The “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” meme—an animation of a banana dancing to a song of the same name—is the latest piece of internet history to be auctioned off as a non-fungible token as the lucrative NFT ...

Over the last decade, new online platforms have made it easier than ever to go from anonymity to online fame and fortune, but that viral success can also come at a cost. From our Planet Money podcast, ...

In just 7 years, Peanut the Squirrel went from being an anonymous street rodent, to a famous influencer, to a billion dollar cryptocurrency. His story is a parable of the modern attention economy.