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Added July 17, 2026

Spanish-English slang for the PlayStation 5 ("the five")—memed in January 2026 TikToks about burglars stealing el cinco during a home invasion while the poster stays tied to a chair.

Added July 17, 2026

A My Little Pony exploitable where Twilight Sparkle shows Rarity a flesh cube of Fluttershy; Rarity deadpans "Absolutely horrid, darling"—viral since December 2025 with a July 2026 redraw wave.

Added July 14, 2026

Instagram and TikTok copypasta derived from Vogue's October 2025 caption about BTS member V at Vogue World—reposted on unrelated Reels to game the algorithm, then memed for its overuse in July 2026.

Added July 14, 2026

TikTok and Reels format where someone sits in an interview chair under captions like "preparing for my Netflix documentary about…"—usually set to Duomo's "On A Mission"—mocking true-crime doc tropes.

Added July 2, 2026

A reaction image captioned "And then he clicked post"—Greg and Rowley from Diary of a Wimpy Kid (or dapping One Piece redraws)—used to roast cringeworthy social posts.

Added June 30, 2026

A June 2026 WNBA reaction meme of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham silently pointing at Phoenix Mercury's DeWanna Bonner after a Caitlin Clark foul call—used to call out bad behavior or hypocrisy.

Added June 28, 2026

A mid-2026 TikTok slang revival pronouncing "#meaf" as "meef"—a misread of the relatable hashtag #me af ("me as fuck") when spaces disappear in tags.

Added June 25, 2026

A mid-May–June 2026 TikTok audio trend pairing Eclipse's "Welcome To My Crib" with a voice saying "Congratulations, you're moving to the next level. Your next opponent is you" over AI mirror-duel videos.

Added June 23, 2026

A June 2026 viral-marketing character arc starring "retired accountant" Kumar pitching himself as the ultimate accounting influencer—parodied across TikTok and Instagram as a staged playbook for manufactured virality.

Added June 19, 2026

A Peppa Pig reaction sticker from a TubbyTank YouTube thumbnail—a teal-shirt man peering through a kitchen window with a red arrow and "Who is he?" caption—spammed across TikTok comment sections since late 2025.

Added June 19, 2026

A mid-2026 TikTok catchphrase and hashtag (#fairs)—British slang for conceding a point—paired with the OK hand gesture and YBG Wallace image macros, often set to "Honesty (Jersey Club Remix)."

Added June 19, 2026

A Spanish-language reaction meme of George Little sprinting through Stuart Little (1999) shouting "¡Es hoy, es hoy!"—used whenever a long-awaited day (World Cup kickoff, launch day, holiday) finally arrives.

Added June 17, 2026

A June 2026 TikTok format pairing Kane Parsons' Backrooms movie rant ("I am an architect!") with photos of embarrassingly basic Minecraft builds—or other DIY projects defended with unearned confidence.

Added June 17, 2026

A reaction-image meme of Douglas Sacha's "Thinking Cat" photo—tabby with paw under chin, staring upward—captioned for ironic or genuine deep thought across TikTok, Instagram, and X since early 2025.

Added June 15, 2026

A February–June 2026 reaction-image meme of low-res cats with cartoon drool—used for dumbfounded staring, escalating in early June to “crowd of drooling cats” macros about collective awe.

Added June 15, 2026

A reaction image from SpongeBob’s “Cave Dwelling Sponge” (2017) showing SpongeBob in comically oversized handcuffs—memed about self-inflicted traps and resurfacing via TikTok comment stickers since March 2025.

Added June 14, 2026

A late-May/June 2026 TikTok and Reels meme from a Teen Titans GO! road-trip scene where Robin turns demonic during reckless driving, then calmly brushes his teeth while Cyborg screams—often captioned "why did this mf Robin start brushing his teeth."

Added June 14, 2026

A June 2026 reaction meme around Tayo Ricci's FIFA World Cup anthem "WORLD CUP" and its repeated lyric "World Cup, everybody jump"—mocked as one of the worst cup songs ever and parodied through refusal-to-jump skits and accuracy reenactments.

Added June 12, 2026

A June 2026 TikTok audio meme from Blumengarten's German pop track "Gut Genug"—Rayan's falsetto "Du bist gut genug" (you are good enough) line powers Cleveland Jr. rap-battle edits with millions of views.

Added June 12, 2026

A June 10–11, 2026 HYBE collaboration between LE SSERAFIM, ILLIT, and KATSEYE whose anti-hate anthem chorus—"I am iconic by mistake"—spawned TikTok dance covers and lyric-quote memes within 48 hours of release.

