Memes Of 2017

Memes of 2017

Changing the Hollywood sign

Gordon Ramsay in search of lamb sauce

“If you or a love one has been diagnosed with Mesothelioma you may be entitled to compensation”

Turning pre-existing memes into wholesome memes

Putting characters/places/things into a hierarchical tier system (God Tier / Mid Tier / Shit Tier etc)

Tumblr ads that are so weird they might as well be shitposts

That awful anime clip of the girl eating the meatball

“take a fucking sip, babes”

Teen Comix strip (a.k.a. “No Fear; One Fear”)

Emoji reviews

lov the cronch

Y’ALL’DNT’VE and YAINT

Stating something in a life-hack-y kind of way then posting that picture of the guy pointing to his forehead

The old man in the red sweater shrugging and the caption is “guess I’ll die”

“cash me ousside howbow dah”

“While you were [doing something] I studied the blade”

The weird gray alien that sits and waits for stuff?? Or something?? He has no legs and a weird nose

“y’all mind if i…”

“what in tarnation” variants

Tumblr turning 10 and The Confetti™

That one too-close-up gif of the white guy awkwardly blinking

Brain expanding meme

Taking the piss out of @writing-prompt-s

[something] machine broke

A smattering of memes making fun of student athletes

Finishing song lyrics and that picture of Meryl Streep shouting

“yeah can I get a fucking uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”

“some people??? [do things]??? to cope?????”

The shutdown of Club Penguin

Tumblr’s April Fool’s joke this year was just a horse tamogatchi and people seemed to genuinely enjoy it

A sudden call to arms to make McDonalds bring back some sort of Szechuan dipping sauce

“Come visit the Jungle we’ve got [weird names for stuff]” powerpoint slide thing

Those ditty.it videos where you type in a phrase and a robot voice sings it to you

“Bitch I lived”

? Do fidget spinners count as a meme?

Editing panels from Erica Moen comics (e.g. the infamous Cuck Comic)

“In case you haven’t noticed, i’m WEIRD. I’m a weirdo. i don’t fit in. and I don’t WANT to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That’s weird.”

Bone-hurting juice

“I confessed to my crush through a Spotify playlist”

Wendy’s mascot as a smug anime girl

Fyre Festival

thanks! I hate it

Okay we’re literally FIVE WHOLE MONTHS into 2017 and I still see so much talk about vore on my dash. Seriously? Why y’all gotta be so fixated on vore? It’s ruining my health and needs to end

“thrussy”

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okay nvm I preferred the vore

Regular People vs. Creative People

Bill Wurtz back at it again with the history of the world

Mocking people with the Spongebob chicken image

“[X] is dead and replaced with a lookalike: a conspiracy thread” (more of a twitter thing)

mood & big mood

“sir you’ve been in a coma for [X] years”

“do you take constructive criticism on your posts”

respecting women

a post stopping mid-sentence and somebody else comments “[X] killed them before they finished”

cracking open a cold one with the boys….or something

BEGONE, THOT

covfefe

Saying you love [X] by saying “I’m love [X]”

I keep seeing this CGI anime girl with a pink bow and a pink streak in her hair and I have no idea who she is 

The Babadook as a gay icon

“This Post Can Be Reblogged by Anyone” (also, “[X] do not interact”)

A cat photo with a caption in Russian, which someone else then plugs into Google Translate

“The floor is [X]”

Nothing but respect for MY president

Some sort of Woody the Cowboy rp collective that takes over old accounts of toxic people??

Tumblr fucking things up with their “““Safe Mode”””

“How to Talk to Short People” comic but it’s been altered

Crash Bandicoot goes “WWOOOWOWOWOOWO”

“Swear Jar” vs. “[X] Jar” that has more coins in it

“she protec but she also attac”

Powder that makes you say [X]

A bunch of memes heralding the sudden revival of Owl City’s “Fireflies” (most notably the ‘you would not believe your [X]’ meme)

A 3x3 grid of (usually anime) characters with a “thank you” message written over them except the one in the middle usually says “not you”

“Sometimes…things that are expensive…are worse”

oh worm?

Something about……piss in jello….?

just the phrase “piss yourself” in general has become very popular

Using cutesy language like “hewwo”

Pennywise in the sewer

Textposts made with a weird cursive font (I still don’t know how to do that)

I know the “Who would win?” meme predates 2017 but an honorable mention to its revival

Not really a meme but everyone banding together to combat the hurricanes/other freakish natural disasters was so uplifting

that guy who’s with his girlfriend but ogling the girl in the foreground

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty

While we’re on it, turns out the whole Szechuan thing was a Rick & Morty stunt and it didn’t end nicely

“then perish”

Neo Yokio

Overlaying a picture of a monkey getting its hair cut on photos

Mario and Luigi walking into places?

that’s pussy, babe!

kin drama

Edits of the Griffin McElroy Roundabout vine (“I don’t understand [X] and at this point I’m too afraid to ask”)

The overwhelming urge to eat detergent pods

Screaming seagull

“My bike got stolen recently. I was pretty bummed about it“

incels and chads

“omae wa mou shindeiru”/ “I diagnose you with dead“

haiku bot

People reacting to outrageous comments in a double-take-style “you WHAT”

Eric Andre Show screenshots

“Who?” “The girl reading this”

Zootopia pro-life comic

WHY WEREN’T YOU AT ELF PRACTICE

Scam messages asking for bitcoin