WE’VE LOOKED AT the best memes of 2012, but now it’s time to dig a little deeper and take a look at some of our favourite people on the Internet in 2012.

From talk show hosts to smiley babies and from people pointing to a guy falling on the ice (no, not THAT guy).

The people who created dogshaming

Dogshaming.com

Ikea monkey

Not a person, but still one of the greatest things to ever happen to the Internet (if you like monkeys in coats).

Guy who looks like a thumb

Standard.

Talking animals a la Sminky Shorts

YouTube/SminkyAnimation

William Shatner

He signs off all his tweets with MBB “My best, Bill” , he tweets people back, and he is generally just deadly…

Also, this is his Twitter background:

The guy who proposed like this

Whoever put these boots on Barkley

YouTube/KoshitheShiba

The person who owns Maru the Cat

YouTube/MuguMogu

Jimmy Fallon

The person who first used the hashtag #Eastwooding

What’s #Eastwooding?

Peaches’ Geldof’s baby

Bob Geldof’s lass obsessively tweets pictures of her son Astala.

He looks like the happiest baby on earth. He gets our vote.

The photobombing girl

Who?

The German guy who fell on the ice and said “mein arsche”

YouTube/MrRobCalifornia

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Henri the Existential Cat

YouTube/HenriLeChatNoir

Who was your favourite person (or animal) on the Internet in 2012? Let us know in the comments section below…

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