Memes are a cultural shorthand that, like all forms of communication, evolve with those who use them. Nobody can claim to know or understand every single meme that exists.

In his 2004 book, Word Myths, David Wilton notes some common threads among the most popular linguistic urban legends. For instance, they might validate group identity or serve sociopolitical purposes.

Rosetta can analyze images that include text in many forms, such as photos of protest signs, restaurant menus, storefronts, and more. Viswanath Sivakumar, a software engineer at Facebook who works ...

In other words, Facebook is developing an AI that can understand memes. That may sound like a pretty ridiculous concept at first, but Facebook isn't doing this for the fun of it.

The more we can understand memes and increase our overall meme literacy, the more we can understand the language people are speaking on the web. Editorial Standards Reprints & Permissions.

Let’s talk about memes, y’all.

In response to the movie release of “Dumb Money,” which feeds off the meme stock rally craze and constructs a gripping drama, it is hard not to enjoy the experience of watching the film.

Add all of these aspects together — Joker nihilism, oppressed gamers, edgelord weed use, intentionally shoddy meme iteration — and you get a pretty good sense of what “Gang weed” is about.

Memes are like onions. They have layers and, the more a meme is peeled back, the easier it becomes to see its entire makeup. Captain America’s newest meme is based on a scene from Spider-Man ...

CNN talking head and occasional writer Fareed Zakaria filed a Washington Post column on Thursday, “I Wanted to Understand Europe’s Populism. So I Talked to Bono.” In it, Zakaria attempted to ...