Know Your Meme is a community blog and a web database that researches and documents Internet memes and viral phenomena.

Founded in December of 2008, Know Your Meme's research is handled by an independent professional editorial and research staff and community members. In just a short 2-year period, the site grew to reach more than 2.5 million people every month and is considered the most authoritative source on news, history and origins of viral phenomena and Internet memes.

We're part of the Cheezburger Network, one of the world's largest online humor and entertainment destination with dozens of sites including I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, Memebase, and The Daily What. For more information about Know Your Meme and Cheezburger Network, please visit http://knowyourmeme.com/about.

Know Your Meme's research and reporting has appeared in the New York Times, NPR, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, among many news outlets. Know Your Meme has also earned several awards for its research and was named one of the 50 Best Websites by Time magazine, in 2009.

Visit our database at http://knowyourmeme.com/memes.
Check out our webisodes at http://youtube.com/knowyourmeme.

We're staffed by a small but talented team of creative professionals with unique backgrounds in video production, cultural reporting, creative design, and software development.

Editor-in-Chief: Emily Huh
Editor: Brad Kim
Sr. Reporter: Don Caldwell
Visual Reporter: Olivia Gulin
Developer: James Wu
Advertising Operations: Dan Cunningham

We're located in Chelsea, New York City. We liek mudkipz.