Know Your Meme Editorials

News, research, and dispatches from our editorial staff.

Friendraiser for Orivia Gurin

Friendraiser for Orivia Gurin

Olivia (a.k.a Orivia) is our chief administrator of exteriors design at KYM HQ. She loves working on memes, art and pretty websites, but needs more internet friends. Be a nice person and friend her on Know Your Meme!

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Q&A with David Horvitz

Q&A with David Horvitz

We recently had a moment to chill out with David Horvitz, the Brooklyn-based artist who started the internet wildfire of "heads in freezer" photos--codenamed 241543903.

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Internet God: Nic Cage

Internet God: Nic Cage

Kicking off our celebrity-meme profile series, "Gods of the Internets," with one of the most recognizable actors in both Hollywood and Internet: Nicolas Cage.

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Wired Mag: Patton Oswalt Talks about Etewaf

Wired Mag: Patton Oswalt Talks about Etewaf

Stand-up comic slash writer Patton Oswalt gives his two cents on the rise of mainstream nerd-dom and how our ways of consuming pop culture is drastically changing in the era of Etewaf--"Everything That Ever Was, Available Forever."

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KYM Sculpture Contest: Results!

KYM Sculpture Contest: Results!

The Know Your Meme Sculpture Contest results are here! We'd like to give a big two thumbs up for everyone who participated in the second round of KYM community-building exercise and hope y'all enjoy them.

And remember, you are all winners, it's just that some are bigger winners than the rest.

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Memes in 2010: Antoine Dodson

Memes in 2010: Antoine Dodson

And without further ado, KYM presents…

The Meme of the Year: Antoine Dodson & Bed Intruder Song! For more insights and highlights on the year's biggest internet phenomenon, check out Elspeth's video report and episode notes inside.

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Memes in 2010: Downfall

Memes in 2010: Downfall

In April, YouTube turned into a battleground of copyrights and fair use doctrine when hundreds of "Downfall" parody videos were taken down on behalf of the German production studio Constantin Films.

In a special two-part KYM episode, Internet scientists Elspeth & Yatta explain how Constantin’s attempt has only drawn more attention to the meme and how to dispute a wrongful copyright claim on YouTube.

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