack of revelations into the shadowy empire of perversion that Epstein once ruled over. In fact, jokes and memes about Stephen Hawking are dominating the discussion on X/Twitter.

An Obama-appointed judge in New York City has sentenced Douglas Mackey, who operated the influential pro-MAGA Twitter account “Ricky Vaughn” in 2016, to seven months behind bars for “election interference.”

Conservative social media influencer Douglass Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn, was convicted of election interference in the 2016 presidential race after posting a satirical meme on Twitter.

The government’s confidential witness in its attempt to put a right-wing meme maker in jail is making stuff up. That seems to be the conclusion reached by both congressional Republicans and a left-wing journalist, Luke O’Brien, who said the witness was “full of it.”

A now-former British police officer has been spared prison after being convicted for making and possessing indecent images of children, mere weeks after another ex-cop was locked up for sharing George Floyd memes.

Actress Chloë Grace Moretz responded to what she called “horrific” “Family Guy” memes mocking her body, saying they contributed to body dysmorphia. “I basically became a recluse.”

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was eviscerated by social media users over his Vogue photoshoot with his wife, First Lady Olena Zelenska, which transpired while their country continues to be invaded by Russia.

Sweden’s Agency for Psychological Defence has launched a campaign warning Swedes about memes they say spread misleading information.

Not every meme deserves an article of its own, but for those of us who follow politics on social media closely, this one hits home. It’s a meme that could force even the most sheep-like adherents of official narratives to stop and think.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a report recommending an increased focus on scanning the social media accounts of its employees in order to detect “extremism.”

Following the recent ruling in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial which found him not guilty on all charges, users across social media shared memes celebrating the ruling.

Veteran actor Steve Buscemi was seen handing out Halloween candy over the weekend, while dressed up as himself in a moment from TV’s 30 Rock which has become an enduring Internet meme.

Zoë Roth, who became a popular meme known as “Disaster Girl” has reportedly made almost $500,000 from an NFT auction of the meme.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated in a recent interview that he plastered his face with sunscreen while on vacation in Hawaii in an attempt to disguise himself from photographers. The resulting creepy pictures have become memes comparing the social media Master of the Universe to everything from mimes to the Joker.

The non-profit organization Slow Factory Foundation is warning white people that they are engaging in a phenomenon known as “digital blackface” by posting memes that feature black people in them.

The FBI is charging Douglass Mackey for conspiracy to deprive voters of their rights. But the criminal complaint raises

A principal is suing the school district that fired her after she shared conservative memes on her personal Facebook page.

An elementary school principal in Pennsylvania claims she was fired over a series of conservative Facebook posts. Amy Sacks was removed in July from her position as principal of Evergreen Elementary School in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. According to her lawyer, “Like millions of Americans over the last year Amy posted political memes opposing Joe Biden and other Democrats, while supporting the police and Republican candidates, on her private Facebook account.”

The parents of the toddlers featured in a satirical meme video about CNN will sue the meme’s creator, Carpe Donktum, as well as President Donald Trump for sharing the video to social media.

Facebook has published an article boasting of its advancement in the field of AI, specifically training its advanced systems to detect and remove “hate speech” and “harmful memes.”

Twitter took down a meme posted by President Donald Trump making fun of Joe Biden after a copyright complaint was lodged with the platform.

Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan delivered an emotional tribute to the late Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles on Monday, joking — as tears streamed down his face — that he would create a new “Crying Michael Jordan” meme.

Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg has reportedly contracted internet meme-makers and marketers with more than 60 million followers in total to post sponsored content on Instagram promoting his campaign. According to one of the marketers involved, the memes’ engagement “came from people being confused whether or not it was real.”

Students at the University of Oklahoma claim that one of their professors compared the “Ok, Boomer” meme to the “n-word.” Students claim that the professor used the racial slur during a class discussion when he made the comparison.

Social media network Twitter has announced that it will be banning any media that the site deems to be “synthetic or manipulated” and is “likely to cause harm.” Users responded with mockery and speculation about Twitter’s motivation in potentially cracking down on memes ahead of the 2020 election.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst accounting professor Catherine Lowry was placed on leave over her decision to show her class a Hitler parody video, a frequently used meme format on social media. Now, the university is refusing to comment on whether or not Lowry will be reinstated.

Facebook-owned Instagram is “fact-checking” satirical posts and memes on the platform via its third-party fact-checkers, and filtering them from hashtag and “explore” results.

The post-ironic meme campaign being fought by the Conservative Party continues with an hour of Lo-Fi beats “to get Brexit done to”.

While crisscrossing the country giving speeches, raising money, and rallying his father’s supporters for 2020, Donald Trump Jr. also picked up a love of political meme warfare.

Twitter banned, then quickly unbanned Carpe Donktum, widely known as a favorite meme-maker of President Donald Trump, after massive media backlash over a parody video that mimicked his style.

Twitter took down a video tweeted by President Donald Trump yesterday due to a copyright claim related to the presence of a 5-second clip from a video by music group Nickelback which had been edited to mock Joe Biden.