Meme History: How a ‘distracted boyfriend’ went from a simple stock photo to an iconic meme

Meet Mario and Laura, two models who unknowingly became central figures in meme history. In November 2015, Antonio Guillem, a professional stock photographer, uploaded a series of infidelity-themed images to iStock. Among these was a frame he captioned “disloyal man with his girlfriend looking at another girl.” This particular image would soon stand out and …

Viral post thoughtfully reexamines Kerri Strug's iconic broken ankle vault at 1996 Olympics

Simone Biles withdrawing from the team final in the Tokyo Olympics and subsequently withdrawing from the individual all-around finals after getting a case of the “twisties” has the world talking. She’s received overwhelming support as well as overwhelming criticism for the move, with some praising her for recognizing her limits and others blasting her for …

Missy Elliott And Rapsody Led A Lineup Of Iconic Hip-Hop Women Honoring Queen Latifah At The Kennedy Center Honors

There have always been women at the forefront of hip-hop’s 50-year reign over pop culture, and perhaps none is more iconic than Queen Latifah. The “U-N-I-T-Y” rapper is widely acknowledged as one of the genre’s greatest of all time, and last night at the Kennedy Center Honors, she received loving tributes from some of her …

Lil Wayne Compared His Rap Career To An Iconic Basketball Player, As They Both Started Young

Lil Wayne recently sat down for an interview with Taylor Rooks from Bleacher Report, where he revealed the basketball player he thought was comparable to his own rap career. While he didn’t go for Michael Jordan, he did choose another iconic player to represent himself. And he had some logic behind it. “I would say …

13 Actors Who Were Almost Recast In Iconic Roles

Christian told GQ, “Even though other people were cast, other directors were on board, I just kept on prepping, and I would call Mary up, and she would say, ‘Christian, they’ve given it to other people.’ And I was like, yeah yeah yeah, no, it doesn’t matter. We’re still gonna make it. And she was …

14 Actors Who Initially Turned Down Iconic Roles

He continued, “Until the casting director, great lady, English Lady, Mary Selway sat me down — I mean, I’ve known Mary for many years. She could be tough, and very insistent, and she just said, ‘You have to do this movie. Just do it, Ralph.’ And she said it with such emphasis. My sister, Martha, …

Rihanna’s Iconic Super Bowl Halftime Show Pregnancy Reveal Was Actually Unintentional, She Explained

Rihanna had one of the year’s most iconic pop culture moments with her Super Bowl Halftime Show performance in February. That was both because of the performance itself, and because Rihanna took the stage and revealed she was pregnant. It turns out that wasn’t initially part of the plan, though: Her baby bump just got …

Video – Burak Ozcivit on top of social media in Turkey after his support for the children of Gaza while receiving the iconic Act…

Burak Ozcivit on top of social media in Turkey after his support for the children of Gaza while receiving the iconic Actor of the Year Award Burak says :As a father of two children, I do not accept a world in which children are killed, hoping we meet in a world in which children are …

'X-files' fans band together to solve 25-year-old mystery behind iconic episode's music

As any “X-Files” will tell you, mystery is a major part of the show’s intrigue. After all, Agent Mulder and Scully dealt with some new kind of paranormal phenomenon every episode. But it’s usually not a mystery centered around the show itself. That is, unless we’re talking about a catchy country song that appears during …