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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

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

Serious Syrian Memes

Like the rest of the internet, the Syrian memeverse is messy, argumentative, and prone to stupidity and hyperbole. Full story

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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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

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

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