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Your Bra Strap Is Showing
Your Bra Strap Is Showing is a two-panel redraw meme where a character tells a girl her bra strap is showing, and she responds by lifting her shirt to expose the whole bra. The format started as a 2017 Reddit post but became a widespread X / Twitter redraw trend in June 2026.
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Kane Parsons He Is 20 Years Old
Kane Parsons He Is 20 Years Old is a reaction-image meme built around a yellow-background press headshot of YouTuber and A24 director Kane Parsons. It took off on X in late May 2026 as users captioned the photo with absurd claims about his age and his reactions to news about his upcoming horror film Backrooms.
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Dog Laughing Meme Reaction
Dog Laughing Meme Reaction is a short, low-res video of a dog baring its teeth while a clip of Michael Jackson's Thriller laugh plays over the top. It blew up on TikTok in late 2021 as a reaction to cringe content, corny jokes, and awkward moments[1][2].
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Ishowspeed World Cup Song Lets Play Football
IShowSpeed's 'World Cup' song, with the recognizable 'Let's Play Football' hook, dropped in November 2022 ahead of the Qatar World Cup and quickly became a TikTok sound used for ironic edits, Revive app dog videos, and sped-up remixes.
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World Cup Everybody Jump
World Cup Everybody Jump is the chorus of Tayo Ricci's 2026 FIFA World Cup song 'WORLD CUP,' which went viral in June 2026 after TikTok users mocked the track, refused to jump along, and filmed Accuracy Reenactments of the music video.
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Grace And Finesse
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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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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.
wait-thats-illegal
Wait That's Illegal
"Wait, That's Illegal" is a reaction image meme taken from the Rooster Teeth web series *Red vs. Blue*, featuring the character Church delivering the line. The source material dates back to 2004, but the screenshot didn't take off as a meme format until January 2019, when it blew up on Reddit's r/MemeEconomy and r/dankmemes. It's used to react to anything that seems like it shouldn't be allowed, whether genuinely rule-breaking or just absurd.
its-a-trap
It's a Trap
"It's a Trap!" is a catchphrase and reaction image based on Admiral Ackbar's famous line from the 1983 Star Wars film *Return of the Jedi*. The image macro version first appeared on Something Awful in the early 2000s and quickly spread to FARK, YTMND, 4chan, and YouTube, making it one of the most recognizable and long-lived memes from the early internet era. The phrase is used as a humorous warning about anything deceptive, misleading, or suspicious.
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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.
bruh
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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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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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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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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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 Vocaloid song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" by daniwellP. Artist Christopher Torres created the animation during a Red Cross charity livestream on April 2, 2011; three days later YouTuber saraj00n paired it with the song, and the combination 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, and a landmark NFT sale worth nearly $600,000.
caturday
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].
loss
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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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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Big Chungus
Big Chungus is a meme built around a screenshot of an overweight Bugs Bunny from the 1941 cartoon *Wabbit Twouble*, typically presented as a fake PlayStation 4 game cover. The meme went viral in December 2018 after a GameStop employee shared a story about a customer trying to buy the nonexistent game. It became one of the defining absurdist memes of late 2018 and eventually received official recognition from Warner Bros.
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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.
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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.
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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Grumpy Cat
Grumpy Cat is the internet nickname for Tardar Sauce, a mixed-breed cat from Arizona whose permanently scowling face made her one of the most famous animals on the internet. First posted to Reddit in September 2012, her photos spawned thousands of image macros with cynical, deadpan captions and built a merchandising empire worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing deals. Tardar Sauce died in May 2019 at age seven, but her grumpy face is still one of the most recognizable meme images ever created.
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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].
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 Vocaloid song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" by daniwellP. Artist Christopher Torres created the animation during a Red Cross charity livestream on April 2, 2011; three days later YouTuber saraj00n paired it with the song, and the combination 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, 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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Skibidi Toilet
Skibidi Toilet is an animated YouTube series created in February 2023 by DaFuq!?Boom! featuring singing toilets with men's heads battling humanoid figures called CameraHeads. The Source Filmmaker shorts pulled tens of millions of views per episode through 2023 and became a flashpoint in online debates about Gen Alpha media.
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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.
bruh
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.
cat-on-roomba
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.
loss
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?"
confused-math-lady
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.
modern-problems-modern-solutions
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.
crying-jordan
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].
kermit-sipping-tea
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.
keyboard-cat
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.
wait-thats-illegal
Wait That's Illegal
"Wait, That's Illegal" is a reaction image meme taken from the Rooster Teeth web series *Red vs. Blue*, featuring the character Church delivering the line. The source material dates back to 2004, but the screenshot didn't take off as a meme format until January 2019, when it blew up on Reddit's r/MemeEconomy and r/dankmemes. It's used to react to anything that seems like it shouldn't be allowed, whether genuinely rule-breaking or just absurd.
big-chungus
Big Chungus
Big Chungus is a meme built around a screenshot of an overweight Bugs Bunny from the 1941 cartoon *Wabbit Twouble*, typically presented as a fake PlayStation 4 game cover. The meme went viral in December 2018 after a GameStop employee shared a story about a customer trying to buy the nonexistent game. It became one of the defining absurdist memes of late 2018 and eventually received official recognition from Warner Bros.
blinking-white-guy
Blinking White Guy
Blinking White Guy is a reaction GIF of Drew Scanlon, a video producer at gaming website Giant Bomb, doing a subtle double-take during a 2013 livestream. The clip sat dormant for years before exploding on Twitter in February 2017, becoming one of the most-used GIFs on the internet for expressing disbelief, confusion, or a polite "what the hell?"[3]. Scanlon later used his accidental fame to raise tens of thousands of dollars for multiple sclerosis research[4].
caturday
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].
its-a-trap
It's a Trap
"It's a Trap!" is a catchphrase and reaction image based on Admiral Ackbar's famous line from the 1983 Star Wars film *Return of the Jedi*. The image macro version first appeared on Something Awful in the early 2000s and quickly spread to FARK, YTMND, 4chan, and YouTube, making it one of the most recognizable and long-lived memes from the early internet era. The phrase is used as a humorous warning about anything deceptive, misleading, or suspicious.
never-gonna-give-you-up
Never Gonna Give You Up
A classic rickroll meme using Rick Astley's song, tricking users into watching the music video through deceptive links.
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Pointing Spider-Man
A legendary reaction meme showing Spider-Man pointing at another Spider-Man from the original 1967 animated series. The format represents mutual accusation, pointing out similarities, or creating absurdist humor through two identical figures pointing at each other. It's one of the oldest and most iconic meme formats in internet history.
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Two Buttons
"Two Buttons" is an exploitable webcomic meme featuring a sweating man agonizing over which of two red buttons to press, each labeled with a contradictory or equally unappealing option. Created by animator Jake Clark on Tumblr in October 2014, the format took off on Imgur and Reddit in early 2015 and became one of the internet's most reliable templates for expressing the stress of impossible choices[3]. Its dead-simple structure and universal theme of decision paralysis have kept it in heavy rotation for over a decade.
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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.
hide-the-pain-harold
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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The Dress
The Dress is a viral moment from 2015 where a photograph of a dress sparked debate about whether it was blue/black or white/gold. The sensation highlighted how perception varies based on individual optical properties and became a defining internet moment.
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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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Understandable Have a Great Day
A 2017 meme reaction format originating from a Vine video featuring a character dismissing someone politely with the phrase 'Understandable, have a great day.' The phrase became a versatile reaction to situations, disagreements, or absurd statements.
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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].
leeroy-jenkins
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.