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Owen Carry

Internet culture writer and researcher

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PERSONAL STATEMENT

Elite internet trend-spotter, researcher, and writer with over four years of media experience, steeped in first-on-the-scene reporting on online culture and viral stories. Committed to identifying emerging memetic trends and explaining their meanings, origins, and cultural significance across technology (including AI), politics, and generational divides in language and humor.

WORK HISTORY

Associate Editor
Know Your Meme
September 2021-December 2025 | New York, New York

  • Tasked with pitching, researching, and writing four to five items (entries and explainers) daily on budding internet trends, memes, and stories for the internet encyclopedia.
  • Over 3,600 editorships and over 33,400 images added to the digital archive.
  • Led the editorial team in total page views in 2023, 2024, and 2025.
  • Original, groundbreaking reporting on internet phenomena, with research linked in major media publications via bylines and citations.
  • Daily communications with the Managing Editor and KYM team over Slack and in the office.
  • Asked to train the editorial team on internet trendspotting tactics and Photoshop skills for article headers.
  • Responsible for writing one comedic and informational video script a week for the Internet News Network (INN) channel on Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok.

Staff Writer
Meme Insider
August 2020-May 2025 | New York, New York

  • Writing think pieces and conducting interviews on trending memes and internet topics for a monthly print magazine.
  • Pitching stories and topics to a team of editors.
  • Editing and writing short-form video content, plus designing graphics and choosing trending topics for “Meme Economy” slideshow posts, while managing the MI Instagram from March to September 2021.

Social Media Intern
Helmholz Fine Art
June 2020-September 2020 | Manchester, Vermont

  • Managing Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook accounts for a fine arts gallery in Vermont.
  • Photographing, filming, and documenting installations, studio visits, and interviews with the artists.

BYLINES


FREELANCE


EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Sarah Lawrence College
Class of 2021

  • Dual focus on creative writing and fine arts.
  • Creation of a final fiction portfolio, centered on absurdist short stories and travel writing, involving a week-long gonzo escapade at the Resorts World Catskills in Monticello, New York.
  • Fine arts thesis centered on social media, new media, conceptual art, performance art, and sculpture, culminating in the pieces Engagement Performance (2021) and We’re All Out (2021).

Skills

  • Digital journalism
  • Internet trendspotting
  • Story sourcing
  • Editorial storytelling
  • Media research
  • Fact-checking
  • Copyediting and proofreading
  • Internet culture reporting & meme analysis
  • Creative writing
  • Comedy writing

PROJECTS

  • Published fiction in literary magazines such as Forever Mag (”The Cheesecake Story”), Silver Operation (”Bunnies”), and Animal Blood (”The Decision”).
  • Actively running an anonymous Instagram meme page since 2017, with over 87,000 followers and 4 million monthly views in 2025.
  • Founder of independent internet culture blog 65,000, with over 210,000 collective page views since its launch in April 2025.
  • Co-founder and co-host of the quarterly stand-up comedy show Women’s Comedy Evening, held at Crystal Lake in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.