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  • One of Our Posts Broke Medium’s Emotional Support Algorithm

    One of Our Posts Broke Medium’s Emotional Support Algorithm

    So here’s the story.Seventeen years online.GiveUpInternet.com survived MySpace, Tumblr, and the emotional trauma of Facebook comments in 2012.But it couldn’t survive Medium.com, the platform that thinks satire is a security threat. Yes, folks.Medium suspended GiveUpInternet’s brand-new account after exactly one and a half posts.Reason? “Violation of Medium Rules.”Translation? “We made news about a memecoin launch platform,… Continue reading

  • How Google Bought the Internet and Made You Say Thank You

    How Google Bought the Internet and Made You Say Thank You

    Saying Google dominates the internet is like saying the ocean dominates the beach. It’s true, but it doesn’t even begin to capture the audacity of how it happened. Google didn’t just out-engineer competitors, it quietly bought their best ideas, remixed them with its algorithmic magic, and made us all forget they ever existed before Mountain… Continue reading

  • One Meme at a Time: The Underground Community Turning Memes into Real Projects

    One Meme at a Time: The Underground Community Turning Memes into Real Projects

    Meet memes.zone: The Secret Studio Behind the Next Great Coins 1. From Internet Jesters to Memecoin Builders GiveUpInternet! has spent over a decade archiving, dissecting, and celebrating the weird, wild, and wonderful corners of internet culture. We were there when Rickrolls broke the web, when Doge became a religion, and when digital humor evolved into real-world… Continue reading