According to Kotaku's recent interview with Carlos Ramirez, the artist behind the Trollface estimates that he has earned over $100,000 in licensing fees and others payouts since registering the copyright in 2010.

After facing protests regarding racial and cultural representation in emoji, Apple's newest update gave users the option to choose a variety of new skin tones, and included a secret Vulcan salute for dedicated emoji fans.

The value of Pepe images has been thrown into a tailspin with the release of a gallery containing over 1,200 pictures of the frog character, which reached a price of more than $99,000 on eBay when it was listed on the auction site.

Some Brooklyn artist activists paid a sneaky tribute to the whistleblower in a public park by adhering a home-made bust to a war monument. When it was removed, another group projected a hologram in its place.

Following the release of a scathing report by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, which determined that Rolling Stone failed to perform even basic journalistic practices in verifying their article about a purported sexual assault at the University of Virginia, the magazine has formally retracted the story but revealed they have no plans to fire the author.