That's great. Why didn't my college have those?

I understand 4channer mentality perfectly well: it's an in-group thing, based on a fundamental misunderstanding of maturity and allowed to fester in Internet echo chambers. I'm a 90's kid, I grew up with meme culture.

Nah, trollface is the worst meme. ORLY owl was annoying. Trollface was the first prominent meme where the humor derived from upsetting other people rather than the meme itself

The Newswire piece is vague about this, but the Crimson article makes it clear they were on a Harvard-affiliated page.

Doge is kind of interesting because it's unabashedly a revival of I can has cheezburger?-type memes but slightly updated for tumblr sensibilities. So I appreciate that it's not HEY [B]ETER dada but it struck me as derivative.

I never thought I would be nostalgic for the wit and restraint of Encyclopedia Dramatica, but here we are…

South Park is probably indirectly responsible for ironic white supremacy gaining such national prominence in the first place.

13-year-olds get a free pass for saying racist shit because they're 13. By the time you're 18 you should have some sense that unabashedly racist shit isn't clever.

Memes peaked with "Centipedes? In MY vagina?" It's all been downhill from there.

I'm pretty sure at this point that Steve Harvey is a Buster Friendly-style android. It's the only thing that could explain how he's able to host so many television programs.

Genuine question: please elaborate on #5? I'm not sure whether you're specifying "Irish n——-" because by 21st century standards we consider the Irish white and thus it's acceptable in that context in a way that saying "n——-" during a discussion of slavery wouldn't be, or if you have no qualms with saying "n——-" in the…

O'Reilly, Hannity, and now (maybe) Bill Maher getting ousted makes me worry that by the time 2018 rolls around, all of the bloviating political media personalities will have been fired.

Given that 30 Rock had several Lemonparty jokes, I am completely unsurprised.

What's your damage, AV Club? Why do a bunch of Indian kids who know Greek suffixes upset you so much that you gotta project a Battle Royale thing onto them?

It really is refreshing to see an article about the National Spelling Bee where the white kids are the ones being mocked for their wacky names in the comments.

Incidentally, this is why third parties are a joke. No long-term plans beyond winning the presidency.

It feels a little disingenuous to say that coal miners are the 1% that have a stranglehold on American politics.

He meant to write "negative press coverage" but dropped his phone and misspelled "coverage." That's it. It's not even Occam's razor, there is literally no other possible interpretation of that tweet.

I always thought it was a portmanteau of "stupid fan"

Change a hawk / into a little white dove / more than a feeling / that's the power of love