Q&A With Nate Dern, "Huh?" Guy
Earlier this month, Redditor natedern shared the video of his first commercial to the “Funny” subreddit. The video reached the front page with over 31,000 upvotes in 24 hours, becoming a rage face...
View ArticleVote Now: Your Favorite Meme of 2011
We Need Your Votes! We’re kicking off our KYM Community Appreciation Week with a special poll to decide on the best memes to come out of this year. The voting begins at 6:30 PM (ET) and will continue...
View ArticleKYM Thanks Awards 2011
List of Recipients With the end of 2011 approaching, we’d like to take a moment to give our recognitions and thanks to some of the most outstanding researchers and contributors on Know Your Meme’s...
View ArticleMonthly Review: November 2011
Monthly Review: November 2011 In this month’s issue: A spending bill introduced by House Republicans that would allow tomato paste on pizza to remain classified as a vegetable gave birth to the...
View ArticleBest Memes of 2011
KYM Review: Memes of 2011 With another year’s end quickly approaching, Know Your Meme community and staff count down the top 10 highlights of 2011 from the frontiers of the Internets. The Best Memes...
View ArticleKYM on CheezburgerTV
Know Your Meme on CheezburgerTV If you ever wanted to check out the latest video updates from Know Your Meme or other Cheezburger network blogs like FAIL Blog, Memebase and I Can Has Cheezburger...
View Article2011 Meme-Themed Holiday Cards
2011 Know Your Meme Holiday Cards In celebrating the end of year holidays, Know Your Meme is proud to present the 2011 collection of meme-themed greeting cards! The cover images were designed by...
View ArticleMonthly Review: December 2011
Monthly Review: December 2011 Kicking off the new year with month of December in review: Texas governor Rick Perry found his toughest audience on YouTube after launching a pro-Christian and...
View ArticleQ&A With Douglas Reinhardt, Creator of "F**k Yeah! Ryan Gosling"
Douglas Reinhardt is the guy not wearing a hat who is also not Blake Griffin. In December 2008, Orange County-based writer Douglas Reinhardt started the blog Fuck Yeah! Ryan Gosling while home with...
View ArticleMonthly Review: January 2012
Monthly Review: January 2012 The year of 2012 began with unsettling rumors of an Internet apocalypse and a spectacular online protest against the U.S. legislation of controversial copyright bills PIPA...
View Article2012 Memeys Internet Music Awards
Know Your Meme proudly present our very first Memeys Internet Music Awards! For this year’s inaugural event, we compiled an epic list of YouTube videos in the music category to honor the best, the...
View ArticleInternet Science Field Report: The Defensive Internet
The Defensive Internet #PIPA, #SOPA, #Blackout Tweets on January 18th, 8am – 8pm The Internet has a persecution complex. And why shouldn’t it? With each session of congress arrive new laws aiming to...
View ArticleMonthly Review: February 2012
Monthly Review: February 2012 Highlights from this month: February began with “When Did This Become Hotter Than This,” a clever photographic commentary on the current definition of “hotness” which...
View ArticleInternet Science Field Report: Kony Ruins Friendships
Kony Ruins Friendships I have at least one close friend who has enacted a strict policy of un-friending people who so much as mention Kony 2012 on Facebook. I have several other friends who have made...
View ArticleQ&A with Futurist Jason Silva
Jason Silva wants you to experience awe for what humanity has accomplished and what may be in store for the future. One of the founding producers of Current TV, Silva co-hosted Max and Jason: Still Up,...
View ArticleInternet Meme Blowout Sale!
Dear User, Thank you for purchasing an internet meme. Your shipment will be delivered via e-mail within nine thousand business days. Interested in buying another one? Just for today, we’re offering the...
View ArticleMonthly Review: March 2012
Monthly Review: March 2012 March was abuzz with the arrival of Kony 2012, a half-hour documentary film detailing the atrocious crimes of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and how to help in tracking down and...
View ArticleQ&A with Chris Torres, the Creator of Nyan Cat
Today marks the first year anniversary of Nyan Cat, the flying pop tart kitten that became one of the most watched YouTube videos last year. Since its debut in early April 2011, Nyan Cat has been...
View ArticleQ&A with Susan Blackmore, Author of The Meme Machine
Susan Blackmore is a professor of psychology at the University of Plymouth who believes memes, like genes, are evolutionary replicators that are subject to the forces of natural selection. After...
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