Dancing Baby
A 3D baby performs a looping cha-cha dance.
Meme catalog
1996
1998
Hampster Dance
Rows of dancing hamsters became an early musical single-serving website.
2000
All Your Base Are Belong to Us
A mistranslated game villain’s announcement became a slogan that people inserted into pictures, songs and everyday scenes.
2002
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
A dancing pixel banana bounces to the Buckwheat Boyz’s song, turning a simple loop into a portable musical joke.
2003
Badger Badger Badger
Dancing badgers, mushrooms and a snake form a looping musical cartoon whose repetition is the joke.
Potter Puppet Pals
Familiar wizard characters become comic puppets, moving from Flash animation to filmed performances and inspiring fan-made responses.
Star Wars Kid
A teenager’s pretend lightsaber routine became widely remixed footage after other people put his private recording online.
2004
Bananaphone
A children’s song about a banana telephone becomes an earworm loop, with pitched-up audio and competing Flash interpretations.
Breadfish
A green fish passes through a loaf of bread while a repeating song asks whether you have seen the marvelous Breadfish: an impossible sandwich turned musical loop.
Kitty Cat Dance
Photos of a black-and-white cat become a stop-motion dance, paired with a chant built for repetition and playful remixes.
Numa Numa
Gary Brolsma enthusiastically lip-syncs O-Zone’s “Dragostea din tei” in a webcam performance.
One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor
Boromir’s grave warning becomes a reusable sentence for tasks that are much harder than they sound: one does not simply do the thing.
Salad Fingers
A green, long-fingered character finds fascination in rusty spoons, giving early web animation an unsettling, surreal voice.
The Llama Song
A rapid stream of llama pictures, odd objects and a recurring duck turns a nonsense song into a picture-by-picture visual rhythm: the repetition is the point, not a coherent story.
You Are a Pirate
A cheerful pirate singalong escaped children’s television to become a soundtrack for web loops, game-character performances and jokes about software piracy.
2005
Charlie the Unicorn
Two relentlessly cheerful unicorns lead a reluctant Charlie toward Candy Mountain, where a sugary fantasy takes a dark turn.
He-Man Sings (Fabulous Secret Powers)
A fantasy cartoon hero appears to belt out a pop chorus, making exaggerated animation and an unexpected musical performance collide.
Leeroy Jenkins
A player’s shouted name interrupts an elaborate raid plan, turning a disastrous charge into a reusable joke about acting before thinking.
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
A musical crossover throws fictional heroes and real celebrities into an absurd escalating battle: recognition, unlikely matchups and a repeating chorus make the collision the joke.
They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard
A serious fantasy-film report becomes a dance-like refrain: clipped dialogue, repeating faces and a musical loop turn Legolas’s destination into the whole joke.
What Is Love?
Three synchronized head-bobs turned a television car scene into a web-loop template, with pixel-art variations and new musical arrangements.
2006
Do You Like Waffles?
An enthusiastic breakfast-food singalong becomes a short cartoon and a soundtrack for fan-made character edits.
Do a Barrel Roll
A spacecraft’s defensive maneuver becomes an absurd all-purpose instruction, attached to spinning animals, tumbling objects and unrelated conversations.
Evolution of Dance
One performer jumps between recognizable dance styles as the soundtrack changes, compressing a pop-cultural dance tour into a single comic routine.
It's Over 9000!
Vegeta’s shouted power-level reading becomes an exaggerated way to say that a quantity is enormous.
Kelly’s Shoes
A fictional shopper turns a fixation on footwear into an electronic comedy song, with deadpan repetition and an increasingly exaggerated shopping trip.
LOLcats
Cat photographs speak in deliberately broken English, making the captioned animal into a playful narrator.
Leekspin / Loituma Girl
An anime character spins a spring onion in an endlessly repeating loop, synchronized with a Finnish vocal hook: a compact recipe for redraws, parodies and musical remixes.
Longcat
A white cat held upright becomes an impossibly tall character: remixes stretch the joke by changing the world around the cat.
They See Me Rollin’
A boastful driving chorus becomes an incongruous caption for harmless riders, unlikely vehicles and slow-motion video edits.
This Is Sparta!
A film character’s emphatic answer became a portable punchline: swap the setting, exaggerate the shout, or recut it into a repeating remix.
Thomas the Tank Engine Remixes
A familiar television theme becomes an unexpected backing track for rap vocals, making musical mismatch the recurring joke.
2007
Charlie Bit My Finger
Two brothers’ home-video interaction spawns captions, remakes and remixes.
