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Stacey Ritzen is a reporter and editor based in West Philadelphia with over 10 years&#8217; experience covering pop culture, web culture, entertainment, and news. You can follow her on Twitter @staceyritzen.

Stacey Ritzen

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This ‘Stop Pitting Against Each Other’ meme is the ultimate passive-aggressive call-out

Michelle Jaworski was a staff writer and TV/film critic at the Daily Dot. She covers entertainment, geek culture, and pop culture and has covered everything from the Sundance Film Festival, NYFF, and Tribeca to New York Comic Con and Con of Thrones. She is based in Brooklyn.

Michelle Jaworski

Sans memes celebrate beloved character’s addition to Smash Bros.

Memes

‘Ight Imma head out’: a SpongeBob reaction meme

Siobhan Ball is a historian, archivist, and journalist. She also writes for Autostraddle and bi.org

Siobhan Ball

hot girl summer grand theft autumn thotumn memes

Move over, Hot Girl Summer—it’s time for ‘Thotumn’ now

Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.

Mikael Thalen

What you need to know about ZAO–the new, viral Chinese deepfake app 

Audra Schroeder&#8217;s work has previously appeared in the Austin Chronicle, the Dallas Observer, NPR, ESPN, Bitch, and the Village Voice.

Audra Schroeder

Here’s what ‘Sksksk’ means

Someone actually built the ‘bisexual chair’

Brenden Gallagher is a politics reporter and cultural commentator. His work has been published by Motherboard, Complex, and VH1. He’s the co-founder of Beer Money Films, an indie production company. Based in Los Angeles, he works in television drama as a writers assistant.

Brenden Gallagher

Tom Brady keeps supplying us with new meme material

The VSCO Girl has always been here

Brooke Sjoberg is a freelance writer who graduated with her Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020.

Brooke Sjoberg

The Amazon rainforest is on fire–and people are using memes to cope

People are transfixed by a TikTok cat dancing along to ‘Mr. Sandman’

Katie Balevic is a former editorial intern at the Daily Dot. Her previous work has appeared in the Daily Texan, the Victoria Advocate, and the Houston Defender.

Katie Balevic

Who knew Idris Elba choking on a hot wing could be so relatable?

Woman in kombucha reaction meme on going viral: ‘It’s blowing my mind’

How an unlikely marriage of memes gave us ‘woman yelling at cat’

Elizabeth VanMetre is a reporter based in Wyoming. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, and her work has appeared on ETOnline, the New York Daily News, Yahoo Travel, and more. She hosts a local morning show in Wyoming.