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(Pocket-lint) - The Oxford English Dictionary defines "meme" equally "an image, video, piece of text, typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread apace past internet users, often with slight variations."

And if y'all've spent any time on Reddit or Buzzfeed so you'll probably find many who believe this is what the net was fabricated for.

Well, they say laughter is the best medicine then crack a smile at some of the all-time, stupidest and most famous memes we've found from around the web.

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Change my mind

In the early days of 2018, comedian Steven Crowder posted a photograph of him sitting at a table with a sign that read "Male privilege is a myth, change my mind."

His actions were designed to spark debate outside a Texas Academy for his Podcast and Youtube channel. The results were interesting.

The photo speedily became a template for many memes with people changing the words on the poster, but too Photoshopping someone else behind the desk. The meme also proved incredibly popular on the Subeddit /r/dankmemes.

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Success kid

Success kid (as well known as "I detest sandcastles") became popular in around 2008 when a photo of a smug babe at the beach was used across the web on social media, mainly every bit personal contour photographs.

Later, the photograph was Photoshopped and turned into thousands of different memes in the fauna advice mode or referencing his apparent hatred for sandcastles.

Success kid goes by the real name Sammy Griner and has at present aged a few years, just still seems just as pleased with himself in all the contempo photos we've seen. His fame also helped to successfully pay for his father'south new kidney subsequently a plea for funding for a transplant went online in the eye of 2016. So peradventure he is successful afterwards all!

Maggie Goldenberger

Ermahgerd daughter

In 2012, a post titled "Only a book owner's smile…" was submitted to Reddit and, presently after, the glory that is Ermahgerd girl was born. Featuring a young girl, brimful with nerdy excitement and brandishing a trio of Goosebumps books, the photograph soon became synonymous with "oh my God" levels of excitement.

Some say the misspelling of "oh my God" as "ermahgerd" is meant to represent the difficulty that would come up speaking with teenage braces. Equally a result, the text accompanying these memes is often misspelt forth the aforementioned lines.

Ermahgerd spawned many spin-off memes in the form of various excited animals eying up treats and tasty morsels.

The daughter in the original photograph was eventually plant. Maggie Goldenberger was really just playing apparel-up with friends when the snap was taken and found it hilarious many years subsequently when told about the meme.

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Shut upwardly and take my money

Animated science-fiction series Futurama features a downward-on-his-luck delivery boy Philip J. Fry who finds himself trapped somewhere in the 31st Century later an unfortunate incident with a cryogenic freezing auto.

In flavor vi, an episode aired called "Attack of the Killer App" in which the creators parodied Apple tree with the release of the new "eyePhone". Fry rushes to buy one of the new devices and interrupts the sales genius with the phrase, "Shut up and take my money!"

Fry'south words and a screengrab of him waving money quickly became a famous internet meme and a subreddit.

Many other nerdy memes besides appeared forth similar lines and became a simple expression of desire for an invention, proposed idea or consumer product.

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Sad Keanu

Keanu Reeves is something of an internet fable to the point that some have said he might be immortal. In that location's fifty-fifty a Snopes page defended to dispelling (or enforcing) some of the myths.

So when he was snapped by paparazzi miserably snacking on a sandwich on a demote in New York city, "Sad Keanu" was born.

The photograph starting time became a meme in 2010 when it appeared on Reddit and Greenish-ovale and from and then on lead to Keanu beingness Photoshopped, sandwich and all, into other photos and settings beyond the world.

The meme got such attention that the BBC even asked Keanu about information technology in an interview with him in 2011.

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That Escalated Apace

A favourite meme for when things get a bit crazy or out of command on the net, this meme comes from a memorable quote by Will Farrell when he played character Ron Burgundy in 2004'southward Anchorman.

This phrase was heavily quoted across the spider web on message boards, social networks and in blog comment systems. The Anchorman picture show has spawned a number of other memes due to its popularity, but this is perhaps the almost well-known.

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Ceiling cat

Ceiling True cat is peradventure i of the earliest known net memes dating back to 2003 when the original photograph of a ginger cat peering through a hole in the ceiling was submitted to FunnyJunk.

The image later became a Photoshop meme and appeared in many dissimilar variations across the web. The nearly pop and common version didn't appear until 2006 when the photo was given the diction "Ceiling True cat is watching you...".

So popular was this meme that a mythology appeared effectually it which purported that Ceiling Cat was the LOLcat equivalent of God and his nemesis Basement Cat was akin to the devil.

