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Grant Pardee is a writer and producer specializing in digital video, social media, and web culture reporting. He has produced videos for Fullscreen, SourceFed, and Funny or Die, and his work has been published by Vice, McSweeney&#8217;s, and Rooster Teeth.

Grant Pardee

Unclick

The spammy history of ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Le Lenny Face

David Covucci was the senior politics and technology editor at the Daily Dot, covering the nexus between Washington and Silicon Valley. His work has appeared in Vice, the Huffington Post, Jezebel, Gothamist, and other publications.

David Covucci

That’s-a spicy meme-ball: Why pictures of Italy in World War 2 are taking over

Jay Hathaway is a former senior writer who specialized in internet memes and weird online culture. He previously served as the Daily Dot’s news editor, was a staff writer at Gawker, and edited the classic websites Urlesque and Download Squad. His work has also appeared on nymag.com, suicidegirls.com, and the Morning News.

Jay Hathaway

Did Donald Trump inherit a crashing meme economy?

Samantha Grasso is a former IRL staff writer for the Daily Dot with a reporting emphasis on immigration. Her work has appeared on AJ+, Vox, Splinter, Los Angeles Magazine, and Austin Monthly.

Samantha Grasso

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir becomes an inauguration meme, for the most hilarious reason

‘Here’s the livestream of Trump’s inauguration’ meme prepares for the apocalypse

A year later, Ben Affleck still won’t let the ‘Sad Affleck’ meme go

Memes

The definitive list of Shaq’s best memes

How pigs that love oats became a meme that’s about to be everywhere

Daily Dot Contributor

What Smash Mouth really thinks of all your ‘All Star’ memes

Dahlia Dandashi is a multimedia content producer. Her work has been published at the Austin American-Statesman and Viceland. An Arab-American raised in Dubai, she is based in Austin, Texas.

Memes

The spammy history of ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Le Lenny Face

That’s-a spicy meme-ball: Why pictures of Italy in World War 2 are taking over

Did Donald Trump inherit a crashing meme economy?

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir becomes an inauguration meme, for the most hilarious reason

‘Here’s the livestream of Trump’s inauguration’ meme prepares for the apocalypse

A year later, Ben Affleck still won’t let the ‘Sad Affleck’ meme go

The definitive list of Shaq’s best memes

How pigs that love oats became a meme that’s about to be everywhere

What Smash Mouth really thinks of all your ‘All Star’ memes

The brutal truths of the ‘Hey can I copy your homework’ meme

Chef Gordon Ramsay, trying to locate the lamb sauce, becomes a dank meme

Robbie Rotten’s ‘We Are Number One’ was just named ‘Meme of the Year’

The ‘John Lemon’ meme is back from the dead for 2017

‘Deconstruction comics’ and the future of memes

This meme is from the future