The BFI Are Preserving Vintage Memes On An Ever-Changing Internet
Kotaku | 18.05.2026 03:00
The British Film Institute is one of the largest film archives in the world, not only preserving a vast history of motion pictures but restoring them for future audiences. They’ve recovered Edwardian newsreels, Hitchcock’s earliest works and Ken Russell’s nudest. In a new initiative, the BFI will be collecting video from another notoriously inscrutable genre: internet memes.
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