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Feel Good Video
"Feel Good Video" refers to the viral reaction surrounding Kurzgesagt's May 2025 YouTube video titled "Why Does Fentanyl Feel So Good?", an educational explainer about opioid dangers whose title and thumbnail were widely perceived as unintentional drug promotion. The disconnect between the video's anti-drug message and its seemingly pro-fentanyl packaging sparked a wave of jokes, edits, and debates across X/Twitter and Reddit within days of its upload[1].
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Tralalero Tralala
Tralalero Tralala is an AI-generated meme character depicted as a blue shark with three fin-legs wearing Nike sneakers, widely considered the first and most iconic figure of the "Italian brainrot" trend that exploded on TikTok in early 2025[4]. The character originated from an audio clip featuring nonsensical Italian-accented speech posted by TikToker @eZburger401, and quickly spawned a sprawling universe of surreal AI-generated creatures with pseudo-Italian names[2]. Tralalero Tralala became a defining meme of Gen Alpha internet culture, inspiring phonk remixes, fan lore, bootleg merchandise, and an entire genre of absurdist content[1].
Top Memes
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Doge
Doge is an internet meme built around photos of a Shiba Inu named Kabosu, overlaid with colorful Comic Sans captions in deliberately broken English. The format took off in 2013 after years of quiet spread across Tumblr and Reddit, earning Know Your Meme's "top meme" of the year[3]. Kabosu's sideways glance launched a cryptocurrency worth billions, inspired an NFT sale of over $4 million, and gave its name to a U.S. government department, making it one of the most consequential memes in internet history.
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Distracted Boyfriend
Distracted Boyfriend is a stock photo turned object labeling meme showing a man checking out another woman while his girlfriend looks on in disapproval. Taken by Barcelona photographer Antonio Guillem in mid-2015, the image first appeared as a meme in a Turkish Facebook group in January 2017 before going massively viral across Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram in August 2017. It won Meme of the Year at the 10th annual Shorty Awards and helped popularize the object labeling format that dominated meme culture in the late 2010s.
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Penguin Walking Toward Mountain
Penguin Walking Toward Mountain is a viral video meme originating from Werner Herzog's 2007 documentary *Encounters at the End of the World*, featuring a lone Adélie penguin abandoning its colony and marching inland toward the Antarctic mountains to its certain death. The clip circulated online as early as 2008 but exploded into a major meme in January 2026 when TikTok users paired it with a pipe organ cover of Gigi D'Agostino's "L'Amour Toujours," turning it into a widely shared symbol of existential dread, individualism, and the urge to abandon society[4]. The meme crossed into political territory when the White House shared an AI-generated version featuring Donald Trump, sparking international controversy[6].
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This Is Fine
"This Is Fine" is a two-panel reaction image from KC Green's 2013 webcomic "On Fire," showing an anthropomorphic dog calmly sipping coffee in a burning room while saying "This is fine." Born from Green's personal struggles with depression and antidepressants, the comic became one of the most widely shared memes of the 2010s, used as shorthand for denial or forced calm in the face of obvious disaster[1]. The Atlantic called it "a work of near-endless interpretability," and its relevance kept growing through political crises, pandemics, and everyday stress for over a decade[13].
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Pepe the Frog
Pepe the Frog is a cartoon frog character created by artist Matt Furie for his 2005 comic *Boy's Club*, best known for his catchphrase "feels good man." After 4chan users turned Pepe into one of the internet's most versatile reaction images in 2008, the character exploded into mainstream culture before being co-opted by alt-right groups during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, leading the Anti-Defamation League to add him to its hate symbol database. Pepe's story is one of the most complex in meme history: an innocent stoner frog that became a political flashpoint, a legal battleground, and a global protest symbol.
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Arthur Fist
Arthur's Fist is a reaction image featuring a close-up screenshot of Arthur Read's clenched fist from the PBS children's show *Arthur*. The image went viral in July 2016 after Twitter user @AlmostJT posted it with a caption about its emotional relatability[1]. It quickly became one of the defining memes of that summer, spreading across Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram as a universal shorthand for suppressed frustration and bottled-up anger.
