Internet Meme

animal-memes

Mr Grumpy Cat, often just called Grumpy Cat, was a domestic cat (Tardar Sauce) known for a permanently looking displeased expression. This appearance was caused by feline dwarfi...

Relationships

"It's Johnny That's My Son" is a line from a 1990s television commercial in which a father playfully mispronounces his son's name as "Johny" before correcting himself. The phras...

Culture & Society

The image of a single sweet potato floating in a vast pot of soup originated from a 2020 social-media post by a Chinese user, pairing a stark photograph with text that highlight...

memes

The term Kemper Killer refers to a meme that emerged from 4chan’s /b/ board in the early 2010s, pairing the eerie visage of serial killer Edmund Kemper with aggressively whole...

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When a photograph of filmmaker David Lynch giving a thumbs up circulates online, the gesture prompts questions about intent, context, and meaning. This evergreen explainer exami...

Celebrity Profiles

Old Penguin Batman is an internet persona and meme that emerged from a distorted promotional image of Batman wearing a penguin costume associated with an old Photoshop filter ef...

Relationships

The search term Benjamin Button Taylor Swift cat refers to a viral mashup of three unrelated pop culture references that converged into a meme. Benjamin Button is the 2008 film...

language-and-communication

“Diddy did diddy go away” is a phrase that circulates online and in playground chatter as a playful, rhythmic saying more than a firm idiom with a single documented origin....

internet culture

Nevada-Tan is an online persona that gained widespread attention as the subject of a viral creepypasta story involving a school shooting incident. The name refers not to a verif...

Culture & Society

The phrase Pop-Tart bowl sacrifice describes a deliberately messy or chaotic way of eating Pop-Tarts by placing them in a bowl in a manner that appears careless or wasteful, oft...