Chocolate Rain
Tay Zonday sings over a repeating keyboard figure, with his low voice and distinctive microphone technique becoming online signatures.
Dramatic Chipmunk
A prairie dog turns toward the camera as a dramatic musical sting transforms a tiny movement into an enormous revelation.
Hello There
An ordinary greeting delivered by Obi-Wan becomes a theatrical entrance, a remix cue and a repeatable prequel-meme response.
Nyan Nyan Dance
A tiny restaurant-advertising dance escapes its anime scene into loops, reenactments and musical remixes.
Rickroll
A link promises something relevant or exciting, then delivers Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
2008
Disaster Girl
A knowing smile is transplanted into scenes of catastrophe.
Maru the Cat
Cardboard boxes become an obstacle course for a round-faced cat: sliding, squeezing and investigating turn ordinary pet footage into a recognizable recurring performance.
Pepe the Frog
Matt Furie’s comic frog becomes a family of reaction faces and artworks.
Simon’s Cat
A hungry, mischievous drawn cat turns the ordinary struggle to wake its owner into expressive, mostly visual internet comedy.
Trollface
The mischievous rage-comic grin signals trolling and elaborate bait.
Wombo Combo
An exuberant reaction to a doubles combo becomes a reusable soundtrack for improbable teamwork and spectacular finishes.
asdfmovie
Minimal black-and-white characters deliver abrupt, absurd punchlines in a rapid sketch anthology that also lends itself to reaction clips and remixes.
2009
All Star Remixes
A familiar pop chorus becomes reusable material for incongruous covers, mashups and lyric substitutions.
Annoying Orange
A fruit with a human mouth and eyes pesters its kitchen neighbors, turning repeated calls, puns and an abrasive laugh into a recurring character.
I Wish I Was At Home
A lone partygoer wishes for the comfort of home while everyone else seems absorbed in the party, turning social discomfort into a reusable inner monologue.
Keyboard Cat
An orange cat appears to play a keyboard, then becomes the musical exit cue editors attach to other people’s mishaps.
Llamas with Hats
Two hat-wearing llamas turn a calm conversation into dark absurdity: Paul confronts Carl about increasingly monstrous behavior.
Narwhals
Cartoon narwhals swim through an exuberant musical tribute: a catchy refrain turns an unlikely animal into a repeatable web-song character.
Running in the 90s
A Eurobeat track becomes a reusable soundtrack for speed, improbable driving and energetic video edits.
Socially Awkward Penguin
A blue-backed penguin narrates small social missteps.
Surprised Kitty
A tiny kitten opens its front paws whenever the tickling pauses: a repeatable gesture turns a short pet video into an instantly readable reaction.
The Duck Song
A duck keeps asking a lemonade seller for grapes: a repeating question, a waddling refrain and a patient escalation turn a simple joke into a sing-along web reference.
2010
Double Dream Hands
A music teacher’s exuberant instructional dance turns its open-palmed signature move into a repeatable performance and remix motif.
Double Rainbow
A view of two rainbows becomes a memorable reaction video through Paul Vasquez’s audible amazement and wonder.
Epic Sax Guy
A saxophone solo and exuberant stage moves become a repeatable musical loop, remixed into new settings and used in surprise-link jokes.
Philosoraptor
A pondering dinosaur turns everyday contradictions into mock-philosophical questions. The fixed illustration makes each new caption feel like another thought from the same character.
Pusheen
A rounded gray tabby turns snacks, naps and small everyday habits into shareable animated comics and reactions.
Shut Up and Take My Money!
Fry waves a fistful of cash to interrupt a warning: a cartoon about impulsive buying becomes an enthusiastic response to a desirable product or idea.
Spooky Scary Skeletons
A cheerful Halloween song becomes a soundtrack for dancing skeletons, looping edits and seasonal remixes.
Steamed Hams
Skinner disguises a ruined dinner with increasingly implausible explanations, giving remixers a recognizable scene to rebuild in other styles.
Trololo Guy
Eduard Khil’s buoyant wordless singing turns an older television performance into a musical internet greeting, remix subject and unexpected link destination.
Wojak / Feels Guy
A simply drawn face expresses melancholy, empathy and countless later moods.
X, X Everywhere
Buzz gestures across an imagined landscape while Woody looks on: repeat a noun, add “everywhere,” and turn abundance into a joke or complaint.
You Shall Not Pass
Gandalf’s defiant warning becomes a reusable joke about barriers, blocked routes and refusing entry.
2011
Ancient Aliens
A television gesture becomes a reusable punch line: a complicated mystery receives the same implausibly simple answer, aliens.