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Nyan Cat
Nyan Cat is an 8-bit animated GIF of a cat with a cherry Pop-Tart body flying through space, trailing a rainbow, set to the endlessly looping Japanese song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" Created by artist Christopher Torres during a Red Cross charity livestream on April 2, 2011, the animation was paired with the song by YouTuber saraj00n three days later and quickly became one of the biggest viral memes of the early 2010s. The original video pulled in over 205 million YouTube views and sparked games, merchandise, a Webby Award, a copyright lawsuit, and a landmark NFT sale worth nearly $600,000.
rickroll
Rickroll
Rickrolling is a bait-and-switch internet prank where someone tricks another person into clicking a disguised link that leads to Rick Astley's 1987 music video for "Never Gonna Give You Up." Born on 4chan's /v/ board in May 2007 as an evolution of an earlier prank called "duckrolling," the Rickroll became one of the longest-running jokes in internet history. The official YouTube video passed 1.5 billion views[2], driven by nearly two decades of people gleefully tricking each other.
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Brat by Charli XCX
Brat is the sixth studio album by British singer Charli XCX, released on June 7, 2024, whose lime-green cover art became one of the biggest meme templates of the year[2]. The cover's minimalist design, a vibrant green background with "brat" in blurry lowercase text, turned into a massively popular exploitable format on social media, spawning countless parodies from fans, brands, and even political campaigns[1]. The album's aesthetic kicked off "Brat Summer," a cultural moment that crossed over from music fandom into mainstream internet culture and U.S. politics[2].
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Chappell Roan
Chappell Roan is an American singer-songwriter born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz whose meteoric rise in 2024 turned her into one of the internet's most memed pop stars. Known for drag-inspired aesthetics, unapologetically queer pop anthems like "Pink Pony Club" and "Good Luck, Babe!", and a series of viral moments spanning TikTok dances, festival performances, and fan boundary controversies, Roan went from working at a donut shop to winning Best New Artist at the 2025 Grammys[8].
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Gen Z Stare
The Gen Z Stare is a slang term describing the blank, expressionless look that Generation Z service workers allegedly give customers instead of a verbal greeting. The term went viral in mid-2025 after complaints about Gen Z customer service blew up on X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok, sparking a fierce generational debate. Both older generations frustrated by the silence and Gen Z workers mocking entitled customers turned it into one of 2025's biggest discourse memes.
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Minecraft Steve
Minecraft Steve refers to a series of IRL video game edits where Steve, the default player character from Minecraft, is digitally inserted into real-life fail videos to make it look like he caused the accidents. The format blew up on Instagram and X in November 2024, with the original edit picking up over 5.6 million likes in under two weeks[1].
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Canon Disappointment
Canon Disappointment is a fandom reaction meme tied to the October 2024 Game Freak data leak, in which internal Pokémon lore documents were exposed and machine-translated into English. The most viral case centered on Typhlosion, whose leaked folklore appeared to depict the Pokémon manipulating a human girl, shocking fans who had grown up with the character[1]. The meme captures the specific dread of discovering that a beloved fictional character's official backstory contains something deeply unsettling.
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Costco Guys
The Costco Guys are a father-son TikTok duo, Andrew "A.J." Befumo and his son Eric "Big Justice" Befumo, who went viral in March 2024 for their enthusiastic Costco product reviews and the catchphrase "BOOM!" What started as a simple video following the "We're X, Of Course We Y" TikTok trend snowballed into a full-blown internet empire, complete with hit songs, Saturday Night Live parodies, a Tonight Show appearance, and professional wrestling contracts with AEW.
