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Angela Andaloro proudly serves as a scribe, documenting all the shenanigans happening online. Her writing has been featured across Entertainment Weekly, PEOPLE, BuzzFeed, and more.

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The Locked In Alien, Ninja, and a low-taper fade walk into a bar…

Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

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Anna Good

30 of the best David Lynch memes honoring the master of the surreal

Ilana Gordon is a culture and entertainment writer based in Los Angeles. Ilana&#8217;s writing has been featured in places like: the A.V. Club, the Takeout, Atlas Obscura, Huffington Post, McSweeney&#8217;s Internet Tendency, the Belladonna Comedy, Reductress, Mashable, the Second City Network, RedEye Chicago, ART + marketing, the Muse, Dose and OMGFacts.

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The ‘first good AI joke’ joke is also a brilliant ethical solution to the trolley problem

Ai image of futuristic city and tweet "leaked photo of heaven is going viral on social media. No wonder christians are so determined to get there!"

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The ‘Leaked Photo of Heaven is Going Viral on Social Media’ meme pokes fun at AI-generated slop

Obi Wan Kenobi with light saber and text "Strike me down, and I will become more Chinese than you could possibly image."

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32 of the funniest RedNote memes from salty ‘TikTok refugees’

Rachel Kiley is a writer who sometimes writes things and sometimes is based in L.A., but is definitely always on Twitter @rachelkiley.

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Rachel Kiley

Tweet "somebody asked who the 'horse girls' of men are and after some time considering it the answer is pilots"

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Important question: Who are the horse girls of men?

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TikTok users are feeling about the impending TikTok ban

25 pics that really articulate how TikTok is feeling about the looming ban

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‘Will Smith eating spaghetti’ is the first AI benchmark meme

Lindsey is a Seattle area writer interested in all things society, including internet culture, politics, and mental health. Outside of the Daily Dot, her work can be found in publications such as The Mary Sue, Truthout, and YES! Magazine.

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Lindsey Weedston

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Here’s how the girlfriend of a Victor Wembanyama fan rebranded him ‘Hector Banana Bread’

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‘I’m a fancy treat boy, look at my treat!’: The internet’s new diss, ‘Treatler,’ explained

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Trump and Obama seen laughing at Jimmy Carter’s funeral—cue the memes

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‘Full bush revolution’: How an Etsy bikini review sparked the viral ‘full bush in a bikini’ TikTok trend