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2019

Memes that started this year

Top panel: blonde woman shouting and pointing, "You said you were on your way!"; bottom: white cat at a salad plate

Woman Yelling at a Cat

Two panels: a screaming woman behind an axe-split door, then a green cartoon owl peering through the gap captioned "LEARN SPANISH"

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Duolingo Owl

Cartoon yellow bear in a black tuxedo and bow tie reclining smugly in a blue armchair, eyes closed

Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh

Video still of a bearded man in glasses and headphones, subtitled "Yeah, this is big brain time."

Yeah, This Is Big Brain Time

Long-haired bearded man on an E3 stage with large white text "YOU'RE BREATHTAKING!" and an "E3 Live" watermark

You're Breathtaking

The IQ bell-curve "midwit" template: a brainlet on the left, a crying wojak in the middle, a calm hooded sage on the right

Midwit

Film still of an elderly man with slicked-back grey hair outdoors, subtitled "No, I don't think I will."

No, I Don't Think I Will

Unsettled Tom meme

Unsettled Tom

Grainy photo of a white-and-ginger cat with teary eyes, a photoshopped paw raised in a thumbs-up gesture

Thumbs Up Crying Cat

Stop-motion pirate captain with a big curly beard and tricorn hat gesturing, subtitled "Well yes, but actually no"

Well Yes, But Actually No

Two stacked film stills: a blue-skinned cyborg woman saying "You're weak." above a fallen figure replying "I'm you."

You're Weak, I'm You

Close-up of a white and tabby cat with wide amber eyes and a small, gentle closed-mouth smile

Polite Cat

Screenshot of a tweet joking about hating country music, with a photo of a man in cowboy hat and overalls holding corn

Old Town Road

Man in a grey suit and glasses adjusting his tie against a dark backdrop, captioned "We are not the same", imgflip watermark

We Are Not the Same

Hand holding an UNO card labeled "-OR- Draw 25 cards" beside a man at a table holding a huge fan of cards

Draw 25

Blond anime ninja sprinting with torso pitched forward and both arms streaming behind him, blue sky and Japanese credits

Naruto Run

Peace Was Never An Option meme

Peace Was Never An Option

Four stacked panels of a man applying white face paint, colourful clown makeup, rainbow wig and red nose; blank caption space

Putting on Clown Makeup

Extreme close-up of round goggles, one lens glowing yellow, subtitled "The power of the sun in the palm of my hand."

The Power of the Sun, in the Palm of My Hand

Wait, That's Illegal meme

Wait, That's Illegal

Film still of a smirking man with slicked dark hair holding a cigarette to his lips, subtitled "You wouldn't get it"

You Wouldn't Get It

Two-panel template of a man in a blue shirt pointing a marker at a blank whiteboard, then smiling beside it

Jim Halpert Pointing to Whiteboard

Man in a black polo swinging a strip of black tape at a clear tank spraying water, Flex Tape signage behind him

Phil Swift Slapping on Flex Tape

Bald man in glasses and a red shirt aiming two blurred handguns, subtitled "So anyway, I started blasting"

So Anyway, I Started Blasting

What Gives People Feelings of Power meme

What Gives People Feelings of Power

Darkened close-up of a Thomas the Tank Engine face with bulging eyes, captioned "you dare oppose me mortal", KineMaster watermark

You Dare Oppose Me Mortal

Animated still of a long-faced cartoon man with closed eyes, subtitled 'Oh yeah, it's all coming together'

Oh Yeah, It's All Coming Together

Yellow cartoon sponge slouched in an orange armchair with heavy-lidded eyes, captioned "IGHT IMMA HEAD OUT"

Ight Imma Head Out

Green-skinned man in glasses and a navy sweater spreading his arms wide, subtitled "I see this as an absolute win!"

