Browsing: Meme

In 2016, two groups of Chinese livestreamers began feuding on Kuaishou, a short-video platform popular in China’s countryside and lower-tier cities. Their leaders, Brother Hu and Captain Shamate, were both grassroots streamers from Northeast China, or Dongbei. Video after video, they traded insults, accusations, and challenges. These gang-style exchanges were loud, theatrical, and unmistakably regional,…

The Verity you’re probably most familiar with is a movie starring Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett. The romantic thriller is in theaters Oct. 2, and follows an author named Lowen (Johnson) who’s hired to be a ghostwriter for a much more famous novelist named — you guessed it — Verity! (Hathaway). While digging…

Now that these beggars are out of here, we can turn the page in the proverbial Pattinson tome to seeing how this looks, right?

Ravi Kishan has found himself at the centre of a meme storm, and instead of trying to escape it, the actor-politician is enjoying every bit of it. Old clips, new videos, dramatic expressions and his trademark way of speaking have suddenly become internet gold, especially among Gen Z users.

Artist Elmer Saflor, who goes by the online handle “Superelmer,” loves that millions of people have shared his “Running Away Balloon” comic since it became a popular meme in 2017.