Awesome Memes

Whether you’re obsessed with memes, or are a meme newbie, Sean Murphy and James Richards’ book is here to help, with stories about why memes exist, along with popular internet memes, their origins, and in the rare case that they actually have meaning, that too.

The Gregory Brothers aka Schmoyoho take us back in the rewind machine to some of the memes they songified over the course of the last 10 years. With classics like Bedroom Intruder, the Backin’ Up lady, and the Dayum Dayum Dayum guy, it brought a little tear to our eye.

The reality show ladies yelling at a cat meme has truly blown up, so take advantage of this buzzworthy trend while it lasts with a pair of ugly holiday shirts from ShirtPunch and cod-designs. They’re sold individually, but make way more sense when you pair up with a friend. Available on T-shirts, long sleevs, hoodies, and more.

Remember Nyan Cat, the ridiculous pixel art kitty meme from 2011? Digital artist Raven Kwok decided to revamp the Pop Tart cat by breaking up each part of its body and rainbow emissions into separate windows, resulting in a totally different Nyan experience. Raven, we need this running on our computer now. With music.

(PG-13: Language) From the Hamster Dance to Advice Animals, Casually Explained looks back at the history of the internet meme, and why we find ourselves so fascinated with passing on such inane and random things to our online friends. The meme lifecycle chart is spot on.

For his latest heavy metal cover, musician Leo Moracchioli dusts off a little ditty that blew up the internet back in 2013, Ylvis’ megahit The Fox. We’re guessing Leo will be covering Chocolate Rain and Numa Numa any day now.

Remember that video of the cheerleader who looked like she stepped over a non-existent box? There’s nothing to debunk here according to Captain Disillusion, so instead, he shows those of us without the strength and balance how to fake it with VFX anyway.

With the release of the iPhone X, we were pretty sure that Animoji were just going to be a dumb gimmick. However, videos of creative uses for the silly avatars are starting to prove us wrong, like this amazing version of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Head to YouTube for much more.

You’ll recognize most of these meme-worthy tunes, each of which epitomizes a moment in time as well as just about anything else about the era. Though we think JordiTK should have gone with Yello’s Oh Yeah instead of Trio’s Da Da Da to represent ’80s German minimalism.

(PG-13: Language) What happens when a strange and unidentified alien lifeform lands on our planet? You send in the big guns to figure out what they’re saying. Ochre Jelly turns in a hilarious mashup of the sci-fi flick Arrival with one of the silliest memes of the past year.

Issue 648 of K.C. Green’s webcomic Gunshow turned into an enduring meme. Now Green is cashing in with a plushie of the dog, complete with its coffee cup. There’s also a bundle that comes with stickers, a magnet and a house on fire background.

Sneaker makers are slinging retros left and right, but one of the year’s dankest drops is a one-off made by two Nike fans. Sherman Winfield and Andrew Weiss ruined MJ’s three-peat era Air Jordan VIII’s by adding his infamous crying face on its tongue and sole.

The Duck Army was just discovered a few days back, and it’s already spawned many hilarious tributes. One of our favorites is this Vine of Adele’s Rolling in the Deep, accompanied by Duck Army. We dare you to play the loop just once.

Time used an unflattering photo of Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey on the cover of its latest issue. YouTuber DamoVR shares some of the funniest memes based on the cover, as compiled by Time itself.

A worm gets spooked by something and freaks the f*ck out. That alone would be reason enough to take six seconds out of your day to watch this memeworthy annelid. The lyrical addition is just a bonus. The variant on Vine is pretty great too.

Ba. Ha ba ba. Ha ba ba da ga da ga. Ha ba ba da da ba. Ha da ba da ga da ga. Ha da da. Ba ba ba ba. Hawww. Ha wa wa waa. Haw hawwa. Haw. Hawwa babba. Haw. Internet gold. That is all.

Adult Swim joins in on the Shia LeBeouf motivational speech memefest by mashing up Shia’s intense delivery with Dragon Ball, Attack on Titan, Kill La Kill and other anime in Toonami.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from The Gregory Brothers, but they were just waiting for the right meme to hit before songifying it. And if you don’t know what we’re talking about, apparently you don’t watch the internet.

Turn yourself into a meme and tell the sun to deal with it with this silly pair of sunglasses. CNC-Design replicated the pixelated shades used in the famous meme using laser-cut and engraved smoked acrylic.

Well, that didn’t take long. Within hours of Zack Snyder’s release of a single image from the set of Batman vs. Superman, the Internet got to work doing what it does best, turning Bat’s dark mood into a freshly-baked meme.

Top10Memes catalogs the humble beginnings of many popular memes from Condescending Wonka to Badass deGrasse Tyson to The I Should Buy a Boat Cat. Yeah, so if you could hit the play button… that would be great.

Do you love motivational posters? Check out Skeletor’s affirmations. Do you hate motivational posters? Check out Skeletor’s affirmations. Heal Yourself, Skeletor juxtaposes positive text with images of the skull-faced tyrant.

wow. so animation. much soundtrack. Weebl’s Stuff takes a page out of Nyan Cat’s book, creating an infections little video featuring the Internet’s favorite shibe doge. Nope, it still makes no sense, but we love it anyway.