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The Ball Pit meme is the only good thing to come out of DashCon

Culture

Horrifying Twitter trend mocks a teenage girl whose rape went viral

Unclick

The 11 dumbest things that 30 percent of Americans believe

Teen stabs mother in copycat ‘Slender Man’ attack

Fans cry foul as Tumblr artists seeks $80,000 for animated promo video

Entertainment

Understanding Drake’s meme appeal

The bizarre origins of ‘me irl’

<p>Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.</p>


Fernando Alfonso III

Behind the internet’s freakish obsession with Shrek

Fake quotes from founding fathers are just what Presidents’ Day needed

<p>Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. The former editor of the Daily Dot’s Unclick section, Klee’s essays, satire, and fiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, 3:AM, Salon, the Awl, the New York Observer, the Millions,  and the Village Voice. He&#8217;s the author of two odd books of fiction, &#8216;Ivyland&#8217; and &#8216;True False.&#8217;</p>


Memes

The Ball Pit meme is the only good thing to come out of DashCon

Horrifying Twitter trend mocks a teenage girl whose rape went viral

The 11 dumbest things that 30 percent of Americans believe

Teen stabs mother in copycat ‘Slender Man’ attack

Fans cry foul as Tumblr artists seeks $80,000 for animated promo video

Understanding Drake’s meme appeal

The bizarre origins of ‘me irl’

Behind the internet’s freakish obsession with Shrek

Fake quotes from founding fathers are just what Presidents’ Day needed

Here’s what the Internet did with NYT Mag’s ‘Planet Hillary’ cover

The life and death of doge, 2013’s greatest meme

With its own cryptocurrency, Doge has officially conquered 2013

The itsy bitsy saga of Tumblr’s Spiders Georg

‘Bob’ and his tank become the mascots of the anti-Google+ movement

The search for Scumbag Steve’s hat