Internet Memes

PHOTOS: Celebs Photobombing

Celebuzz | Posted 05.24.2012

What do celebs do when their famous friends shut them out of a picture? They photobomb them!...

College Graduation Memes: I Can Haz Diploma Now?

Posted 05.22.2012

Graduation season + college students = graduation memes. We combed through the internet and found some pretty funny memes about graduating from col...

1 Year of Memes in 1 Minute (Video)

Shira Lazar | Posted 05.15.2012

Shira Lazar

In honor of a year together, our team at What's Trending created a retrospective of the top 60 memes of the past year in a minute.

Geekiest Political Protest Posters ... Ever

Oddee.com | Posted 04.26.2012

Further proof that geeks shall inherit the Earth: they're using Internet memes and Lord of the Rings characters to in political protest posters. Si...

Do Memes and Poetry Have Anything in Common?

Sarah Edwards | Posted 04.24.2012

Sarah Edwards

Comparing memes to poetry is enough to make any poetry teacher cringe -- a few of mine probably will, after reading this. Poetry is inherently deep and memes are inherently shallow! Right? But I think the reason we gravitate toward poetry and gravitate toward Internet memes is analogous.

12 Memes And Tweets For Final Exams

Posted 04.21.2012

Studying? Chained to your desk? Well, we went out into the internet and brought back some memes for motivation. There were a ton about failing fin...

Harlequin Picks Up "Sh*t Girls Say" Book, But Can Old Industries Keep Up With Internet Time?

Lori Culwell | Posted 04.18.2012

Lori Culwell

Most Internet memes have the shelf life of a banana, and trying to capture these memes in traditional forms like publishing or television is often an exercise in "too little, too late, no one cares anymore."

The New Prank Sweeping The Internet

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 04.18.2012

Move over, Rick Rolling, there's a new super annoying meme in town: Levelling (or Leveling, we're not entirely sure). While the former "thing" invo...

Are Internet Memes Works Of Art? (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Carolyn Gregoire | Posted 04.17.2012

We're all obsessed with Internet sensations like the Ryan Gosling 'Hey Girl' meme, Texts from Hillary, #whatshouldwecallme, and LOLCats -- but have yo...

Amanda Terkel

Hillary Clinton Thanks 'Texts From Hillary' Guys For The 'LOLZ'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.10.2012

WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton took a few minutes away from her texting (and all her other duties as secretary of state) and met with the t...

Capitalizing on the Internet: From Meme to Marketplace

Greg Voakes | Posted 04.02.2012

Greg Voakes

Often designed for spreading original jokes with friends and having them gain momentum, memes are now the ultra popular bits of content that provide us with the occasional stifled laugh from our cubicle.

Or Maybe I'll Just Go to Grad School

Aleksander Chan | Posted 05.09.2012

Aleksander Chan

Flush with the terrifying prospect of graduating with a journalism degree in 2012, I have begun to entertain the thought of trying to fulfill my most outlandish writing fantasies.

David Moye

WATCH: People Make Like Superman Outside Of Car Windows

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 02.25.2012

Planking -- the act of making one's body as stiff as a board in bizarre enviroments -- was popular last summer, but the fad has since died, leaving an...

Meme Wars and the Death of the Underground

Rajiv Naresh | Posted 04.17.2012

Rajiv Naresh

We must consolidate a singular identity. With 845 million users worldwide, Facebook has decided on behalf of the cyber universe that everything MUST be social. And the tyranny of a compulsorily social world is that it negates the possibility of the underground and the alternative.

Linsanity: The Point God of Sports Memes

Chi Tung | Posted 04.10.2012

Chi Tung

For every one of us eager to claim Lin in our racial draft, there's Lin himself, shrugging off the portentous hype because he's too busy making love to pressure to tangle with Asian American identity politics.

Cats Have Had Enough Of 'Cat Breading'

Posted 02.08.2012

Normally, if it's good enough for Stephen Colbert, it's good enough for us. But we just can't get on board the "breading" bandwagon. Have you seen ...

Are the "Strange Sounds" Videos a Hoax?

Jason Boyett | Posted 04.09.2012

Jason Boyett

The enormous online apocalypse/conspiracy community has been all a-flutter lately due to the glut of "strange sounds" or "weird noises" videos being uploaded in recent weeks.

Lucas Kavner

How We Bow At The Altar Of Memes

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 01.23.2012

Your reactions to seeing another "Shit ______ Say" video may vary. My own responses have run the gamut from "Oh, dear God, when will this end?" to "Oh...

16 Best ‘Meanwhile In' Meme Pictures

Oddee.com | Posted 03.18.2012

The "Meanwhile" meme is an accurate way of describing a certain country, culture, or lifestyle using a simple picture. Much like any other meme, you n...

PHOTOS: Philosotoddler Knows It All

Posted 01.13.2012

Kids might think they know it all, but Philosotoddler actually does. Armed with a inquisitive look on his darling, little face, Philosotoddler ques...

The One Sent To End Them All

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 01.11.2012

You've been a long time coming, "Sh*t Nobody Says" guy. Ever since that fateful day when the first internet explorer (other kind) sighted a man dresse...

Stuff Girls Say To Gay Guys

Thought Catalog | Posted 01.10.2012

According to Lessons I've Learned From Internet Memes, girls say a lot of funny things that are often offensive. (Um, so where are the endless "...Guy...

22 Internet Memes That Will Baffle Future Historians

www.cracked.com | Posted 03.06.2012

As we've pointed out before, we're going to leave a lot of confused historians in our wake. We asked you to show us what sorts of bafflement will gree...

PHOTO: Nyan Cat Wins Christmas

Posted 12.27.2011

Taking the Christmas tree down is always a sad time, heralding as it does the end of holiday season. But we imagine that, for this couple, taking down...

Funniest Internet Memes Of 2011

Oddee.com | Posted 12.21.2011

The last 12 months have been a fertile time for people who follow internet trends and memes. Whether it was photoshopped pictures of pepper-sprayin...