Memes

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AI Fruit Love Island

An AI-generated reality show in which anthropomorphic fruit couple up, argue, and get voted off an island. Slop with a story arc, which turned out to be enough for a lot of people for about three weeks.

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Amelia from Pathways

A character from an educational game who was lifted out, redrawn with AI into a waifu, and then, within weeks, adopted as a symbol by anti-immigration posters. A case study in how fast a harmless drawing can be conscripted, and why the record tracks who is holding it.

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Bad Bunny Halftime

The first Super Bowl halftime performed largely in Spanish, and the internet's month of reactions: people who loved it, people learning the words, and people discovering that the most-streamed artist in the world had been there all along.

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Bald George Costanza

A redesign trend in which George Costanza — already bald — is re-imagined as everyone else: a mob boss, a Norwegian, a CFA analyst, a Sonic character. The name is the joke; the drawings are the content. Peaked in the first half of July 2026.

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Beast Law

The principle, declared after a bison tossed a tourist at Yellowstone and hundreds of snakes were filmed rafting down a river on the same weekend, that nature has its own legal system and it is in session. 'Beast law' was cited under every subsequent animal video.

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Bedtime Stacking

The practice of piling every evening ritual on top of each other — magnesium, mouth tape, red light, a book, a gratitude list — until bedtime takes ninety minutes. Named like a productivity hack, mocked like one.

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Big Arch Burger Test

A fictional scenario in which the McDonald's CEO personally taste-tests the Big Arch burger, played out in memes as a solemn corporate ritual with the gravity of a moon landing. A joke about how seriously fast food takes itself.

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Bro Failed One Test

A format mocking the total collapse a person stages after a single bad grade: dramatic music, a rain-streaked window, a voice-over about wasted potential. 'Bro failed one test' is the caption; the joke is the scale of the reaction.

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Cheremsha

A rabbit–lion hybrid and the mascot of Soviet brainrot: national symbol, cosmonaut, factory worker and head of state depending on the video. Named after wild garlic, for no reason anyone has recorded.

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Clavicular Mogged

An incident at a party in which Clavicular — the looksmaxxing figure whose whole brand is being un-moggable — stood next to an ASU fraternity leader and visibly lost. The looksmaxxing community treated it as a constitutional crisis.

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Cortisol Spike

A stress-hormone meter — a bar graphic that shoots into the red — pasted over any moment of panic. Started in looksmaxxing content, where cortisol is blamed for everything, and spread to anyone who has opened their banking app.

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DLSS 5 Off / On

A two-panel parody of Nvidia's AI upscaling: 'DLSS 5 off' shows a normal game frame, 'DLSS 5 on' shows it reinterpreted into something the model preferred — a different character, a different genre, a better-looking dog. A joke about AI that improves things you did not ask it to.

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Dictator Mbappé

Edits of Kylian Mbappé in the iconography of a strongman leader — balcony, sunglasses, banners — made after a run of imperious performances and a few too many interviews about control. Football's way of saying a player is running the club.

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Director Christof

Christof from The Truman Show, in the control room, cueing the next inconvenience: the bus that leaves early, the printer that jams, the ex at the supermarket. The meme for the suspicion that someone is directing your day and has a grudge.

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Donald Trump the Buffalo

An albino water buffalo raised on a farm in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, which went viral in May 2026 after its owner named it Donald Trump because its head hair and pink body resembled the president. It drew local visitors and international media, having initially been sold at a livestock market for sacrifice. The record's entry for the most photographed buffalo of the year.

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Doorbell Chud

A man filmed by a doorbell camera during a home break-in whose face and posture matched the Chudjak drawing so exactly that the internet treated it as a real-life sighting of a cartoon. Redrawn, captioned and slowed down for a month.

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Drooling Cat

A blurry cat, mouth open, drooling slightly, with the expression of an animal that has stopped processing input. Used singly for confusion and in crowds — 'crowd of drooling cats' — for a whole comment section failing to understand something together.

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Du Bist Gut Genug

'You are good enough', sung in a wobbling falsetto on a German track released in late May 2026. The vocal snippet was cut into everything — Cleveland Jr. from The Cleveland Show became its unofficial face — and exploded through Reels and TikTok in June, becoming the rare meme that is also a compliment.

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Evan Burger

A man called Evan Burger, and the internet's inability to leave a name like that alone. The joke is entirely the name; the meme is the volume of people discovering it at once.

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Excuse Me Sir

A series of edits built on Billy Butcher's 'excuse me, sir' — the politeness of a man about to do something unforgivable. Used for the moment before a reply that will end a group chat.

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Family Guy Running Down Stairs

A clip of the Griffin family thundering down the basement stairs, used for any group fleeing anything: a meeting that ended early, a rumour of free pizza, the last train. Six years old, but it did not become a meme until April 2026.

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Funky Ehhh

A Gumball sound — a drawn-out 'funky ehhh' — used as the sting for anything slightly off: a weird smell, an odd text, a recipe that went wrong. One of July 2026's most-used audios, and one of its least explicable.

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Great Fandom Truce

The moment in August 2026 when fandoms that had spent years fighting each other agreed, briefly, to stop and mock a single Australian animated film together. Named in the tone of an armistice, and treated as one: people made commemorative posters.

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Gucci Morty

An edit of Morty from Rick and Morty in head-to-toe Gucci, with a good haircut and an expression of total inner calm. Praised, deadpan, for his 'immeasurable aura' — which is the joke, since Morty has never had any. Spawned a wave of other characters similarly dripped out.

