We’ve all got our topics we could give a full-blown TED Talk on at a moment’s notice to an empty room. And we all know exactly what it feels like to start talking about those things to the people in ...
As a counterpoint to long-established mansplaining memes like that one guy shouting into a girl’s ear at a nightclub, the latest hot meme format is all about girlsplaining. The meme initially spread ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Callum Booth covers the intersection of art and internet culture. Since entering the final quarter of the year, a curious trend ...
Part of a good joke is people getting it. If nobody does, who is going to laugh at it? The same applies to memes. However, some of them are so niche, you need to have a Ph.D. in internet culture to ...
An image of an impassioned girl yelling into the ear of a guy who appears indifferent to what she's saying has captivated the internet. She's the "girl explaining" — and seemingly everyone finds her ...
A viral TikTok exchange about a New Year’s resolution involving 365 buttons has confused the internet — and birthed an iconic catchphrase TikTok user “Tamara” mysteriously said she was “getting 365 ...
Over the past week, Denise Sanchez received a flood of texts letting her know her photo was all over Twitter. An image taken in 2018 of her seemingly talking passionately into the ear of her rather ...
When you've built a career around explaining race and racism to people, what happens when you find a moment you just don't want to explain? That time came for me this week, as memes were rocketing ...
Gwyneth Paltrow is just like Us: Sometimes she needs her kids to translate internet memes and pop culture in-jokes. In an interview with Cultured, the Oscar-winner and lifestyle guru, 51, admitted ...