Once merely obscure inside jokes on the image board 4chan, the “rage face” comics that now appear widely on the Internet have have been toughened by natural selection as they evolved into a dominant ...

But when Chase, an 18-year-old from the Midwest, returned to the subreddit last year, he found it in disarray. As rage comics had slowly dissipated from internet culture, a roving band of shitposters ...

Since memes are in every corner of the Internet, shouldn’t we know how they got there? We became curious about the origins of some of the most popular memes and dug into their histories. Here are the ...