If you’ve been on the same parts of the internet as me in the past few weeks, you may have noticed a certain meme going around about a “solo poly amputee hijabi.” This joke’s original posts received ...

Alfred University Professor of English Juliana Gray’s satirical piece “Escape Room Challenge: Your European Airbnb” was published recently in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a leading online literary ...

It’s practically impossible to imagine the modern internet without memes. They’ve become such an integral part of our daily lives that our social media feeds would look barren and boring without them.

Sometimes it might feel like the internet is a little over-saturated with memes. What we mean by that is that wherever you look online, there's likely a meme lurking in the shadows. While we find this ...

After Elon Musk ordered 2 million federal workers to send a bullet-pointed list of five things they accomplished the previous week, social media filled with mock replies. "Dear manager, this week: (1) ...

Adult Swim has long been the king of adult animation, and I've finally figured out how the production company has succeeded where so many others have failed. Adult Swim started out as a programming ...

“10 Drunk Cigarettes” is from an album that boasts it was made with help from A.I. It pairs dark internet humor with a poppy sound that just might find a bigger audience. Critic’s Notebook “10 Drunk ...

This book grew on me. I started out with the observation that classical humor theory, in which I have played a small but not insignificant role, was still relevant in analyzing the new humor on the ...

“I predicted that the internet would be shitty back in 1999. Everybody was talking about how the internet was going to revolutionize everything and everything was going to be great, but nobody ever ...

Some trends and language patterns are so deeply embedded in the language and culture of the internet that even the most advanced language models struggle to fully extract or contextualize them. Humor, ...