Business Cat
A tie-wearing cat acts like an office boss, until the caption turns an ordinary management request into unmistakably feline behavior.
Diggy Diggy Hole
An improvised dwarf-mining chant escapes a Minecraft playthrough and becomes material for fan animations, remixes and a later full song.
First World Problems
An exaggerated expression of distress turns a small everyday inconvenience into a self-aware complaint about privilege.
Futurama Fry / Not Sure If
Fry’s suspicious squint gives indecision a face: two competing explanations become the upper and lower halves of a caption.
Good Guy Greg
The smiling smoker unexpectedly does the considerate thing.
Honey Badger
An irreverent voiceover recasts a honey badger’s wildlife encounters as a story of stubborn indifference, turning narration into the joke.
Nyan Cat
A pixel cat with a pastry body flies through space, trailing a rainbow over an insistent musical loop. Its appeal lies in cheerful repetition and an instantly remixable audiovisual package.
Scumbag Steve
A sideways cap and hallway portrait became shorthand for the friend who borrows everything and gives nothing back. Captions build a fictional persona of everyday selfishness.
Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man
Two matching costumes, two accusing fingers: a cartoon confrontation becomes a compact way to show similarity, mistaken identity or mutual blame.
Success Kid
A toddler’s clenched fist becomes a tiny victory salute. Captions celebrate occasions when an ordinary situation works out better than expected.
This Is Where I’d Put My Trophy, If I Had One
An empty display space becomes a two-step joke: announce where a prized possession would go, then reveal that there is nothing to display.
Wii Shop Channel Theme Remixes
Music written for a console storefront becomes material for covers, added lyrics and unlikely musical mashups.
You Don’t Say?
An exaggerated face turns a seemingly surprised response into sarcasm: the discovery was obvious all along.
2012
Bad Luck Brian
An awkward yearbook portrait anchors stories where even a reasonable choice ends in disaster. The joke compresses a setup and an unfair outcome into two caption lines.
Dumb Ways to Die
A sweet-sounding chorus accompanies cartoon disasters, turning a rail-safety message into a singalong that invited covers and parodies.
Ermahgerd
A photograph of a young reader clutching Goosebumps books became an exaggerated expression of excitement. Deliberately distorted spelling carries the joke beyond the original picture.
Gandalf Sax
Gandalf smiles and nods in time with a saxophone hook: a brief film moment becomes a loop, a multi-screen joke and an endurance-length remix.
Gangnam Style
PSY’s comic music video made a horse-riding dance into a global participatory routine. Copycat performances and parodies let audiences join the spectacle rather than only watch it.
Grumpy Cat
Tardar Sauce’s downturned expression became an endlessly reusable voice of refusal. Captions imagine a cat unimpressed by almost everything.
I Should Buy a Boat Cat
A newspaper-reading cat becomes a miniature portrait of sudden ambition: a serious-looking reader decides that buying something is the answer.
Overly Attached Girlfriend
A wide-eyed frame from a comedy song became a fictional girlfriend whose affection crosses into surveillance. The captions preserve the video’s exaggerated character while stripping away its performance context.
Overly Manly Man
An antique boxer delivers exaggerated feats of toughness.
Praise the Sun / Solaire of Astora
A sun-seeking knight and his cheerful language of cooperation become a reusable gaming-community greeting and fan-art motif.
Ridiculously Photogenic Guy
A smiling runner appears improbably composed in the middle of a race. Captions turn that one effortless-looking moment into a fantasy of universal charm.
2013
Doge
A Shiba Inu’s sideways glance becomes a field of colorful, fragmentary thoughts. Comic Sans and intentionally unusual grammar make the caption style as recognizable as the dog.
Harlem Shake
One person dances while a room seems to ignore them; a cut at the beat drop reveals everyone joining the chaos. The predictable before-and-after structure makes each new setting the punchline.
Side Eyeing Chloe
A skeptical glance becomes a reaction to almost anything.
The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)
An ordinary animal-sounds question swerves into an extravagant dance track with deliberately impossible answers.
2014
Daily Struggle / Two Buttons
Two incompatible button labels and a sweating decision-maker turn an abstract dilemma into a tiny control-room drama.
Hide the Pain Harold
András Arató's stock-photo smile is read as a cheerful surface barely concealing discomfort.
Kermit Sipping Tea
A sip of tea supplies the punchline: make a pointed observation, then pretend to step away with “but that’s none of my business.”
Luigi’s Death Stare
A sideways glance during a kart race becomes a miniature revenge movie when players slow it down and supply the soundtrack.