I See This as an Absolute Win

Video-game sniper in a wide-brimmed hat and round glasses at a steering wheel, yellow subtitle "Professionals have STANDARDS"

Professionals Have Standards

Blue Piranha Plant from Super Mario Maker captioned "say sike right now"

Say Sike Right Now

Yellow Pikachu in a grey deerstalker cap looking worried, captioned "IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE INSIDE OF AN EMPTY ROOM"

Unsettled Detective Pikachu

Wait, I Thought It Was a Joke meme

Wait, I Thought It Was a Joke

Ace Attorney's Edgeworth in a circus with a caged tiger, mocking someone as the entire circus

You Are Not a Clown. You Are the Entire Circus.

Four panels zooming out from the orange black-hole ring until two rings become the glowing eyes of a black cat

First Image of a Black Hole

Four grinning cartoon supervillains lined up: a rhino-headed man, a blue bird-man, a yellow lightning figure and a green goblin

Me and the Boys

Text post "Therapist: Don't worry genie Will Smith isn't real he can't harm you" above a grinning blue genie still

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Will Smith's Genie

Stone relief of a winged hooded skeleton with a scythe pointing off-frame, captioned "When someone asks what ruins a good meme"

Pointing Grim Reaper Statue

Cartoon man in a grey suit and sunglasses bending backwards to dodge a yellow flyer held out by a blue arm

Dodging the Flyer

Two-panel anime screenshot: two ninja shaking hands before banners and a crowd, then a red-tinted close-up of the clasped hands

Handshake Between Madara and Hashirama

Bearded long-haired man in an ornate red robe, captioned 'Is this some sort of peasant joke that I'm too rich to understand?'

Is This Some Sort of Peasant Joke?

Curly-haired man in a purple velvet coat and bow tie smirking with chin on hand, captioned "OK BOOMER"

OK Boomer

Woman in a sailor uniform and "AHOY" hat holds a whiteboard headed "YOU RULE" and "YOU SUCK" with tally marks

Robin from Stranger Things Holding a Whiteboard

Meme Man in a suit in front of a rising stock chart labeled STONKS

Stonks

Two animated dragons facing each other beside a three-panel meme labelled "THE TOOTHLESS MEME I MADE" and "MY NOSTALGIA"

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Toothless Presents Himself

Film still of a bearded, long-haired man's face embedded in a large tumbleweed in a sunlit desert

Tumbleweed Keanu Reeves

Photo of legs standing on office-chair wheel bases above a still of a blue robot captioned "Upgrades, people. Upgrades."

Upgrades, People, Upgrades

Years of Academy Training Wasted meme

Years of Academy Training Wasted

Grainy cartoon still of an angry orange fish yelling with arms outstretched, captioned "YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR MOUTH"

You Better Watch Your Mouth

Pigeon held in a hand as soldiers point rifles at it, overlaid with a video-game scoreboard HUD reading "1 VS 4"

Pigeon Surrounded By Guns

Teal furry horned monster with purple spots pinching his fingertips together, eyes half-closed in quiet satisfaction

Pleased Sulley

Cartoon bald man in a blue suit pressing both hands to his temples, grimacing, red rings radiating outward; caption "I am: Broke"

Professor X's Mind Rays

Candid on-set photo: a seated Spider-Man in costume gestures while a young woman with curly hair looks unimpressed

Spider-Man Explaining to Zendaya

Facebook event "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" beside a photo of an alien figure in a doorway

Storm Area 51

Tom Hanks vs. Tank meme

Tom Hanks vs. Tank

Two Books meme

Two Books

Four-panel stick-figure comic starting "WE DID IT, WE TIME TRAVELED!" and ending with a bubble reading "WE ARE IN 2016"

We Did It, We Time Traveled

Video game still of a long-haired man in sunglasses with a metal arm, subtitled "We have a city to burn."

