Why Is the Internet So Exhausting? Blame Your Crowdsourced Bosses
It's old hat by now to say “you are the product” on social media. Often, that bon mot is used to explain why social media is free to access. But that’s just…
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Ukraine Memes Proliferate Despite Grim Realities of War
A giant Adolf Hitler bends down and pats a docile Vladimir Putin on the cheek, master to pupil, in a picture posted on Ukraine's official Twitter account on…
Volodymyr Zelensky Is Not a Meme
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s family photo keeps appearing in my social media feeds. Perhaps you’ve seen it, too. The picture shows the politician…
‘That’s Not My Name,’ Celebrities, and When a Meme Is Over
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Memes, they say, are dead…
IMF calls on El Salvador to stop using Bitcoin as legal tender, memes fly in response | ZDNet
The International Monetary Fund board has urged El Salvador to…
This Was the Year When Finance Jumped the Doge
None of that would matter if it all remained confined to the realm of social media. Except the past few years have witnessed the explosion of zero-commission…
The Year in Overflow Culture
For at least a century, nearly two, the chin-strokers of the world have been obsessed with the idea of “high” and “low” culture: poetry versus pop, ballet…
The Best Internet Memes of 2021
2021 was supposed to be the year we started recovering from the train-wreck of a year that was 2020. Instead, it turned out to be a much longer version of…
Discord now lets you send up to 10 (accessible) memes at a time
Discord has updated its Windows and macOS desktop clients to let users add alt text for image attachments, the service has announced on Twitter. It’s a…
‘Tiger King 2’ Provides More Memes Than Answers
Toward the end of the third episode of Tiger King 2—Netflix’s follow-up to March 2020’s explosive docuseries about the wild lives of big cat collectors and…