A viral meme poking fun at relationships and dating has left men everywhere feeling stumped. When Payton Hicks, from the U.S., posted before-and-after pictures of her roommate’s curled hair to Twitter ...

Memes are “the street art of the social web,” says An Xiao Mina, a designer and artist in Los Angeles. But in China, a country that represses speech and the press, the lulz can turn deadly serious.

Memes and movies have had a symbiotic relationship for years. Movies give screengrabs, universally relatable reaction gifs, and one-liners as fodder to meme fans everywhere. Memes serve as a marketing ...

Memes are “the street art of the social web,” says An Xiao Mina, a designer and artist in Los Angeles. But in China, a country that represses speech and the press, the lulz can turn deadly serious.