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A look back at 54 of 2018's most popular memes, in order of month

It looks like everybody was too busy for memes in December.

Dec 25th 2018, 10:00 PM 14,194 Views 1 Comment

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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. 

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 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

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 

If the video won’t play, click here.

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 

people-rate-things-with-the-krusty-krab-vs-chum-bucket-meme-23-photos-11 Source: Know Your Meme

13. The American Chopper Argument Meme 

14. Exasperated Spongebob 


April

15. Yodelling Boy

Source: Sonell Official/YouTube

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

Tweet by @John Ross III Source: John Ross III/Twitter

May

19. “Is This a Pigeon?” 

One of the year’s finest memes, tbh.

20. Yanny/Laurel 

One of the worst memes of the year, TBH. The aural version of The Dress.

Source: AsapSCIENCE/YouTube

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 …

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. 

30. Gay Fear 

July

31. The Polite Cat

32. Solidarity 

c60 Source: Know Your Meme

goth_gfs.nocrop.w710.h2147483647 Source: NY Mag

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). 

34. Young Cardi B 

35. Pee after sex or you’ll get a (insert random abbreviation here). 

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.

 39. Johnny Johnny Yes Papa 

dance4 Source: Youtube

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?

Tweet by @whomst’veatlantavegas Source: whomst’veatlantavegas/Twitter

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.

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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. 

Tweet by @𝔰𝔴𝔦𝔦𝔪 ✞ Source: 𝔰𝔴𝔦𝔦𝔪 ✞/Twitter

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. 

54. Knickers the giant cow (steer). 

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