Screenshot: Jimmie Åkesson, Leader of the Sweden Democrats, August 2018. YouTube. Recent years have seen the far and extreme right wing building international coalitions to disseminate propaganda in ...

It’s been used to dissect trends in popular culture, wade into political disputes and comment on the fickle nature of human relationships, but the popular “distracted boyfriend” meme is sexist, the ...

Facepalm: Sweden's Advertising Ombudsman, an ad-focused regulatory agency, has deemed that the use of the "Distracted Boyfriend" meme by Swedish ISP Bahnhof in a hiring ad is sexist to both genders.

An example of the 'distracted boyfriend' meme. Source: Imgflip. In what may be an unprecedented ruling, the Swedish advertising watchdog has ruled a Facebook post by a local internet services provider ...

Whether or not you consider yourself to be an Extremely Online Person™, the chances are that there are memes and internet jokes that you enjoy that would be almost impossible for you to articulate to ...

Screenshot: Jimmie Åkesson, Leader of the Sweden Democrats, August 2018. YouTube. Recent years have seen the far and extreme right wing building international coalitions to disseminate propaganda in ...

It’s been used to dissect trends in popular culture, wade into political disputes and comment on the fickle nature of human relationships, but the popular “distracted boyfriend” meme is sexist, the ...

It was a top meme in 2017, but the infamous shot of a man checking out a passing woman has now landed a Swedish company in hot water with the country's advertising regulator. The firm had retooled it ...