Memes | The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2024-04-07T18:22:13+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/memes/index.xml https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Wes Davis <![CDATA[Unlock Donghua Jinlong’s food grade glycine]]> https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/7/24123519/donghua-jinlong-food-grade-glycine-tiktok-algorithm-memes 2024-04-07T14:22:13-04:00 2024-04-07T14:22:13-04:00
Donghua Jinlong’s factory. | Image: Donghua Jinlong Chemical Co.

TikTok isn't just useful for videos on robotic tape storage, Radiohead songs on step motors, and regretful congressmen. It's also a place where businesses can go viral by marketing their industrial products.

Because of that, I now know that a company called Donghua Jinlong Chemical makes food-grade glycine which, as the company reminds us in its TikTok marketing video, is "suitable as a flavor enhancer, sweetener, and nutritional supplement." Not only that, but it's "also used in pickles, sweet sauces, soy sauce, vinegar, and juices to improve taste." And, bonus, it's "a well-established brand in a large factory." If that doesn't get you re …

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]]> David Pierce <![CDATA[Elon Musk took a hit in Chancery Court — and another one in Mykonos]]> https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/22/23273966/elon-musk-chancery-court-mykonos-yacht 2022-07-22T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T09:00:00-04:00

Welcome to this week's edition of This Week in Chancery Court! Delaware's moment in the sun continues as the fight between Elon Musk and Twitter shifts from fiery tweets… to fiery legal filings.

Here's where we are: lawsuits. Twitter wanted to have a trial as quickly as possible. "This very public dispute harms Twitter with each passing day Musk is in breach," Twitter said in a legal filing. (The company also reported earnings going down, and basically blamed Musk for its weak performance the last three months.) Musk's team wanted to move the trial to next February so it could run more tests on Twitter's firehose to figure out… something, …

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]]> Catie Keck <![CDATA[AMC boss says company is exploring how to accept Shiba Inu along with other crypto]]> https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/8/22771149/amc-shiba-inu-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-litecoin-dogecoin 2021-11-08T19:26:26-05:00 2021-11-08T19:26:26-05:00

AMC boss Adam Aron said today that the theater chain is exploring how it can accept Shiba Inu in addition to other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin. In addition, AMC is evidently exploring its own cryptocurrency, which would truly cement the company as king of the memestocks.

That AMC appears to be flirting with the idea of accepting (another) meme currency in exchange for actual goods and services isn't entirely surprising. AMC was effectively rescued midway through the pandemic by meme stock Reddit traders, and Aron has been leaning heavily into the company's relationship with these shareholders ever since. Hearing about AMC's c …

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]]> Kim Lyons <![CDATA[Old memes are Bill Murray; dodging them is Tilda Swinton]]> https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/15/22579138/twitter-block-meme-feature-topics-photo-cannes-bill-murray 2021-07-15T16:51:09-04:00 2021-07-15T16:51:09-04:00
One of the photos from this Cannes photo shoot has been widely memed. Please make it stop. | Photo by Samir Hussein / WireImage

Twitter said Thursday it was hearing from users who were seeing too many topic suggestions in their home timelines and was moving to remedy the situation. "We're fixing that now, and will continue to improve Topics and find ways to show you the very best of Twitter. Things you want to see, that is," its Support account tweeted. To its credit, Twitter has seemed more responsive to users' complaints - or their lack of interest - of late; in addition to Thursday's topics announcement, Twitter said this week it would kill off Fleets, its ephemeral disappearing tweets that apparently no one was using.

But instead of showing us more things we wan …

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]]> Kim Lyons <![CDATA[Charlie bit us all, if you really think about it]]> https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/27/22457035/charlie-bit-me-meme-nft-youtube 2021-05-27T14:47:45-04:00 2021-05-27T14:47:45-04:00
You played us all, Charlie | Image: HDCYT on YouTube

It's hard to describe the absolute chaos around NFTs (non-fungible tokens) right now; tech reporters' inboxes are flooded with the latest and stupidest additions to this trend of digital certificates for memes and other pieces of digital memorabilia. Disaster Girl sold for around $500,000, Keyboard Cat went for about $64,400, and Nyan Cat brought in around $590,000. But most NFTs aren't all that noteworthy, and we can't possibly write about every single one (despite this sentence, my inbox will now be flooded with NFT pitches for the next two months). Despite our attempts to be judicious and write about newsworthy topics, we can't win them a …

