Internet memes are a thriving new medium, but they’re also a secret language of inside jokes and references shared by teens and 20-somethings. To the uninitiated, they can be completely inscrutable.

On June 6, Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence projects, saw traffic to an AI image-generation tool called DALL-E Mini skyrocket. The outwardly simple app, which ...

Memes are a cultural shorthand that, like all forms of communication, evolve with those who use them. Nobody can claim to know or understand every single meme that exists. There are simply too many, ...

Internet culture is saturated with memes, but how would you explain a meme to someone who doesn’t get it? By Alexis Benveniste Memes didn’t start with the internet. Some linguists argue that humans ...