What is Know Your Meme?
{{Infobox website | name = Know Your Meme | logo = [[File:KnowYourMeme.png|180px]] | screenshot = | caption = | url = {{url|https://knowyourmeme.com}} | commercial = | type = Encyclopedia | language = English | registration = Optional | owner = [[Cheezburger Network|Cheezburger]] | author = [[Rocketboom]] | editor = Don Caldwell | launch_date = {{start date and age|2007|11|25}} | current_status = Online | revenue = }} '''''Know Your Meme''''' ('''''KYM''''') is a website and video series where various [[Internet meme]]s and other online phenomena are documented, such as [[viral video]]s, [[image macros]], [[catchphrases]], [[Internet celebrity|internet celebrities]] and more. It also investigates new and changing memes through research, as it commercializes on the culture. Originally produced by [[Rocketboom]], the website was acquired in March 2011 by [[Cheezburger Network]], which, in 2016, was acquired by Literally Media.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/274015/literally-media-buys-cheezburger-to-reach-millenni.html|title=Literally Media Buys Cheezburger To Reach Millennials|website=www.mediapost.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/cheezburgers-new-owner-is-israeli-digital-media-company/|title=Cheezburger's new owner is Israeli digital-media company|date=2016-04-21|website=The Seattle Times|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref> Know Your Meme includes sections for confirmed, submitted, deadpooled (rejected or incompletely documented), research, and popular memes. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== *{{Official website|https://www.knowyourmeme.com}} [[Category:American websites]] [[Category:Internet memes]]