History books give us dates, battles, and big names, but they rarely give us a laugh. Luckily, the internet has stepped in to ...

Learning history doesn’t always have to be done the traditional way, through textbooks and classrooms. In the digital age, ...

If you grew up in a generation where you learned history through textbooks in school, you likely didn’t enjoy every single ...

When it comes to history, we often think of it in monumental, tragic, or epic terms. But rarely does “funny” top the list. Which is surprising, considering how hilarious we humans can be as a ...

Art history memes impart a feeling of historical continuity, the sense that people who came before us experienced the same hardships we face now. Thanks to accounts like Facebook’s Classical Art Memes ...

In each edition of web_crawlr we have exclusive original content every day. On Saturday our Video Producer Kyle Calise explores the origins and history of the most iconic memes online in his “Meme ...

In each edition of web_crawlr we have exclusive original content every day. On Saturday our Video Producer Kyle Calise explores the origins and history of the most iconic memes online in his “Meme ...

Though 2024 wasn’t a banner year in many respects, the internet can at least congratulate itself on yet another annual bumper crop of memes. And let’s not forget the role of art in making it happen!

Remember Pepe the Frog? Or the blinking guy meme? Or the French Revolution Meme? Well, how did everything start and how exactly did they become funny? These memes all originally started as ideas that ...

Memes of Kamala Harris talking about falling out of a coconut tree, featuring clips of her laughing and dancing, are all over social media. Set to songs by this summer’s pop stars, from Charli XCX and ...

Editor’s note: Salon celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Since being founded in 1995 (under the much-worse domain salon1999.com), Salon has published over 300,000 articles; as one of the first ...