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The Biden campaign is looking to hire a seasoned meme lord
President Joe Biden needs a meme manager.
Dogecoin investor sues Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX for $258 billion
The crypto sell-off of the past several weeks has erased hundreds of billions of dollars in paper gains and is leaving plenty of had-been crypto millionaires looking for something else…
There are no easy answers for tech in the aftermath of the Buffalo tragedy
As a gunman wrought terror in a Buffalo, New York supermarket over the weekend, the violence was, yet again, streamed live online. The latest U.S. mass shooting left 10 people…
Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators
After taking on TikTok with music-powered features last month, Snapchat this morning is officially launching a dedicated place within its app where users can watch short, entertaining videos in a…
Nervous? Here, watch Philadelphia count votes on a live stream — that should help
No matter whom you support for President, it’s a nerve-wracking morning as many states come down to mere tens of thousands of votes. And perhaps no state looms larger than…
Sundance: Feels Good Man charts a path of redemption for Pepe
Can a meme be redeemed? That’s the central question in Arthur Jones’ Feels Good Man — a documentary that premiered at Sundance this year charting the course of the creator…
YouTube’s bully problems prove that community doesn’t scale
I have a confession to make. It’s something that I live with daily. It’s not that I’m not proud of it…it’s just that I’m never sure how people will see…
Cinematic train wreck, “The Room”, is now on YouTube in its entirety
The Room has been ranked with Plan 9 From Outer Space as a strong contender for the “best” worst movie ever made — and it’s now available in its entirety on YouTube. Written,…
What you need to know ahead of the EU copyright vote
European Union lawmakers are facing a major vote on digital copyright reform proposals on Wednesday — a process that has set the Internet’s hair fully on fire. Here’s a run…
Anonymous vows to take down Q
A cheerful video released by YourAnonNews suggests that the murky hacker collective called Anonymous is now after the murky deep state collective called Q. Q, to the uninitiated, is a…
How reports from 4chan on the Las Vegas shooting showed up on Google Top Stories
In the early hours of the morning as reports were coming in about the mass shooting in Las Vegas, some of the largest websites in the world were distributing unverified…
The rise of 4chan politics
We are entering an era when our digital lives spill out uncontrollably into our “real” lives. Whether or not you believe these two are separate, I would wager that the…
Challenges face former Cheezburger CEO joining Y Combinator’s New Cities project
Y Combinator’s ambitious New Cities project has a new leader today as Ben Huh, former CEO of The Cheezburger Network, joins the effort. The initiative, previously announced back in June, aims to take…
Why The Stick Figure Meme Caught On So Fast And Why We Hate It So Much
The “Be Like Me” meme (that stick figure about [insert name here] blowing up on your Facebook feed) is the latest viral hit glorifying our greatness – and it’s annoying…
