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Style
The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme
Some internet memes require no explanation: an obviously funny image, for instance, or a play on a familiar phrase. Others…
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Style
What Does It Mean to ‘Yassify’ Anything?
“Girl With a Pearl Earring” in a full face of makeup. The first Queen Elizabeth contoured from her neck ruff…
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Magazine
Do the Memes Help the Movies?
The cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker once wrote that “in his greatest genius, man is still mocked.” This sentiment might be…
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