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Fans cry foul as Tumblr artists seeks $80,000 for animated promo video

Entertainment

Understanding Drake’s meme appeal

The bizarre origins of ‘me irl’

Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.

Fernando Alfonso III

Behind the internet’s freakish obsession with Shrek

Fake quotes from founding fathers are just what Presidents’ Day needed

Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. The former editor of the Daily Dot’s Unclick section, Klee’s essays, satire, and fiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, 3:AM, Salon, the Awl, the New York Observer, the Millions,  and the Village Voice. He&#8217;s the author of two odd books of fiction, &#8216;Ivyland&#8217; and &#8216;True False.&#8217;

Miles Klee

Here’s what the Internet did with NYT Mag’s ‘Planet Hillary’ cover

The life and death of doge, 2013’s greatest meme

With its own cryptocurrency, Doge has officially conquered 2013

The itsy bitsy saga of Tumblr’s Spiders Georg

Culture

‘Bob’ and his tank become the mascots of the anti-Google+ movement

The search for Scumbag Steve’s hat

Tumblr’s new Hallowmeme is ‘too spoopy to live, too creppy to die’

#JustToddThings is the best ‘Breaking Bad’ meme

Confession Bear exiled from Reddit’s meme kingdom

Kevin Morris is a veteran web reporter and editor who specializes in longform journalism. He led the Daily Dot’s esports vertical and, following its acquisition by GAMURS in late 2016, launched Dot Esports, where he serves as the site’s editor-in-chief.

Kevin Morris

The Technoviking legal saga heads to appeals court

Memes