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]]> Mitchell Clark <![CDATA[Nyan Cat’s creator is running an event to sell memes like Bad Luck Brian and Keyboard Cat as NFTs]]> https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/10/22322131/nyan-cat-creator-nft-memes-memeconomy 2021-03-10T16:55:17-05:00 2021-03-10T16:55:17-05:00

After selling Nyan Cat as an NFT, its creator, Chris Torres, has found himself working on an even bigger event: a week-long series of auctions where classic memes are being sold on the blockchain by their original creators. Torres calls the event Memeconomy, and he's hoping it'll bring both recognition to the meme creators, as well as to the NFT space.

The memes involved should be recognizable if you were on the internet in the early 2010s. They include:

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]]> Mitchell Clark <![CDATA[A new meme generator lets you drop Bernie Sanders and his chair around the world]]> https://www.theverge.com/tldr/22242998/bernie-meme-generator-sanders-sitting-chair-inauguration 2021-01-21T17:22:12-05:00 2021-01-21T17:22:12-05:00
We’ve put him somewhere warm.

You may have seen the many memes of Sen. Bernie Sanders sitting at President Joe Biden's inauguration (we even did a rundown of the best ones), but now there's a website that lets you easily drop Bernie and his chair all over the world with the help of Google Maps' Street View (via Android Central). Simply put in a location or address in the website, and after one button click, you'll have an image of Bernie sitting wherever you specified.

The site, made by NYU masters student Nick Sawhney, is pretty bare-bones, and it's not exactly fast - though the fact that it's getting a lot of traffic could be partially to blame. As you can imagine, th …

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]]> Mitchell Clark <![CDATA[Today, the US welcomed a new president and new Bernie memes]]> https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/20/22241049/bernie-sanders-inauguration-sitting-meme 2021-01-20T15:18:54-05:00 2021-01-20T15:18:54-05:00
The unaltered specimen. | Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

Today's US presidential inauguration brought many good things, but the thing Twitter seems most excited about is a new crop of Bernie memes.

The meme started with a wire photo of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), sitting on a folding chair watching President Joe Biden's inauguration. The temperature in Washington, DC was in the 40s, so he's bundled up with a coat and mittens, and he's sitting socially distanced from everyone else, as his age and prior health issues put him at severe risk for COVID-19.

Something about Sanders' chilly body language, his oversized wool mittens, and the fact that he was sitting entirely alone made the photo irresist …

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]]> Makena Kelly <![CDATA[The Lincoln Project is stealing memes — and the online left isn’t happy]]> https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/18/21374210/lincoln-project-meme-theft-markey-usps-content-fuckjerry-fatjewish 2020-08-18T16:02:02-04:00 2020-08-18T16:02:02-04:00

The anti-Trump Lincoln Project has a reputation for goofy memes attacking the Trump administration online, so when they posted a whimsical fancam in support of the United States Postal Service on Twitter over the weekend, it seemed par for the course.

But the video was actually lifted without credit from Taylor Marsyla, a freelance artist, who posted the original video on Friday night. "Fuck it. USPS fancam," Marsyla tweeted. The video took her around an hour to edit, stitching together random clips of mail trucks and photos of letter carriers set to "W.A.P." by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion. She topped it off with a glittery effect and …

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]]> Kim Lyons <![CDATA[It Is What It Is: a fake app hyped on Twitter turned into a fundraiser for racial justice causes]]> https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/27/21305646/it-is-what-it-is-fake-app-twitter-tiktok-meme 2020-06-27T18:06:56-04:00 2020-06-27T18:06:56-04:00

An inside joke about a TikTok meme among a group of friends on Twitter grew into a minor social media mystery before morphing into a fundraiser for anti-racism causes. Yes, that might be the most 2020 sentence I've written to date.

On Thursday, the eye-mouth-eye emoji meme started appearing in people's Twitter handles and almost immediately, the buzz started about what it all meant, Gizmodo reported. On TikTok, the meme is usually used to express cringe or embarrassment. Soon an itiseyemoutheye Twitter handle appeared, then its website was featured on Product Hunt (even though there's no actual product), prompting discussion on Reddit, and …

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