All-Time Classics
doge
Doge
Doge is an internet meme built around photos of a Shiba Inu named Kabosu, overlaid with colorful Comic Sans captions in deliberately broken English. The format took off in 2013 after years of quiet spread across Tumblr and Reddit, earning Know Your Meme's "top meme" of the year[3]. Kabosu's sideways glance launched a cryptocurrency worth billions, inspired an NFT sale of over $4 million, and gave its name to a U.S. government department, making it one of the most consequential memes in internet history.
penguin-walking-toward-mountain
Penguin Walking Toward Mountain
Penguin Walking Toward Mountain is a viral video meme originating from Werner Herzog's 2007 documentary *Encounters at the End of the World*, featuring a lone Adélie penguin abandoning its colony and marching inland toward the Antarctic mountains to its certain death. The clip circulated online as early as 2008 but exploded into a major meme in January 2026 when TikTok users paired it with a pipe organ cover of Gigi D'Agostino's "L'Amour Toujours," turning it into a widely shared symbol of existential dread, individualism, and the urge to abandon society[4]. The meme crossed into political territory when the White House shared an AI-generated version featuring Donald Trump, sparking international controversy[6].
this-is-fine
This Is Fine
"This Is Fine" is a two-panel reaction image from KC Green's 2013 webcomic "On Fire," showing an anthropomorphic dog calmly sipping coffee in a burning room while saying "This is fine." Born from Green's personal struggles with depression and antidepressants, the comic became one of the most widely shared memes of the 2010s, used as shorthand for denial or forced calm in the face of obvious disaster[1]. The Atlantic called it "a work of near-endless interpretability," and its relevance kept growing through political crises, pandemics, and everyday stress for over a decade[13].
pepe-the-frog
Pepe the Frog
Pepe the Frog is a cartoon frog character created by artist Matt Furie for his 2005 comic *Boy's Club*, best known for his catchphrase "feels good man." After 4chan users turned Pepe into one of the internet's most versatile reaction images in 2008, the character exploded into mainstream culture before being co-opted by alt-right groups during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, leading the Anti-Defamation League to add him to its hate symbol database. Pepe's story is one of the most complex in meme history: an innocent stoner frog that became a political flashpoint, a legal battleground, and a global protest symbol.
nyan-cat
Nyan Cat
Nyan Cat is an 8-bit animated GIF of a cat with a cherry Pop-Tart body flying through space, trailing a rainbow, set to the endlessly looping Japanese song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" Created by artist Christopher Torres during a Red Cross charity livestream on April 2, 2011, the animation was paired with the song by YouTuber saraj00n three days later and quickly became one of the biggest viral memes of the early 2010s. The original video pulled in over 205 million YouTube views and sparked games, merchandise, a Webby Award, a copyright lawsuit, and a landmark NFT sale worth nearly $600,000.
rickroll
Rickroll
Rickrolling is a bait-and-switch internet prank where someone tricks another person into clicking a disguised link that leads to Rick Astley's 1987 music video for "Never Gonna Give You Up." Born on 4chan's /v/ board in May 2007 as an evolution of an earlier prank called "duckrolling," the Rickroll became one of the longest-running jokes in internet history. The official YouTube video passed 1.5 billion views[2], driven by nearly two decades of people gleefully tricking each other.
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Doge
Doge is an internet meme built around photos of a Shiba Inu named Kabosu, overlaid with colorful Comic Sans captions in deliberately broken English. The format took off in 2013 after years of quiet spread across Tumblr and Reddit, earning Know Your Meme's "top meme" of the year[3]. Kabosu's sideways glance launched a cryptocurrency worth billions, inspired an NFT sale of over $4 million, and gave its name to a U.S. government department, making it one of the most consequential memes in internet history.
distracted-boyfriend
Distracted Boyfriend
Distracted Boyfriend is a stock photo turned object labeling meme showing a man checking out another woman while his girlfriend looks on in disapproval. Taken by Barcelona photographer Antonio Guillem in mid-2015, the image first appeared as a meme in a Turkish Facebook group in January 2017 before going massively viral across Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram in August 2017. It won Meme of the Year at the 10th annual Shorty Awards and helped popularize the object labeling format that dominated meme culture in the late 2010s.
