The original Flappy Bird may have been taken down, but numerous clever parodies have sprung up to replace it, including several Internet-friendly characters like Doge, Nicolas Cage and a very brave fedora.

Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen has removed the popular mobile game from both the Google Play and iOS app stores after tweeting that its success "ruins my simple life."

While American figure skater Ashley Wagner's Olympic debut performance may have failed to win the favor of the judges, her candid reaction to the disappointing score instantly became a hit reaction GIF back home.

As the recently freed Pussy Riot Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were wapping up their U.S. media rally for the human rights in Russian prisons this week, the Russian feminist punk band denounced both in an open letter sent via e-mail published on its Livejournal blog.

After the new Sonic the Hedgehog franchise Sonic Boom was announced, complete with trailers for an upcoming video game and television series, Twitter users had a field day mocking the new character designs.