“Kamala is Brat,” Dark Brandon, childless cat ladies—they’re almost as well known as this year’s presidential candidates themselves. While these and other examples of memes are a source of ...

Want to make your social profiles accessible, too? Don't forget about the memes. Credit: Shutterstock / Photo Melon, Antonio Guillem The meme economy rarely falters, and as the impetus for much of our ...

Long before people could simply open their social media platform of choice and enjoy a seemingly endless scroll of memes at their fingertips, they got similar content from comic strips like The Far ...

For the last two decades, some of the weirdest and most creative things on the internet played out in images and GIFs. There have always been terrible memes, but for years, memes as a category were ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. A meme is a shortcut to a universal human emotion. But to someone from a ...

In 2021, it felt like memes were being made at a breakneck pace. Somehow, they seemed stranger than ever. Meme-makers used photo-editing apps to modernize classical works of art, brought two films ...

Zohran Mamdani as a creepy trick-or-treater, Gavin Newsom body-slamming Donald Trump and Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero. This ...

“Meme,” coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, has been used in Times articles about genes, stocks and of course, Bernie Sanders. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or ...

A cute animal picture with a pithy saying can spread like wildfire across social media. Memes are contagious, infecting the internet and your mind. But those cute animal pictures can be dangerous.