The market for fractionalized memes is not unique to Dank Bank. September’s record DOGE NFT sale for 11,000 ether showed demand for shared ownership of culturally iconic content.

The internet’s meme-industrial complex is defined by an ongoing tension between dank memes and mainstream memes that appeal to “normies.” It’s the classic hipster problem: Something is ...

4. Apply for Some Sort of Grant Back in 2011, researchers at Indiana University got a nearly $1 million grant to study memes.

From Baldwin to Luckey, from dank-meme magicians to people cracking wise on Twitter: it’s a shoot-the-moon logic that’s come to define this moment.

May 26, 2016, is—according to meme academics—the third anniversary of the day that memes became dank. The world was forever changed. Whence this dankness, you ask?

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Monetized Memes: Dank Bank Raises $4.2M The NFT platform plans to use the funds to acquire “legendary memes.” By Cam Thompson Updated May 11, 2023, 10:56 a.m. Published Apr 1, 2022, 10:58 a.m.