To go to “Twitter jail” is to be restricted, suspended, or banned on Twitter.
Liz Sommer is a recent graduate of Pitzer College, where she majored in media studies. As she’s somewhere between the end of adolescence and the beginning of full-on-adulthood, she’s working to bridge the gap between tweens, teens, teachers, parents, and grandparents when it comes to digital media and pop culture. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Contact her at [email protected]
To go to “Twitter jail” is to be restricted, suspended, or banned on Twitter.
Lightning McQueen drifting memes take a scene from Disney’s Cars to show someone pulling ahead or making a comeback.
Memes of Oprah’s reactions during her interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are spreading online since it aired on CBS.
The line from WandaVision “but what is grief if not love persevering,” has inspired a number of memes about other things that persevere.
People are roasting their friends in the Pass The Phone Challenge on TikTok.
The term “Dispo Boys” references VSCO girls to characterize boys and men who use David Dobrik’s app Dispo or otherwise engage with an old-school photography aesthetic.
As we approach one year of the Coronavirus pandemic, people are sharing memes about this milestone, expressing a range of emotions.
People are marking the start of March 2021 with memes, many of which reference how we’ve been living in a pandemic for approximately one year.
People are using the StarByFace website and app to show then which celebrities they look like, and then sharing the results on Twitter.
In addition to referring to male friend groups, “the boys” can characterize young men who are rude, sexist, racist, and/or homophobic.
A photo dump is an Instagram post where people include a carousel of random, miscellaneous pictures from their camera roll.
On social media NOOMF is an acronym for “not one of my followers.”