penguin-walking-toward-mountain
Penguin Walking Toward Mountain
Penguin Walking Toward Mountain is a viral video meme originating from Werner Herzog's 2007 documentary *Encounters at the End of the World*, featuring a lone Adélie penguin abandoning its colony and marching inland toward the Antarctic mountains to its certain death. The clip circulated online as early as 2008 but exploded into a major meme in January 2026 when TikTok users paired it with a pipe organ cover of Gigi D'Agostino's "L'Amour Toujours," turning it into a widely shared symbol of existential dread, individualism, and the urge to abandon society[4]. The meme crossed into political territory when the White House shared an AI-generated version featuring Donald Trump, sparking international controversy[6].
this-is-fine
This Is Fine
"This Is Fine" is a two-panel reaction image from KC Green's 2013 webcomic "On Fire," showing an anthropomorphic dog calmly sipping coffee in a burning room while saying "This is fine." Born from Green's personal struggles with depression and antidepressants, the comic became one of the most widely shared memes of the 2010s, used as shorthand for denial or forced calm in the face of obvious disaster[1]. The Atlantic called it "a work of near-endless interpretability," and its relevance kept growing through political crises, pandemics, and everyday stress for over a decade[13].
pepe-the-frog
Pepe the Frog
Pepe the Frog is a cartoon frog character created by artist Matt Furie for his 2005 comic *Boy's Club*, best known for his catchphrase "feels good man." After 4chan users turned Pepe into one of the internet's most versatile reaction images in 2008, the character exploded into mainstream culture before being co-opted by alt-right groups during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, leading the Anti-Defamation League to add him to its hate symbol database. Pepe's story is one of the most complex in meme history: an innocent stoner frog that became a political flashpoint, a legal battleground, and a global protest symbol.
arthur-fist
Arthur Fist
Arthur's Fist is a reaction image featuring a close-up screenshot of Arthur Read's clenched fist from the PBS children's show *Arthur*. The image went viral in July 2016 after Twitter user @AlmostJT posted it with a caption about its emotional relatability[1]. It quickly became one of the defining memes of that summer, spreading across Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram as a universal shorthand for suppressed frustration and bottled-up anger.
nyan-cat
Nyan Cat
Nyan Cat is an 8-bit animated GIF of a cat with a cherry Pop-Tart body flying through space, trailing a rainbow, set to the endlessly looping Japanese song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" Created by artist Christopher Torres during a Red Cross charity livestream on April 2, 2011, the animation was paired with the song by YouTuber saraj00n three days later and quickly became one of the biggest viral memes of the early 2010s. The original video pulled in over 205 million YouTube views and sparked games, merchandise, a Webby Award, a copyright lawsuit, and a landmark NFT sale worth nearly $600,000.
rickroll
Rickroll
Rickrolling is a bait-and-switch internet prank where someone tricks another person into clicking a disguised link that leads to Rick Astley's 1987 music video for "Never Gonna Give You Up." Born on 4chan's /v/ board in May 2007 as an evolution of an earlier prank called "duckrolling," the Rickroll became one of the longest-running jokes in internet history. The official YouTube video passed 1.5 billion views[2], driven by nearly two decades of people gleefully tricking each other.
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Karen
"Karen" is a slang term and meme archetype describing an entitled, middle-class white woman known for demanding to speak to the manager, harassing service workers, and weaponizing privilege against people of color[1]. The meme coalesced from multiple internet trends between 2014 and 2018, drawing on Black American internet culture's tradition of satirizing racial hostility through commonplace names[1]. By 2020, "Karen" had become one of the most recognizable character archetypes on the internet, fueled by viral videos of real-world confrontations and the COVID-19 pandemic's mask wars[7].
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Surprised Pikachu
Surprised Pikachu is a reaction image pulled from a 1997 episode of the Pokémon anime, showing Pikachu with wide eyes and an open mouth in a look of shock. First used as a meme on Tumblr in September 2018 by user popokko (Angela), it became the most-used meme of that year by pairing the image with scenarios where someone is "surprised" by a completely predictable outcome. A WIRED investigation into its viral trajectory raised questions about whether its November 2018 popularity spike was connected to the Detective Pikachu film marketing, though no definitive link was established.
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Ah Shit Here We Go Again
"Ah Shit, Here We Go Again" is a catchphrase and reaction meme from the 2004 video game *Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas*, spoken by protagonist Carl "CJ" Johnson at the start of the game. The line sat dormant for over a decade before exploding online in 2019 after a green screen edit made it endlessly remixable. It's now one of the internet's go-to expressions for weary frustration at repeating an unwanted experience.
