Best Memes of 2018

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  • I’m pretty sure we’ve all seen Monsters Inc. the 2001 Pixar film, right? At the end of his film the monsters decide to get energy from the kids to power their city a different way…making them laugh and of course Mike Wazowski went viral after people started captioning this image with well known songs.

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  • This boy became viral for yodeling at Walmart! With 9.5 M views on YouTube of course the memes started showing up. The image of the yodeling boy was simply cut and pasted in different scenarios, the most famous being of him on the Coachella stage and guess what, he made it to Coachella 2018! Along with meeting Ellen, J.B, and more!

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  • Ugandan Knuckles is a badly drawn version of Knuckles from the Sonic franchise, he has been around of a very long time but only recently gained fame due to his “funny features.” He simply asks one question “Do you know de way?”

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  • “Alexa play Despacito” originally started as a mocking conversation of Alexa users. Recently Despacito has been changed to other song for a funnier effect.

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  • The Moth Meme started off trapped in a lamp, as a research study and ended up as a meme. On September 21st Redditor lbcacm posted a video of a moth trapped in a lap, the video was very zoomed in, and displayed the moth in great detail. Ibcacm gained over 2000 subscribers and of course his moth became very famous. These moth memes are also known as the “Evil Moth” and new ones are still being created everyday.

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  • Surprised Pikachu comes from the Anime show “Pokémon” where a screenshot of Pikachu with his mouth wide open almost shocked-like is placed with a funny caption that captures one’s triggered look.

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  • Savage Patrick Meme comes from the show Sponge Bob SquarePants. In one of the episodes Patrick is captured with an evil, trouble making grin, that with the right caption all of us can easily relate to.

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  • Kermit sipping tea is one of the best memes of all time due to the reason that it’s provided us with the new terms “spilling tea” (which means telling your friends gossip) and “sipping tea” (which means listening to or being in the middle of gossip) In the meme Kermit is literally sipping tea but at the same time “minding his own business”. Many people recreated this meme many times so that all people could relate.

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  • Of course Sponge Bob SquarePants can’t go very long without creating a meme. In this Out of Breath Sponge Bob meme he looks … worried? And quite out of breath. Although this episode is old, this meme started out with twitter users captioning the image with something relatable and it soon became viral.

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  • Tide Pods probably caused some of the biggest meme controversies. Stores were forced to lock up the product and place warning labels. This meme started because people thought Tide Pods looked like candy and started to eat them. Because of their rapid rise to fame Tide Pods became a huge meme.

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  • Cardi B has made us cry, smile, dance, sing at the top of our lungs, but most importantly she has made us laugh. Some time in July a “throw back” picture of Cardi B was found where she is striking a sassy pose and clearly has a lot of attitude. The meme quickly became popular as people commented things like “omg my younger sibling standing outside my door” or “when your younger sibling says you have to go play with them”. Even the rap artist herself came around posting one image that says “My momma said your daddy ain’t in college, he in jail.”

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Nathalia Valdez, Social Media & Communication

From Tide Pods to Cardi B’s drama, 2018 has been full of ups and downs, but it’s time to relax, grab a bag of chips, and look at the top Memes of 2018!