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“Gen X: We straight up raised ourselves,” reads the caption on one popular internet meme, a photo of an unhelmeted child on a rickety-looking bicycle popping a wheelie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

"More encounters mean more footage of raccoons being funny and in today's fast-moving, saturated feeds, that footage can become a meme almost instantly."

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

We might also consider completely removing the term ultra because it is weirdly emotional and sounds more like a meme than science.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

Studios have become fixated on hunting down every short film, internet meme and indie video game with the potential to “put something new and fresh on the screen,” Lee said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The same meme makes the rounds every storm: “Tornado season PSA: Bras on, teeth in!”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

It was one of those memes that lasted a news cycle before the headlines faded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

But cosplayers can also embody everything from fast food brands, internet browsers and memes to intangible ideas like gravity or hunger, while also experimenting with gender.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

The prime minister's videos, intended to quell anger, have been turned into jokes and memes.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

NEW DELHI—India’s education minister resigned on Saturday, handing the country’s youth movement a major victory and showing the growing heft of a Gen Z movement that began just months ago as online memes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Many of the silliest ambiguities in the Internet memes come from newspaper headlines and magazine tag lines precisely because they have been stripped of all punctuation.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“Time to meme like we have never memed before,” wrote Reddit user chance901.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

After Grimes and Musk split, he memed his way into being forced to buy Twitter for way too much money.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

GameStop stock wasn’t the first issue to get memed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

By his own admission, it was a bold move, one that turned him into one of the most famously memed figures in India.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025

That said, it’s always a gamble for a memed figure to lean into their own joke; it can kill the momentum.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2024

As for the spoofing and memeing of the 60-second spot, Trotter said she and her colleagues just “can’t ignore it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2025

In 2020 Sen. Ed Markey fended off his primary challenger—a young Kennedy!—by memeing himself into winning the youth vote.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2024

We said, 'No.' They didn't think of the impact that would have on how people would pick that up and start memeing it, and that's what happens with these things.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2022

“We advocate for the adoption of biohacking wherever possible, even if it means memeing the desired outcome” That is until they saw Gates’ comment about digital certificates on Reddit.

From The Verge ● Jun. 5, 2021

We might of been mistakenly memeing him in ...

From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2016

And when watching the series, there is no question about the skill of the team members, so I was initially a little shocked at the eventual meming of the show.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2020

On the left, we spend our time calling out and shutting down, lolling and meming and dropping mics.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2017