These are the stories behind the real people who became memes on the internet. In many cases, memes are totally based on the average experiences of regular people. The weirdest part is that sometimes the people depicted in the memes don't even realize that they have become a me...
Davis became the subject of memes, Saturday Night Live sketches, and even a satiric adult novel. Dinesh D'Souza Photo: Dinesh D'Souza Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 One of the loudest voices of modern conservatism, Dinesh D'Souza denounces multiculturalism, LGBTQ+ rights, and ra...
According to a popular meme, Karen is a middle-aged white woman with an asymmetrical bob who is always asking to speak to the manager. She’s entitled, she’s ignorant, and she’s often a racist, too. As the meme has become more and more popular, however, its meaning has become ...
(poc), i came to discover how much joy these montages of overlaid images and text could bring me. today, amidst the daily onslaught of dystopian headlines, memes bring me more joy than anything else on the internet. initially, i became involved in online poc communities as an act of ...
Some of the biggest reality TV moments in the last 20 years have been created by people who were not remotely fame-adjacent when they first appeared on screens. In the early seasons of Love Island you had Olivia Attwood and Cara Delahoyde-Massey (née Delahoyde), who became walking memes pu...
From the “zipline girl” to the ex-thief with a catchphrase, here’s what happened to the ordinary people who became overnight sensations in the last 30 years When Yu Yanqia got her first job offer, there were slightly more news cameras watching than for mostfresh college graduatesthis ...
Here are some celebrities who have come out as bisexual over the years. 1 Dove Cameron Amy Sussman//Getty Images The 27-year-old singer and actress released her LGBTQ+ anthem, "Boyfriend," in 2022, but she's vocalized that she always knew she was queer. "I wasn't ever afraid of ...
That included a number of "high profile" bloggers in the echo echamber who used to be interesting but have become to wrapped up in trying to tell others how they should do things, folks who merely repeat memes and "hot" stories, and so on. So often I would just look at and think ...
Bored Pandareached out to the r/insanepeoplefacebook moderator team to learn more about the community from the perspective of those who actually manage the day-to-day. Two members of the team, both with four years of experience, were kind enough to open up about the subreddit. One of the...
I became a fan ofThe Magnus Archives, a horror podcast that’s amazing and dark and very queer, and there’s an entity called the Lonely that pokes at some of my deepest fears about the way I live my own life and relate to others– ...