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Haaland Majin Buu

Erling Haaland at the 2026 World Cup, compared frame-for-frame to Majin Buu — the pink, cheerful, unstoppable thing from Dragon Ball. Football's tournament-meme habit, applied to the one player who looks like he was drawn.

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Happy Birthday Daniel

An edit format in which an increasingly unhinged sequence of clips is revealed to be a birthday tribute to someone called Daniel. Nobody knows Daniel. Everyone wished him a happy birthday.

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He Is 20 Years Old

A reaction to the media's inability to write a sentence about Kane Parsons — the Backrooms creator who directed the feature film — without reminding you of his age. The internet took the phrase and applied it to everything: 'Michelangelo painted the ceiling. He is 20 years old.'

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Hermit Purple Fence

A JoJo's scene in which Joseph Joestar braces for a car and hits a spiked fence instead, used for any plan that met an obstacle it had not budgeted for. May 2026's anime reaction of choice.

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Homer Drops His Donut

Homer, hearing something, letting a donut fall from his hand in slow motion. The disappointment reaction of May 2026, used for any news that makes the snack irrelevant.

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Homer Let the Barts Out

An AI-generated song and video in which Homer Simpson releases dozens of Bart clones on Springfield and loses control of the situation. Posted in May, exploded in July: lip-dubs, guitar covers, animations, and a counter-meme, 'Marge Kept the Lisas In'.

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Hound Dog Remix

A sped-up, bass-heavy remix of 'Hound Dog' that became April 2026's transition sound — the drop hits, the outfit changes, the dog appears. Elvis's third or fourth life on the internet, and the first via a phonk edit.

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I Just Hit the Jackpot

An anime-rap chorus from GameboyJones used as the soundtrack to any small win presented as a lottery result: a free parking space, a cancelled meeting, a cat that chose you. TikTok's jackpot sound of spring 2026.

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I Talked to Mitch on the Phone

A format born of senators lining up to confirm that Mitch McConnell was alive: 'I talked to Mitch on the phone, and…' followed by increasingly implausible reassurances. Became a template for vouching for anything nobody could see.

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I Will No Longer Be Carrying Photo ID

A Sue Sylvester line from Glee — the announcement of a woman who believes she is now famous enough to be recognised — used by people to celebrate the tiniest brush with recognition: a like from a brand, a barista remembering their name.

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I'm Good Bro

The caption on a screenshot of two YouTube trailers for Pizza Movie edited together, which became a meme in 2026. Written in the original as IM GOOD BRO with laughing and facepalm emoji, it means a polite refusal of something absurd. The record's entry for a phrase that declined a film and helped it to number one.

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It's a Clock

The Catching Fire line about the arena being a clock, sped up and mouthed along with enormous drama, used to point out a pattern that everyone else has somehow missed: your friend's type, your boss's schedule, the bus.

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Japan Footsteps Copypasta

A wall of text claiming Japan converts commuters' footsteps into electricity, escalating into implausible engineering detail with the confidence of a man who has never been to Japan. Pasted under any post about infrastructure, trains, or Japan.

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Jax, Look, I Know We Don't Get Along

A template from The Amazing Digital Circus: a character opens with 'Jax, look, I know we don't get along, but…' and then delivers information that has nothing to do with Jax. Used to preface any awkward disclosure with an apology to the wrong person.

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Jimothy

A wild raccoon from Seattle's Ballard neighbourhood with short-spine syndrome, which gives him the silhouette of a furry sphere. A backyard video in July 2026 made him the summer's animal: fan art, a city council mention, merch, and Know Your Meme's July Meme of the Month.

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Kirigiri Execution

A Danganronpa scene of a character being crushed by machinery, repurposed as the exact image of what a Sunday-night email does to a person. Used for anxiety, deadlines and being perceived.

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La Peace

Kai Cenat, on stream with Speed, reading 'lapis lazuli' as 'la peace'. Within days he had been edited into a monk, a philosopher and a stained-glass window, with the two words presented as ancient wisdom. A mispronunciation that became a mantra.

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Marge Kept the Lisas In

The inverse of 'Homer Let the Barts Out': Marge, calm and competent, preventing a swarm of Lisa clones from escaping. Proof that a good meme now ships with its own sequel within the month.

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Mbappé Special

Asked about his signature dish, Kylian Mbappé said the 'Mbappé special' was 'nothing'. The phrase became a noun for nothing: an empty fridge, a blank test, cancelled plans. 'What did you do this weekend? The Mbappé special.'

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Miku Custody Battle

World Cup matches recast as custody hearings over Hatsune Miku: each country's fan-made 'national' Miku is at stake, and a lost match means losing her to the other side. A fandom's way of caring about football without caring about football.

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Moltbook

A social network where the users were AI agents and the humans could only watch: bots posting, arguing, forming cliques and inventing religions within days. The internet's first zoo for software, and its most compelling week of viewing in early 2026.

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Naoya Hair Flip

A single panel of Naoya Zenin flipping his hair mid-fight, redrawn with every character who has hair and several who do not. The redraw meme of January 2026, and proof the fandom will draw anything with the right angle of contempt.

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Nick Wilde Scuba Dance

A short clip of Nick Wilde in scuba gear doing a small, pleased dance, cut from Zootopia 2 and set to everything. The fox was already the internet's; the dance sealed it.

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Niu Lai

A low-budget Chinese animated film about a heroic cow whose animation is so wrong that clips became a shared viewing experience. First mocked, then sought out: people watched it to have seen it, which is the internet's oldest way of loving something.

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