• ‘He’s so unafraid’: how New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani aced his TikTok game

• Nerve News, Kat Tenbarge, 4 November 2025

• What Young Republicans say when they think no one’s listening

• Vox, Avishay Artsy and Noel King, 22 October 2025

• Why Gen Z can’t stop watching bad takes

• Vox, Kyndall Cunningham, 22 October 2025

• The Young Republicans’ Leaked Chat Is a Sign of Where We Could Be Headed

• Politico, Catherine Kim and Calder McHugh, 16 October 2025

• Masculinity, maxxing and the manosphere are big online. How that's affecting boys, in 4 charts

• Yahoo! Life, Natalie Rahhal, 8 October 2025

• No One Knows What ‘Terminally Online’ Means Anymore

• Wired, Adam Bumas, 18 September 2025

• How Legacy Media Fumbled the Charlie Kirk Shooting

• Hollywood Reporter, Taylor Lorenz, 17 September 2025

• Charlie Kirk shooting suspect referenced fascism and memes on bullets, officials say

• NBC News, Ben Goggin, Chloe Atkins and Melissa Chan, 12 September 2025

• From Cheating Exposés to Dating Background Checks, TikTok Detectives Are Thriving

• Wired, Tom Ward, 28 July 2025

• Dead or 'unalive'? How social platforms — and algorithms — are shaping the way we talk

• CBC News, Marcus Medford-Kerr, 27 July 2025

• Why Steroids Are Now Turning Young Men into Dangerous Incels

• The Daily Beast, Steffi Cao, 4 May 2025

• Le streameur qui faisait trembler Donald Trump / The streamer who made Donald Trump tremble

• Society, Sarah Laurent (Print only – France, Early May 2025 Issue

• “Somebody needs to do it’”

• Power User by Taylor Lorenz, 19 May 2025 (over 1 million views)

• El brutal retrato de la serie Adolescencia: Cómo se manifiesta la cultura incel en los jóvenes del mundo / The brutal portrait of the Adolescence series: How incel culture manifests itself in the world's youth

• La Tercera (Chile’s second largest daily newspaper), Marta Quinteros, 16 April 2025

• Why JD Vance’s face is the meme of the moment for both right and left

• Washington Post, María Luisa Paúl, 7 March 2025

• Joe Rogan’s Infatuation with Elon Musk is Angering His Fans

• Politico, Calder McHugh, 19 February 2025

• UnitedHealthcare Shooting Memes Speak to Anger at the Health Care System and CEO Pay

• Teen Vogue, Liv McConnell, 11 December 2024

• She TikToked as Milton’s water encroached – and captivated millions

• Washington Post, Jonathan Edwards and Annabelle Timsit, 10 October 2024

• How 9/11 Became One of the Internet’s Most Popular Memes

• Rolling Stone, David Mack, 9 September 2024

• Inside the online army supercharging Kamala Harris’ campaign

• Washington Post, Drew Harwell, Taylor Lorenz, Justine McDaniel and María Luisa Paúl, 25 July 2024

• Teens are using 'aura points' to calculate coolness. The trend may reveal just how self-conscious they are.

• Yahoo News, Cassie Morris, 16 July 2024

• Why TikTok videos on the Israel-Hamas war have drawn billions of views

• Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz - 10 October 2023

• Well, Here’s What We Think of the Roman Empire

• Harper’s Bazaar, Rosa Sanchez - 19 September 2023

• Why are we so obsessed with lobotomies?

• Dazed, Sophie Wilson - 12 September 2023

• Vlog Like Nobody’s Watching

• Digital Fairy - Digiverse, Kate Fowler - 21 July 2023

• Fans Built Her an Internet Empire. Now They’re Tearing It Down

• Rolling Stone, CT Jones - 21 June 2023

• How Real People Are Caught Up In Reddit’s AI Porn Explosion

• Forbes, Rashi Shrivastava - 11 May 2023

• How frightening new AI Midjourney creates realistic fake images

• New York Post, Alex Mitchell - 5 April 2023

• Congress had a lot to say about TikTok. Much of it was wrong.

• Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz - 28 March 2023

• An AI-generated ‘Balenciaga pope’ fooled us all. How much does it matter?

• Washington Post, Ashley Fetters Maloy and Anne Branigin - 27 March 2023

• Fake scars & beauty conspiracies are the great algorithmic distraction

• I-D Vice, Laura Pitcher - 17 March 2023

• NATO welcomes the struggle of a human-looking dog

  • 人間臭いイヌの奮闘、本家NATOも歓迎「参戦」の悲壮感さまざま

• Asahi Shimbun, Kayoko Geji 下司佳代子 朝日新聞ワシントン特派員 - 5 February 2023

• Reddit’s Delayed IPO May Mean CEO Steve Huffman Needs to Rethink Its Advertising Model

