Meme Insider

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About

Meme Insider is a monthly print and digital magazine that covers and analyzes internet trends and culture with in-depth articles, editorials and interviews of people featured in memes. The publication began in November 2016 after appearing in a thread on Reddit’s r/MemeEconomy subreddit.

History

On November 16th, 2016, Redditor^[1] DigitalizedOrange posted a thread to the r/MemeEconomy sub under the title, “Meme Insider Nov Issue Cover.” The post included a then fictional concept cover for a magazine, called “Meme Insider” (seen below), and received over 6,100 upvotes, 116 comments and a gold Reddit award.

After garnering interest from this post, the community there then turned it into a real publication and released the first official issue (shown below) on December 1st, 2016, also appearing in a post by Redditor^[2] DigitalizedOrange to the r/MemeEconomy sub that same day, which received over 2,000 upvotes,158 comments and several Reddit awards.

Highlights

On February 17th, 2017, Vice News^[3] covered Meme Insider in an article titled, “Redditors Made ‘Meme Insider,’ a Completely Insane Magazine About Memes.” Reddit’s official blog, Upvoted,^[4] then interviewed DigitalizedOrange about the origins of Meme Insider on August 22nd, 2017, in a blog post. On October 27th, 2017, The Daily Dot^[5] also reported on the magazine in an article titled, “Inside Meme Insider, the first magazine for dank memes.”

On November 21st, 2016, Meme Insider launched their YouTube^[6] channel, which has since received over 2 million views and nearly 40,000 subscribers. On January 17th, 2019, the video “The Most Popular YouTuber Who's Never Uploaded [ft. Down the Rabbit Hole]” was uploaded to their YouTube^[7] account (seen below), receiving over 1.5 million views, 59,000 likes and 10,000 comments.

The Meme Insider Instagram^[8] account was similarly launched in late 2016, reporting on the latest trends, and now has over 50,000 followers. On December 21st, 2018, the Instagram^[9] page can be seen covering the Big Chungus meme (shown below), receiving over 1,400 likes on the post.

In May 2019, Meme Insider was acquired by Know Your Meme.