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Famed short seller Andrew Left is back shorting GameStop years after taking a hit during meme-stock mania
The famed short-seller told Bloomberg he shorted the stock after he saw retail hero Keith Gill's la…
Jennifer Sor
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A flood of crypto tokens with names referencing GameStop and famed trader Roaring Kitty have been created in the last 24 hours as developers try to ride a meme-coin resurgence
The "GME" meme token, which borrows GameStop's stock ticker, traded 1,247% higher on Monday with a …
Matthew Fox
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Roaring Kitty is back on social media and meme stock GameStop is soaring
Keith Gill just posted on X for the first time in nearly three years, sending meme stock GameStop s…
George Glover
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Famed 'Doge' meme NFT sells for record-breaking $4 million at auction
The winner of the 'Doge' NFT auction had a bid of 1,696.9 Ethereum cryptocurrency, which is worth o…
Kelly McLaughlin
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A history of Grimace, the bizarre McDonald's mascot now making a comeback as a queer meme icon
A new McDonald's marketing campaign has turned Grimace into a meme icon. But the purple blob wasn't…
Chris Panella
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Googlers are making memes to deal with the looming threat of job cuts
Googlers believe it's not a question of if layoffs are coming, but when — and they're turning…
Matt Weinberger
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How Miriam Makeba, a South African singer who fought apartheid, inspired a viral TikTok meme and dance
"Makeba" by Jain, used in a viral TikTok trend, pays tribute to famed South African artist and acti…
Rebecca Cohen
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Mark Zuckerberg posted a Spiderman meme in his first tweet in a decade a self-aware reference to his Twitter competitor, Threads
Mark Zuckerberg recently entertained a mixed martial arts cage match against Twitter CEO Elon Musk,…
Azmi Haroun
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US embassy welcomes Finland to NATO with meme on Finnish snipers, a lethal force legendary for punishing invading Soviets
One Finnish sniper known as "The White Death" is credited with killing over 500 Soviet soldiers dur…
Jake Epstein
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'Big Short' investor Michael Burry questions Elon Musk's space ambitions and pokes fun at GameStop's stock split
Burry suggested Musk's hubris could be his undoing, and joked that GameStop should enact a 40-for-1…
Theron Mohamed
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'Big Short' investor Michael Burry warns inflation will soar even higher — and flags mounting pressure on the housing market
Burry twisted the rallying cry of meme-stock and cryptocurrency fans to issue a grim inflation warn…
Theron Mohamed
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Popeyes meme kid from viral GIFs inks college football NIL deal with the fast-food chain
The internet is forever, and the Popeyes kid meme lives on after the subject of the viral sensation…
Jordan Hart
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LSU coach Kim Mulkey is becoming a meme thanks to her flamboyant reaction to her Tigers' conference tournament upset
The Hall of Fame coach went ballistic when her LSU Tigers lost their SEC Tournament semifinal again…
Meredith Cash
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What is Pepecoin? Everything you need to know about the meme token that notched a $1.6 billion market cap then crashed 70% within days
Like Dogecoin and Shiba Inu, the frog-based cryptocurrency is a meme token that has no use case and…
George Glover
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'Hacktivist' group Anonymous is experiencing renewed internet fame after a widely circulated video calling out the Minneapolis Police Department
An account claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous, a "hacktivist" group, posted a video calling o…
Palmer Haasch
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Meet the weather presenters who have skyrocketed to TikTok fame by sneaking increasingly absurd phrases into live TV broadcasts
Television weather presenters have discovered a TikTok niche that's built them a following of milli…
Andrew Lloyd
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Prince Charming 'Shrek' memes are taking over TikTok, with users lip-syncing to lines like 'not here, kitten whiskers'
TikTokers are imitating Prince Charming from "Shrek," lip-syncing to lines from the movies and usin…
Palmer Haasch
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A clip of Ben Affleck grumpily slamming a car door for Jennifer Lopez is going viral, reigniting memes that think he's always in a bad mood
A video of Ben Affleck posted by The Hollywood Fix is going viral, showing the actor appearing to s…