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- O rly?O rly? is an internet meme featuring a snowy owl used in image macros to sarcastically respond to obvious or false statements.
- arrow in the kneeA catchphrase from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim where a city guard says, I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee; it became a widely circulated internet meme and snowclone.
- FigwitFigwit is a fan-created name for a briefly seen elf in The Lord of the Rings films, who gained fan attention despite limited screen time.
- Hit the QuanHit the Quan is a viral dance associated with the song by iLoveMemphis, based on a dance popularized by Rich Homie Quan, and became a widespread challenge.
- Weebl and BobA British Flash cartoon series featuring two egg-shaped characters who like pie and speak in a distinct style, created by Jonti Picking and co-scripted by Chris Vick.
- BrickfilmBrickfilm refers to stop-motion animations made with LEGO bricks and minifigures (or imitating that look), a video genre that has spread on social media since the 2000s.
- Big ChungusA meme based on a still frame from a 1941 cartoon, popularized by a fictitious game cover and a social media post, later used by Warner Bros. in a game promotion.
- Ate my ballsAn early internet meme that circulated in the late 1990s as webpages depicting a subject’s relish for eating testicles, often with crude photo edits and humorous speech balloons.
- Cats on the internetImages of domestic cats are among the most viewed media on the web and have become a prominent source in internet memes, contributing to how people interact with media and culture.
- What would you do for a Klondike barA slogan from Klondike advertisements inspired users to post videos showing people in dangerous or absurd situations attempting to reach a Klondike bar.
- VerityVerity is a 2026 Canadian animated horror web series set in Minecraft, featuring a virtual assistant that becomes a monster; it spawned memes after its release.
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- BarbenheimerA portmanteau meme that emerged around the simultaneous release of Barbie and Oppenheimer in July 2023, highlighting the juxtaposition of the two very different films.
- Skibidi toiletSkibidi Toilet is an animated web series and viral meme featuring a war between skibidi toilets with disembodied heads and humanoid characters with cameras or devices for heads, created by Alexey Gerasimov and popular on YouTube.
- ListenbourgListenbourg is a fictional country created as the subject of an internet meme in October 2022, depicted as an extension of the Iberian Peninsula and popularized through a doctored map and joke about Americans naming it.
- AI artAI art refers to visual content generated or assisted by artificial intelligence, commonly produced by modern generative AI trained on preexisting content.
- Elden RingElden Ring is a 2022 action role-playing game that spawned multiple memes.
- WordleWordle is a web-based word-guessing game where players have six tries to guess a five-letter word, with feedback shown via colored tiles and a daily puzzle shared by players.
- Nicole Kidman AMC Theatres commercialA 2021 AMC Theatres ad featuring Nicole Kidman delivering a melodramatic monologue about the magic of theater, which became an internet meme and artifact of camp.
- GoncharovGoncharov is an internet meme about a fictitious 1973 mafia film of the same name, imagined by Tumblr users as the greatest mafia movie ever made.
- 15.ai15.ai is a free web application that uses AI to generate text-to-speech voices of fictional characters from popular media, contributing to the popularization of AI voice cloning in memes and content creation.
- Will It Blend?Will It Blend? is a viral marketing web series that demonstrates the power of the Blendtec blender by blending various items in improvised infomercial-style videos.
- Instagram eggA photo of an egg posted on Instagram that became a global phenomenon and widely recognized internet meme after its publication on 4 January 2019.
- Untitled Goose GameUntitled Goose Game is a 2019 video game where you control a goose causing mischief in an English village and its release quickly sparked internet meme activity.
- SpongeBob SquarePantsSpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series that has spawned various Internet memes and related merchandise.
- GroguGrogu is the name of a character from The Mandalorian, popularly referred to as Baby Yoda, who sparked meme culture after the show's popularity.
- Tuxedo Winnie the PoohTuxedo Winnie the Pooh
- Among UsAmong Us is a 2018 online multiplayer game that gained internet fame and became a source of recurring memes, including phrases and image references from gameplay.
- T-poseA surreal dance meme derived from the default T-pose used by 3D models before animation.
- Bongo CatBongo Cat is an Internet meme that began as a simple animated cat GIF edited to play bongos to a music track, which then spread through edits to various songs.
- Coffin DanceA meme built on the Ghanaian dancing pallbearers performing funeral processions, later paired with the song Astronomia to create a morbidly humorous Internet trend.
- Trash DovesTrash Doves is an internet meme that originated from a purple bird sticker set in 2016, with the animated headbanging pigeon becoming a viral subject on social media after its debut on Facebook in January 2017.
- LazyTownLazyTown is an Icelandic children's television series that gained meme status particularly around the song “We Are Number One,” which spawned many videos after the actor Stefán Karl Stefánsson’s GoFundMe campaign.
- Bee MovieBee Movie refers to the 2007 animated film and its edited/sped-up clips and script posts that became popular online.
- distracted boyfriendA stock photograph that became an Internet meme, widely used to depict disloyalty or shifting attention, especially starting in 2017.
- Dat BoiAn animated GIF of a unicycling frog with the caption “here come dat boi! Shit waddup” that originated online and became widely used.
- Cursed imageImages perceived as odd or disturbing due to their content or poor quality, intended to make viewers question the image’s existence.
- Let’s playA Let’s Play is a video (or screenshots with text) documenting a game playthrough with commentary, often humorous or critical, focusing on the player’s subjective experience.
- Press F to pay respectsAn Internet meme that originated from a Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare in-game prompt to press a button during a funeral scene, later used to convey solidarity or sympathy online.
- Don't talk to me or my son ever againAn internet meme featuring a subject paired with a smaller version of itself (the “son”) and the caption “don't talk to me or my son ever again,” which became highly viral around 2016.
- Twitch Plays PokémonTwitch Plays Pokémon is a crowdsourced, live-streamed experiment where chat commands control the gameplay of Pokémon Red, creating a chaotic shared experience.
- DabDab, or dabbing, is a gesture/dance move in which a person leans into a bent arm while the other arm is extended, used as a gesture of triumph or playfulness and described as an internet meme since 2014.
- DogeDoge is an internet meme featuring a Shiba Inu with multicolored text in Comic Sans representing a broken internal monologue.
- DashCon ball pitA portable ball pit brought into a large room during the DashCon Tumblr fan convention in 2014; its absurdity and the convention’s mismanagement became a widely shared moment on social media.
- SharknadoSharknado is a 2013 made-for-television disaster film featuring a waterspout that lifts sharks into Los Angeles, which became a social media hit and led to sequels.
- Harlem ShakeAn internet meme in which a short video features a first calm setup followed by a sudden drop and a group dance with costumes and props, using an electronica version of the song Harlem Shake.
- Pepsi max & Jeff Gordon present: Test DriveA 2013 short film produced for a viral marketing campaign promoting Pepsi Max, featuring Jeff Gordon posing as a car buyer in a prank réalisé by Gifted Youth; it became a viral video.
- Horse_ebooksHorse_ebooks was a Twitter account that appeared to promote e-books but became known for its amusing non sequiturs and later was revealed to be part of a viral marketing project.
- Dog shamingAn internet meme where an image of a dog (or other animal) is posted with a sign describing a recent negative behavior, typically from Tumblr-originated posts.
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