How best to greet a unicycling frog? Our regular column examines the unruly rules of internet etiquette As the American writer EB White famously put it: “Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog – ...

There are a lot of things that make memes funny. There are juxtapositions, cultural references, and absurd or catchy phrases that stick in our heads. Dat boi, one of 2016’s biggest entries into ...

If you’ve spent much time on the internet in the last few weeks, you’ve probably encountered Dat Boi. The Boi in question is a unicycling frog, sometimes in GIF form, sometimes static, usually ...

When Maxine, a 17-year-old junior in high school, met her boyfriend, "what had happened was, we shared a connection with three things: music, dogs and memes." So when her boyfriend promposed to her — ...

If there’s anything that’s defined the 2010s, it’s the rise of the meme. From being a word that people had no idea how to pronounce (we’ll never forget Gemma Collins and her ‘me-mays’), to the purest ...

Whatever else you might say about 2016, it was the greatest year yet for meme culture. Dozens of large and highly productive internet subcultures collided this year with mainstream cultural consumers: ...

What did we have this summer? Memes! In some ways, memes are better than music. Music reminds you that you have a soul, and serotonin receptors in your brain. Music is emotion rattling around your ...