A ‘Joke’ Cryptocurrency Called Garlicoin Isn’t Funny in 2018
From the creator of ‘Meme Insider’: A “joke” with a nearly $1 million market cap. Continue reading A ‘Joke’ Cryptocurrency Called Garlicoin Isn’t Funny in 2018
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No One Knows Why This Tweet Went Viral
I Went to the First Live Auction for Rare Pepes on the Blockchain
When the establishment art world butts up against memes and Bitcoin. Continue reading I Went to the First Live Auction for Rare Pepes on the Blockchain
Unpacking the Meaning of the ‘Starter Pack’ Meme
The joke is based almost entirely upon stereotyping people, and—predictably—this can lead into morally dubious territory. Continue reading Unpacking the Meaning of the ‘Starter Pack’ Meme
The Only Good Bitcoin Advice Is Four Years Old Today
Surreal Memes Are the Last Escape the Internet Has
The best part is that they’re about nothing at all. Continue reading Surreal Memes Are the Last Escape the Internet Has
Hackaday Prize Entry: Memes
Snap, Inc., the company behind Snapchat, is branding itself as a hardware company. What hardware does Snap make? Spectacles, or a camera attached to a pair of sunglasses. Snap, Inc. has a market value of around $30 Billion USD.
For his Hackaday Prize entry, [William Glover] is building a device that’s easily worth $100 Billion. It’s called SnappCat, and it’s a machine learning, AI, augmented reality, buzzword-laden camera that adds memes to pictures of cats. Better get in on the Series A now because this is 🔥🔥🔥.
Here’s the use case for SnappCat. Place a small device containing a camera …read more
The Password to the Latest NSA Leak Is a 4chan Meme
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Continue reading The Password to the Latest NSA Leak Is a 4chan Meme
Russia Has Deployed the First State-Sponsored Pepe
“We know what you’re doing. And it’s not impressive.” Continue reading Russia Has Deployed the First State-Sponsored Pepe
Ransomware tries its hand at being a deadly viral meme
Memes are weird things, and weren’t always about lolcats or frogs or whatever the latest terrible image macro doing the rounds happens to be. I quite like this line from Wikipedia on said subject: Proponents theorise that memes are a viral phenomenon t… Continue reading Ransomware tries its hand at being a deadly viral meme