“Goodbye Meta AI” is the most recent Facebook copypasta to go viral online. A chunky wall of text pasted against a hazy orange-yellow gradient background, it’s complete with all the trend’s hallmarks: ...

"Copypasta" is internet slang for rumors that users spread by copying posts and pasting them on their own accounts, which then get shared over and over. Not only is Facebook home to a lot of such ...

What is the Curse of Ra? The Curse of Ra derives from the concept of a pharaoh’s curse. The concept was first acknowledged around the time of the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922. After ...

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We often receive emails asking us to fact-check "copypasta" messages going viral online. These are claims that spread by being copied and pasted on Facebook or other social media platforms, and don't ...

What do war criminal Henry Kissinger, expelled Congress member George Santos, and the start of the Christmas season have in common? Well, according to some of your most online acquaintances, each is a ...

The Tesla Cybertruck meme wasn’t the first of its kind. Copypasta reading “No Problem! Here’s the Information About the Mercedes CLR GTR” became popular at the beginning of 2024. In both instances, it ...

“Goodbye Meta AI.” You may have seen these words posted on Facebook or Threads or most likely Instagram, where a viral story template has been shared by more than 500,000 users who seem to think that ...

As long as humans keep on human-ing, words will keep on words-ing. This week, Merriam-Webster announced it had added a whopping 455 new entries to the dictionary — including terms across cultural, ...

Twitter will now hide tweets that feature text that’s been copy and pasted without any modifications from the source. The social network has updated its censorship policy to include “copypasta,” which ...

First they were called chain emails, and they were sent by people like your weird aunt who always wore a Big Dog t-shirt. An online version of physical chain letters, chain emails propagated hoaxes ...