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The best memes of 2019, so far

From Powerful Shaggy to Hot Girl Summer, a catalog of the year's essential memes

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The fast-paced and transient nature of the net means that memes are being churned out quicker than e'er, with new ones popping up every few days before filtering into the ether. With so many memes and and then little time, information technology would be easy to miss the gags, tweets, riffs, and emoji gold being mined on a weekly basis. That'due south why nosotros're collecting them all for your (re-)viewing pleasure.

Summertime has been defined past a few broad, overarching event memes — particularly Megan Thee Stallion's Hot Girl Summer — with a few typical Twitter fixation moments that explode for a few days, then trickle off. But some, especially easy to copy formats similar "Me explaining to my mom" and "Just Kidding...unless" lasted beyond their two mean solar day moments of fame.

As more memes trickle in, nosotros'll keep this list updated with the ones worth paying attention to. Hither are the very best memes of 2019.

January

J.G. Rowling tweeting

After the, uh, overly gratuitous Pottermore revelation that wizards in the Harry Potter globe one time shit their pants before embracing the Muggle engineering of toilets, a Twitter user posted the first format of this meme.

People began to riff on J.K. Rowling'due south tendency to offer incredibly infinitesimal details about the Harry Potter world. Some went even more ridiculous and explicit; others used it equally commentary on Rowling's tendency to retroactively add together diversity to the books.

Learning to be Spider-Human

Academy Award-winning film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse gave guild many, many things, including 1 iconic meme. In the movie, Miles wants to larn how to be Spider-Man from Peter B. Parker. He listens intently as Peter describes a program, and copies his posture.

The kickoff instance of the Spider-Human being meme popped upward in early January on a subreddit designed to pump out mass-produced memes. The original setup was that the younger figure was copying or ripping off the older one, which fabricated for some hilarious comparisons.

Reddit via u/RoseBladePhantom

But equally the meme proliferated off of Reddit to Twitter and Tumblr, it took a more positive arroyo, with the younger figure intently listening or admiring the older 1 — which seems more in line with the manner it played out in the movie.

AOC dancing

One of the many efforts to undermine Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's political momentum involved unearthing a video of her dancing in college. Amused by the fact that a dancing college kid could peradventure be a big political scandal, many admirers remixed the video with other songs. The possibilities were endless: "Africa" by Toto, "Stone Lobster" by the B-52's, and "What Dreams Are Made Of" from The Lizzie McGuire Moving picture.

A whole account dedicated to creating and retweeting these remixes popped upwardly, posting an impressive amount of them in one single twenty-four hour period.

Fifty-fifty Ocasio-Cortez herself got in on the meme action, recreating the video while in her Washington office.

Sasuke (from Naruto)

No year is complete without a Naruto meme. The screencap of Sasuke beingness choked originally appeared in the 2004 episode "Hate Amongst the Uchihas: The Concluding of the Clan!" in which Sasuke's brother, Itachi, pins him against the wall and calls him weak considering he lacks hatred.

In January, this 15-yr-old screencap got a 2nd life when Twitter user mazaernai posted a juxtaposition of Sasuke and a cat.

Variations of the meme exploded over the next few days, featuring existent-life celebrities, other fictional characters, and our co-workers.

Powerful Shaggy

The culmination of a long gestation period, Powerful Shaggy roared to life at full force in belatedly January. For those not in the know, information technology came out of nowhere, but the Shaggy meme actually had roots far longer than about were aware. Across Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter, the Powerful Shaggy memes exploded, even getting Shaggy'south actor Matthew Lillard involved. He was resistant at commencement, simply eventually came around.

Shen Yun

If you be in some capacity in the United States, you've probably seen ads for Shen Yun papered around public spaces. The trip the light fantastic troupe (which is put on past an opposition party to the Chinese government, a whole other can of worms you can read about in The Guardian) is overzealous in its marketing, and everywhere you look at that place will be a Shen Yun poster. This is especially true of bigger cities, but Shen Yun posters also popular upward in smaller towns, and so their achieve knows few, if any, boundaries.

