Internet meme, the Glossary
An Internet meme, or simply meme, is a cultural item (such as an idea, behaviour, or style) that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms.[1]
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135 relations: Adobe Photoshop, All your base are belong to us, ALS, Alt-right, Anime, Auction, Bert is Evil, Binders full of women, Celebrity, Charlie Bit My Finger, CNBC, Colin Lankshear, Comics, Compartmental models in epidemiology, Compression artifact, Copyright, Copyright Act of 1976, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine, Cryptocurrency, Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery, Cult following, Da Vinci Surgical System, Dancing baby, Dazed, Dean scream, Democratization, Dictionary.com, Disaster Girl, Dogecoin, Doujin, Electric light, Email, Emoticon, Facebook, Fair use, Fan art, Forbes, GameStop, Gangnam Style, Getty Images, GIF, Governor (United States), Gucci, Hampster Dance, Harlem shake (dance), HITC, Howard Dean, Ice Bucket Challenge, Image macro, ... Expand index (85 more) »
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS.
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All your base are belong to us
"All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a poorly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing.
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ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, is a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disorder that results in the progressive loss of both upper and lower motor neurons that normally control voluntary muscle contraction.
Alt-right
The alt-right (abbreviated from alternative right) is a far-right, white nationalist movement.
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Anime
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.
Auction
An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder.
Bert is Evil
Bert is Evil is the name of a parody website, founded by Dino Ignacio on March 30, 1997, which featured Bert, a character on the American children's television program Sesame Street.
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Binders full of women
"Binders full of women" is a phrase that was used by Mitt Romney on October 16, 2012, during the second U.S. presidential debate of 2012.
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Celebrity
Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group as a result of the attention given to them by mass media.
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Charlie Bit My Finger
"Charlie bit my finger - again !", more simply known as "Charlie Bit My Finger" or "Charlie Bit Me", is a 2007 internet viral video famous for being at the time the most viewed YouTube video.
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CNBC
CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
Colin Lankshear
Colin Lankshear is adjunct professor at James Cook University, Mount St Vincent University and McGill University.
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Comics
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information.
Compartmental models in epidemiology
Compartmental models are a very general modelling technique.
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Compression artifact
A compression artifact (or artefact) is a noticeable distortion of media (including images, audio, and video) caused by the application of lossy compression.
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Copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.
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Copyright Act of 1976
The Copyright Act of 1976 is a United States copyright law and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several later enacted copyright provisions.
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COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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COVID-19 vaccine
A COVID19 vaccine is a vaccine intended to provide acquired immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVIDnbhyph19).
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Cryptocurrency
A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it.
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Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery
Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma (Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma / Heineken México) (English: Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery) is a major brewery based in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, founded in 1890.
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Cult following
A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.
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Da Vinci Surgical System
The da Vinci Surgical System is a robotic surgical system that uses a minimally invasive surgical approach.
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Dancing baby
The "Dancing Baby", also called "Baby Cha-Cha" or "the Oogachacka Baby", is an internet meme of a 3D-rendered animation of a baby performing a cha-cha type dance.
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Dazed
Dazed (Dazed & Confused until February 2014) is a bi-monthly British lifestyle magazine founded in 1991.
Dean scream
The Dean scream was an energetic scream by Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, on January 19, 2004, during a speech he gave at the Val-Air Ballroom in West Des Moines, Iowa.
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Democratization
Democratization, or democratisation, is the structural government transition from an authoritarian government to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction.
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Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com is an online dictionary whose domain was first registered on May 14, 1995.
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Disaster Girl
Disaster Girl is a name given to a photograph of a young girl staring at the camera with a structure fire behind her.
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Dogecoin
Dogecoin (or, Abbreviation: DOGE; sign: Ð) is a cryptocurrency created by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, who decided to create a payment system as a joke, making fun of the wild speculation in cryptocurrencies at the time. Internet meme and Dogecoin are internet memes.
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Doujin
In Japan, is a group of people who share an interest, activity, or hobby.
Electric light
An electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light.
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Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
Emoticon
An emoticon (rarely), short for emotion icon, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers, and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood, or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail. Internet meme and emoticon are internet memes.
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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.
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Fair use
Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder.
