There are a lot of things that make memes funny. There are juxtapositions, cultural references, and absurd or catchy phrases that stick in our heads. Dat boi, one of 2016’s biggest entries into ...

If you’ve spent much time on the internet in the last few weeks, you’ve probably encountered Dat Boi. The Boi in question is a unicycling frog, sometimes in GIF form, sometimes static, usually ...

When Maxine, a 17-year-old junior in high school, met her boyfriend, "what had happened was, we shared a connection with three things: music, dogs and memes." So when her boyfriend promposed to her — ...

As summer winds down, let’s look back at two memes we just couldn’t quit: Harambe and Dat Boi. What can we learn from their senseless deaths? Is there a line between sincerity and performative irony ...

If there’s anything that’s defined the 2010s, it’s the rise of the meme. From being a word that people had no idea how to pronounce (we’ll never forget Gemma Collins and her ‘me-mays’), to the purest ...

Obviously, I first saw the signs during the height of Dat Boi. “There are a lot of memes about frogs, huh?” I asked my editor. “That’s a thing, right?” He said I was the fourth writer to point that ...

A piece in the Daily Dot brought our attention to a meme craze lighting Tumblr aflame: the “It is Wednesday, my dudes” frog. The “It Is Wednesday, My Dudes” meme is the next in a line of memes that ...