Since the first “Despicable Me” movie premiered in 2010, fans have not been able to get enough of Gru and his minions. One of the ways fans have shown their love is through memes. The Gru meme ...

The TikTok meme #GentleMinions has been gaining strength ... suits and scarves — the go-to uniform for the supervillain Gru — to watch the latest entry in the Despicable Me franchise.

Did TikTok's viral suit-wearing trend help "Minions: The Rise of Gru" box office? (Universal, TikTok That #Gentleminions TikTok meme featuring suit-wearing teens arriving en masse to movie ...

Following the July 1 release of Minions: The Rise of Gru, hordes of (mostly ... who is an expert in social media and memes. In other words, it's a perfect storm for an opportunity at virality.

Backed by the hottest Tiktok trend of the summer, Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru delivered the all-time biggest opening for the four-day Independence Day weekend, raking in $125.1 million.

After waiting two years for Minions: The Rise Of Gru to appear in theaters, it’s now much funnier to go and become the meme yourself. Why wear suits, though? Well, you tell me, what clothing ...

The new movie Minions: The Rise of Gru has been a hit at the box office ... SHAPIRO: Memetic - like a meme? CHANG: I think so. OK. So that's Jennifer Grygiel, an associate professor of ...

The first premiered in 2010 and the last before “The Rise of Gru” was back in 2017 ... than themselves and formulated their way into meme culture — becoming to some, an ironic sentiment ...

Therefore, nearly any meme can feature a Minion and it would make ... Their exploitation comes at the hands, she argues, not only of their master Gru but also of Universal Pictures.