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Rank classic internet memes, from Doge and Rickroll to Trollface, Grumpy Cat and Distracted Boyfriend.
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These 20 memes load into the maker above. Each write-up covers what the meme is and what to weigh when you rank it. Facts were last checked on .
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Doge
A meme that became popular in 2013, made of a picture of a Shiba Inu with multicolored Comic Sans text in the foreground. The text is a deliberately broken English internal monologue.
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Rickroll
An internet prank that uses a bait and switch, usually a disguised link that leads to the music video for Rick Astley's 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up" instead of what you expected.
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Trollface
A rage comic image of a character with a mischievous smile, used to symbolize internet trolls and trolling. It is one of the oldest and most widely known rage comic faces.
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Grumpy Cat
Tardar Sauce, an American internet celebrity cat whose permanently grumpy face came from an underbite and feline dwarfism. A photo posted to Reddit on September 22, 2012, brought her to prominence.
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Distracted Boyfriend
A meme based on a 2015 stock photograph by Spanish photographer Antonio Guillem. It started to circulate at the start of 2017 and went viral that August as a way to depict different forms of disloyalty.
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Pepe the Frog
A comic character and meme created by cartoonist Matt Furie, a green anthropomorphic frog who usually wears a blue t-shirt. Pepe originated in Furie's 2005 webcomic Boy's Club.
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Success Kid
A meme of a baby clenching a fistful of sand with a determined face, which began in 2007. CNN described Sammy Griner, the boy in the photo, as likely the internet's most famous baby.
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Nyan Cat
A YouTube video uploaded in April 2011 that merged a Japanese denpa song with an animated cat with a Pop-Tart torso flying through space and leaving a rainbow trail. It ranked fifth among 2011's most-viewed YouTube videos.
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Harambe
A western lowland gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo who died on May 28, 2016, after a boy climbed into his enclosure. The incident was recorded and widely discussed, and later inspired many memes.
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Gangnam Style
A K-pop song by South Korean singer Psy, released on July 15, 2012, by YG Entertainment. The term refers to the nouveau riche lifestyles associated with the Gangnam region of Seoul, and its dance went viral.
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Planking
A fad of lying expressionlessly face-down, with the body kept straight and rigid like a plank and the palms at the sides, often in an unusual or incongruous location.
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Ice Bucket Challenge
An activity of pouring a bucket of ice water over a person's head, to promote awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called motor neuron disease, and to encourage donations to research.
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This Is Fine
Gunshow, the webcomic by KC Green that ran from 2008 to 2014, is well known for spawning the "This is fine" meme in 2013, which people use to joke about calmly ignoring trouble.
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Woman Yelling at a Cat
A meme first used in a post by Twitter user @MISSINGEGIRL on May 1, 2019. It pairs a screenshot of a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills scene with an image of a cat on the right.
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Drake Hotline Bling
The meme comes from the music video for "Hotline Bling," a song by Canadian rapper Drake released on July 31, 2015, with a video directed by Director X two months later.
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Stonks
A meme starring Meme Man, a 3D render of a smooth, bald, pale head, who was popularized as the face of "stonks" by users of the r/wallstreetbets subreddit during the 2021 GameStop short squeeze.
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Surprised Pikachu
A reaction image of Pikachu from the Pokémon anime with a wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression, used to show mock surprise at an outcome that was entirely predictable.
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Among Us
A 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game developed and published by the American studio Innersloth. It was released on iOS and Android in June 2018 and on Windows in November, and spawned many memes.
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Skibidi Toilet
An animated web series created by Alexey Gerasimov, released through YouTube videos and Shorts and made with Source Filmmaker. It follows a war between toilets with human heads and humanoid characters.
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Rizz
Internet slang meaning style, charm or attractiveness, which is likely short for charisma. Unlike most entries here it is a word rather than an image or a video.
Memes tier list questions
Why are some entries songs, games or challenges rather than images?
Memes include images, videos, songs, games, challenges and slang. This list mixes all of them because they all spread online, and fans like to rank them together.
How current is the meme list?
Memes fade and change meaning quickly. The write-ups describe each meme's origin and what it is, and the review date shows when the facts were last checked.
How should I rank memes?
Common criteria include how funny a meme is, how much it spread, how well it has aged and how much you used it. Many people rank classic memes separately from recent ones.
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