The surprising academic origins of memes Published: February 12, 2018 9:26am EST. Erhan Aslan, University of Reading. Author. Erhan Aslan ...

As someone who’s been into hilarious memes since the dawn of the internet, there’s nothing I love more than seeing where those iconic images actually came from. The X account @internetweird ...

Memes are everywhere. Easily sharable on any social media platform, and instantly remixable with little technical effort , they've become visual vehicles to share our thoughts with the outside world.

Often, the origins of such memes can be buried in context so deep that understanding their origins requires dedicated research. How important that is depends on why you want to understand the meme.

The marketing machine for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been fairly active over the last month, thanks in part to actor Peter Stormare's playlist of meme-worthy Replacer adverts. Things have come ...