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Added July 9, 2026

My Hero Academia exploitable from All Might's post-battle line to Deku—"Now… it's your turn"—with characters swapped for succession jokes, mentorship memes, and fandom handoffs.

Added July 7, 2026

Fan art and photo edits likening Norway striker Erling Haaland to Dragon Ball Z's pink Majin Buu—especially Super Buu—exploded again during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Added June 29, 2026

A late-June 2026 edit format pairing Forza Horizon kei-truck drift footage with Katy Perry's "California Gurls" and a bottom reaction panel—started with Fate/Grand Order fan art by @arjunyanya.

Added June 9, 2026

A spring 2026 TikTok meme built around an AI-generated Re:Zero clip where Subaru Natsuki aggressively wishes a mysterious “Daniel” happy birthday with over-the-top aura-boosting dialogue.

Added June 9, 2026

A Re:Zero fan-animation edit meme pairing Subaru Natsuki’s staircase climb with “aura” music—especially PRETTY BOY V3—that exploded on TikTok ahead of the anime arc airing in May 2026.

Added May 13, 2026

A TikTok dance chain where people loop four exaggerated poses inspired by Junko Enoshima's sprite animations in Danganronpa—after years labeled cringe, it came back in 2025–2026 as both sincere nostalgia and ironic "lost art" jokes.

Added May 11, 2026

A May 2026 viral wave around Joseph Joestar’s English-dub meltdown in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders—he orders everyone into a car, realizes it is a spike trap, and screams for Hermit Purple mid-air.

Added April 25, 2026

A mid-April 2026 Godzilla fandom meme riffing on the Godzilla Minus Zero teaser: floating rocks read as antigravity, fans joke the culprit is Anguirus with new “gravity powers” instead of the usual King Ghidorah suspect.

Added April 25, 2026

Slang for performing over-the-top “cool” moments to rack up internet “aura,” often used ironically toward anime scenes, streamer clips, or anyone obviously posing for presence.

Added April 25, 2026

Redraw meme from a 1970s soccer anime frame: a large-chinned character rests a hand on a teammate’s shoulder—artists replace the pair with other duos while keeping the awkward intimacy.

Added April 21, 2026

A viral "sturdy off" clip of a kid in a blue shirt and red durag that blew up in spring 2026 when editors swapped in dramatic anime dialogue over the dance.

Added April 13, 2026

“Is this a pigeon?” is a reaction image from 1990s anime The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird: the hero misidentifies a butterfly as a pigeon, and the subtitle became a macro for confusion, wrong labels, and deliberate category errors.

Added April 6, 2026

A reaction image of Pikachu with an open-mouthed shocked face from the Pokémon anime, used when someone feigns surprise at an obvious or self-inflicted outcome.

Added March 29, 2026

Animation meme and fan art trend originating in August 2024, depicting fictional characters who died in their series with progressively obscured faces, set to a sorrowful song about grief.

Added March 28, 2026

Fan animation of Uma Musume character Agnes Tachyon dancing to a Vietnamese song, overlaid with a 'low cortisol level' meter, spawning a wave of character dance variants in early 2026.

Added March 27, 2026

An exploitable meme format from the final chapter of the Chainsaw Man manga (chapter 232, March 2026), where Asa thanks Denji by calling him 'Chainsaw Man' — quickly adapted to parody characters from other series.

Added March 27, 2026

A fan-invented One Piece character — a round, armless egg-shaped man created as a parody of Eiichiro Oda's absurd character designs — that the r/OnePiece community instantly adopted as legitimate lore.

Added March 22, 2026

Image meme template from 2023 that pairs pop culture characters with overhead footprint illustrations to humorously depict their iconic movements, stances, or memorable scenes.

Added March 20, 2026

Exploitable format pairing a fictional character with Superman-like imagery and the running refrain 'if and when but never is'—used to mock characters or people perpetually hyped for unrealized greatness.

Added March 20, 2026

Fan art trend depicting Pokémon Bulbasaur as a gyaru anime schoolgirl, sparked by Bulbasaur's gyaru-coded dialogue in Pokémon Pokopia (Nintendo Switch 2, March 2026).

Added March 18, 2026

Germany Oneesan, also known as Anime Girl's Nazi Past, is an object-labeling image macro created by Japanese Twitter artist naporitan1946 in 2019, depicting a smiling anime girl (representing Germany) confessing a dark past to a shocked male character. The template became widely used to humorously juxtapose wholesome or innocent-looking entities — countries, brands, or fandoms — with their controversial or embarrassing histories.