Memes
Antimatter uses memes to turn C students into C+ students
Antimatter is an edtech company that operates under a simple, enticing premise: If a student really understands a topic, then they’ll be able to make a meme about it. “To be able to shitpost,
From Balenciaga Pope to the Great Cascadia Earthquake, AI images are creating a new reality
Last fall, Tumblr users raved about Martin Scorsese’s 1973 film “Goncharov,” starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. They hailed the lesser-known Scorsese classic as the greatest mafia movie ever
TikTok’s ‘corecore’ is the latest iteration of absurdist meme art
TikTok goes a little overboard when it comes to categorizing every last aesthetic into its own microtrend. You notice it when Spotify Wrapped calls your music taste goblincore, or when you strangely e
Antimatter brings shitposting to the classroom
“To be able to shitpost, you have to understand the subject matter really well,” Antimatter founder Jonathan Libov deadpans. “In a sense, shitposting is the highest form of conscious
Step up your meme game with Antimatter’s Reverse Meme Search app
Like it or not, memes are part of how we communicate now — we even reference memes in our headlines. But iterating upon existing memes can be a needlessly clunky user experience. First, you need
The red flag meme is a red flag for accessibility
If you’ve been on Twitter lately, you’ve probably seen the red flag meme that’s going around — you quote a phrase that would be a “red flag” for someone to say to y
Under quarantine, media is actually social
The flood of status symbol content into Instagram Stories has run dry. No one is going out and doing anything cool right now, and if they are, they should be shamed for it. Beyond sharing video chat h
Bloomberg memes push Instagram to require sponsorship disclosure
Instagram is changing its advertising rules to require political campaigns’ sponsored posts from influencers to use its Branded Content Ads tool that adds a disclosure label of “Paid Partn
300M-user Imgur launches Melee, a gaming meme app
Ten years after its debut, 300-million-monthly-user Imgur is one of the last massively popular yet unpersonalized home pages on the internet. Because everyone sees the same upvoted posts when they ope
Meme editor Kapwing grows 10X, raises $11M
Kapwing is a laymen’s Adobe Creative Suite built for what people actually do on the internet: make memes and remix media. Need to resize a video? Add text or subtitles to a video? Trim or crop o
TikTok adds Giphy integration to import Stickers and export TikTok memes to the rest of the world
TikTok is the breakout hit in social media apps at the moment — it’s currently ranked first in entertainment, and 12th overall in terms of download popularity on iOS, and 8th on Android in
300M-user meme site Imgur raises $20M from Coil to pay creators
Meme creators have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across the web, their jokes prop up social networks like Instagram and Twitter that pay back none of their ad revenue to artists
It’s time to pay serious attention to TikTok
If you haven’t been paying attention to TikTok, you haven’t been paying attention. The short-form video app hailing from Beijing’s ByteDance just had its biggest month ever with the
Facebook is secretly building LOL, a cringey teen meme hub
How do you do, fellow kids? After Facebook Watch, Lasso and IGTV failed to become hits with teens, the company has been quietly developing another youthful video product. Multiple sources confirm that
Kapwing is Adobe for the meme generation
Need to resize a video for IGTV? Add subtitles for Twitter? Throw in sound effects for YouTube? Or collage it with other clips for the Instagram feed? Kapwing lets you do all that and more for free fr
YouTube is pulling Tide Pod Challenge videos
YouTube appears to be trying to get ahead of any wider societal outcry over (yet more) algorithmically accelerated idiocy on its platform -- and is removing Tide Pod Challenge videos.
Facebook’s ‘comment a memory’ meme should replace ‘HBD!’
I find it truly sad the way Facebook has led us to reduce wishing friends a happy birthday to a meaningless, generic chore. It's not Facebook's fault. It gives us an open-ended comment box. But our la
Prisma adds to its armoury, integrating GagBot’s AI meme-generator
Ever get stuck for that perfect gag-line on a photo of your friends? You want to turn even an ordinary photo into an internet meme, but maybe you just can’t think of that hilarious caption? Well, no
How to talk about cryptocurrency at the holiday dinner table
You’re sitting down to a nice meal and your aunt, always one step ahead, mentions she wants to start investing in Bitcoin. You freeze, a drip of gravy plopping off the ladle. It’s your time to shi
Imgur’s favorite folders turn 250M meme lords into curators
Either you're one of 250 million monthly Imgurians, or you probably have no idea what Imgur is. But those who are part of the addictive image-sharing community know there's been one feature at the top