Memes

Oh no, baby! What is with this brand new meme?

If you haven’t seen this meme yet: what are you doing, baby? Every now and then a meme is formed out of pure joy…

#CupBlowingChallenge: The newest viral teen fad

First we lay flat on random surfaces. Then we choked on cinnamon. We created chemical burns on our hands. We flipped bottles skillfully. And…

Inventor of ‘On Fleek’ Peaches Monroee seeks royalties

Vine user Peaches Monroee shot to fame with the vine that changed the course of the English language. If you’ve ever used the phrase…

#HurtBae leaves South Africans deep in their feelings

Forget #SaltBae and #ThePeoplesBae, South Africa has found a new bae to fawn over. In a YouTube video released by The Scene, two exes…

Kale Salad: the Twitter account honouring meme creators

Tired of seeing the Dory accounts and Common White Girls of the world get thousands of retweets for stolen content? You’re not alone! Plenty…

Twitter’s @TrumpDraws mocks executive orders with toddler doodles

We’ve been writing a lot of content about Donald Trump, and who can blame us? The man has become a living, extremely powerful meme…

#BeyoncePoseChallenge: has Beyonce’s Instagram pose become a thing?

In the wake of Beyonce’s Instagram-shattering announcement earlier this morning, the internet has understandably gone a little bit insane. A byproduct of that however,…

Seven iconic internet memes of all time: Dancing baby to Chuck Norris

The internet has been called many things, from “democracy’s greatest tool” to the “greatest place for free speech”. However, when you Google “internet’s greatest”…

Meme list: From Rebecca Black to Casey Heynes parodies

It’s been a fun week for memes with budding pop stars sensationalising the inner workings of the teenage mind on a Friday, to a…

5 social media ways to do Valentine’s

Ahh, it’s love day. The traditional way of saying I love you is highly overrated. Roses are overdone, chocolates don’t actually seem special anymore….

Have you met the biggest internet sensation of 2011?

Who is the biggest internet star of 2011 so far? Lady Gaga? Eminem? Wrong. It’s a fat, cross-eyed opossum from the Leipzig Zoo called…

Memeburn’s outstanding memes of 2010

Culture defines an era and the internet is our time’s Rosetta Blog. While the cultural touchstones might be ephemeral and fleeting, we have to…

Ex-cricket captain Michael Vaughan punches an interviewer. Real or fake?

A video clip has surfaced on YouTube showing former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan being recorded for a television interview. Vaughan represented England and…

Viral video alert: President Zuma gets the ‘Old Spice Guy’ treatment

Barely a week ago, the youth league of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa’s ruling party, took issue with the social media world…

The birth of a meme

It is common knowledge that Twitter has become a vital source of breaking news and a generator of memes that spread throughout the internet….

Interview: Jack Parow talks music, interwebs and giving up his Nokia 3310

Zander Tyler, or as he’s better known, Jack Parow, has made a major splash online with videos like his “Jy dink jy’s cooler as…

Google Zeitgeist: Zakumi, Vuvuzelas and the infamous Suarez moment

The vuvuzela has certainly been one of the biggest talking points of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and has since crossed beyond South Africa’s…

The Meme: A powerful form of advertising

Although the term “meme” dates back to Richard Dawkins and his 1976 book “The Selfish Gene”, the more commonplace use of the term refers…

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