Memes of 2017
Changing the Hollywood sign
Gordon Ramsay in search of lamb sauce
“If you or a love one has been diagnosed with Mesothelioma you may be entitled to compensation”
Turning pre-existing memes into wholesome memes
Putting characters/places/things into a hierarchical tier system (God Tier / Mid Tier / Shit Tier etc)
Tumblr ads that are so weird they might as well be shitposts
That awful anime clip of the girl eating the meatball
“take a fucking sip, babes”
Teen Comix strip (a.k.a. “No Fear; One Fear”)
Emoji reviews
lov the cronch
Y’ALL’DNT’VE and YAINT
Stating something in a life-hack-y kind of way then posting that picture of the guy pointing to his forehead
The old man in the red sweater shrugging and the caption is “guess I’ll die”
“cash me ousside howbow dah”
“While you were [doing something] I studied the blade”
The weird gray alien that sits and waits for stuff?? Or something?? He has no legs and a weird nose
“y’all mind if i…”
“what in tarnation” variants
Tumblr turning 10 and The Confetti™
That one too-close-up gif of the white guy awkwardly blinking
Brain expanding meme
Taking the piss out of @writing-prompt-s
[something] machine broke
A smattering of memes making fun of student athletes
Finishing song lyrics and that picture of Meryl Streep shouting
“yeah can I get a fucking uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”
“some people??? [do things]??? to cope?????”
The shutdown of Club Penguin
Tumblr’s April Fool’s joke this year was just a horse tamogatchi and people seemed to genuinely enjoy it
A sudden call to arms to make McDonalds bring back some sort of Szechuan dipping sauce
“Come visit the Jungle we’ve got [weird names for stuff]” powerpoint slide thing
Those ditty.it videos where you type in a phrase and a robot voice sings it to you
“Bitch I lived”
? Do fidget spinners count as a meme?
Editing panels from Erica Moen comics (e.g. the infamous Cuck Comic)
“In case you haven’t noticed, i’m WEIRD. I’m a weirdo. i don’t fit in. and I don’t WANT to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That’s weird.”
Bone-hurting juice
“I confessed to my crush through a Spotify playlist”
Wendy’s mascot as a smug anime girl
Fyre Festival
thanks! I hate it
Okay we’re literally FIVE WHOLE MONTHS into 2017 and I still see so much talk about vore on my dash. Seriously? Why y’all gotta be so fixated on vore? It’s ruining my health and needs to end
“thrussy”
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okay nvm I preferred the vore
Regular People vs. Creative People
Bill Wurtz back at it again with the history of the world
Mocking people with the Spongebob chicken image
“[X] is dead and replaced with a lookalike: a conspiracy thread” (more of a twitter thing)
mood & big mood
“sir you’ve been in a coma for [X] years”
“do you take constructive criticism on your posts”
respecting women
a post stopping mid-sentence and somebody else comments “[X] killed them before they finished”
cracking open a cold one with the boys….or something
BEGONE, THOT
covfefe
Saying you love [X] by saying “I’m love [X]”
I keep seeing this CGI anime girl with a pink bow and a pink streak in her hair and I have no idea who she is
The Babadook as a gay icon
“This Post Can Be Reblogged by Anyone” (also, “[X] do not interact”)
A cat photo with a caption in Russian, which someone else then plugs into Google Translate
“The floor is [X]”
Nothing but respect for MY president
Some sort of Woody the Cowboy rp collective that takes over old accounts of toxic people??
Tumblr fucking things up with their “““Safe Mode”””
“How to Talk to Short People” comic but it’s been altered
Crash Bandicoot goes “WWOOOWOWOWOOWO”
“Swear Jar” vs. “[X] Jar” that has more coins in it
“she protec but she also attac”
Powder that makes you say [X]
A bunch of memes heralding the sudden revival of Owl City’s “Fireflies” (most notably the ‘you would not believe your [X]’ meme)
A 3x3 grid of (usually anime) characters with a “thank you” message written over them except the one in the middle usually says “not you”
“Sometimes…things that are expensive…are worse”
oh worm?
Something about……piss in jello….?
just the phrase “piss yourself” in general has become very popular
Using cutesy language like “hewwo”
Pennywise in the sewer
Textposts made with a weird cursive font (I still don’t know how to do that)
I know the “Who would win?” meme predates 2017 but an honorable mention to its revival
Not really a meme but everyone banding together to combat the hurricanes/other freakish natural disasters was so uplifting
that guy who’s with his girlfriend but ogling the girl in the foreground
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty
While we’re on it, turns out the whole Szechuan thing was a Rick & Morty stunt and it didn’t end nicely
“then perish”
Neo Yokio
Overlaying a picture of a monkey getting its hair cut on photos
Mario and Luigi walking into places?
that’s pussy, babe!
kin drama
Edits of the Griffin McElroy Roundabout vine (“I don’t understand [X] and at this point I’m too afraid to ask”)
The overwhelming urge to eat detergent pods
Screaming seagull
“My bike got stolen recently. I was pretty bummed about it“
incels and chads
“omae wa mou shindeiru”/ “I diagnose you with dead“
haiku bot
People reacting to outrageous comments in a double-take-style “you WHAT”
Eric Andre Show screenshots
“Who?” “The girl reading this”
Zootopia pro-life comic
WHY WEREN’T YOU AT ELF PRACTICE
Scam messages asking for bitcoin
the year felt like it was super short until i read this and felt like i aged 50 years
