From the classics to the obscure to the more niche trends, memes are always a great way to react to things online. But while most of these reaction images are harmless, there’s a small contingent of ...

A strange image of SpongeBob SquarePants’ Plankton has become a viral meme on TikTok. This has greatly intrigued fans who are now curious about this “cursed” meme and what it entails. Fans also wish ...

This meme is a version of a “cursed image,” or a rendering of a popular character, object, or location made to seem creepy, uncanny, or off-putting in some way. The identification of an image as such ...

Emma Grey Ellis covers memes, trolls, and other elements of internet culture for WIRED. Shocking images are classic internet entertainment: Before they get to social media, many cursed images start ...

On Saturday night, bookstores across the country were full of children and adults dressed in wizard robes, with fake wands poking out of their pockets, Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans taking up ...

Art imitates life and then memes imitate art — and the glorious, unrelenting life cycle of content lives on. Thanks to an artificial intelligence-powered text-to-image generator called DALL-E mini, ...