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Grumpy cat

Grumpy Cat is a particularly irritable looking pussy who goes by the real proper noun "Tardar Sauce". This meme once again took off thanks to Reddit, in late 2012 when original photos of Grumpy Cat were posted online.

Diverse Photoshopped pics of Grumpy Cat appeared online with captions expressing his distaste for whatever the topic happened to be about.

Grumpy Cat proved so popular that it spawned all sorts of spin-offs including stuffed toys, books, t-shirts and fifty-fifty a java beverage.

A sneak peek for our Twitter fans. Coming soon. #grumpycat #Grumppuccino http://t.co/S4vnf4aEfw pic.twitter.com/ZkZg9M8CNg

— Grumpy True cat (@RealGrumpyCat) 28 July 2013

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Domo

Domo-kun is of Japanese origin and was originally a mascot for one of the major TV stations at that place. He was originally seen in sketches in 1998.

The character first appeared in meme class when 2 Domo-kuns were photoshopped into an image to look like they were chasing a kitten a relevant threat about God killing a kitten.

That meme saw many different iterations itself, then Domo-kun began making appearances in disaster-based photos giving the impression that he was the cause of the misery.

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Disaster daughter

In 2004, a photograph of a young girl with a devilish smile in front of a burning house appeared online. Information technology was picked up iv years later past Buzzfeed and soon got the attention of the cyberspace with posts and re-posts all beyond the web.

Zoe'southward face has since been doctored onto a multitude of disaster scenes ranging from WW2 to modern sinkholes and natural disasters.

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Get out 12

A really simple meme that shows a auto aggressively exiting the motorway at high speed. This photo is simply tweaked by adding a caption to the road sign which shows the author'due south preference between 2 choices. Unproblematic, constructive and ever-and so-popular.

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Distracted boyfriend

This meme is adequately unusual in that it spawned from a stock photograph. That image was originally snapped by lensman Antonio Guillem who uploaded it to iStock in 2015. It wasn't until two years after that the image became a popular meme. With unproblematic captions added to the image to represent existent-life things people are distracted past.

This meme continued to evidence popular in the months that followed, to the point that about the end of 2018 it was fifty-fifty banned from employ in an advert by a recruitment company showing the lure of its offers versus viewers current jobs.

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The most interesting man in the world

In 2006, Jonathan Goldsmith appeared in a series of ad campaigns for Dos Equis beer in which he was pitched equally "the most interesting human being in the world".

During that campaign, his catchphrase was "I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis…". The campaign took off and the resulting meme was born - all using the aforementioned format "I don't always…" and finishing "…but when I practice…"

Video spin-offs popped up all over the place and Jonathan Goldsmith fifty-fifty appeared in a Reddit Ask Me Anything.

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Nokia 3310

The classic Nokia 3310 mobile phone has developed somewhat of a legendary status over the years. Originally released in 2000, this phone was a fauna of a device; difficult-wearing and long-lasting compared to today's delicate phones.

The result has been many an agreeable meme purporting the 3310 to be indestructible with near God-similar qualities.

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Doge

Originating in the depths of 2010, this meme came to life thanks to some glorious photos of Shiba Inus - a breed of tiny and agile Japanese domestic dog with a quizzical face up. Posted on a personal blog, the original photos appeared with one such dog named "Kabosu" casually lounging on a sofa with a sideways glance at the photographic camera.

With the assist of Reddit, "Doge" was then born. Images of the dog are Photoshopped into diverse poses and situations, plastered with internal monologue quotes in Comic Sans font and delivered to the internet for the world to enjoy.

This popular meme spawned a trademark claim, a satirical form of cryptocurrency (Dogecoin) and much more than besides.

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Strutting Leo

In 2010, Leonardo DiCaprio was defenseless on camera merrily strutting effectually the set up for blockbuster hit Inception.

The image of DiCaprio was promptly cut-out and put online as an exploitable template on a transparent background which meant that anyone could have their way with it and thus, Strutting Leo was born.

The cut-out photo and then institute its style into a multifariousness of dissimilar scenes including one of Leo strutting his manner casually into Mordor and across the moon.

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Facepalm

The classic facepalm is a well-known symbol for dismay at someone's foolish actions – specially where a lapse in judgement or mutual sense might apply.

The most mutual usage of this meme features an image of Patrick Stewart playing Jean-Luc Picard in Star Expedition with his head in his hands in reaction to events unfolding on the span of the Enterprise.

There take been many other instances since, including the joy of double facepalms and this wonderful collage.

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Joseph Ducreux

Joseph Ducreux was an 18th Century French creative person known for a peculiar mode of portrait paintings. In 2009, his particularly quirky self-portrait joined the world of internet memes when superimposed with rap lyrics.

