Biggest memes ever
Images, templates and formats that got copied until nobody remembered who made the first one.
Not all of it was video
Grumpy Cat
You might remember it as Tardar Sauce, Grumpy Cat first video
A cat whose facial structure gave her a permanent scowl, and who became the most commercially successful animal the internet has produced.
Reaction facesPosted instead of typing
Sent as a reply, with no caption needed.
- This is fine Look
- Trollface Look
- Baby Yoda Look
- Woman yelling at a cat Look
- Stonks View original
- Chad The story
- Hide the Pain Harold Look
- Success Kid Look
- Wojak Look
- Disaster Girl Look
- O RLY? View original
- Trash Doves Look
Templates and charactersFill in the blanks
- Doge Look
- Chill guy View original
- Bernie Sanders' mittens Look
- The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir Look
- Distracted boyfriend Look
- Bad Luck Brian View original
- Keep Calm and Carry On Look
- Loss Look
Where memes came fromBefore the word, and the forms it took
Not memes in the sense of the wall above: things that spread the same way before anybody called it that, and the formats memes are made in.
More memesAlso here
How this list is chosen
Image macros, templates, reaction images and remixable clips that spread widely enough to be recognised on sight. A saying or a named idea is not a meme here, however often it is repeated — those have pages of their own. Ordered by editorial judgement rather than by date.