A meme campaign designed to troll liberals as “nonplayable characters” — a term borrowed from video game lingo — prompted Twitter to suspend roughly 1,500 accounts for engaging in “coordinated ...

Last week, a trolling campaign organized by right-wing internet users spilled over onto Twitter. The campaign, which was born in the fever swamps of 4chan and Reddit message boards, involved creating ...

From time to time, and especially if you’re a fan of science fiction, you may have had the thought that nobody around you is actually real. That sentiment has taken root in anti-progressive parts of ...

Also known originally as the Feels Guy, the Wojak meme (sometimes misspelled as Wojack) is a crude illustration of a bald man—spawned a host of other offshoot characters—commonly used to convey sad or ...

In late 2018, just weeks before the U.S. midterm election, a term any gamer would recognize began to bubble up into political conversation. NPC (short for non-player character) became the alt-right ...

It’s a cliché to say that increased connectivity has actually driven us further apart, but there’s more than a kernel of truth to it. In a way, we are better prepared than ever through the invention ...

Donald Trump on the Democrats:' They are not just extreme, they are frankly dangerous, and they are crazy' Twitter has suspended more than 1,500 spoof accounts featuring grey, expressionless avatars ...

Wojak is an MS Paint-style illustration used to convey a wide spectrum of human emotions—from melancholy and reflection to triumph, nostalgia, and shared community sentiment. Its versatility has led ...