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Baby Yoda / Grogu
Baby Yoda is the internet's nickname for Grogu, a tiny green alien character from the Disney+ series *The Mandalorian* who looks like an infant version of the iconic Star Wars Jedi Master Yoda. First revealed in the show's premiere on November 12, 2019, the character instantly broke the internet with an avalanche of memes, reaction images, and photoshops that made him one of the biggest memes of the year. Despite Disney officially naming him "The Child" and later revealing his canonical name as Grogu in Season 2, the internet overwhelmingly stuck with "Baby Yoda."
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Confused Nick Young
Confused Nick Young is a reaction image of NBA player Nick Young (aka Swaggy P) looking bewildered with question marks floating around his head. The image comes from a 2014 YouTube web series and went viral in 2015 on Black Twitter, becoming one of the internet's most-used visual shorthand for confusion and disbelief.
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Yeet
Yeet is an exclamation and slang verb that exploded out of black social media culture in early 2014, first as a choreographed dance on Vine and YouTube before evolving into the internet's favorite word for throwing something with maximum force and zero concern. The word was voted the American Dialect Society's 2018 Slang/Informal Word of the Year and was added to Dictionary.com in 2021[2].
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All Star / Shrek
"All Star" is a 1999 rock song by Smash Mouth that became one of the internet's most enduring memes after its prominent use in the 2001 animated film *Shrek*. The song's iconic opening line, "Somebody once told me," launched thousands of remixes, mashups, covers, and parodies across YouTube, Reddit, and beyond. Written as an anthem for outcasts by guitarist Greg Camp, the track found a second life online in the 2010s through creators like Neil Cicierega and Jon Sudano, and the band themselves leaned into the joke.
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Bruh
"Bruh" is a slang term derived from "brother" that became one of the internet's most versatile reaction expressions. Rooted in African American Vernacular English dating back to the 19th century, it exploded online in 2014 when a Vine video dubbed a deadpan "bruh" over footage of a basketball player collapsing in court. The word now functions as a one-syllable catch-all for disbelief, frustration, humor, and everything in between.
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Cat on Roomba
Cat on Roomba is a viral video meme featuring cats sitting or riding on Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners as they move around a room. The format took off in late 2008 when a YouTube video titled "Roomba Driver" showed a cat perched on a moving Roomba, and it became one of the defining cute animal video trends of the late 2000s internet[1]. The meme belongs to the broader "Cats Riding on X" genre, which expanded to include cats riding tortoises, dogs, and other unlikely vehicles.
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Loss
Loss is a four-panel webcomic strip from Tim Buckley's gaming series Ctrl+Alt+Del, published on June 2, 2008, depicting a miscarriage scene that was so tonally jarring it became one of the internet's most enduring and widely parodied memes. The strip's simple visual layout, a single figure, two figures, two figures, and one standing with one lying down, was distilled into the minimalist notation "| || || |_" and hidden in countless images, objects, and artworks across the web. Recognizing the pattern became a game unto itself, spawning the catchphrase "Is this Loss?"
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Math Lady / Confused Math
Math Lady, also called Confused Math Lady, is a reaction image and GIF featuring Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah as the villain Nazaré Tedesco from the 2004 telenovela *Senhora do Destino*. The image shows Sorrah with an intensely confused expression, often overlaid with floating mathematical equations, and is used to express bewilderment or overthinking. First used as a reaction GIF in 2013, it exploded internationally in 2016 after someone added math formulas to the screenshot, turning it into one of the most recognizable confusion memes on the internet.
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Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions
Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions is a reaction image meme featuring comedian Dave Chappelle pointing to his temple with a knowing expression. The screenshot comes from a 2004 episode of Chappelle's Show and went viral on Reddit in December 2018[2]. The format is used to caption clever, absurd, or questionable "solutions" to everyday problems.
