But that’s not the only reason for the deluge of memes in the style of the Japanese ... and reducing the likelihood that ChatGPT would reject users’ prompts, even if they risked being offensive.

“I am become meme,” declared Elon Musk at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference, just after hoisting a chainsaw – a gift from Argentina’s president, Javier Milei – above his hea ...

The 2011 introduction of Meme Studies, an actual academic course on memes, at Northwestern University in the US state of Illinois has long been used as a marker of how much of an impact the ...