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Internet Culture
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What Counts as a Shitpost? Definition and History
What a shitpost is, where the word came from in 2007, and how the style spread into politics and music.
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How Reddit Communities Built Their Own Customs
How voting, volunteer moderators and shared traditions gave each subreddit its own customs.
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Online Slang by Platform: Reading Comments Like a Local
How online slang differs across platforms, from old acronyms to algospeak and emoji code, with a simple method for reading…
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Why Online Humor Is So Absurd and Ironic
How remixing, layered irony and in-jokes turned online humor from lolcats into surreal, deadpan memes.
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Internet Slang Dictionary: Common Terms and Where They Started
Internet slang has evolved since 1979. This guide traces LOL, leet, kek and emoji to their origins with sourced dates.
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Internet Culture: A Guide to How the Web Talks and Plays
A sourced guide to internet culture: where memes came from, which platforms shaped them, and how slang and joke formats…
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Inside Discord Culture: Servers, Roles and In-Jokes
How Discord servers, roles, custom emoji and in-jokes shaped a distinct chat-based culture since 2015.
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Copypasta Explained: Famous Examples and How They Spread
A copypasta is text copied and pasted again and again for humor. Here is where the word came from, famous…
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A Plain History of 4chan’s Influence on the Web
A plain, sourced history of how an anonymous imageboard launched in 2003 shaped memes, pranks and politics online.