Visual Analysis: Bodies on the Floor!
Playing Dead: South Korea / 2003 – 2004 / Inspired by Japanese anime Crayon Shin-chan / Results A plat ventre: France / 2004 / Art website started by Alexis Clairet and Stenkat in July 2004 / Results...
View ArticleVisual Analysis: Rickroll
It’s been four years since Rickrolling became the most well-known prank on the Internet. So, just how many people have been baited throughout the years? It’s nearly impossible to tell, but dangit, we...
View ArticleVisual Analysis: Dimensions of Rage
From simple comics about life’s daily frustrations, rage comics have grown into a format that includes a rich visual language of a huge number of MS paint faces. Images of submission, disbelief, joy,...
View ArticleMonthly Review: May 2011
Monthly Review: May 2011 Highlights: The month of May kicked off with some high-octane news events like the UK Royal Wedding and the White House confirmation of Osama bin Laden’s death, spawning a...
View ArticleIntroducing KYMdb Categories
For nearly two years, we’ve been discussing how to categorize meme entries (see archived threads: (meme categories / meme classification / meme categories) and it’s finally here! This article explain...
View ArticleVisual Analysis: LulzSecurity
LulzSec is an anonymous group of hackers who recently soared into the status of Internet pranksters du jour after releasing massive volumes of personal information in a series of hacks against...
View ArticleVisual Analysis: Anonymous Hacktivists
Anonymous has been involved in activism over the years, much of it including online activity of dubious legality. In recent time, Hacktivism has become a method of choice for making their voices heard....
View ArticleMonthly Review: June 2011
Monthly Review: June 2011 The exploits of hacker collective LulzSec dominated the Internets this month, with an impressive track record of over a dozen hacks and DDoS protests against various...
View ArticleVisual Analysis: Worldwide Cybercrime Complaints and Laws
From the News International’s epic phone hacking scandal to the relentless exploits of post-Lulzsec hacking groups, hacking stories are everywhere in the news media. …So where’s the international...
View ArticleMonthly Review: July 2011
Monthly Review: July 2011 This month’s highlights from the Internet: The Anonymous collective takes the baton from Lulzsec in the latest hacking sprees against government and corporate websites...
View ArticleMemeFight: Round One
MemeFight: How It Works Video Games – E3 2012 G4’s Attack of the Show presents MemeFight, a month-long battle of Internet memes! The first-round battles were carefully chosen from a list of over 200...
View ArticleMemefight: Round Two
It’s time for Round 2 of Memefight, the month-long battle of Internet memes by G4’s Attack of the Show! The first-round battles were carefully chosen from a list of over 200 well-known Internet memes...
View ArticleMEMEFIGHT: Round Three
Round Three, Fight! Game Reviews – E3 2012 – AOTS Exclusive It’s time for Round 3 of MEMEFIGHT, the month-long battle of Internet memes by G4’s Attack of the Show! Only 8 memes are left as we draw...
View ArticleMEMEFIGHT: Semifinal Round
MEMEFIGHT: Semifinal Round Game Reviews – E3 2012 – AOTS Exclusive Less than three weeks ago, there were 32 memes going head-to-head. Now, there are last four standing in the semifinal round of Attack...
View ArticleMEMEFIGHT: Final Round
Final Battle: Isaiah Mustafa vs. Demotivational Posters The final battle of MemeFight is upon us, and after having suavely hacked his way through the competition (including a Final Four tussle with...
View ArticleMonthly Review: August 2011
Monthly Review: August 2011 Search Interest In comparison of search interest, Michele Bachmaan’s Newsweek cover photo generated the highest volume of Google search queries, followed by the photo fad...
View ArticleQ&A with Cole Stryker, Author of the 4chan Book Epic Win for Anonymous
Cole Stryker is the author of Epic Win for Anonymous, a book detailing a typical day of life on the world’s largest anonymous imageboard site 4chan, its closely affiliated group Anonymous, as well as...
View ArticleInterview with James Marshall, Smiley List Compiler
Index Page of James Marshall’s Emoticons List In the early 1990s, a man named James Marshall took it upon himself to create the Canonical Smiley (and 1-Line Symbol) List. By 2008, he had compiled 2231...
View ArticleMonthly Review: September 2011
Monthly Review: September 2011 “”In this month’s issue: California taxidermist Chuck Testa rose to viral stardom overnight with a little help of YouTube videomakers Rhett & Link and their IFC...
View ArticleQ&A with Shira Lazar, Host and Producer of What's Trending Blog
Shira Lazar is the host and executive producer of the daily news program / weekly live show What’s Trending. In early September 2011, Shira Lazar found herself surrounded in a controversy after a CBS...
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