We Have a City to Burn

Zangief from Wreck-It Ralph at the Bad-Anon support group, saying "you are bad guy"

You Are Bad Guy

Blank five-panel template showing SpongeBob getting progressively more muscular beside empty white caption boxes

Increasingly Buff SpongeBob

Regretful Hulk meme

Regretful Hulk

Painterly comic frame of an enormous man in a black suit with a tiny head charging forward through a magenta cityscape

Running Kingpin

Two-panel meme: a game controller photoshopped with extra joysticks, then a bearded man subtitled 'I'm gonna do what's called a pro-gamer move.'

I'm Gonna Do What's Called a Pro Gamer Move

Two-panel collage of the big-eared green Star Wars infant, one captioned about waiting for food while others get theirs first

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Baby Yoda (Grogu)

Perhaps meme

Perhaps

Game screenshot of a translucent ghostly armored figure with glowing white eyes, with the button prompt "Y Shame" to its left

Press Y to Shame

Dark film still of a small green pointy-eared puppet lit in red, subtitled "There is another"

There Is Another

You Just Got Vectored meme

You Just Got Vectored

Green big-eared alien child sipping from a wooden cup, captioned "5 year old me drinking apple juice out of a wine glass"

Baby Yoda Drinking Soup

Person in a red and blue Spider-Man costume holding a sheet of paper before a large blank projector screen in an auditorium

Spider-Man's Presentation

Two-panel cartoon: a bald man points at a sign about poor literacy, then stands outside a school window subtitled "If those kids could read they'd be very upset"

If Those Kids Could Read They'd Be Very Upset

Cartoon comparison of two armoured figures with blank white heads, labelled 'Professional players' in blue and 'Veteran players' in orange

Professional Players vs. Veteran Players

Two blue Sonic characters inside a car, one open-mouthed by the window labelled "Overwatch", the other smirking labelled "Team Fortress 2"

Sonic Pointing at Window

Armoured figure in a horned gold helmet against a desert background, captioned "THIS IS THE WAY", makeameme.org watermark

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This Is The Way

Two-panel crash-test footage: a locomotive bearing down on a yellow school bus stopped across the tracks, then smashing through it

Train Hitting School Bus

Close-up of a person in a blue collared shirt glancing sideways with a hurt look, subtitled "Am I a joke to you?"

Am I a Joke To You?

Curly-haired young man in a green cloak glancing sideways in a sunlit garden, subtitled "All right, then. Keep your secrets."

All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets

Green-skinned action figure in purple robes braces against a tipping jar of dry spaghetti, shielding a smaller figure

Piccolo vs. Spaghetti

Spongebob Not Scared of The Flying Dutchman meme

Spongebob Not Scared of The Flying Dutchman

Three subtitled screencaps: white-haired swordsman pinning a horned creature, ending with "You are intelligent, I'll give you that."

You Are Intelligent, I'll Give You That

Woman covering her mouth in delight beside laptops and a chalkboard, laptop screen reading "you've won 2 hours visitation with your mom!"

Excited Katie Bouman

Cartoon man with a tall brown pompadour and heavy-lidded smirk, subtitled "I like your funny words, magic man!"

I Like Your Funny Words, Magic Man

Meme captioned "Me: How many viruses do i have? Free Anti-Virus:" over a 3D masked boy subtitled "Yes"

Protegent Antivirus Yes

Smiling man in a black coat crouching with a peace sign beside a headstone engraved "Oliver Queen 1985-2019, The Green Arrow"

Grant Gustin Next to Oliver Queen's Grave

Two anime panels over blue water captioned "Senpai of the pool, what is your wisdom?" and "I'm not senpai of the pool!"