The seeming universality of Shen Yun started to generate memes, by and large about how the advertising is just everywhere. Which, in plow, simply provided more advertising for the company, making it even more ubiquitous. Though the Shen Yun memes started in January, they continue to trickle through.

I'm and so Dummy Thicc...

The phrase Dummy Thicc — a state of thiccness that is so extreme that it must be dummy — has been around since 2018, but the variation that expanded upon the state of ane's thiccness to include the clap of one'due south ass cheeks came near in January of this year. The meme slowly gained traction across online spaces and connected into April. It nevertheless continues, actually, a novelty in the meme space.

"I'one thousand then Dummy Thicc" comes from simple origins: Twitter user @Snow_Radish shared a post written from the perspective of Solid Snake. Another person on Twitter, hachikosyndrome, decided to record the phrase.

Before long variations popped upwards for every dummy thicc character out at that place. The constants of this meme are the narrator existence "Dummy Thicc" and the sound of their donkey cheeks alerted something. Some created videos; other merely edited or drew pics of their dummy thicc faves. For instance, Winnie the Pooh. Or Luigi.

A Tumblr web log dedicated to favorite characters who are "dummy thicc" popped up, as did incorporations of this meme that went beyond simple copypasta, such as an item idea for Dungeons and Dragons. This meme is reminiscent of the "One thicc bih" meme from summer of 2017. A character is selected and declared to be "thicc," prompting videos from the Ditty app. Let's celebrate some dummy thiccness.

Feb

Permit Me In

This 2016 prune of comedian Eric Andre trying to bust into the Democratic National Convention has been used every bit a reaction GIF/video from late moments of 2018 to early 2019, but we're counting information technology as a 2019 meme because the bodily screencaps coupled with text that became so popular originated this February, specifically in response to 21 Brutal'due south detainment for an overstayed visa.

The format caught on, particularly given the success of previous Eric Andre memes that continue to be used to this solar day. The meme trickled off of Reddit and onto Tumblr and Twitter. Eric Andre but has a presence that screams meme star.

Buff ASCII bunny babysitter

ASCII rabbits go way back, and the actual buff bunny dates to 2013. But the version of a little tiny bunny poking his caput out from behind the big, buff protector rolled out in February. A version of the "don't talk to me or my son ever again," the meme adds a level of friendship and comradery in the form of a lil' bunny. Really, we're all the lil' bunny in one way shape or form.

Me: :)

It's hard to pinpoint exactly how this meme started, and it doesn't actually have a specific name. Peradventure information technology's inspired by a massively popular tweet by artist Jonny Sun, in which he conveyed his happiness at watching his plants abound via emojis, coupled with the aforementioned sort of energy of last year'due south Unicode sparkle meme.

The format is uncomplicated. Me starts off deplorable, something small and glittery exists, the Me is reminded to be happy — a sprinkling of soft, aesthetic positivity in dark times.

Pokémon Galar U.K.

The reveal of the upcoming Pokémon games meant not only new Pokémon, just a new region called Galar. The region'southward farmland combined with an industrial aesthetic, as well equally certain landmarks, had many fans theorizing that Galar is the Pokémon equivalent of the United Kingdom.

Since many U.Thousand.-specific memes already be (Scottish Twitter and Cheeky Nando's, for instance), combining them with the newly revealed region was only natural.

March

Summoning Circles

Emoji memes continue to be always popular. The summoning circle memes are like shooting fish in a barrel to create and while the first iterations connected the format, others experimented with it. These memes prove the electric current land of meme civilization: It goes beyond the recreation and distribution of memes. Oft, the all-time versions play with the pre-established format.

You are not immune to propaganda

The Garfield epitome with the phrase "You are not immune to propaganda" was kickoff created in 2018 by Tumblr user markvomit. Why does information technology count as a 2019 meme? March saw a massive resurgence on Tumblr, to the point where people started making memes of the meme. Much like Shaggy beforehand, this is a meme with a longer gestation that took off in a new style.

Earlier this year, the image was used as a reaction to hammer deconstructions of brands posting #relatable memes in this twenty-four hour period and age (which the image is still used for), Tumblr began to create riffs of the meme. From self-enlightened revamps to fandom-specific jokes, to riffs on other aspects of civilisation, more serious callouts, and of course, interlaced levels of meme applesauce.

