Country music superstar Taylor Swift promoted her father’s personal Facebook page to fans, prompting him to delete it after “Swifties” discovered that his page featured conservative-leaning memes, including a Blue Lives Matter meme honoring a deceased police officer.
The image, created by Jon Gabriel, shows the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, photoshopped into an image of the tiny town of Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland.
Internet users erupted with mockery in response to a video that surfaced of CNN’s Chris Cuomo having a public meltdown over a man who referred to him as “Fredo.” In the video, the CNN anchor used profanity and accused the man of using an ethnic slur equivalent to “the n-word,” before threatening to throw him down the stairs.
What was supposed to be a presidential seal that briefly appeared behind President Donald Trump while he spoke at a Turning Point USA event on Tuesday was actually an anti-Trump doctored image consisting of an eagle associated with Russia and a set of golf clubs. TPUSA has responded to the image in a statement to Breitbart News, claiming, “the left is desperate to talk about anything other than the catastrophe that was the Mueller hearings.”
The “fact-checkers” at Snopes recently rated a popular Turning Point USA meme “mostly false” in what appeared to be a misunderstanding of the concept of stock photography. The meme, entitled, “Your City on Socialism,” displays three images depicting the damage done to a society as a result of socialism, while one image depicts politicians as the real winners in a socialist economy.
Hollywood celebrity Viggo Mortensen has expressed his displeasure after Spanish populist party VOX created a meme using his portrayal of Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings films. The image, which is based on a scene from the trilogy of
Twitter recently stated that telling laid-off journalists to “learn to code,” a reference to the media’s advice to laid-off workers in blue-collar jobs, is “targeted harassment.”
Facebook is reportedly developing a hub of memes and funny videos for young users, titled “LOL,” in an effort to engage the youth who have fled the social network for rival platforms.
President Donald Trump serving fast food — including Burger King, Domino’s, Wendy’s, and McDonald’s — to the Clemson college football team while hosting them at the White House inspired widespread meme support across Reddit’s The Donald discussion board.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) counter-speech to President Donald Trump’s Oval Office Address on border security spawned memes from both left and right-wing commenters Tuesday evening.
Monterey Bay Aquarium has apologized for calling Abby the otter fat in a joke Twitter post, which it claimed was “problematic and insensitive” for referencing “African American Vernacular English.”
A group of British academics told lawmakers that memes are contributing to the United Kingdom’s obesity crisis.
Democrats and leftists are being mocked by a new series of memes depicting them as unthinking and reflexive automatons. The revent memetic trend frames its targets as non-player characters (NPCs) who reflexively express neo-Marxist axioms in response to varying stimuli. NPCs are fictional characters in video games with limited scripted responses given the parameters of any game(s) in which they appear.
Sweden’s advertising watchdog has ruled that a Stockholm internet company’s use of the ‘distracted boyfriend meme’ in a recruitment ad was sexist.
UKIP Scotland MEP David Coburn branded the EU’s new copyright proposals an “enormous strike against free speech on the Internet” in the European Parliament, before being howled down by establishment politicians and cut off by the parliament’s president.
Controversial new European Union (EU) laws that could force tech firms to monitor all web uploads, destroy internet meme culture, and disadvantage small news websites have been approved by the European Parliament.
Following the launch of American football kneeler Colin Kaepernick’s Nike advertisement, social media users began to make their own versions mocking the shoe company.
Occupy Democrats, a popular liberal Facebook page, is offering over $2,000 a month for someone to “make memes” for the page.
EU MEPs Vote Against ‘Meme Censor’ Internet Copyright Law
The European Union (EU) is less than a month away from voting to introduce aggressive new online copyright laws and “widespread censorship” measures, which critics say could strangle new media websites and stifle satire and online meme culture.
A plethora of memes were forged during Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here are some of the highlights.
Grumpy Cat Limited, the company behind historic Internet meme Grumpy Cat, has been awarded $710,000 following a copyright lawsuit.
The Conservative party has been relentlessly mocked after launching a “grass roots” movement attempting to connect with young voters.
After liberal protesters set up a 30-foot inflatable chicken outside the White House, President Trump’s supporters joyfully appropriated the image for their memes.
August 7 marks President Donald Trump’s second 100 days in office. They were just as intense as the first 100, if not more so. Here are 15 highlights (and lowlights).
After CNN tracked down the Reddit user that allegedly made a meme of President Donald Trump wrestling CNN and said they “[reserved] the right to publish his identity,” users across Twitter mocked the network with even more memes.
CNN threatened Tuesday to expose the identity of the Reddit user who had claimed credit for creating the spoof wrestling video that President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday morning, showing him fighting the cable network.
Harvard University rescinded offers this week to at least ten incoming members of this fall’s freshman class after a group chat log including explicit memes was leaked to school administrators.
A tweet sent out by President Trump last night birthed a new meme based entirely around a typo: Covfefe.
President Donald Trump broke the Internet once again during the inauguration of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology Sunday in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
The BBC has run a series of online and radio segments claiming the “great meme war has travelled to France”, implying Internet jokes could swing the French election for the Front National as the broadcaster alleges they did for Trump and Brexit in the UK and U.S.
CIA documents published by WikiLeaks show that the CIA kept a database of “Japanese style faces” to utilize in online forums.
“Polandball,” a popular Facebook meme page, has been permanently suspended from the platform, losing over 350,000 followers in the process.
McALLEN, Texas — A story wildly circulated by Mexican news outlets about a woman having her visa taken away because she had memes making fun of U.S. President Donald J. Trump has been deemed false by U.S. authorities.
A group of redditors at r/MemeEconomy are trying to quantify the lifespan of a meme through the creation of a mock stock market.
The Internet was already buzzing with silly memes about FBI Director James Comey announcing he was re-opening the bureau’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server — and it absolutely exploded once the New York Times reported that agents discovered new emails while investigating Anthony Weiner’s alleged sexting with a minor.
Build the Wall: The Game, an iPhone game created by pro-Trump internet personality Baked Alaska, has been rejected from the Apple App Store for including a cameo by Pepe the Frog.
The Indonesian government has the power to arrest those who use “offensive” internet memes, according to recent restrictions against freedom of speech. After citizens of the country called for the 2008 Electronic Information and Transactions Law to be revoked, more restrictions
A rash of Twitter users have begun to protest what they dub the establishment’s “War on Memes” — in particular, the claim that Internet cartoon Pepe the Frog is a symbol of white supremacy.
The Clinton campaign has claimed that a cartoon frog used in an Internet meme is in fact a symbol for “white supremacy,” in response to an image of Pepe the Frog shared by Donald Trump’s son.
