August 11th, 2010

Elyse Porterfield/HOPA Jenny Answers Your Questions [Video]

What do you do after you become an internet meme?

After you capture the hearts and minds of every disgruntled worker in America, after you inspire a string of flattering (and not so flattering) Facebook pages, and after you fool a bevy of mainstream media outlets (aside from that sly Peter Kafka- oh, you’ll get him next time)— well, logic dictates that your next move is a splashy debut on → Read More

August 11th, 2010

Confirmed: HOPA Dry Erase Girl Is A Hoax, Identity Revealed

“Girl quits her job on dry erase board, emails entire office (33 Photos)” is indeed a hoax, say its creators John and Leo Resig.

I’d love to pull out some well-worn meta-media analysis about how memes are increasingly where we get our culture and we need to be more circumspect when filtering information yada yada, but I’ll leave that to my betters. Elyse Porterfield or “Jenny DryErase,” who went… → Read More