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Crying Jordan
Crying Jordan is a photoshop meme built from a cutout image of Michael Jordan's tearful face during his 2009 Basketball Hall of Fame induction speech. Starting as a niche sports forum joke around 2012, it exploded into one of the internet's most recognizable memes by 2015-2016, used primarily to mock defeated athletes and teams. The meme became so widespread that Jordan himself acknowledged it, President Obama referenced it during a Medal of Freedom ceremony, and it spawned physical merchandise including custom sneakers.
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So Anyway I Started Blasting
"So Anyway, I Started Blasting" is a reaction image meme from the TV series *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia*, based on a scene where Frank Reynolds pulls out two pistols on live television while recounting how he fought off robbers. The quote comes from a 2013 episode but didn't take off as a meme until late September 2019, when it spread rapidly across Reddit and Facebook as a reaction image for situations involving reckless or disproportionate responses.
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Change My Mind
"Change My Mind" is an exploitable image macro meme featuring conservative commentator Steven Crowder sitting behind a folding table with a sign inviting passersby to debate him. The original photo was taken at Texas Christian University on February 16, 2018, with the sign reading "Male Privilege is a Myth / Change My Mind"[4]. Within days, internet users began replacing the sign text with humorous, absurd, or satirical statements, turning a political debate segment into one of the most versatile opinion-sharing templates online[1].
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Kermit Sipping Tea
"But That's None of My Business," also known as Kermit Sipping Tea, is an image macro meme featuring Kermit the Frog drinking a cup of Lipton iced tea, paired with a passive-aggressive observation about someone else's behavior. The format exploded on Instagram and Twitter in June 2014, becoming one of that year's defining memes. After fading in early 2015, the meme got a rare second life in June 2016 when LeBron James wore a Kermit sipping tea hat after winning the NBA Finals.
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Keyboard Cat
Keyboard Cat is a viral video meme featuring an orange tabby cat named Fatso, filmed in 1984 by performance artist Charlie Schmidt, appearing to play an electronic keyboard while wearing a blue shirt. The clip sat dormant for over two decades before being uploaded to YouTube in 2007 and exploding into one of the internet's most recognizable memes in 2009, when Brad O'Farrell created the "Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat" mashup format that paired the footage with fail videos as a comedic send-off.
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Ugandan Knuckles
Ugandan Knuckles is a VRChat meme built around a distorted 3D model of Knuckles the Echidna from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Players swarmed virtual lobbies using the avatar while repeating "Do you know de wey?" in a mock African accent, creating one of the most viral and controversial gaming memes of early 2018. The meme sparked a major debate about racial stereotyping in online spaces and drew comparisons to Pepe the Frog's trajectory from harmless joke to co-opted symbol.
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Caturday
Caturday is the internet tradition of posting cat images and LOLcat memes every Saturday. The practice started on 4chan's /b/ board around 2005, spread through communities like LiveJournal and I Can Has Cheezburger, and turned into a weekly internet ritual still observed across social media. The hashtag #Caturday trends on Twitter most weekends, with users sharing photos and memes of their cats[1].
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Evil Kermit
Evil Kermit is a captioned image meme showing Kermit the Frog standing next to a hooded, dark-cloaked version of himself. The format blew up on Twitter in November 2016, using a "me / me to me" caption structure where regular Kermit represents rational thinking and the cloaked figure voices selfish, lazy, or destructive impulses[3]. It quickly became one of late 2016's biggest viral formats, spawning spinoffs like Evil Miss Piggy and later crossing over into K-pop fandom culture.
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Hide the Pain Harold
Hide The Pain Harold is an internet meme built around stock photos of Hungarian retired electrical engineer András Arató, whose forced smile in professional photo shoots struck viewers as masking deep sadness. First noticed on the Facepunch forums in 2011, Harold became one of the most recognizable faces in meme culture, spawning image macros, fictional backstories, and eventually a real-life meme celebrity arc after Arató revealed his identity in 2016.
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Perfectly Balanced
"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be" is a catchphrase meme originating from the 2018 Marvel film *Avengers: Infinity War*. The line, spoken by the villain Thanos, became one of the most quoted phrases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and a go-to caption for any situation involving symmetry, equal distribution, or ironic equilibrium[1].