April

Celebs as Things

The first instance of the comparative meme was posted by a Beyonce stan Twitter beylesssons, who shared a thread of Beyonce photos as sea sponges. According the KnowYourMeme, the format really took off in the first week of April, when "Mariah Carey as Whisks" got the popstar's blessing on Twitter.

The format is unproblematic and fun — and even though the game is cool, the meme still ramped up the absurdity to eventually cross the meta threshold. Stage 1: Jeff Goldblum every bit Poptarts! Phase 2: Taylor Swift as redacted portions of the Mueller report! Stage iii: Celebs equally things as M&Ms!

"Old Town Road"

The rising of "Sometime Town Road" to the top of the country music Billboard chart and subsequent burst from the ashes similar a phoenix was the talk of the (old) town at the start of April. But the vocal'south reach tin can be attributed to its meme condition on TikTok, which started earlier in the twelvemonth.

The story starts with humble origins: in December of 2018 Atlanta-based soundcloud rapper Lil Nas Ten uploaded the song to YouTube, set to scenes from Cerise Dead Redemption Online.

The song achieved meme status in early 2019 when TikTok user nicemichaels uploaded a video, which essentially defined the format of the subsequent TikTok memes. The user starts off dancing to the song in regular clothes and when the bass drops, they switch into some form of country apparel. As with whatsoever meme, in that location are subversions and variations, but the bones gear up-up is the same.

Compilations of the TikTok meme concluded up on YouTube and the meme itself trickled to Instagram meme pages.

Though the meme format started before and really took off on TikTok and Instagram in March, I'm slating it as an April meme, because of the whole Billboard chart debacle, which brought the song from TikTok to the mainstream. In a nutshell: the song debuted on the Billboard Land Music nautical chart on March 9, merely ended upwards beingness removed due to Billboard deciding it wasn't land plenty. This prompted outrage non only from fans of the vocal, only from established country musicians. In early April, Lil Nas released a remix of the song, featuring Billy Ray Cyrus — which prompted a new wave of Twitter reaction memes.

Black Hole Memes

On April 10, the National Science Foundation released the kickoff image of a black hole. When encountered with this incredible look into the swell universe beyond us, a reminder of the fleeting, ephemeral nature of our ain existence in comparison to the all consuming black pigsty, the world ... made memes.

Because, hey, doesn't the black pigsty look a lot like the Eye of Sauron?

The black hole secretly being the Eye of Sauron was probably the most common comparison, merely others pointed out information technology resembled various foods, such equally bagels and Spaghetti-Os. Popular culture references all the same permeated though, with comparisons from HAL 9000 to the Super Blast Bros. logo.

As Friedrich Nietzsche one time said: "if you gaze long enough into an completeness, the abyss will gaze back into y'all." What Nietzsche may non accept anticipated is that the net age deals with vast feelings of existentialism past making memes.

Ah shit here nosotros go again

If we want to go very technical, this meme started style before 2019, and after existence used on and off as a reaction from 2015, gained minor traction on Reddit in September 2018, but never escaping the gravitational strength of isolated subreddits. The format that kicked off on Twitter — namely video edits instead of only text over epitome reactions — started in April 2019, when ChaoticGeekCG on Twitter uploaded a green screen version of the Grand Theft Automobile clip.

The memes took off when the prune was attainable and easy to edit. Some focused strictly on showdowns and fighting. Others took a zanier arroyo.

Others used the format, simply subbed in other video game characters or set it to favorite music.

Passive-aggressive Daenerys

The second episode of Game of Thrones season 8 featured a conversation between Sansa Stark and Daenerys Targaryen, in which Daenerys reacts with a grin. Out of context, the screencap becomes the epitome of passive-aggressiveness.

Prompted on Twitter, people began to caption the prototype, which resulted in a Twitter moment. While it is a typical text caption meme, it's centered around an amusement authentication ending this yr, information technology'south a worthy addition to this collection. What volition nosotros do without Dany'due south smug squint?

May

Gay Rat Wedding

PBS Kids' Arthur made headlines in May with the hymeneals of Arthur's teacher Mr. Ratburn to Patrick, a chocolate store owner.