• Observer, Rachyl Jones - 1 February 2023

• Memes — they’re weird, yet amusing and adored

• Hong Kong China Daily, Jenny Wang - 9 December 2022

• Martin Scorsese fans dub ‘Goncharov’ the best mafia film (n)ever made

• Washington Post, María Luisa Paúl - 29 November 2022

• Twitter king Dril on Musk’s chaotic reign

• Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz - 23 November 2022

• MrBeast just became the biggest YouTuber in the world. His ascension marks the death of old YouTube and the rise of 'over-the-top' content

• Insider, Charissa Cheong - 14 November 2022

• Gen Z voter turnout will show just how influential influencers really are

• Washington Post, Samantha Chery - 5 November 2022

• 2022, the year of rot

• I-D Vice, Laura Pitcher - 12 September 2022

• The shit-posting, Twitter-trolling, dog-deploying social media army taking on Putin one meme at a time

• Politico EU, Mark Scott - 31 August 2022

• How a photo of a woman yelling in a guy’s ear became a viral meme

• Washington Post, María Luisa Paúl - 22 August 2022

• Good doge: How the internet adopted the Shiba Inu and gave it a forever home

• Grid News, Christian Thorsberg - 6 August 2022

• Little Miss Viral Meme: The rise and fall of the latest ‘remix meme,’ from self-expression to radicalization

• Grid News, Christian Thorsberg- 27 July 2022

• When Raw Emotion Goes Viral

• The New York Times Magazine, Reyhan Harmanci - 23 June 2022

• Thanks to Machines, Humans are Trained to Change the Way We Speak

• CBC Spark, Nora Young - 6 May 2022

• How Stepan, Ukraine’s Most Famous Cat Escaped To Safety

• Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz - 17 March 2022

• Martin Scorsese fans dub ‘Goncharov’ the best mafia film (n)ever made

• Washington Post, María Luisa Paúl - 29 November 2022

• Twitter king Dril on Musk’s chaotic reign

• Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz - 23 November 2022

• MrBeast just became the biggest YouTuber in the world. His ascension marks the death of old YouTube and the rise of 'over-the-top' content

• Insider, Charissa Cheong - 14 November 2022

• Gen Z voter turnout will show just how influential influencers really are

• Washington Post, Samantha Chery - 5 November 2022

• The shit-posting, Twitter-trolling, dog-deploying social media army taking on Putin one meme at a time

• Politico EU, Mark Scott - 31 August 2022

• How a photo of a woman yelling in a guy’s ear became a viral meme

• Washington Post, María Luisa Paúl - 22 August 2022

• Good doge: How the internet adopted the Shiba Inu and gave it a forever home

• Grid News, Christian Thorsberg - 6 August 2022

• Little Miss Viral Meme: The rise and fall of the latest ‘remix meme,’ from self-expression to radicalization

• Grid News, Christian Thorsberg- 27 July 2022

• When Raw Emotion Goes Viral

• The New York Times Magazine, Reyhan Harmanci - 23 June 2022

• Thanks to Machines, Humans are Trained to Change the Way We Speak

• CBC Spark, Nora Young - 6 May 2022

• How Stepan, Ukraine’s Most Famous Cat Escaped To Safety

• Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz - 17 March 2022

• A man with a PhD in memes says they have the power to 'overwrite history'

• Indy100 - 2 March 2022

• Ukraine Is Shitposting Through the War. It’s Working.

• Inside Hook - 4 March 2022

• Simon Leviev and the women who accuse him of fraud have become memes online. Experts say it's our way of coping

• Insider - 21 February 2022

• Rep. Gosar anime video highlights ties to the online right

• The Verge - 10 November 2021

• Influencers are failing to break out in TV and movies. Can Charli D’Amelio and Addison Rae beat the curse?

• Washington Post - 2 September 2021

• The Sneaky Truth about Memes

• Junior Scholastic - September 2021

• ‘Revenge Tactic:’ GameStop's Massive Stock Surge Isn't Only About Making Money

• TIME, Peter Allen Clark - 28 January 2021

2020 in Memes #theyearthatsucked Report

PICTURESTART - December 2020

• The Problematic Fakery Of Lil Miquela Explained—An Exploration Of Virtual Influencers and Realness

• Forbes - 17 November 2020

  'Mind Viruses': LI Professor Studies The World Of Political Memes

  Patch NY - 27 February 2020

• Latest Scandals Suggest it's Time to Build a Better YouTube

• CBC Radio - 10 March 2019

• Ten Wild Jobs That Didn't Exist Ten Years Ago

• Vice - 18 October 2018

• The YouTubers Who Teach Men How to Be Men

• GQ - 17 April 2018

• YouTube Tries to Solve its Conspiracy Problem with Wikipedia. Some Critics Cry Foul

• KIII-TV - 14 March 2018

• Tragedy, Conspiracy and the Problem With Trending Videos

• USA Today - 24 February 2018

• 7 Days from Fringe to Mainstream: How a Conspiracy Theory Ricocheted Around the Web

• USA Today - 24 February 2018

• Well, It's the 10th Anniversary of "Oogachaka Baby" on YouTube

• Vice, Beckett Mufson - 15 January 2016

• Meet the Rules of the Internet

• CNN - 15 February 2013