The girlies hop into the meme pool to investigate how memes are made, why they spread, and what happens when the worst moments of someone’s life follow them forever in the memeiverse. Digressions include a mysterious case of Souping, the Binchtopia infirmary ward, and one listener’s horrifying baby Jesus figurine.

Sources:

• Slayed, Mother: Gypsy Rose’s Digital Homecoming by Jax Preyer
• The Meme is Dead, Long Live the Meme by Roy Christopher
• Talking to the Guy Who Invented the Word ‘Meme’: Richard Dawkins by Mahmood Fazal
• Taking the Dawkins Challenge, or, The Dark Side of the Meme by Gregory Schrempp
• Alex From Target: The Other Side of Fame
• Alix Bromley Adjudication
• Internet Memes and “The Right to Privacy”
• Most Americans support right to have some personal info removed from online searches
• As a domestic violence victim, my story became a joke. 
• You Know the Lorena Bobbitt Story. But Not All of It
• The Definitive Oral History of the Bobbitt Case, 25 Years Later 
• Accidentally famous: The psychology of going viral 
• Monica Lewinsky Wins The Internet With Best 'I Have A Joke' Tweet
• The last of the Monica meme
• Monica Lewinsky on the Culture of Humiliation

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