Imagine that you’re a rude teen hanging near some trolley tracks, kicking around rocks, when you look up and notice that five people are tied to the tracks. A trolley suddenly appears, careening ...

With the year 2022 ending soon, Twitter has a new meme called, ‘sounds like a 2023 problem’ going viral. The crux of the meme is that worldly problems that need attention can wait till 2023. For the ...

They've become a ubiquitous part of how we use social media. Chances are you've already scrolled past dozens of them today. But when becoming a meme means becoming instantly famous almost overnight, ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

THE woman who features in one of the most famous memes of all time looks a LOT different in real life. Silvia Bottini shot to internet stardom after social media users made her the face of ‘first ...

A version of this essay first appeared in Vox on June 8, 2016. A recent article in the Huffington Post huffs about the “ifnexplicable” and “absurd” popularity of a trolley-problem-memes page created ...