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Fan art
Fan art or fanart is artwork created by fans of a work of fiction and derived from a series character or other aspect of that work.
Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
GameStop
GameStop Corp. is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer.
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Gangnam Style
"Gangnam Style" (강남스타일) is a K-pop song by South Korean rapper Psy, released on July 15, 2012, by YG Entertainment as the lead single of his sixth studio album, Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1 (Ssai Yukgap Part 1).
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Getty Images
Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is a visual media company and supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video, and music for business and consumers, with a library of over 477 million assets.
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GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.
Governor (United States)
In the United States, a governor serves as the chief executive and commander-in-chief in each of the fifty states and in the five permanently inhabited territories, functioning as head of state and head of government therein.
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Gucci
Guccio Gucci S.p.A., doing business as Gucci, is an Italian luxury fashion house based in Florence, Italy.
Hampster Dance
The Hampster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes.
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Harlem shake (dance)
The Harlem shake is a style of hip-hop dance characterized by jerky arm and shoulder movements in time to music.
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HITC
HITC (formerly Here Is the City) is a football news website owned by GRV Media.
Howard Dean
Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American physician, author, consultant, and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 2009.
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Ice Bucket Challenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as motor neuron disease or Lou Gehrig's disease) and encourage donations to research. Internet meme and ice Bucket Challenge are internet memes.
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Image macro
An image macro is a piece of digital media featuring a picture, or artwork, with some form of text superimposed. Internet meme and image macro are internet memes.
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Imitation
Imitation (from Latin imitatio, "a copying, imitation") is a behavior whereby an individual observes and replicates another's behavior.
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In-joke
An in-joke, also known as an inside joke or a private joke, is a joke with humour that is understandable only to members of an ingroup; that is, people who are in a particular social group, occupation, or other community of shared interest.
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
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Internet culture
Internet culture is a quasi-underground culture developed and maintained among frequent and active users of the Internet (also known as netizens) who primarily communicate with one another online as members of online communities; that is, a culture whose influence is "mediated by computer screens" and information communication technology, specifically the Internet.
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Internet forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.
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Intertextuality
Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody,Gerard Genette (1997) Paratexts Hallo, William W. (2010) The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres Cancogni, Annapaola (1985) pp.203-213 or by interconnections between similar or related works perceived by an audience or reader of the text.
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It Gets Better Project
It Gets Better is an Internet-based 501(c)3 nonprofit with a mission to uplift, empower, and connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth around the globe.
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Jacobin (magazine)
Jacobin is an American socialist magazine based in New York.
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LGBT
is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender". Internet meme and LGBT are 1990s neologisms.
List of Internet phenomena
Internet phenomena are social and cultural phenomena specific to the Internet, such as Internet memes, which include popular catchphrases, images, viral videos, and jokes. Internet meme and List of Internet phenomena are internet memes.
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Lived religion
Lived religion is the ethnographic and holistic framework in the sociology of religion and religious studies more broadly for understanding the religion as it is practiced by ordinary people in the contexts of everyday life, including domestic, work, commercial, community, and institutional religious settings.
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Lolcat
A lolcat (pronounced), or LOLcat, is an image macro of one or more cats.
Lord Farquaad
Lord Maximus Farquaad is the main antagonist of the 2001 animated feature film Shrek, as well as Shrek 4-D and the musical.
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Lossy compression
In information technology, lossy compression or irreversible compression is the class of data compression methods that uses inexact approximations and partial data discarding to represent the content.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman.
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Markiplier
Mark Edward Fischbach (born June 28, 1989), known online as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, actor and filmmaker. Internet meme and Markiplier are internet memes.
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Mebane, North Carolina
Mebane is a city located mostly in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States, and partly in Orange County.
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Meme
A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
Meme coin
A meme coin (also spelled memecoin) is a cryptocurrency that originated from an Internet meme or has some other humorous characteristic. Internet meme and meme coin are internet memes.
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Memetics
Memetics is a theory of the evolution of culture based on Darwinian principles with the meme as the unit of culture.
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Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and politician.
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Michele Knobel
Michele Knobel (21 March 1966 – 15 October 2021) was a Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Montclair State University and an internationally recognized researcher and scholar in the area of literacy education, new literacies and digital technologies.
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Mike Godwin
Michael Wayne Godwin (born October 26, 1956) is an American attorney and author.
