Kid Rock tried to be a badass and take down the Man with his brazenly anti-authority bird-flipping. So you may as well fake this stuff to begin with. In 2016, you can’t do anything on the internet without some asshole saying it’s fake. Krabs blur meme can do, we needed to borrow another SpongeBob SquarePants character for relatable content. I'll vote for you if you rename fire ants to 'spicy boys' - dollarleafs JSpongeGarīecause there’s only so much the Mr. There’s some serious dispute about who first had the idea to officially rename fire ants “spicy boys”- at least two rival petitions on that front have surfaced-but we can all agree, at the very least, that it’s a brilliant idea, and it ought to be be wholeheartedly embraced? Why must we fight about where it came from? Why must we use it to troll Hillary Clinton? That’s not what the spicy boys movement is all about. Because we were quickly supersaturated with his image (and the attendant cry “O shit waddup!”), he currently serves, when remixed into other memes, as a sort of commentary on the transience of internet jokes, and how easily they’re commodified. M.K.ĭat Boi, a turn-of-the-millennium computer animation of a frog riding a unicycle, died almost before he ever lived, which was basically the Daily Dot’s fault, not that we’re sorry about it. It was this year that both the original photographer and Jordan himself had to acknowledge the meme, and with mythical upsets at all levels of basketball-from the crushing NCAA championship loss suffered Jordan’s alma mater to the Cleveland Caveliers’ comeback against the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals (which gave us Crying LeBron), Crying Jordan was everywhere. But 2016 has proved, time and again, to be the zenith of Crying Jordan. Its second life as a meme began a couple of years ago. The famous picture of weepy basketball legend Michael Jordan that now gets Photoshopped onto anyone who has suffered some great defeat or roasting-whether sports-related or not-was taken way back in 2009, at his induction into the NBA Hall of Fame. This here is a very unusual case of meme longevity. Meanwhile, on the Democrats’ side, Bernie-voting progressives were committed to keeping the focus on real issues. QqLWhyLMTn- Andy Ratto FebruBernie vs. The joke proved so popular that a real polling firm ended up asking voters whether they found it plausible, and Google had to suppress it in their search results. Ted Cruz is the infamous Zodiac Killer, who committed several unsolved murders in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While the eventual GOP nominee for president has proved to be a walking, talking meme in his own right, the best meme of the Republican primaries was, hands down, the conspiracy theory that Sen. A celebration of friendship, lowkey fashion, and general positivity, it was also many viewers’ introduction to the ephemeral magic of Snapchat. Presumably the first example of a meme whose unlikely but massive mainstream popularity led to a SWAT raid on the originator’s home, “Damn, Daniel” proved that a catchphrase can still carry you far. When there's a Pikachu outside but it's 1AM and you have strict parents /su9QOcaPR8- Manuel Castañeda♨️ JDamn, Daniel When you're from New York and you haven't told anyone in 8 minutes /JDDsfgPl08- miss andry December 14, 2015 Trying to hold a fart next to a cute girl in class

For sheer universality, this meme was golden.

Exploding KidĮxploding Kid, a teenager named Michael McGee with a talent for making veins pop out of his forehead, caught fire early this year and became a convenient shorthand for every possible frustration in the months to come-and there were many. So allow us to take a quick breather here and relive some of the strongest contenders (so far) for Meme of the Year. How could we have survived the unprecedented horror of 2016 without them? Answer: We could not have.īut meme culture moves so fast that we’re often onto the next trend before the current one really sinks in.

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