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Baby Shark
"Baby Shark" is a children's song turned global viral sensation, best known through Pinkfong's 2016 YouTube video "Baby Shark Dance," which became the most-viewed video in YouTube history. The song originated as a camp singalong decades before the internet existed, but South Korean entertainment company SmartStudy turned it into an inescapable earworm that hit 10 billion YouTube views by January 2022[1]. Online, the song became both a beloved kids' staple and a widely mocked cultural force, with the repetitive "doo doo doo doo doo doo" chorus becoming shorthand for parental suffering and internet-age sensory overload[2].
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Its So Over vs We're So Back
"It's So Over / We're So Back" is a binary catchphrase meme that frames life as a constant pendulum swing between crushing defeat and triumphant comeback. Originating on Twitter and 4chan around 2021, the paired phrases took off in 2022 and hit mainstream recognition by 2024, when the New York Times profiled the meme as a defining expression of the modern internet mood cycle[1].
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Swole Doge vs Cheems
Swole Doge vs. Cheems is a comparison meme format pairing a muscular, anthropomorphic version of the Doge Shiba Inu with Cheems, a round-faced, cowering Shiba Inu. The format went viral in May 2020 on Reddit and Facebook, used to contrast something from the past (strong, tough, cool) with its modern equivalent (weak, soft, cringe). It works like a visual version of "things were better back then" jokes, drawing from the same well as Virgin vs. Chad.
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Bernie Sanders Mittens
Bernie Sanders Mittens is a viral photo meme from the January 20, 2021 presidential inauguration of Joe Biden, showing Senator Bernie Sanders sitting alone in a folding chair wearing a Burton parka and oversized wool mittens, arms crossed, looking thoroughly unbothered by the ceremony around him. The image, captured by AFP photographer Brendan Smialowski, became the first major meme of the Biden era as people photoshopped the bundled-up senator into every setting imaginable[2]. The mittens themselves, handmade by Vermont teacher Jen Ellis from repurposed wool sweaters and recycled plastic bottles, became a feel-good story that raised $1.8 million for Vermont charities[13].
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Dark Souls You Died
"YOU DIED" is the iconic Game Over screen from the Dark Souls series, displayed in large red serif text whenever a player's character is killed. First appearing in 2011 with the original Dark Souls by FromSoftware, the screen became a widely shared reaction image and video overlay used to mark failure, embarrassment, or hopeless situations. Its popularity is inseparable from the game's reputation for punishing difficulty, which turned the death screen into shorthand for getting wrecked.
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No Thoughts Head Empty
"No Thoughts Head Empty" is an internet catchphrase and image macro format used to express speechlessness, blissful ignorance, or mental blankness. The phrase first appeared on Twitter in February 2018 alongside an image of Cosmo from *The Fairly OddParents*[3], and hit peak popularity during the overwhelming news cycle of 2020, when it became a rallying cry for information overload across Twitter, TikTok, Tumblr, and Reddit[2].
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Leeroy Jenkins
Leeroy Jenkins is a World of Warcraft character whose player charged into battle screaming his own name, wiping out his entire party in a 2005 video that became one of gaming's most iconic memes. Created by Ben Schulz and his guild "Pals for Life," the clip turned a reckless in-game moment into a universal shorthand for charging into any situation without thinking.
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Salt Bae
Salt Bae is the internet nickname for Turkish chef and restaurateur Nusret Gökçe, who went viral in January 2017 after posting a video of himself flamboyantly sprinkling salt over a carved steak. The clip, titled "Ottoman Steak," turned his theatrical seasoning technique into one of the most imitated memes of 2017, spawning countless parody videos and exploitable images. Beyond the meme, Gökçe parlayed his internet fame into a global chain of luxury steakhouses that drew as much attention for eye-popping prices and withering reviews as for the spectacle that made him famous.
