has confirmed that the meme landscape has become an intellectual minefield. To decode modern memes, one must possess fluency in 47 previous meme formats, a working grasp of three dead languages ...

but I strongly believe that memes are not helpful to learning. If you think about it, modern memes are descendants of cartoons meant to tell jokes. Hence, most “educational” memes are not ...

Is this 1921 cartoon the first recorded meme? When this comic was posted to Twitter, it caused excitement as people began to wonder if it was the first meme - a format-dependent joke, typically of ...