Tamilisai Soundararajan

I enjoy trolls. They try to shake my confidence and bring me down with such remarks, but they never knew they helped me grow. They saw my curly hair, they saw my dark color, they saw my short stature and they started making memes. I know they can mock my appearance but they cannot claim I am corrupt or talk about my education or my eloquence.

Indian Public Servant

Vijay Sethupathi

I was active on Facebook for a while, responding to comments and thanking fans for their appreciation. But I found that the Facebook feed was numbing my emotions. I'd see an extraordinarily tragic news item, and even before I could react to it, see a hilarious meme right below it. This was confusing me.

Indian Actor

Susan Blackmore

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.

English Writer

Elon Musk

Generally, the view that I've had on Twitter is if you're on Twitter, you're in, like, the meme - you're in meme war land. If you're on Twitter, you're in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.

South African Businessman

Zoe Quinn

It's weird when you stop being a person to a lot of folks and just become a weird talking point. It's like you become a meme, and you're not a person anymore, and people don't mind stealing your life.

American Artist

Taylor Swift

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

American Singer

Kodie Shane

I will really go looking at memes and be crying sometimes.

American Musician

Daisy Shah

I have only become more popular since 'Race 3' memes.

Indian Actress

Lil Nas X

I was always making memes, and now I have music.

Sanya Malhotra

Memes often reflect current events or trends and gain popularity rapidly online.

Social Virality

Modifying existing memes with personal twists can enhance humor and shareability.

Creative Humor

The term 'meme' can be slang for anything popular or trending on the internet.

Internet Slang

Memes reveal a lot about a society's humor, current concerns, and values.

Cultural Insight

Not all cultural memes are meant to be funny; some spread ideas or movements.

Beyond Humor

Memes can be vessels for spreading complex ideologies in a simplified form.

Ideological Carrier

 She started interacting with people in these online spaces, and they made her feel smart, they made her feel validated. She started feeling a sense of community, started wondering if maybe some of these shocking memes might actually contain a kernel of truth. A few months later, she was in a car with some of her new internet friends

Inside the bizarre world...

 Maybe it needed someone who is turned on by numbers and graphs rather than just the big, sad face to get engaged. I mean, you've used it in your letter this year, you used basically this argument to say that aid, contrary to the current meme that aid is kind of worthless and broken, that actually it has been effective.

Why giving away our...

 a presentation, an analysis, somebody's looking for patterns in the data -- they get to look at all the data and they get it connected together, and the really important thing about data is the more things you have to connect together, the more powerful it is. So, linked data. The meme went out there.

Tim Berners-Lee: The...

 something to do whether it's twerking on snapchat or creating Kermit memes that's none of your business because the world is no longer yours we took away the Y's and create our own parser now with ours I said the world is no longer yours we became the Generation Y before you could

An ode to the millennial...

 not only what's going on on our planet, but what might be going on elsewhere in the cosmos. So first of all, I'd like to say something about memetics and the theory of memes, and secondly, how this might answer questions about who's out there,

Susan Blackmore: Memes...

 of excitement overdose and you know where it's gone or i mean i think deutsche is fun and you know i've always said don't bet the form of dogecoin uh fyi yeah but i i think i think it's it's i like dogs and i like memes and uh it's got

Elon Musk talks Twitter,...

 But it is a problem. We don't have much time, and I'm going to go over just a little bit of this and cut out, because there's a lot of other things that are going to be said. So let me just point memes are like viruses.

Dangerous memes PIPE Dan...

 like memes relating to the imminent election. That’s how you would like to go about spreading disinformation, but what kind of disinformation would be effective in manipulating young Greene supporters?

Can you outsmart a troll...

 where lies become truth and conspiracy becomes reality. As of May 2021, Facebook banned 250 groups linked to white supremacy. Often what starts as edgy memes that target young men

Interviewing a Former...

 are just a small percentage of that. Yet they get the most media attention. It's a very accurate meme; I didn't even make this one. This is just the truth.