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 ...

A viral TikTok and Instagram soundbite, 'Mi Bombo', is captivating social media users. This meme, which resurfaced in 2025, originates from a 2023 video featuring a Jamaican slang phrase. A Rocket ...

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 ...