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Sweet Brown's exasperated line from a 2012 local-news interview about escaping an apartment fire, "Ain't nobody got time for that," which was autotuned and quoted into a nationwide catchphrase.

A screenshot of History Channel commentator Giorgio A. Tsoukalos with wild hair, captioned to blame anything and everything on extraterrestrials.

An advice-animal macro built from an awkward yearbook photo of a braces-wearing teen in a sweater vest, captioned with escalating misfortunes.

A looping 2003 Flash animation of cartoon badgers doing calisthenics while a chant of "badger badger badger" repeats, interrupted by a mushroom and a passing snake, an emblem of early web absurdity.

An autotuned remix of Antoine Dodson's fired-up local-news interview after an intruder broke into his family's home, whose warnings to "hide your kids, hide your wife" became one of 2010's biggest viral songs.

A crocodile fused with a military bomber plane, one of the most recognizable Italian Brainrot characters.

The memecoin frenzy sparked when former Binance CEO Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao revealed his dog was named Broccoli.

A tree-legged creature with a long-nosed face, a popular Italian Brainrot character known for its chant-like name.

A rage character eating a bowl of cereal, used either to react to gossip while calmly chewing or to spit the cereal out in shock.

A smug, determined rage face signaling resolve to take on a difficult or absurd task, captioned Challenge Accepted.

Change My Mind is a photo of commentator Steven Crowder seated at a table with a sign inviting people to debate him, endlessly recaptioned to put any provocative or absurd claim on the sign. It is a staple object-labeling meme.

A 56-second home video of two English brothers in which toddler Charlie bites his older brother Harry's finger, prompting the immortal line "Charlie bit me!" It became one of YouTube's most-watched videos.

A monkey fused with a banana, one of the food-animal hybrids of the Italian Brainrot canon.

Tay Zonday's homemade 2007 song "Chocolate Rain," whose startlingly deep voice, deadpan delivery, and on-screen note that he "moves away from the mic to breathe in" made it an early YouTube sensation.

The Coffin Dance meme features a group of Ghanaian pallbearers carrying a coffin while dancing in choreographed formation, set to the EDM track 'Astronomia.' It became a global punchline for fail videos during 2020.

Derp is a generic cross-eyed, slack-jawed character embodying stupidity; Derpina is his female counterpart, both used as stand-in idiots in rage comics.

Disaster Girl is a photo of a young girl smirking at the camera while a house burns behind her, making her look like a tiny arsonist. It became a classic template for taking gleeful credit for chaos.

Distracted Boyfriend is a stock photo of a man turning to check out a passing woman while his girlfriend looks on in disgust. Labeling the three figures made it a hugely flexible template for temptation and disloyalty jokes.

Paul "Bear" Vasquez's ecstatic, tearful 2010 video reacting to a double rainbow over Yosemite, whose awe-struck cries of "What does it mean?!" turned pure wonder into a viral phenomenon.

A five-second clip of a prairie dog (mislabeled a chipmunk) snapping its head toward the camera as a dramatic musical sting blares, used to punctuate any moment of exaggerated shock.

Rebecca Black's 2011 single "Friday," whose blandly literal lyrics about the days of the week made it a viral punchline and, at the time, one of YouTube's most-disliked videos.

South Korean rapper PSY's 2012 single, whose horse-riding dance and absurd satire of Seoul's affluent Gangnam district became the first video to hit a billion YouTube views.

A 2013 video fad set to Baauer's track "Harlem Shake," in which one masked person dances alone until a beat drop cuts to a whole room convulsing in costume-clad chaos. Thousands of copycat clips flooded the web within weeks.

A viral 2024 street-interview catchphrase from Haliey Welch that became a pop-culture phenomenon and later a notorious memecoin blowup.

Hide the Pain Harold is a Hungarian stock-photo model whose forced, slightly pained smile made him a meme. His expression reads as someone masking discomfort behind a polite grin.

A sprawling early-2025 meme universe of AI-generated creatures given absurd pseudo-Italian names and gibberish voiceovers, spread mostly on TikTok and Instagram.

A 2005 World of Warcraft clip in which a player ignores his group's careful battle plan, screams his own name as a war cry, and charges in, wiping the entire party. His name became shorthand for reckless, plan-be-damned action.

Lolcats are photographs of cats captioned in deliberately broken English, and they are the foundation stone of essentially everything on this site. The format invented the image macro, invented a grammar, built a media company, and established the rule that has governed the internet ever since: put a cat on it. Everything from Doge to Popcat to the entire Solana cat-coin economy is downstream of a British Shorthair asking for a cheeseburger in 2007.

A 2004 webcam video of New Jersey teenager Gary Brolsma enthusiastically lip-syncing and dancing to the Moldovan pop song "Dragostea Din Tei" by O-Zone, one of the earliest viral video stars.

A downcast, resigned rage face that quietly replies okay after being rejected, humiliated, or defeated.

An enormous fluffy baby king penguin at a Melbourne aquarium who went viral in 2024 for dwarfing his own parents.

A velociraptor holding its claw to its chin in a thinking pose, posing pseudo-deep philosophical questions and wordplay.

A blank, forced-neutral rage face used when a character must hide their true emotions, captioned like must not react.

Roll Safe is an image of British actor Kayode Ewumi tapping his temple with a knowing smirk, used to caption fake 'clever' logic that sounds smart but is actually flawed. It became the go-to meme for pseudo-genius reasoning.

A photo of a young man in a doorway wearing a sideways fur-trimmed cap, captioned with the inconsiderate, freeloading behavior of a stereotypical scumbag.

A 2003 video of Canadian teenager Ghyslain Raza swinging a golf-ball retriever like a lightsaber, leaked without his consent, becoming one of the earliest and most cautionary viral videos.

Surprised Pikachu is a screenshot of the Pokemon character with mouth agape and eyes wide, used to react to entirely predictable outcomes as if they were shocking. It is one of the most-used reaction faces of the late 2010s.

'This Is Fine' shows a cartoon dog sitting in a room engulfed in flames, calmly sipping coffee and declaring 'This is fine.' It became the internet's universal image for denial in the face of disaster.

A resurfaced Soviet television clip of singer Eduard Khil performing a wordless, grinning vocalise, which the internet dubbed "Trololo" and adopted as a Russian cousin of the Rickroll.

The vira-lata caramelo is Brazil's caramel-coated mixed-breed street dog, an unpedigreed mutt the internet adopted as an unofficial national mascot for scrappy Brazilian resilience. A self-deprecating joke that a stray represents Brazil better than soccer or samba curdled into genuine pride, then into memes, merch and a record-breaking Netflix movie.

Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis's 2013 song "The Fox," a lavishly produced novelty track built entirely around the question of what sound a fox makes, which became a global viral hit.

“Before the internet had words for feelings, it had this face.”

A stretched, exasperated figure demanding to know why someone won't do an obvious thing, in the template Subject, Y U NO action.