Trending Memes

The hottest memes right now, updated throughout the day.

Sophie Cunningham Pointing

Sophie Cunningham Pointing is a viral reaction video of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham silently pointing her finger at Phoenix Mercury player DeWanna Bonner for around 22 seconds during a WNBA game on June 22nd, 2026. The clip spread across X, TikTok, and Instagram in late June 2026 as a reaction template for calling someone out for bad or lazy behavior.

Train Dog

Train Dog is a 2026 viral video meme showing a golden retriever's head crudely pasted onto the front of a chugging steam locomotive, with the dog's panting used as the sound of the engine. The clip started on X in mid-June 2026, pulled tens of millions of views within days, and spawned a dedicated daily-poster account, mainstream press coverage in The Atlantic, and a small backlash against AI-generated imitations.

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.

Bison Tossing Man In Yellowstone Video

The Bison Tossing Man In Yellowstone Video shows a bull bison charging an elderly tourist at Bridge Bay Campground and flipping him roughly 8 feet into the air. Filmed by photographer Mike MacLeod on July 10, 2026, the clip spread across Facebook, X, Reddit, and YouTube within days, drawing tens of millions of views and spawning remixes, jokes, and fan art.

Heart Butt Challenge

The Heart Butt Challenge is a viral social media trend from 2026 in which participants, typically women, bend at the waist and form a heart shape with their hands around their knees in photographs taken from behind.

V Stepped Into The Crowd

V Stepped Into The Crowd is a copypasta pulled from an October 2025 Vogue Instagram caption about BTS member V attending Vogue World Hollywood. Reels users started pasting the block of text under unrelated videos in 2026 to game the algorithm, and by July 2026 the overuse itself became the joke.

Disgusted Homelander

Disgusted Homelander is a reaction and caption meme pulled from season four of Amazon's *The Boys*, featuring the character Homelander (played by Antony Starr) staring at Firecracker with visible revulsion after she coughs near him at a conference table. The clip and screenshots went viral across X and TikTok in July 2024, quickly becoming a go-to format for expressing disgust at everyday annoyances.

Cortisol Level Cortisol Spike

Cortisol Level / Cortisol Spike is a slang phrase and reaction image format used to humorously describe moments of sudden stress, shock, or second-hand embarrassment by framing them as a biological cortisol response. The meme originated on X/Twitter in February 2025 after a model named Veronica accused her critics of "trying to spike my cortisol and make me less beautiful," then went viral in late 2025 when TikTok creators paired clips of YouTuber Goatis reacting intensely to videos with cortisol meter graphics[3]. By early 2026, the format had spread into looksmaxxing and blackpill communities, where cortisol is treated as both a genuine health concern and an ironic status marker.

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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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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Joe the Emotiguy

Joe Emoji, also called EmotiGuy, is a yellow 3D emoji character that started as a free Daz 3D model in the mid-2000s and became a staple subject of reaction images, exploitables and animated GIFs through the 2010s and 2020s. The character picked up the nickname Joe inside an online community, and a new wave of animated Joe content, including a rear-end-shaking GIF, pulled the old character back into heavy rotation in late 2025.

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Kid Named Finger

Kid Named Finger is an ironic meme that merges two separate internet trends: "Mikeposting" (replacing anime meme punchlines with images of Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) and the "Kid Named X" classroom joke format. The meme originated on Reddit's r/okbuddychicanery subreddit in March 2022 and went viral across platforms by May of that year[1]. It turned the stoic, no-nonsense fixer character into an absurdist punchline known simply as "Finger."

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Ahlelele Ahlelas

Ahlelele Ahlelas is a misheard lyric from the Afro house track "Ma Tnsani" by South African producer Vanco featuring Kuwaiti vocal duo AYA that blew up on TikTok in the summer of 2025[1]. The actual Arabic lyric, "ahla laila, ahla nas" (meaning "the best night, the best people"), got distorted into nonsensical chanting and paired with close-up footage of bug-eyed fish, turning it into one of the year's defining brainrot audio memes[4].

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KEK

Kek is an internet slang term equivalent to "LOL" that originated from Korean StarCraft players typing "kekeke" (ㅋㅋㅋ) for laughter, then became widely known through World of Warcraft's cross-faction chat filter, which translated "LOL" typed by Horde players into "KEK" for Alliance players[2]. The term spread across gaming forums and 4chan through the 2000s and 2010s, picking up associations with a Turkish snack cake brand called Topkek and, more controversially, an ancient Egyptian frog-headed deity that alt-right communities linked to Pepe the Frog during the 2016 U.S. presidential election[3].

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67 Kid

The 67 Kid is a viral TikTok meme centered on a boy named Mason who was filmed enthusiastically yelling "six, seven!" with animated hand gestures during a youth basketball video in March 2025[1]. The phrase itself originated from Skrilla's drill rap song "Doot Doot (6 7)," which had already been gaining traction in basketball highlight edits[6]. Mason's clip turned the slang into a full-blown internet sensation, spawning classroom disruptions, remix edits, and even a horror-themed spinoff called SCP-067[2].

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Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi is the Argentine soccer star behind the 'Sad Messi' reaction meme, which came from a 2014 photo of him at the World Cup Final trophy ceremony. The image, along with his huge social fandom, keeps him circulating across Reddit, Twitter, and sports blogs.

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Dictator Mbappe

Dictator Mbappé is a nickname and image-and-video meme series that depicts French footballer Kylian Mbappé as an authoritarian ruler, dressed in Mao suits, military uniforms, and other dictator outfits. The joke started in 2024 after a legal spat with a French influencer and surged in spring 2026 across TikTok.

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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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I Didnt Have A Pen And Paper

I Didn't Have a Pen and Paper is a TikTok lip-dub trend built on a 2014 Beyoncé behind-the-scenes clip where the singer describes freestyling the song 'Partition' straight into the microphone. Creators pair the audio with captions about things they improvised that turned out surprisingly well.