Analysis & Essays
In-depth essays exploring the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of internet meme culture. Each piece examines how memes shape and reflect the world we live in.
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The Meme Economy
How memes function as cultural currency
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Memes & Politics
From Hope to Pepe to Brat Summer
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Ethics of Meme Fame
When the internet chooses you
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Death of the Author
When creations escape their creators
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Black Culture & Memes
Credit, appropriation, and the pipeline
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Corporate Memes
Brands, Fellow Kids, and the awkward embrace
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Meme Lifecycles
Birth, virality, death, and resurrection
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International Memes
The internet is not just American
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Generational Literacy
Why your parents don't get it
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Memes as Coping
Humor in the face of collective trauma
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Attention Economy
Optimizing for engagement
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Meme Law
Copyright, trademark, and the courts
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Cringe Culture
From mockery to empathy
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Platform DNA
How Reddit, 4chan, Twitter & TikTok each evolved their own humor