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Anakin Padme Meme
The Anakin Padme meme, also known as "For the Better, Right?", is a four-panel exploitable image macro taken from *Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones* (2002). The format first appeared on Twitter in April 2021 when the account @starwarsposting paired screenshots from the film's meadow scene with fabricated dialogue, and it quickly spread to Reddit and beyond[1]. It's one of the most versatile prequel meme templates, used to highlight situations where someone's optimistic assumption gets met with ominous silence.
harambe
Harambe
Harambe was a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo on May 28, 2016, after a three-year-old boy fell into his enclosure. The incident spawned one of the defining memes of 2016, mixing ironic tributes, mock-serious mourning, and the viral rallying cry "Dicks Out for Harambe" into a sprawling internet event that outlasted every thinkpiece written about it.
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Brat Summer
Brat Summer was a 2024 internet trend and cultural moment sparked by British pop artist Charli XCX's sixth studio album *Brat*, released on June 7, 2024. The phrase described a summer defined by chaotic, hedonistic energy, anti-perfectionism, and the album's signature lime green aesthetic. It crossed over into mainstream politics when Charli XCX tweeted "kamala IS brat" after Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, turning a pop music meme into a political branding tool.
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Confused Travolta
Confused Travolta is an animated GIF meme featuring a cutout of John Travolta as Vincent Vega from the 1994 film Pulp Fiction, edited into various settings to express bewilderment. The format took off in November 2015 when Imgur users created a green screen version that let anyone drop the confused hitman into their own scenarios. It became one of the internet's go-to reaction GIFs for expressing disorientation, confusion, or the universal feeling of being completely lost.
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I Can Fix Him
"I Can Fix Him" is a catchphrase meme rooted in the age-old romantic trope of believing you can change a flawed partner through love. Originating as a Twitter joke in 2019, the phrase went viral in 2021 when users began applying it ironically to fictional characters and public figures who are clearly beyond saving. The meme's staying power comes from its flexible format, spawning variations like "I can fix her," "I can make him worse," and even a Taylor Swift song title.
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Jojo References
"Is This a JoJo Reference?" is a rhetorical question used ironically online whenever something vaguely resembles anything from the long-running manga and anime series *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*. The joke started on 4chan's /a/ board in 2009 and spread across Reddit, YouTube, and Facebook through 2016-2017, becoming one of the anime fandom's most recognizable in-jokes[1]. The humor comes from the over-the-top insistence that literally anything, no matter how unrelated, is somehow a reference to JoJo[2].
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Labubu
Labubu is a line of collectible plush toys and vinyl figures created by Hong Kong illustrator Kasing Lung, featuring mischievous elf-like creatures with sharp teeth and furry bodies. Originally characters from Lung's 2015 illustrated book series *The Monsters*, Labubu exploded into a global collecting craze after partnering with Chinese toy company Pop Mart in 2019, with sales reaching billions of dollars by 2025[4]. The toys also became a meme in mid-2025 as part of a "slang overload" trend mocking consumer culture by combining Labubu with other viral products like Dubai Chocolate and matcha drinks[3].
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Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing
Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing is an image macro featuring the actor as Calvin Candie from Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film *Django Unchained*, smiling with a drink in hand. The format first appeared on Tumblr in November 2017 and exploded across Reddit and other platforms in August 2020, becoming one of the year's most recognizable reaction images.
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Spooky Scary Skeletons
"Spooky Scary Skeletons" is a 1996 children's Halloween song by Andrew Gold that became one of the internet's most recognizable seasonal memes. Starting with a YouTube video pairing the song with Disney's 1929 "The Skeleton Dance" cartoon in 2010, the meme exploded in popularity through remixes, covers, and skeleton-themed content that resurfaces every October. A 2013 remix by The Living Tombstone pushed it into mainstream internet culture, and by 2019 it had been called "the Internet's Halloween anthem"[3].
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Zoomer
Zoomer is a Wojak-based meme character created on 4chan in 2018 to mock members of Generation Z. The character depicts a young man with shaved sides, slicked-back hair, and round glasses, stereotypically obsessed with Fortnite, mumble rap, and TikTok. Born as a generational counterpart to the 30-Year-Old Boomer meme, Zoomer became one of the core archetypes in the Wojak extended universe alongside Doomer and Bloomer.