Press F to Pay Respects
A literal keyboard instruction at a fictional funeral becomes a compact online response to loss, failure or an unfortunate moment.
This Is Fine
A dog calmly drinks in a burning room: a compact reaction to trouble being ignored or endured.
Twitch Plays Pokémon
Thousands of chat commands try to steer one Pokémon adventure, turning coordination failures and ordinary game objects into shared folklore.
2015
Confused Nick Young / Swaggy P
A puzzled look surrounded by question marks turns a moment of family banter into a portable response to things that do not add up.
Dog of Wisdom
A low-poly dog flying a plane meets a dog on a cloud, exchanging gibberish and improbable wisdom.
Left Shark
A costumed backup shark's loose dancing briefly upstages a tightly produced halftime show.
The Dress
One dress photograph turns an everyday color question into a shared argument: are you seeing white and gold, or blue and black?
2016
Arthur Fist
A close-up of Arthur's clenched fist becomes a small, legible symbol of irritation.
Awkward Look Monkey Puppet
A puppet glances sideways and then away, turning a tiny eye movement into an awkward reaction.
Damn Daniel
Repeated enthusiastic compliments, especially about white Vans, turn an ordinary friend's wardrobe into a catchphrase.
Deja Vu
A racing-anime soundtrack becomes a comic accelerator: familiar Eurobeat turns ordinary movement into an exaggerated drifting scene.
Drakeposting
Drake's rejecting and approving gestures become a two-choice visual ballot.
Evil Kermit
A frog facing his hooded double becomes a two-voice debate between restraint and the tempting bad idea.
Guess I’ll Die
A red-shirted man shrugs, pairing exaggerated resignation with problems that range from everyday annoyances to unaffordable healthcare.
Party Parrot
A brightly colored parrot turns a tiny looping chat reaction into a family of celebratory emotes.
Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen (PPAP)
A deadpan performer combines imaginary fruit and pens with a tiny dance, turning an absurd word game into a repeatable routine.
Roll Safe
A finger to the temple signals a supposedly clever solution whose logic collapses on inspection.
We Are Number One
A television villain’s musical lesson becomes material for mashups and edits that change the song whenever a particular word or moment recurs.
2017
Blinking White Guy
Drew Scanlon’s double take conveys bafflement and disbelief.
Dancing Hot Dog
A dancing cartoon hot dog enters everyday camera scenes, then escapes the lens into remixed images and jokes.
Distracted Boyfriend
Three labels turn a wandering glance into a diagram of temptation, neglected commitments and competing choices.
Expanding Brain
Increasingly radiant brains accompany an escalating ladder of ideas, often making the supposedly smartest option the silliest.
Fireflies
A familiar synth-pop song returns as deliberately mismatched background music, while its dreamlike lyrics invite literal-minded jokes.
Mocking SpongeBob
A chicken-like SpongeBob pose and alternating capitals imitate someone else's words with exaggerated contempt.
Shooting Stars
An ordinary fall or jump becomes a cosmic journey when editors send the subject drifting through space to Bag Raiders’ synth-pop track.
2018
American Chopper Argument
An escalating father-and-son argument becomes a multi-panel debate whose captions can give both sides surprisingly detailed positions.
Bongo Cat
A simply drawn cat taps out a beat: fans swap its instruments and soundtrack to turn a tiny animation into an imaginary band.
Crab Rave
Computer-animated crabs dance on an island, providing an exuberant backdrop for remixes and deliberately incongruous captions.
Is This a Pigeon?
A character points at a butterfly and asks whether it is a pigeon, creating a template for confident misidentification.
Surprised Pikachu
Pikachu's open-mouthed surprise punctuates a story whose outcome should have been obvious.
Yanny / Laurel
One spoken word seems to sound like two different names, turning listening itself into an online disagreement.
2019
Disappointed Cricket Fan
Muhammad Sarim Akhtar’s hands-on-hips look captures disappointment.
Woman Yelling at a Cat
A reality-TV argument is paired with Smudge the cat’s dinner-table stare.
2020
Always Has Been
An astronaut discovers what the whole world really consists of.
Coffin Dance / Dancing Pallbearers
Ghanaian dancing pallbearers became an ominous punchline and remix subject.
2021
Bernie Sanders’ Mittens
Bundled-up Bernie is seated in increasingly unlikely places.
2022
Emotional Damage
Steven He’s exclamation becomes the punctuation for a painful roast.
2023
Kevin James Smirking
A promotional photograph becomes a knowingly sheepish reaction.
2024
Just a Chill Guy
A hands-in-pockets cartoon dog remains unbothered.