This image would become the emblematic Doge meme. The meme’s popularity surged further when a subreddit post in 2012 featured an audio clip of a computer-generated voice interacting with a Doge ...

A new study examining meme creation found that AI-generated meme captions on existing famous meme images scored higher on average for humor, creativity, and "shareability" than those made by people.

For the chronically online — or even those who may have casually glanced at their social media feeds — it was hard to escape the realization that a new meme has reigned supreme on the internet ...