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Shooting Stars
In this episode of Know Your Meme 101, internet experts Eric and Jon dive head-first into one of the biggest music video parody memes that swept across YouTube in March 2017.
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Cash Me Ousside
In this episode of Know Your Meme 101, Internet commentators Jon and Eric throw in their two cents on the viral stardom of Danielle Bregoli and her sensational catchphrase "cash me ousside, how bow dah?"
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Rule 34
Rule 34 of the Internet: If it exists, there is porn of it. Here’s a reminder why.
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The Mandela Effect
Was it the Berenstein Bears or the Berenstain Bears? Was it Oscar Meyer or Oscar Mayer? Did you remember it wrong, or have you been living in a parallel universe this whole time? Know Your Meme 101 explains the Mandela Effect.
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Increasingly Verbose Memes
In this pilot episode of our new meme explainer web series, we take a look back at the increasingly verbose meme that became a sensation in January and talk about why everything gets longer and shittier as time goes on.
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Intro to Pokémon Memes (Part II)
Know Your Meme's Internet scientists explore some of the most notable character memes that emerged from the children's anime TV series in this second part of our intro to Pokémon memes!
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Intro to Pokémon Memes (Part I)
Your very own Know Your Meme legend is about to unfold! A world of dreams and adventures with Pokemon Memes awaits!
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Troll Science
Troll Science (also known as “Troll Physics”) is a rage comic series illustrating various experiments that are based on faulty understanding of scientific concepts. The pseudo-scientific drawings are usually accompanied by Trollface and used to mislead the viewers or frustrate science educators and students for their obvious errors.
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Fanfiction
Fanfiction is literature written solely by fans of a particular work, and is thus both non-canonical to the original work yet also based off the characters and settings of such a work. Though fanfiction is not a product of the Internet, the Internet has proliferated such literature to proportions greater than those it could have achieved in print.
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That Really Rustled My Jimmies
“That Really Rustled My Jimmies” is an expression that is used to convey feelings of discontent or discomfort in response to someone else’s post in imageboards and discussion forums, most notably on 4chan.
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Homestuck
Homestuck is an interactive fiction-like webcomic created by artist Andrew Hussie and is the 4th comic series to be published on the website MS Paint Adventures. It has gained a significant fanbase on the Internet, and many fans have directly collaborated with Hussie on the comic.
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Futurama
Futurama is an animated TV series based around the main protagonist Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy from the 20th century who was cryogenically frozen for 1000 years, and his adventures in the future. The show was created by Matt Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
