Italian Brain Rot exploded in 2025 as a surreal, AI-fueled meme genre featuring over-the-top Italian stereotypes, exaggerated accents, operatic music, and nonsense visuals that felt intentionally ...

In the world of social media, anything can be turned into a meme in a matter of minutes…especially if you’re a celebrity. One Instagram story or funny moment on a red carpet can become a widespread ...

What Is a Boomer Meme? More often than not, a Boomer meme is a younger generation's joke that attempts to point out the irony of the Boomer generation's tendency to refuse to accept change. They can ...

Director Nick Canfield can’t recall exactly when it happened. Was it while he was rewatching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or The Secret of My Success, two comedy faves from his childhood? Or maybe it was ...

From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? Which implies, of course, that memes lack ...

TikTok users spent much of 2025 complaining that memes had slipped into pure nonsense. Consequently, a growing crowd is pushing for a full cultural refresh, dubbed the Great Meme Reset of 2026, set to ...

On TikTok, some reckon that memes are less funny than they used to be, and have proposed drastic action. Hence, in 2026, TikTok memes are scheduled to change, wiping away the current slate of trends, ...

Two years ago Say Anything released the Sufjan Stevens-inspired “Carrie & Lowell & Cody (Pendent)” from …Is Committed, an album frontman Max Bemis promised would satirize emo bands “trying to be the ...

If you haven’t heard by now, the Louvre—the world's busiest museum—was robbed last Sunday. But this wasn’t the stuff of an Ocean’s Eleven film or The Da Vinci Code, conducted in the middle of the ...

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