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Jay Hathaway is a former senior writer who specialized in internet memes and weird online culture. He previously served as the Daily Dot’s news editor, was a staff writer at Gawker, and edited the classic websites Urlesque and Download Squad. His work has also appeared on nymag.com, suicidegirls.com, and the Morning News.

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Racist gaffes drag YouTube stars into all-out vlog warfare

Jessica Machado is the former IRL editor of the Daily Dot. Previously, she was an associate editor at Rolling Stone. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Elle, Vice, Salon, BuzzFeed, Guernica, Bitch, Bust, the Cut, the Awl, the Toast, among others.

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Bad Lip Reading takes on Trump, Obama, and the inauguration

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The anatomy of a Louis C.K. joke

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PewDiePie walks back his anti-Semitic prank amid fallout

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The politics of OK Go

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