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Top 5 Deadpooled Memes
While Greg and James were busy busting out all the new bells and whistles, Brad, Don, and I had some time to kill. After browsing through the Deadpool for way too long, chuckling at some hidden gems,...
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I Want The Old Everything Back!
About KYMdb 2.0 The Internet is a stronghold of stability and permanence. Invariably, everything works perfectly and nothing ever changes. Apps never crash, status updates are never lost, and no one...
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Tenso Research Shows Brazil Does Copyright Better Than You
Episode Notes: Tenso In writing the Tenso episode script, Don and I had so many things we wanted to say about how awesome Brazil is when it comes to their forward-thinking approach to democratizing...
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KYM 2.0 Features Explained
Ladies & Gentlemen, your shipment of KYM Database 2.0 has finally arrived! If you’re returning from an interweb hiatus, you’ve probably noticed some changes and new additions to the site, starting...
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Rageguy Goes to Hot Topic
Hot Topic Ventures into Memes Last week, American retail chain Hot Topic introduced a new t-shirt design featuring Rageguy, a stick figure character from the popular internet cartoons that had its...
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Bitches Looooove Saying Bitches!
Google Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin portrayed in Bitches Love X series “Bitch” is one of those words that carries the dual connotation of an insult or a playful greeting, depending on how you...
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Browse eBay, See Boxxy. What do?
Return of Boxxy Last week, we witnessed the alleged return of Boxxy, a.k.a The Queen of /b/, to the internet with her Inuyasha Messenger Bag eBay auction. However, the heralding of the queen has not...
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Monthly Review: November 2010
Wheeew, drama. November was full of it. Here’s some of the headlines & highlights from this month, hope you guys enjoy! If you’re looking for the past issues of KYM reviews, please check out our...
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Jimmy Wales Sees All
Wikipedia Fundraiser Campaign Over the past years, Wikipedia has seemed to transcend into the realm of public media, if anything based on the necessity of donations to keep it running. NPR has their...
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There's Something About Puddi
…What’s Giga Pudding? Here at the KYM Institute for Internet Studies, we’d like to take a moment to clarify some misinformation surrounding the Giga Pudding, the Japanese baking kit behind the...
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How To Troll Online Slacktivists
The Facebook cartoon profile picture fad did more to raise awareness of how prevalent slacktivism is than it did to prevent child abuse. It seems like if a meme makes people feel good about...
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The MemeChart Project
Hi KYM peoples, welcome to KYM Workshop #1: The MemeChart! As some of you might already know, our friend & researcher Jack Candle has undertaken a very good, very powerful initiative to compile a...
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The Know Your Meme Sculpture Contest
CONTEST OVER! THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED! Know Your Meme Sculpture Contest: An Illustrated How-To Have you ever wanted to be a Mich-4chan-gelo or a Rodin-ternet? Maybe you want to be a Henry...
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Basics of DDoS
News organizations have been covering the latest “terrorist” retaliations of Operation Payback surrounding the Wikileaks wires and the arrest of Julian Assange over the past few days. Major...
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KYM in Best Podcasts of 2010!
Hi KYM members & podcast lovers: We’re humbled and happy to announce that Know Your Meme has been selected as iTunes’ Best Podcasts of 2010! A definitive list of this year’s most notable podcast...
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Grammar, Narration, and Vampire Harry Potter
Anyone who has browsed the Internet long enough knows that there are very few English teachers lurking in the shadows ready to give you a failing grade. Language is an elusive beast indeed, but...
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When the DDoS Dust Settles
Now we understand the mechanism behind a DDoS attack and the background of Anonymous’ Operation: Payback, let’s take a look at some of the legal consequences that internet users might be facing in...
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Memes in 2010: Epic Beard Man
A New American Folktale: Epic Beard Man The legendary tale of Epic Beard Man began on a sunny day in February, when two passengers on an Oakland transit bus got into an argument-gone-fistfight, while...
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Memes in 2010: Effing Magnets
Insane Clown Posse Had a Theory The Detroit hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse decided that rapping about viciously murdering people with axes was getting old, so instead of hanging it up and trying a new...
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Anime Girls in Bullet Hell
Everyone, meet Cirno. This pretty little lady is an ice fairy, has her own lakeside real estate, hates frogs, is only around 60 years young, and is known to be called an idiot. She is one of the...
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