The words often featured on these memes include an archaic reinterpretation of the original lyrics with an 18th Century spin. The starting time recorded version read "Disregard Females, Acquire Currency" – a have on Notorious B.I.G's song Get Money but has since seen many variations.

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Tide pods

In 2017, for the sake of 10 seconds of fame, a disturbing trend emerged where people starting recording videos of themselves eating laundry detergent and uploading the results to YouTube. This trend apace resulted in a great swathe of dissimilar memes around the stupidity of doing so.

Fortuntely, the and then-called "Tide Pod claiming" is no longer a thing.

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Be like Beak

In the wonderful earth of the web, keyboard warriors and discourteous people are rife. "Be like Bill" is aimed at combatting that plague and trolls in general by sending a message of common sense through means of a simple stick figure chosen "Neb".

In a series of single frame comic strips, Pecker is put into unlike everyday situations with simple guidance on how to human action – basically tips on how not to annoy other people in real life and online.

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Skillful guy Greg

Good Guy Greg is rumoured to accept its roots in the murky depths of 4chan. This elementary photo of a cheerful chap is meant to symbolise a kind and generous human being who nosotros'd all exist happy to call our friend.

The actual field of study of the original photograph is unknown and was a thing of some debate on Reddit in 2011. Nonetheless, Skilful Guy Greg has been spreading his fantabulous attitude e'er since.

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Scumbag Steve

Scumbag Steve is the antonym of Good Guy Greg. He stands for everything Greg does not. He is selfish and doesn't care well-nigh your feelings or existence polite.

The original photo of Scumbag Steve features a young man with a baseball cap on sideways continuing in a doorway. The photograph appeared on Reddit in 2011 and quickly caught on as a popular meme. It oftentimes features text portraying Steve as a bad buy who'd happily steal medication from his grandparents or borrow money and never pay people back.

The real subject field of the photograph is Blake Boston a rapper from the group "Beantown Mafia" who purports non to be a bad guy later on all. Though he's certainly making the most of his internet fame.

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Donald Trump's get-go society of business

United states of america President Donald Trump has been the subject of many a meme in the sew to and well into his Presidency.

Ane of our (and the internet'south) favourites is the Photoshop meme that shows diverse drawings, doodles and delightful scribbles on the open up folder that in reality displayed his signature on an executive order from January 2017.

This all started on Reddit with the posting of a Dickbutt GIF.

Then various examples of the meme found their way onto Reddit and the joyful Twitter business relationship that is @TrumpDraws was also born.

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— Trump Draws (@TrumpDraws) 13 February 2017

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Commencement World Bug

This meme takes several different forms and ofttimes uses a variety of photographs commonly including a woman crying with head in her hands, a tearful photo of James Van Der Beek from 90'south TV Show Dawson'southward Creek and more.

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The idea behind this i is the summing upward of the (often insignificant) frustrations of privileged peoples of the developed earth. These memes are meant to exist delivered with a dash of tongue-in-cheek sense of humour poking fun at how little commencement world bug are.

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I will detect yous and I will kill you

From the Liam Neeson pic "Taken" comes a meme based on his character'due south memorable quote paraphrased to "I volition find you and I will kill y'all."

The meme is used to show annoyance with frustrating situations in everyday life, often in a similar way to the First World Bug meme.

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One does not but walk into mordor

Dating back to 2001, this meme originates from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Band and features Boromir (played by Sean Bean) explaining how "One does not merely walk into Mordor" to throw the ring into the fires of Mount Doom.

The meme features a picture of Sean Bean and is oftentimes used to express the difficulty of doing something particularly arduous. The meme proved so pop that it even appeared as an Easter egg on Google Maps.

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Winter is coming compaints

Sean Edible bean has proven popular in the meme world, and then much so that he made another appearance thanks to his graphic symbol Ned Stark from Game of Thrones.

Here the graphic symbol's quote "caryatid yourselves, winter is coming" has been used in various means to humorously predict the influx of net posts about a specific event or product. The archetype example being an increase in the number of people lament about changes to their Facebook newsfeed.

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What if I told you

This meme is a paraphrasing of a scene from the Matrix. In the movie, the grapheme Morpheus (played past Laurence Fishburne) is explaining to the main character Neo (Keanu Reeves) that he exists inside a computer simulation. He poses a choice between two pills to notice out the truth or to carry on living in blissful ignorance.

Like many other memes, this one evidently first appeared on Reddit and has since been used to show a revelation about a particular behaviour.

