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2020

Memes that started this year

Muscular bodybuilder body with a Shiba Inu head on the left, a small hunched Shiba sitting at right, white background

Swole Doge vs. Cheems

Man in a yellow shirt reclining with his feet up, beer can and cigarette in one hand, pointing excitedly toward the camera

Pointing Rick Dalton

Close-up of the white Vibing Cat (CatJAM) having its head gently bobbed by a hand

Vibing Cat

Two photos side by side: a woman in glasses holding up a stapled document, and a grey folded-ear cat eyeing it

Woman Showing Papers to Grey Cat

TikTok screenshot of a man in a grey hoodie swigging Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry on a road, username "doggface208", song "Dreams"

Doggface208's Dreams TikTok

Two panels captioned "Call the ambulance!" then "But not for me!" as a man threatened with a knife draws a revolver

Call An Ambulance But Not For Me

Minecraft crafting grid filled with nine blocks — crafting table, furnace, chest, anvil, bookshelf — with an arrow to a fused hybrid block

Minecraft Crafting Recipes

Close-up of a bespectacled man at a formal dinner pulling a pained, lips-pursed grimace, blurred guests behind

Tom Hanks' Golden Globe Grimace

You Dare Use My Own Spells Against Me meme

You Dare Use My Own Spells Against Me

Grinning cartoon rabbit gesturing beside a yellow hammer and sickle, captioned "Tenemos" in white text

Communist Bugs Bunny

Cursed Mike Wazowski face swap graphic

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Mike Wazowski

Grey-haired cartoon man with a black moustache pointing off-screen, captioned "THATS THE NEAT PART, YOU DON'T"

That's the Neat Part, You Don't

Red-haired man in dark sunglasses singing in front of a chain-link fence, captioned "YOU KNOW THE RULES AND SO DO I"

You Know the Rules and So Do I

Among Us game artwork: a red bean-shaped crewmate floating in space with blue, yellow, purple and orange crewmates around it

Among Us (Sus)

Undertaker Standing Behind AJ Styles

Two-panel photo of a woman and a young man leaning from car windows, speech bubbles "THAT YOU GIRL" and "YEA"

Vanya and Five Drive By Each Other

Smirking man with a hangman's noose around his neck on a desert gallows, subtitled "First time?"

James Franco First Time

Two astronauts, one pointing a gun, 'always has been' format

Always Has Been

Three-panel Meme Man cycling panik, kalm, panik

Panik / Kalm / Panik

Man in a headset staring blankly at the camera, captioned "Me after seeing memes about linus' sad retirement video…"

Sad Linus

Bald man in a blue T-shirt gesturing during a living-room interview, whiskey and cigar nearby, captioned "...and I took that personally"

And I Took That Personally

Man in a white shirt and dark tie smiling knowingly at the camera through the slats of horizontal office window blinds

Jim Halpert Smiling Through Blinds

Orange-tracksuited cartoon man in glasses slouched against a red wall and sofa, subtitled "Hey."

Vector's "Hey"

Grainy clip of a figure in a blue "FF" cap behind a barred window, captioned "WHY DO I FIX EVERYTHING I TOUCH"

Why Do I Fix Everything I Touch

Willem Dafoe Looking Up meme

Willem Dafoe Looking Up

Older man in a suit shaking hands with a long-haired young man in an office, each labelled with white caption text

Young Michael Scott Shaking Ed Truck's Hand

Young woman in a blue sweater with an updo, palm raised mid-sentence and a skeptical expression, in a school room

Girl Explaining

Two Pulp Fiction car stills stacked, labelled "How it started" and "How it's going", with a meme-arsenal.ru watermark

How It Started / How It's Going

A lonely figure at a party imagining what others think

They Don't Know

Queen Elizabeth "We will meet again" billboard at London's Piccadilly Circus

Queen Elizabeth On A Billboard

Two-panel cartoon: a spiky blue-haired man in a lab coat tears open a wall, revealing a large black void

Rick Opening Wall

Two cartoon panels captioned "My mom and the mailman saying that they were only wrestling", above a frowning chief in gold jewellery

Tulio And Miguel Lying To Chief Tannabok

Close-up of a blushing blonde anime girl with a hand pointing at the camera, captioned "SIMP" in white

Simp

Mulleted man in a khaki cap and black jacket staring off camera, subtitled "I am never going to financially recover from this"

I Am Never Gonna Financially Recover From This

TikTok clip of a dark-haired girl mid-dance in a bedroom doing the Renegade

Renegade

Two-panel PewDiePie meme captioned "for legal reasons that's a joke" over a confused shrug

For Legal Reasons, That's a Joke

Forested mountain valley under a blue sky, with white block text across the bottom reading "NATURE IS HEALING"

Nature Is Healing

Couple lying awake back-to-back in bed, captioned "Her: I bet he's thinking about other women" over his mundane thought about buildings

I Bet He's Thinking About Other Women

Tan dog standing upright on its hind legs at a door, with top caption "EVERYBODY GANGSTER UNTIL" cut off mid-line

Everybody Gangsta Until

Hand-drawn Meme Man "shef" over a kitchen photo, captioned "when you try to draw shef"

Shef

Two panels of a startled blue-grey cartoon rat, captioned "WHEN YOU FIND OUT YOUR IN A TIKTOK MUSICAL:"

Ratatouille the Musical

Three-panel thumbnail of people dancing in unison: a man amid neon lasers, firefighters by an engine, and masked hospital staff, titled "Blinding Lights"

Blinding Lights Challenge

Pallbearers in black suits, sunglasses and white gloves carrying a gold-trimmed coffin on their shoulders, cut out on white

Coffin Dance

Four-panel Star Wars meme labeled "Plastic" and "The environment," with subtitles "I'm going to change the world" and "For the better, right?"

For the Better, Right?

Wipe It Down meme

Wipe It Down

Crying anime girl hugging a rifle behind a wall while a Terminator labeled "Activision" searches nearby amid flames

Anime Girl Hiding From a Terminator

Two stills: a dark-haired man subtitled "I've never met this man in my life" and a blond warrior answering "He's my brother!"

I've Never Met This Man In My Life

Two frames of a white cat side by side: mouth closed and pursed, then gaping in a huge circle

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Popcat

Sitcom still of a man crouching in a living room beside a science whiteboard, subtitled 'I don't need sleep. I need answers.'

I Don't Need Sleep. I Need Answers

Side-by-side press photos of a smiling man in a tuxedo holding two golden Oscar statuettes face to face

Bong Joon-Ho Making Oscars Kiss