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Mimicry
In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species.
Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer, and the junior United States senator from Utah since 2019.
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NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
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Non-fungible token
A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier that is recorded on a blockchain and is used to certify ownership and authenticity.
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Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a left-wing populist movement against economic inequality, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics that began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Financial District, and lasted for fifty-nine days—from September 17 to November 15, 2011. Internet meme and Occupy Wall Street are internet memes.
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Parody
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.
Pearson Education
Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.
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Pepe the Frog
Pepe the Frog is a comic character and Internet meme created by cartoonist Matt Furie.
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Peter Lang (publisher)
Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences.
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Political cartoon
A political cartoon, also known as an editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist's opinion.
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Psy
Park Jae-sang (born December 31, 1977), better known by his stage name Psy, is a South Korean rapper and singer-songwriter.
Quartz (publication)
Quartz is an American English language news website owned by G/O Media.
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R/wallstreetbets
r/wallstreetbets, also known as WallStreetBets or WSB, is a subreddit where participants discuss stock and option trading.
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Rage comic
A rage comic is a short cartoon strip using a growing set of pre-made cartoon faces, or rage faces, which usually express rage or some other simple emotion or activity. Internet meme and rage comic are internet memes.
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Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network.
Remix
A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item.
Remix culture
Remix culture, also known as read-write culture, is a term describing a culture that allows and encourages the creation of derivative works by combining or editing existing materials.
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, and author.
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Rickrolling
Rickrolling or a Rickroll is an Internet meme involving the unexpected appearance of the music video to the 1987 hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up", performed by English singer Rick Astley. Internet meme and Rickrolling are internet memes.
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Robinhood Markets
Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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Scott Fahlman
Scott Elliott Fahlman (born March 21, 1948) is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department.
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Shrek
Shrek is a 2001 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book of the same name by William Steig. Internet meme and Shrek are internet memes.
Snakes on a Plane
Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action thriller film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson.
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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.
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Star Wars Kid
Star Wars Kid is a viral video made in 2002 by Ghyslain Raza, NewsWeek, Jessica Bennett in which he wields a golf ball retriever in imitation of Darth Maul's lightsaber moves from the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
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Stock
Stocks (also capital stock, or sometimes interchangeably, shares) consist of all the shares by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided.
Stock trader
A stock trader or equity trader or share trader, also called a stock investor, is a person or company involved in trading equity securities and attempting to profit from the purchase and sale of those securities.
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Subversion
Subversion refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to sabotage the established social order and its structures of power, authority, tradition, hierarchy, and social norms.
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Surrealism
Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.
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Ted Cruz
Rafael Edward Cruz (born December 22, 1970) is an American politician, attorney, and political commentator serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013.
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Ted Cruz–Zodiac Killer meme
The Ted Cruz–Zodiac Killer meme is an Internet meme which originated in 2013 and gained popularity in 2015.
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Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas.
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The Conversation (website)
The Conversation is a network of nonprofit media outlets publishing news stories and research reports online, with accompanying expert opinion and analysis.
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The Daily Dot
The Daily Dot is a digital media company covering the culture of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool is a private financial and investing advice company based in Alexandria, Virginia.
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The National Law Review
The National Law Review is an American law journal, daily legal news website and legal analysis content-aggregating database.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book on evolution by ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966).
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The Verge
The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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TikTok
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance.
X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
Usenet
Usenet, USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
Vine (service)
Vine was an American short-form video hosting service where users could share up to 6-second-long looping video clips.
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Viral phenomenon
Viral phenomena or viral sensation are objects or patterns that are able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them. Internet meme and viral phenomenon are internet memes.
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Viral video
A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.
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Voter turnout
In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election.
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Vox (website)
Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media.
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Wall Street
Wall Street is a street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
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Wendy's
Wendy's is an American international fast food restaurant chain founded by Dave Thomas on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio.
Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Wired UK
Wired UK is a bimonthly magazine that reports on the effects of science and technology.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Zodiac Killer
The Zodiac Killer is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s.
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2017 United Kingdom general election
The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the previous general election in 2015; it was the first since 1992 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections.
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2020 United States presidential election
The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.
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4chan
4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Internet meme and 4chan are internet memes.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme
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