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Philosoraptor

Philosoraptor is an unusual one in the meme world as it came about later on the creation and copyrighting of a pattern for a new t-shirt.

Withal, that may well have had some inspiration from the web too as in 2007 a Photoshopped image was posted to 4Chan of a Velociraptor from Jurrassic Park belongings a book by Plato.

Since and so, the Philosoraptor t-shirt image has been the subject field of many memes and is simply accompanied by various philosophical questions that an intelligent dinosaur might ponder.

Examples include "is a key all the same a fundamental if there is no lock?" and "is a fly without wings called a walk?"

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Bad Luck Brian

This meme features a immature lad with braces wearing a tartan belong and a derisive smile. It originally appeared on Reddit in 2012 and was used with an accompanying caption to describe diverse embarrassing circumstances.

The photograph was later revealed to exist of Kyle Craven who rose to some level of internet fame subsequently revealing himself in a Reddit AMA. Kyle also has a merits to fame after beingness spotted (and recognised) by Seth Rogan when out in public.

By all accounts, he'southward not as downwards on his luck as the internet would have you believe.

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Walking Dead Carl jokes

The Walking Expressionless is a very pop, often controversial Television set show about zombies. Also pop is poking fun at the way the show's character Rick Grimes pronounces his son's name "Carl".

He said/shouted and called it a lot during the various seasons.

And is ofttimes heard mispronouncing it as "Coral".

Too this, the scene where Rick discovered his married woman was dead too reached the net in meme form but this time as a comic strip for poor dad jokes.

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That'd exist great

From the 1999 classic "Function Space" comes a meme derived from Gary Cole's graphic symbol Bill Lumbergh. His sole purpose in life seems to exist getting people to cease paperwork and work actress hours over the weekend.

The meme is inspired by this scene where Peter tries to duck out of the role on Fri just is caught at the last second past Pecker who asks him to come up in on Saturday.

This is phrase is so turned into a meme where something horrible is requested followed by a non-confrontational "that'd be groovy".

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Boozer baby

What's funnier than a babe drinking beer? An intoxicated baby spouting drunken wisdom that's what. And that's how this meme was born when a photo of a kid sitting next to a pint was uploaded to Reddit in 2012.

This simple meme gained popularity on 9gag, Facebook and more with a diversity of dissimilar captions being added to the original photo.

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Ain't nobody got time for that

In 2012, Kimberly Wilkins (aka Sweet Brown) was interviewed by a local news station in Oklahoma City later being evacuated from an flat building that was on fire.

Her quote finished:

"….I said 'Oh Lord Jesus, it's a fire', and so I ran out, I didn't grab no shoes or nothin' Jesus! I ran for my life. And so the fume got me. I got bronchitis. Ain't nobody got fourth dimension for that!"

Which made hilarious waves on the internet, especially when autotuned.

In the meantime, the perfect meme was created and could easily be used for anything taxing that you might not have fourth dimension for.

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The indestructible Nokia 3310

The classic Nokia 3310 mobile phone has developed somewhat of a legendary status over the years. Originally released in 2000, this phone was a creature of a device; hard-wearing and long-lasting compared to today'south fragile phones.

The effect has been many an agreeable meme purporting the 3310 to be indestructible with near God-similar qualities.

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Yo Dawg

This classic meme was inspired past American TV evidence Pimp My Ride. In information technology, host Xzibit and his team improved people's automobiles, ordinarily by calculation something they liked into the vehicle and then they could feel it while out and about. And thus the meme was born.

This meme follows a simple formula where X and Y are replaced with the relevant bailiwick matter:

"Yo dawg, I herd you like X, so I put an X in your Y so you lot can VERB while you VERB"

This uncomplicated yet effective humour lent itself to thousands of memes across the years, with Xzibit'southward smiling face happily photoshopped into relevant images.

Stuck in the Suez Culvert

After the captain of the MV Ever Given managed to go the massive cargo send stuck in the Suez Canal, holding up masses of other ships trying to pass through the region all style of memes appeared online. Although a mishap of adequately epic proportions, the event still managed to bring chortles to many of us around the world.

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The Fresh Prince

At the 2022 Oscars, Will Smith went onto the stage and slapped comedian Chris Rock for what he accounted to be an inappropriate joke about his married woman Jada Pinkett Smith, The slap was televised and whipped upwardly quite a storm online with all sorts of memes and jokes quickly appearing.

The histrion apologised only that didn't stop him from quickly becoming the source of many memes based on screen grabs of the incident.

This is one of the most agreeable ones we saw which used the opening scene from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air to relate what happened with the intro to the show that fabricated him famous.

Writing past Adrian Willings.

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