It's hard to laugh at the state of the world when we're living through turmoil. War, political chaos, economic collapse, ...

In each edition of web_crawlr we have exclusive original content every day. On Saturday our Video Producer Kyle Calise explores the origins and history of the most iconic memes online in his "Meme ...

In early 2014, users began sharing image macros of Kermit the Frog, tagged with #KermitMemes. It was a modest start, but things escalated with a Lipton Ice Tea ad aired during the 2014 Academy Awards.

The said meme, which is a format-dependent joke, usually of a picture with a subtitle or caption, had a printed date of 1919 and 1920, but it was believed to have been published in 1921. The meme had ...

As kids, you might have had a favorite subject: maybe math, science, literature, or even history. But let’s face it, history class sometimes had a way of feeling...a little too long. All those dates, ...

Remember Pepe the Frog? Or the blinking guy meme? Or the French Revolution Meme? Well, how did everything start and how exactly did they become funny? These memes all originally started as ideas that ...

Editor’s note: Salon celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Since being founded in 1995 (under the much-worse domain salon1999.com), Salon has published over 300,000 articles; as one of the first ...