internet culture
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Why Did It Take Me 20 Years To Realise Team Rocket Frequently Hit An ‘R’ Pose
A Twitter post has once again thrown a brick through the window of my adolescent remembrances. Despite watching likely hundreds of episodes of the Pokémon animated series as a wee lad, I never once noticed the show’s most obvious visual gag. Recurring villains Team Rocket, chaotically bisexual duo Jessie and James, along with the independent and…
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New York Attorney General Investigating Twitch, Discord Following Buffalo Shooting
In the wake of the horrific shooting that took place in Buffalo on May 14, New York Attorney General Letitia James has officially launched an investigation into the role social media companies may have played in the attack on a supermarket that took the lives of 10 people and is now being investigated as a…
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Reddit Is Hosting What May Be The Internet’s Most Wholesome Fan War
Who produced this amazing pixel art of Elden Ring’s Ranni sitting next to the protagonist of Hollow Knight, and why? The answer is r/Place, a Reddit battlefield where anyone can place a dot and change the course of meme history. In an era where so much of the modern internet is trash, r/Place has returned…
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$694,100 NFT Lawsuit Over Pepe The Frog’s Butt Is A Very Funny Story
Late last year, Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie decided to run an NFT auction, selling off an image of the controversial character in which it was waist-deep in a pool, its asscrack peeping over the surface. Everything that has happened since is exactly how you would imagine such an auction in the insipid Web3…