Added June 11, 2026

A May–June 2026 graduation meme from photographer @filmedbyjackson: a grad notices the camera, touches his nose then shoulder, captioned "How much aura did bro gain?"—spawning accuracy reenactments on TikTok.

Added June 11, 2026

An April–June 2026 AI brainrot trend showing Tung Tung Tung Sahur (Triple T) constructing tiny homes inside fruit, noses, and other characters—often captioned that head pain means he is building in your skull.

Added June 10, 2026

A late-May 2026 image-macro trend built on an AI Wallace-and-Gromit edit with a fade and "cheese patrol" mask—often captioned "Ma got pranked" after a viral screenshot of someone texting the image to their mom.

Added May 15, 2026

A late-April–May 2026 brand-led meme where companies post side-by-side mock ad copy from a “Millennial PR team” versus a “Gen Z social team,” exaggerating generational clichés—long earnest blurbs and bullet points on one side, slangy one-liners and emoji walls on the other.

Added May 15, 2026

A reaction-image meme built from a heavily promoted Instagram recipe collab where creator Adam Rose reacts to “PB&J bites,” then makes them—screenshots of his exaggerated tasting face circulated as a stand-in for overselling mundane content.

Added May 11, 2026

A vintage 2013 Flash browser game starring Shaggy fleeing a skeleton—paired with the “Usher Scooby Doo Party Break” remix—that blew up again in late April and May 2026 after streamer clips called it a “hidden gem.”

Added May 7, 2026

A mid-2026 short-form trend that pairs a fuzzy "144p" reaction image with a sharp or AI-upscaled "4k" follow-up—often the same meme twice, or a joke swap—riding CapCut-style filters and creator reaction clips.

Added May 2, 2026

A long snowclone / copypasta phrasal template—"You smoke too tough. Your swag too different…"—paired with characters who look absurdly cool so the joke implies they are "too powerful" and doomed.

Added May 1, 2026

Larry the Cat memes use a dramatic photo of Dexter, an oriental shorthair, looming into frame—often paired with scary-story TikTok audio—as an "evil" or uncanny cat reaction.

Added April 30, 2026

A 2025 image-macro meme built on a candid restaurant photo of VSCO creator evelynsmithhhhh (Evelyn Smith): the direct smile is captioned with the “How X looks at me when Y” template to joke about temptation, distractions, or bad decisions.

Added April 28, 2026

A 2023 TikTok and Instagram trend where women ask men in their lives how often they think about the Roman Empire—often getting deadpan answers like “every day”—then spin “my Roman Empire” for their own hyperfixations.

Added April 28, 2026

A 2024 pop-culture meme tied to Charli XCX’s album Brat: fans declared a neon-green, messy-cool “Brat summer,” spawning parody covers, starter packs, and ironic green-saturated photos.

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 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 16, 2026

A TikTok-originated routine label for piling snacks, journals, skincare, and devices on the bed so you can work, scroll, and wind down without getting up—often framed as cozy productivity until sleep experts and local news segments in early April 2026 argued it can backfire on rest.

Added April 16, 2026

A short-form video meme pairing footage of someone walking or sprinting with a caption like “People in Japan when their phone dies,” exaggerating the viral “Japan is turning footsteps into electricity” Instagram copypasta by pretending footsteps can charge a dead battery.

Added April 15, 2026

A TikTok-originated campaign that jokes internet culture should “reset” at the start of 2026 and return from fast “brainrot” trends to 2010s-style dank memes, rage comics, and classic formats—often paired with countdown or nostalgia montage edits.

Added April 15, 2026

Short-form trend around ByteDance’s Seedance AI video model (often called Seedance 2.0): creators share surreal or cinematic AI clips and prompt recipes, turning the tool into a meme format in its own right on TikTok and Reels.

Added April 11, 2026

An exploitable photo meme of a man posing in front of a car with folded hands and a caption praising International Women's Day, ending with “Gotta be one of my favorite genders”—often edited to swap the subject or punchline for absurdist praise.

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

Viral meme and online discourse about Brazilian influencer Ana Caroline Moreira's OnlyFans account, sparked by an awkward IHOP waffle promotional video she posted in 2025.

Added March 23, 2026

A 2026 Instagram Reels meme format using clips from a 2018 Alex Jones interview where he assigns one-word labels — "patriot," "vampire," "nationalist" — to celebrities, used to rank fictional characters.