If you’ve been online in the last week, chances are you’ve seen them: Little multicolored blobs with smiling faces doing some kind of gesture, with the text “Little Miss” or “Little Mr." prominently ...
In June 2022, American Girl dolls received the meme treatment. Now, TikTok and Instagram users are associating themselves with a literary character that was consistently found on the shelves of young ...
Characters from a popular 1970s book series are being turned into memes on TikTok and Instagram by Gen Z as a form of therapy, using “Little Miss” and “Mr. Men” to highlight personality traits and ...
Every day our Instagram feeds are flooded with memes galore — and lately, nostalgia is everything. The latest ones follow a similar formula: Enter the “Little Miss” trend. From Little Miss Can’t Be ...
The son and daughter of the creator of the books that gave way to the memes Credit: Ian West / PA Images via Getty This time last year we were singing sea shanties and being constantly reminded just ...
Odds are if you’ve been on Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok the past several weeks, you’ve seen the colorful emoji-like characters from the children’s book series, Mr. Men. The 2D characters have become ...
The Mr. Men characters were created in 1971 when children's author Roger Hargreaves wrote "Mr. Tickle," a book with a smiling yellow creature with wiggly arms on the cover. The series quickly took off ...
The life of a meme can often transcend platforms; as it wanes on one, it can gain a new audience on another. For the Little Miss meme, which riffs on designs from decades-old children’s books, that’s ...