The emergence and disappearance of most memes is illogical. Look at Twitter’s recent obsessions with Disney-Pixar brackets — or brackets of any kind. Suddenly we stumble across a joke that we ...

There are many ways to measure the passage of time: the tick of a clock, the rising and setting of the sun, the changing of the seasons – or the ebb and flow of internet memes. At the beginning of the ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. 2018 was a scary, worrisome and exciting year. The internet hive mind continued to grow, boiling down the trials and ...