Q: I am one of the many women who now find our name used as an insult or shorthand for an obnoxious, entitled, occasionally racist creature who demands to speak to the manager or calls the police for ...

Memes are a cultural shorthand that, like all forms of communication, evolve with those who use them. Nobody can claim to know or understand every single meme that exists. There are simply too many, ...

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Memes, they say, are dead as soon as celebrities use them to appear ...

Growing up in Massachusetts, I never had a major problem with my first name, but I always wanted to spell it differently. Karen struck me as neither interesting nor creative or unique, so I wanted to ...

Where did the ‘My Name is Jeff’ meme come from? The ‘My Name is Jeff’ meme comes from a scene in 22 Jump Street, the sequel to 21 Jump Street. In the scene, Tatum‘s character Police Officer Greg Jenko ...

A woman known as the Hawk Tuah Girl has courted online fame. A video of her response to a question went viral and it has become the subject of several internet memes. It has also led to several ...

Carved Jack-O-Lanterns. (Photo by: GHI/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Bow down, faithful trick-or-treaters, for a new Halloween icon has arisen; his head might be a carved ...

Remembering people's names can be kind of tricky, and sometimes, helping others pronounce and process your own name can be even trickier. Whether your name is something relatively conventional (i.e.