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We spoke to the author of 'The Ambivalent Internet' about the rise of the right online. Professor Whitney Phillips, author of This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, a book about trolling, has teamed up with Professor Ryan M Milner to pen another book about internet culture. The Ambivalent Internet is about how we express ourselves online, the ways in which we do it, why we do it and how it ends up the way it does. The book was written on the eve of Donald Trump's ascension to the world's highest office, and deals, in part, with the...

I couldn't resist....so many memes this week “The needs of United employees outweigh the needs of the many.” #UnitedMovieLines ~United introduces nose bleed seats. #NewUnitedAirlinesMottos "We've perfected Chinese takeout" #NewUnitedAirlinesMottos ~"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You took my father's seat. Prepare to be re-accommodated." #UnitedMovieLines Our service will knock you out #NewUnitedAirlinesMottos ~United 25:17 ...And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my re-accommodation upon thee!" #UnitedMovieLines This could have been much worse. Imagine if he was wearing leggings. #NewUnitedAirlinesMottos ~"It removes itself from the plane or else it gets the hose again." #UnitedMovieLines...

THE REAL STORY BEHIND HILLARY CLINTON’S “CARTOON NAZI FROG” WILL BLOW YOUR MIND I’ll cut right to the chase:Pepe the Frog isn’t a white nationalist symbol.Pepe the Frog isn’t a harmless meme propagated by teenagers on the internet.Pepe the Frog is, in fact, the modern-day avatar of an ancient Egyptian deity accidentally resurrected by online imageboard culture. Does that sound like the most [bat****] crazy thing you’ve ever heard?Strap in, friendo.  You’re in for one hell of a ride.(UPDATE 11/9/16: Well memed, America, well memed.  A post-election follow-up to this article has been added here.)When Memes Collide: The Origins of Pepe the Frog The precise...

Memes are so fun...  The Plan  If you had a pet, what would it be?  Finally!  When one digs deeper...  A collection like no other  Damn Straight! (no pun intended)    Well, actually....  What would Trump be, if he wasn't doing an infomercial?  You may ask yourself...  Hypnotizing  Send What?  What everyone on the left is thinking....  When asked about Democrats?  Favorite Animal?  Oh Jeez!  Who is extinct?  YES!!  Damn, he's good!  Who controls the purse strings?  Yeh, what he said.

Donald Trump Jr. ‏@DonaldJTrumpJr 1 hour ago In CO today, stopped by Platte River Networks, Company that deleted Clinton emails. I couldn't find any! 30k gone!?

Last last week, a neologism was born. Twitter was the incubator. "Cuckservative," a portmanteau of "conservative" and "cuckold" (i.e. a man whose wife has cheated on him) burned up Twitter as fans of Donald Trump's politicking warred with the movement conservatives who opposed it. RedState.com's Erick Erickson, the Daily Caller's Matt Lewis, and the team at the well-read conservative blog Ace of Spades were among the critics suddenly deluged with accusations of cuckservatism. Below, we explain.

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In post-Soviet Russia, you don’t make memes. Memes make (or unmake?) you. That is, at least, the only conclusion we can draw from an announcement made this week by Russia’s three-year-old media agency/Internet censor Roskomnadzor, which made it illegal to publish any Internet meme that depicts a public figure in a way that has nothing to do with his “personality.” Sad Keanu? Nope. Sad Putin? Absolutely not. “These ways of using [celebrities’ images] violate the laws governing personal data and harm the honor, dignity and business of public figures,” reads the policy announcement from Roskomnadzor. To be clear, this isn’t a new law passed by parliament...

You’ve probably heard the old statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters that they'd eventually pound out the complete works of Shakespeare. Now we know, thanks to the Internet, that this isn't true. The evidence can be seen by anyone who spends any time on Facebook, where sentient intelligence seems to have been replaced by boring insipid images. Facebook has gradually risen to a level of stature that’s taken on a dimension that’s even bigger than a posted photo of Kim Kardashian’s rear end. This premiere social media platform has evolved into an online political playground that...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has not been seen in public for nearly two weeks and the internet has responded to his vanishing act in the only way it knows how: memes.

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Some of these are pretty funny, like: -Mom Pants Convention -He was napping before going out to party with Jay Z and Beyoncé -It was for WORLD LEADERS, not COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS

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