Memes: Internet Culture

This page lists the 47 memes we currently document in the category “Internet Culture”. Each one links to a full article: where it came from, and every Solana coin that tried to cash in on it.

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  Ancient Aliens Guy0 coins

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

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  Aura1 coin · OG $AURA

  'Aura' is a Gen-Z internet-culture meme in which social clout is quantified as 'aura points', gained through effortlessly cool acts and lost through embarrassing ones. The phrase 'aura farming' (deliberately accumulating cool moments) became a viral TikTok format in 2024 and lent its name to the Solana memecoin AURA.

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  Badger Badger Badger0 coins

  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.

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  Ballerina Cappuccina1 coin

  A ballerina with a cappuccino cup for a head, a leading female character in the Italian Brainrot universe.

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  Bombardiro Crocodilo0 coins

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

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  Brr Brr Patapim0 coins

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

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  Change My Mind0 coins

  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.

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  Charlie Bit My Finger0 coins

  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.

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  Chimpanzini Bananini0 coins

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

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  Chocolate Rain0 coins

  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.

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  Cicada 33011 coin

  Cicada 3301 is one of the internet's most famous unsolved mysteries: a series of fiendishly hard cryptographic puzzles posted anonymously by a group known only as '3301,' which claimed to be hunting for highly intelligent people. Spanning cryptography, hidden data, phone poles across the globe and the poetry of William Blake, it ran from 2012 to 2014 and its purpose has never been confirmed.

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  Coffin Dance (Dancing Pallbearers)0 coins

  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.

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  Disaster Girl0 coins

  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.

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  Distracted Boyfriend0 coins

  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.

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  Double Rainbow0 coins

  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.

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  GameStop (GME)1 coin · OG $GME

  The GameStop memecoin is themed after the 2021 GameStop short-squeeze saga and the Roaring Kitty (Keith Gill) meme. On Solana, GME spiked in May 2024 alongside Roaring Kitty's surprise return to social media.

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  Harlem Shake0 coins

  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.

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  HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu1 coin · OG $BITCOIN

  An absurdist meme built around a token whose name is a nonsensical mashup of pop culture references while its ticker simply reads BITCOIN.

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  Hawk Tuah0 coins

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

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  Hide the Pain Harold0 coins

  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.

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  Housecoin1 coin

  Housecoin is a Solana memecoin satirizing housing unaffordability, turning the increasingly out-of-reach dream of home ownership into a meme asset under the slogan that everyone deserves a house.

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  Italian Brainrot (AI Italian Animals)0 coins

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

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  Labubu1 coin

  A snaggle-toothed elf-monster designer toy by Pop Mart that became a global blind-box collecting craze and 2024-2025 status symbol.

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  Leeroy Jenkins0 coins

  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.

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  LMAO1 coin · OG $LMAO

  LMAO, short for "laughing my ass off," is one of the oldest and most widely used pieces of internet slang, a text-based way of signaling that something is genuinely hilarious. In October 2025 the acronym was minted as a Solana memecoin, $LMAO, turning decades of typed laughter into a community token.

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  Lolcats0 coins

  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.

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  Manlet1 coin · OG $manlet

  "Manlet" is mocking internet slang for a short man, built from "man" plus the diminutive suffix "-let" (as in piglet or booklet). It began as a gym-culture jab at the noticeably short lifter who overcompensates with muscle mass, and has since been half-reclaimed as an ironic badge of pride.

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  Meccha Chameleon1 coin

  Meccha Chameleon is a viral 2026 multiplayer hide-and-seek game where players paint their character models to blend into the scenery while hunters with paint shotguns try to spot them. Built by Japanese solo developer lemorion_1224, it detonated across TikTok and YouTube in late June 2026 as “find the hidden player” clips turned into a global visual-puzzle meme.

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  Milady1 coin · OG $LADYS

  The neochibi anime avatars from the Milady Maker NFT collection, which grew into a distinctive and divisive online aesthetic movement.

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  Mogging1 coin · OG $MOG

  An internet slang concept describing the act of dominating or outshining someone else, usually by looks, energy, or sheer presence.

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  Normie1 coin

  Normie is internet slang for a conventional, mainstream person — someone outside a given subculture who doesn't get the joke. Born in recovery-group and forum slang and sharpened into a pejorative on 4chan, it became one of the defining in-group versus out-group words of 2010s internet culture.

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  Numa Numa0 coins

  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.

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  Pesto the Penguin0 coins

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

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  Pwease1 coin · OG $pwease

  The baby-talk crying-cat 'pwease' begging format, later a mid-2025 Solana meme token.

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  Rickroll1 coin

  A bait-and-switch prank where a link promised to lead somewhere useful instead dumps the viewer into the music video for Rick Astley's 1987 single "Never Gonna Give You Up."

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  Roll Safe0 coins

  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.

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  Sigma Male1 coin

  The 'sigma male' is an ironic archetype of the silent, self-reliant 'lone wolf' who supposedly operates outside the alpha-beta social hierarchy. It became a viral TikTok meme built on edits, 'sigma grindset' slideshows and deadpan Patrick Bateman clips.

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  Skibidi Toilet1 coin

  A YouTube web-series of singing human heads emerging from toilets battling camera-headed characters, and the byword for 'brainrot' Gen Alpha humor.

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  Star Wars Kid0 coins

  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.

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  Stonks1 coin

  'Stonks' is the deliberate misspelling of 'stocks,' paired with the surreal bald 'Meme Man' character standing in front of a rising market chart. It became the internet's universal caption for financial decisions both brilliant and disastrous.

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  Surprised Pikachu0 coins

  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.

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  This Is Fine0 coins

  '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.

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  Tralalero Tralala1 coin

  An athletic blue-sneakered shark and the mascot widely credited as the first Italian Brainrot character.

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  Trololo0 coins

  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.

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  Vine1 coin · OG $VINE

  The defunct six-second looping video app that defined a golden age of internet comedy, revived in 2025 as a viral Solana memecoin narrative.

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  What Does the Fox Say (Ylvis)0 coins

  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.

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  Woman Yelling at Cat1 coin

  Woman Yelling at Cat is a two-panel reaction meme pairing a screaming, pointing woman with a confused white cat sitting at a dinner table. It became one of the most reproduced argument-format memes of the 2019 era.