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2018

Memes that started this year

Two frames of a brown monkey puppet in a green shirt glancing sideways then toward the camera with wide eyes

Monkey Puppet

3D render of a lanky purple-capped character reclining with a rose, captioned "LADIES PLEASE CONTROL YOURSELVES"

Waluigi

Older man in a cap, plaid shirt and denim overalls in a farm field, captioned 'It ain't much but it's honest work'

But It's Honest Work

Lisa Simpson standing at a podium beside a large blank projector screen, facing an audience whose heads fill the foreground

Lisa Simpson's Presentation

Caption "the world if coffee tasted like it smells:" above a gleaming futuristic city with flying vehicles

The World If

Man in a navy suit and red tie pointing while speaking outdoors, yellow caption "Modern problems require modern solutions"

Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions

You've Yeed Your Last Haw meme

You've Yeed Your Last Haw

Man kneeling beside dominoes growing from tiny to huge, labeled "one more YouTube video" leading to "staying up too late"

Domino Effect

Five-panel American Chopper argument meme, two men shouting "YANNY!" and "LAUREL!" back and forth, chair thrown

Yanny or Laurel

Pikachu with a wide-eyed, open-mouthed shocked expression

Surprised Pikachu

Three men by a Christmas tree labelled "anxiety", "me trying to enjoy the holidays" in a gift-bow sweater, and "depression"

Ryan Reynolds Between Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal

Weak vs. Strong Password meme

Weak vs. Strong Password

You Guys Always Act Like You're Better Than Me meme

You Guys Always Act Like You're Better Than Me

Grey featureless cartoon head with a blank stare and straight-line mouth on a light blue background

NPC

We Don't Do That Here meme

We Don't Do That Here

Grinning young man in a blue cap leaning out of an orange taxi window holding a camera, "RATES 25¢" sign

Will Smith With a Camera

A distorted, unsettling photo of a white-and-black cat with an eerie human-like smile

Cursed Cat

Cartoon sponge with crossed eyes holding an open book close to his face, one page blue and one red

SpongeBob Reading Two Pages at Once

There Is No Queen of England meme

There Is No Queen of England

Two-panel wrestling still: long-haired wrestler in black emerges through a smoky lit doorway above a shocked man's face

Undertaker Entering Arena

Cartoon rabbit's head turned sharply away with eyes closed and ears swept back, captioned "NO" on a transparent background

Bugs Bunny's "No"

Extreme close-up of a moth with glowing orange eyes, captioned "Ya'll got any uhhhh... uhhh... lamps"

Moth Lamp

Yellow Glasses Guy meme

Yellow Glasses Guy

Hunched, dishevelled cartoon sponge with a unibrow, buck teeth and slack jaw, arms outstretched on a black background

Caveman SpongeBob

Cartoon of a burly man eyeing a tiny winged angel of himself, captioned "NO, NO, HE'S GOT A POINT."

No, No. He's Got A Point

Crude drawing of a grey-haired man in black beside a vintage convertible, yellow caption "Those bastards lied to me"

Those Bastards Lied to Me

Five-panel screenshot of a mustached older man and a younger man in a cap shouting across an office desk, chair flying

American Chopper Argument

3D model of a moustached character in a red "M" cap and blue overalls, arms held straight out sideways

T-Pose

Animated still of a burly man in a blue shirt shouting across a table at a boy, captioned 'MATH IS MATH!'

Math Is Math

Man in a blue jacket looking at his phone on a balcony above misty mountains, subtitled "It's rewind time"

It's Rewind Time

News footage of an enormous black-and-white steer towering over a herd of brown cattle, captioned about "the massive Australian cow called Knickers"

Knickers the Steer

Surreal collage of a blue cone-headed figure and a goose-headed horse on a lava landscape, captioned "ADMIRE THE SHAPES"

Surreal Memes (Meme Man)

Vintage illustration of a mother and two children hiding behind a door holding shirts, captioned "pretend you're giving him the shirt… STAB!"

Waiting for Dad

Adventure Time still of the yellow dog Jake on all fours, mouth wide open screaming with a tear, purple couch behind

Screaming Jake

Cartoon underwater scene with a blue shark and a pink character riding a yellow shark, captioned "Hey baby sharks, timesheets!"

Baby Shark

Aerial photo of a towering brown dust storm rolling over a suburb, with a dog's face composited into the cloud

Dust Storm Dog

You Know I Had to Do It to Em meme

You Know I Had to Do It to Em

Is this a pigeon anime butterfly meme

Is This a Pigeon?

Man in a blue sweater seated at a folding table on a campus lawn behind a sign reading "CHANGE MY MIND"

Change My Mind

Bearded man in a glass-domed spacesuit helmet looking up inside a spacecraft, subtitled "Now that is an Avengers level threat"

Now This Is An Avengers Level Threat

Anime villain with white and purple armored skin standing in a rocky green landscape, subtitled "I'll ignore that."

Frieza's «I'll Ignore That»

Crudely drawn white cartoon cat mid-tap on two wooden bongo drums, red motion marks under its paws

characters 2018

Bongo Cat

Man in a dark suit and striped tie in an office, subtitled "No! God! Please! No!"

Michael Scott "No God No"

Grey cartoon rabbit with an enormously round white belly standing on grass beside an open pit and a partly visible sign

characters 2018

Big Chungus

Tabby and white cat with squinted eyes and a wide open-mouthed grin, captioned in yellow italics '[happiness noise]'

Happiness Noise