Can AI do humor? A new study suggests artificial intelligence can create internet memes as funny as those made by humans. But ...

“The Internet in 1996 was still a dreamlike and innocent technology,” the baby’s creators say. Another extremely powerful meme format, the “image macro,”in the early years of the 2000 ...

Harmful stereotypes, misinformation and conspiracy theories have all found their way into meme format. Memes can transmit dangerous ideas, cloaked in humor that makes them more palatable.

This image, shared by the Instagram account @stupid.fricken.meme on April 6, 2021, resonated widely and went viral. Shortly after, Redditor /u/ZyeAxe introduced a new format, incorporating images ...

But viral fame didn’t come immediately. Around the same time, the “doge” meme format was taking root, with people pairing goofy dog pictures with off-kilter comic sans text, like “much wow ...