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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A meme meant for transgender and nonbinary people is being mocked on TikTok by cisgender people (people whose gender identity corresponds with their assigned gender at birth). The trend involves ...

Emerging quite inorganically over the last few weeks, “That’s Not My Name” is a celebrity-led corporate creation. The meme is basically a way for Gen-X stars to explain the diversity and depth of ...