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A look back at 54 of 2018's most popular memes, in order of month
January
1. Mariah Carey started the year without her hot tea
2. Tide Pods
The year kicked off with people eating Tide Pods, which admittedly, look delicious.
3. Absolute Unit
It’s hard to believe that people have only been referring to large things as absolute units since January.
4. FBI agents
In January, everybody began to embrace the potential friendship they could have with the FBI agents spying on them through their webcams.
5. Joe Jonas distractedly eating a banana.
6. Parodies of Black Mirror
February
7. The Super Bowl Kid
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8. Change My Mind
An American Conservative podcaster sat out in public at Texas Christian University with a sign that read “Male privilege is a myth, change my mind.” As the sign was extremely simple to photoshop, he instantly became a meme.
9. Jonathan Van Ness saying “Can you believe?”
It’s hard to believe that Queer Eye was only released in January, so while this reaction image seems very stale now, it was still brand new in February.
March
10. The Evil Patrick Meme
11. Jennifer Garner at the Oscars
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One of the highlights of this year’s Oscars was Jennifer Garner’s “Oh God, did I leave the immersion on?” face.
12. Krusty Krab vs Chum Bucket
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13. The American Chopper Argument Meme
14. Exasperated Spongebob
April
15. Yodelling Boy
At the beginning of April, a little kid called Mason Ramsey was filmed yodeling in the middle of a Walmart store. The song was extremely catchy and it went viral online, which resulted in Mason appearing on the Ellen Show and performing at Coachella.
16. Who Killed Hannibal
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17. Jason Momoa Sneaking Up
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18. Squinting Woman
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May
19. “Is This a Pigeon?”
One of the year’s finest memes, tbh.
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20. Yanny/Laurel
One of the worst memes of the year, TBH. The aural version of The Dress.
21. “By age 35…”
22. We live in a society.
People got sick of the pseudo-wokeness of Banksy fans and turned it into a meme, which took its name from the first five words often used at the beginning of a Facebook rant about how dreadful society is.
23. “I don’t feel so good…”
After Avengers: Infinity War, people turned Spider-Man’s disintegration into a meme.
24. If you don’t love me at my … Then you don’t deserve me at my …
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June
25. “The most successful people I’ve ever met..”
After one Twitter user listed off the unrealistic lifestyle that you need to maintain in order to be successful, Twitter snapped.
26. Ye album covers
27. Young Thug on the computer
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28. Big Dick Energy
Something we’ll all be glad to be leaving in 2018.
29. Give ____ a sword.
It all started with Carly Rae Jepsen. This meme peaked in popularity at the beginning of summer and by August, the prophecy had been fulfilled and Carly had been given her sword.
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30. Gay Fear
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July
31. The Polite Cat
32. Solidarity
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This eventually evolved into memes of multiple hands joining in on a handshake.
33. Italian Elon Musk (and Elon Musk’s from every other country).
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34. Young Cardi B
35. Pee after sex or you’ll get a (insert random abbreviation here).
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August
36. Barbie’s pet Bibble singing
37. Hurt me
Towards the end of August, things got pretty weird on Twitter with everyone posting their greatest insecurities in fears in a fun new meme format.
38. To All The Boys…
After the release of Netflix Original movie To All The Boys I’ve Ever Loved…, Twitter decided to write some titles for letters that they’d like to write.
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39. Johnny Johnny Yes Papa
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The first known Johnny Johnny video was uploaded to Youtube in 2009, and over the last nine years, there have been thousands of different versions uploaded. It wasn’t until this year that grown ups began to watch these videos, and everyone quickly became frustrated at how catchy the song was.
40. Do y’all hear sumn?
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41. “Can’t wait ’til it gets colder so I can really start dressing…”
As August came to a close, Twitter began to think of their winter wardrobes.
42. Bitch I’m A Cow
It was all fun and games until it emerged that Doja Cat was a tad homophobic.
September
43. Nike’s Colin Kaepernick ad
There were plenty of mock-ups done of this viral ad campaign back in September.
44. Elon Musk smoking weed
45. Moths and lamps
This one came just in time for people to get their moth/lamp Halloween costumes sorted.
46. Jordan Peele’s Obama meet and greet
A very old SNL sketch, which was remixed a lot this year. In some versions, the characters Peele greets have been replaced with Marvel movies or famous Donut chains, but the finest iteration of this meme was probably the “How I deal with my depression” version.
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47. Weird flex but ok
The perfect response to every questionable boast.
October
48. “Let’s get this bread.”
49. thank u, next
November
50. Not a cellphone in sight.
Just people living in the moment.
51. Surprised Pikachu
52. Don’t say it. Don’t say it. Don’t say it.
53. They did surgery on a grape.
This one is hard to explain. They did surgery on a grape. How? Why? Who? Read about it here.
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54. Knickers the giant cow (steer).
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