Senpai of the Pool

Long-haired man in a dark suit on a stage beside a shrunken copy of himself, labelled "Me, answering the door" and "My dog"

Short Keanu Reeves

Six-panel Aladdin screenshot stack of the blue Genie listing "There are 3 rules" and ending "OK, there are 4 rules"

Genie Rules

Collage labelled "vsco girl": smiling teen in an oversized tie-dye shirt with Crocs, scrunchies and a yellow water bottle

VSCO Girl

Two cartoon panels of a grey rabbit in a wide blue hat and pink dress, then firing a smoking revolver sideways

Bugs Bunny Shooting a Gun

Schoolgirl lowering a brass sousaphone bell over another girl's head against a pegboard wall, with three labels added

Girl Putting Tuba on Girl's Head

Tweet reading "gonna tell my kids this is elon musk" laid over Avengers artwork of Iron Man in red-and-gold armor

Gonna Tell My Kids

Muscular red cartoon lobster lifting a barbell on a beach, subtitled "observe." beneath a caption about writing an essay in one night

Larry the Lobster 'Observe'

Blurry photo of an appliance dial labelled "Small", "Medium", "Large" turned to large, with "OOF SIZE" printed beneath

Oof Size Large

Side-by-side panels captioned "It's ogre for you sasuke...": a hand grips a dark-haired anime boy's throat beside a green ogre glancing over

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Sasuke Choke Edits

Young man in sunglasses and a backwards cap throwing peace signs, subtitled "Bro, I'm straight-up not having a good time."

Bro, I'm Straight Up Not Having a Good Time

Cutout of a sitting Shiba Inu with a droopy, side-eyed expression on an orange background patterned with pixel-art shibas

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Cheems

Cartoon cat drawn with a grotesquely huge muscular body labeled 6'0", towering over a tiny mouse labeled 5'11"

Buff Tom

Long-haired bearded man in a red cape grinning as he holds a war hammer aloft, subtitled "I'm still worthy!"

I'm Still Worthy

Cartoon bus interior: a glum passenger facing a grey rock wall, a smiling one facing sunlit mountains at sunset

Two Guys on a Bus

Wide-eyed yellow emoji face with a realistic yellow hand reaching toward the viewer, captioned "VIBE CHECK" twice

Vibe Check

Two film stills of an elderly curly-haired man holding a Bic pencil, captioned "After all... why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?"

After All, Why Not? Why Shouldn't I Keep It?

Bearded soldier lowering night-vision goggles in a dark forest, subtitled "bravo six, going dark," under a joke about standing up fast

Bravo Six, Going Dark

Close-up of a grape gripped by surgical instruments with its skin peeled back, captioned "THEY DID SURGERY ON A GRAPE"

They Did Surgery on a Grape

Photorealistic furry Pikachu cowering on wet pavement beside a metal crowd barrier, paws raised and eyes wide with fear

Cowering Detective Pikachu

Split image of a blonde woman's skeptical kombucha-tasting face beside a smiling selfie

Kombucha Girl

Two stills: a green-skinned Hulk in a hoodie beside a man seated outside a glass building, then offering a small taco

Hulk Gives Ant-Man a Taco

Muscular man in a tight blue T-shirt straining to tear a large log apart with his bare hands outdoors

Captain America Chopping Wood

Woman playing with a toddler in a pool while another child flails nearby, above an underwater skeleton in a chair, four labels added

Mother Ignoring Kid Drowning In A Pool

Anime close-up of a character whose face splits between an orange headscarf and purple hair, hand at his throat, teeth bared

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Choking Doppio

Homer Simpson lounging on a couch with a drink, captioned "everyone is stupid except me"

Everyone Is Stupid Except Me

Bearded man in black t-shirt on a street fumbling an iced coffee, captioned "me having a good time buying unnecessary shit"

Jonah Hill Dropping Coffee

Crudely painted purple dinosaur statue standing in bushes with arms outstretched, captioned "Cha cha real smooth"

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Four-panel cartoon of a burly chief in a feathered headdress reacting with shock, captioned "we have been redrawn in another artstyle"

Chief Tannabok Gets the News

Two-panel meme showing a tan bearded dragon with its mouth open, captioned "Being sad and not acknowledging Butter's great life"

Butter the Bearded Dragon