Alabama Public Television had an issue with the delineation of a loving wedding anniversary between two fictional men and refused to air the episode. AL ran a story about the censorship, referring to the episode every bit a "gay rat wedding." The publication since edited the headline, but not earlier Twitter caught wind of it.

Me explaining to my mom

The format of this 1 is simple, yet then versatile. The slightly frenzied younger woman on the left side passionately explains something to the slightly confused older woman on the correct.

Contrary to what this meme is called, the two individuals depicted are not related. The double screencap of this meme really comes from two dissever posts fabricated a year apart.

The image of the younger woman comes from a video from Twitter user quenblackwell, posted in 2018 and captioned "sometimes you just accept to let information technology out..scream if you accept to." The prototype of "mom" comes from Fiddling Women: Atlanta star Ms. Juicy'southward Instagram, where she posted a picture of herself in January 2019, enjoying a football game with her favorite blanket.

The two came together for the first time in March, according to KnowYourMeme, when a Twitter user adapted a tweet of the younger adult female and the caption "Yo explicándole a mi mamá el porque es indispensable que vaya a la peda" to add together the image of Ms. Juicy every bit the mama.

It didn't kicking off on English language Twitter till May via a since-deleted meme, where the "kid" explains Club Penguin to the "mom." Since then, the format exploded, and while some posts however include "me" and "mom" others branch off, from bones "me" and "my cat" to ... well you'll run across the Tumblr redux.

June

Just Kidding...Unless

A simple format birthed from a uncomplicated tweet, Just Kidding... Unless has proved to be an incredibly versatile meme. The original tweet (now deleted, but view the screenshot below) also coincided with the summertime Minecraft renaissance which probably contributed to the surge in popularity.

a screenshot of a tweet reading KnowYourMeme

The first few iterations of the meme normally used fictional characters with the original Minecraft-flavorted copypasta, though many began to spring upwardly that swapped out some of the words to fit more niche situations.

July

Storming Expanse 51

In early July, a Facebook event entitled "Storm Area 51, They Tin can't Stop All of Us" became viral. Birthed from the bearding moderators of shitpost group on Facebook and a Twitch streamer named SmyleeKun, the consequence page itself is simple and unassuming. As the proper noun suggests, the event prompts attendees to bear witness up to the infamous Area 51 armed forces base and storm it. The result description reads:

"Nosotros volition all run across up in Rural Nevada and coordinate our parties. If nosotros naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens."

The joke event did its rounds on Facebook, gathering upwards loads of attendees, earlier percolating onto Twitter and more than mainstream social media. People posted the issue folio to Twitter, made detailed "plans" about the best way to attack, and just posted general tomfoolery about what they'd practise when they got to the base.

And, of course, some people idea that this shitpost Facebook effect was serious, including news outlets that reported on the proposed raid as if it were legit. Just all that really did was propel the gag fifty-fifty more into the spotlight. At its peak, the event boasted two million attendees.

During the middle of the Expanse 51 hype, rapper Lil Nas X — already the subject area of an entry on this article for his viral hitting "Sometime Boondocks Road" — released an animated music video for "Sometime Boondocks Road" in which he and collaborators Baton Ray Cyrus, Mason Ramsey, and Young Thug stormed Expanse 51.

The issue slowly trickled off the meme high, though it should exist noted that there are one.5 million however marked every bit attending on the folio. Instead of storming Surface area 51 on Sept. 20, though, there will be a music festival called Alienstock.

Hot Girl Summertime

It'south difficult to confine this 1 to one single month since it essentially defined summer 2019 every bit a whole. I'yard tossing information technology to July since that'due south roughly the middle of the summer (and the search term itself peaked around mid-July).

The phrase can be traced dorsum to rapper Megan Thee Stallion, who refers to herself as "H-town hottie" or "Hot Daughter Meg," and her fans equally "hotties." Afterward the fine art for her upcoming anthology featured the phrase "Hot Daughter" prominently, a few of her fans began to post pictures with captions about "hot daughter summer. It took off. Meg gave an interview to the Root (below) about what information technology meant to have a hot daughter summer.

