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 ...

From Pepe the Frog to the Arthur Fist, millions of memes are shared on the internet every day. There’s no doubt that memes have rapidly grown to be a fundamental part of social media, but what do the ...

“Meme,” coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, has been used in Times articles about genes, stocks and of course, Bernie Sanders. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or ...