When we saw the memes scoring the size of a blue whale’s anus second to some of the year’s most reviled politicians, our first thought was that it was deliciously funny.

This is part of an occasional series about abandoned Internet icons. When Twitter discontinued its beloved Fail Whale in the summer of 2013, the decision had more to do with what the whale ...

Memes, gifs and political power — as lines blur between the online and offline worlds by Negar Mottahedeh, opinion contributor - 07/10/17 10:40 AM ET ...

When Twitter discontinued its beloved Fail Whale in the summer of 2013, the decision had more to do with what the whale represented—a service outage—than the image itself. "It had a long ...

Facebook launched an experimental meme app called Whale – here's how it works. By Charlie Wood. Shona Ghosh/Business Insider 2019-11-20T10:00:00Z ...

A whale that has been accumulating Dogecoin since March 2021 moved the entire holdings of their wallet, of over $157M. The funds were sent in batches to unknown addresses, amid a weak meme market.

Social network Twitter was down for about an hour on Thursday afternoon. Updated from 2:46 p.m. EST to provide comments from Twitter on outage in the fifth paragraph. crashed Thursday, as users ...

NYT discovers, explicates the Fail Whale How do Internet memes get started? In the case of "fail!" a video game may be … Nate Anderson – Aug 10, 2009 1:25 pm | 29 Text ...

The cute illustration by Yiying Lu was a common sight on Twitter’s website for years as the service buckled under a high volume of tweets. It cropped up a few times this year as Twitter ...

Now, everyone’s on it. In the U.S., people over the age of 65 represent 11.7% of the user-base. Meanwhile, younger users are engaging less with Facebook, instead preferring to spend time on ...