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'Lil Bub & Friendz' - Trailer
'Lil Bub & Friendz' follows the life and times of Bub and examines the internet-cat phenomenon, in general. Starring Lil Bub and Bub's owner, Mike Bridavsky, along with Grumpy Cat, Nyan Cat, Keyboard Cat, and meme-manager supreme Ben Lashes, the doc will premiere worldwide at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. Full story
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What Copyright Means for Memes
Since it was posted on April 5, 2011, a video called "Nyan Cat" has earned more than 89 million views, and set into motion one chapter in a long and sticky saga about the visual jokes, references, and ideas that fly around the internet--and the laws designed to stop them dead in Full story
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Serious Syrian Memes
Like the rest of the internet, the Syrian memeverse is messy, argumentative, and prone to stupidity and hyperbole. Full story
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It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Elected
None of the political memes mattered—but they were something to talk about, to share with your like-minded social media buddies, to spread through Tumblr and argue about on political blogs desperate for clicks. Following the gaffes and the spin and the bullshit-slinging was a fin… Full story
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Motherboard
Now I'm a Meme: Vermin Supreme
The first time I saw fringe presidential candidate Vermin Supreme on the internet, I thought he was dead serious, and I was terrified of him. I was convinced this weird guy was going to enslave us. Full story
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I Tried to Create Some Tumblr Rap Memes
Get rich, die tryin', or just Photoshop some pictures of rappers and see if Urban Outfitters will give you a book deal. Full story
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It's Every Video Game in the World
But Have We Gone Too Far?
Genes didn't fucking get us here. Shit, monkeys have genes. It's memes: the ability to tell the next generation what just happened-that's what put us on the map. If a monkey wasn't there, it didn't happen. Full story
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