The phrase took off beyond but Megan Thee Stallion fans and eventually trickled into mainstream. People used information technology as an alibi to post hot pics, of course, as is the spirit of hot girl summer, though others riffed on the concept. Still, there was something empowering about claiming a hot girl summer — women knew they were hot, men embraced femininity. It became the phrase of the season.

Equally often happens with popular memes, brands started to cash in on the trend. Don't do this, brands.

Many speculated what would come afterwards hot girl summer — pitiful male child autumn? Witch bitch autumn? Christian girl fall?

To necktie things nicely up with a bow, Megan Thee Stallion released a single and then a music video for Hot Girl Summertime, solidifying her merits over information technology.

August

Where y'all sitting?

The meme features an prototype of a high school cafeteria with labeled tables, prompting people to selection which one they'd sit at. It started with Kpop songs and idols, just has since expanded to include every possible category, from TV shows and albums to brands of water bottles and fanfic tropes.

Gordon Ramsay even weighed in on the action, retweeting a version by Get-go We Banquet.

30 - l Feral Hogs

Country musician Jason Isbell posted a tweet about set on weapons, to which ane man replied with a tweet that would get an unintentional gift to the community. In response to Isbell's tweet, user @WillieMcNabb posted:

Legit question for rural Americans – How do I impale the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-five mins while my small kids play?

For better context, Willie McNabb is from Arkansas, which is rampant with wild hogs. Only that didn't stop the residuum of Twitter from exploding in hog frenzy. Surely 30-l feral hogs was besides many feral hogs? For basically iii days, that was all anyone could talk about. Hogs! What type? Feral! How many? 30-fifty, of course.

VSCO Girls

Before this twelvemonth, e-girls were all the hype. Enter the VSCO girl. Named for a popular photo editing app,the VSCO girl is the spiritual antithesis of the e-daughter, the mainstream to the e-daughter'south counter civilisation. Instead of bright neon hair, the VSCO girl keeps hers natural. Instead of heavy dark eye makeup, the VSCO daughter uses Mario Badescu facial sprays for a fresh, dewy await. Instead of cosplay, band shirts, and fandom merch, the VSCO daughter wears oversized t-shirts and Brandy Melville crop tops. Instead of being plugged in online, the VSCO girl takes pictures with nature.

It's the age erstwhile gear up of preps and emos, jocks and goths, basic and alt, simply now adapted for a social media world.

There is nothing wrong with being either a VSCO daughter or an eastward-girl. Let teens be teens! Still, much like e-girl earlier, the VSCO girl catapulted to fame through TikTok. Specifically, this TikTok, which hits on the common tropes of a perceived VSCO girl: the hydro flask, the puka shells, the "sksksksk" (a slang phrase used to express excitement, like to a keysmash, but spoken out loud).

This was the video that brought VSCO girl to the mainstream, which then prompted those not in the know to question but what a VSCO daughter was. TikTokers connected to post lighthearted VSCO girl videos; people not on TIkTOk connected to enjoy them and uncover more about this new teen subculture. Thus the vocabulary, like east-girl earlier, entered the mutual dictionary, along with common VSCO daughter phrases, sksksksksksksksk amongst them.

It lands a spot on this list considering there is a whole genre of videos on TikTok making light fun of VSCO girls. But like this Tweet points out, possibly the VSCo girls are the ones who have it all right. Sksksksksksksksk, indeed.

Tarrare

Alright this one is...something. It specifically stayed inside Tumblr, which ways that information technology's absolutely batshit.

Basically, this post made its rounds on tumblr, referencing the medical mystery of 18th century Frenchman Tarrare, who had an appetite so insatiable it is rumored that he in one case ate an infant.

(Here's where the NYMag thing comes in if y'all're wondering).

Not everyone knew this, which prompted research and then posts most the revelation, which of course then prompted more than people to wait it up and more memes to be made. A weird cycle of memes and learning niche facts about history, but that'south Tumblr for ya — the site that Yahoo bought for one billion dollars that was more recently sold to Automattic for allegedly much, much, much less.

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Source: https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/18/18236768/best-funny-memes-2019

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