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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 3, 2026

A caption-and-redraw format about excitedly finding obscure "lost" media, only for the punchline to reveal it is embarrassing, cursed, or ironically "problematic"—often paired with music-video edits and VTuber or game-character dances.

Added May 3, 2026

A two-panel webcomic meme about a breakthrough that could help humanity—until the discoverer is comically "corrupted" or obsessed by that same discovery; captions swap in characters from games, anime, and film who fit the trope.

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 April 27, 2026

An exploitable cartoon of two passengers: one stares at a gray rock wall outside the bus while the other enjoys a sunny landscape—used to contrast bad choices or outlooks with better ones, often with absurdist labels.

Added April 25, 2026

A grocery-store copypasta that escalates from “Is that ham processed?” to “If it’s processed I don’t want it,” usually voiced as an angry deli worker rant—popular as absurdist customer-service humor.

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 23, 2026

An April 2026 exploitable format: two identical Squidward Tentacles walk side by side under the caption “When you have a friend,” then multiply into crowds or swap shirt colors for fandom in-jokes.

Added April 19, 2026

A TikTok fancam trend in early 2026 that treats Incidental 49A—the purple fish realtor from SpongeBob’s “Opposite Day” (1999)—like a stan-Twitter idol, set to pop and electronic tracks.

Added April 17, 2026

A label for absurdist, surreal TikTok edits tied to the idea of “doomscrolling” into the “Farlands”—named after Minecraft’s Far Lands terrain glitch—with a breakout mascot clip of a fat bee playing violin in April 2026.

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 13, 2026

Bike Fall, also documented as “Baton Roue,” is a three-panel object-labeling meme from a French webcomic: a cyclist jams a stick into the front wheel, crashes, and the labels explain a self-sabotaging choice or blame shift.

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 11, 2026

A two-panel meme from The Office (US) in which Pam presents two photos to corporate; Creed says they’re the same picture—used to mock two things people treat as different when they are effectively identical.

Added April 11, 2026

A still of Boromir from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring captioned “One does not simply…”—a snowclone for warnings about underestimated tasks, used both earnestly and ironically.

Added April 6, 2026

A TikTok-born meme pairing the 2020 NBA draft jingle with a two-sided trade graphic—often proposing a comically unfair swap—and later spreading as a still exploitable for "I receive / You receive" jokes.

Added April 1, 2026

A two-panel object-labeling webcomic where a grey figure strains toward a yellow balloon while a pink figure holds them back — usually labeled to show something desirable blocked by a limitation.

Added March 31, 2026

A fancy, tuxedo-clad edit of Winnie the Pooh in an armchair — the top tier in the expanding "plain vs refined" multi-panel meme and a reaction image for smug agreement.

Added March 30, 2026

A viral YouTube Shorts series by DaFuq!?Boom! featuring toilets with human heads singing a remixed song, sparking a massive fan culture and Gen Alpha internet subculture.

Added March 29, 2026

Exploitable cartoon character derived from an effeminate-looking Superman still in the DC animated film Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010), paired with the phrasal template 'X, I…' on 4chan's /co/ board.

Added March 28, 2026

Viral AI-assisted video of a humanoid pigeon in a white coat walking dramatically down a hallway, based on Conor McGregor footage and originally posted by TikToker @doctor_pigeon in January 2026.

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 28, 2026

A TikTok meme based on a viral AI Marge Simpson voice singing a four-ingredient matcha cake recipe, inspiring thousands of covers, parodies, and brainrot edits across TikTok and Instagram.

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 26, 2026

Image macro series where a soldier asks a submerged Panzer tank "O panzer of the lake, what is your wisdom?" and the tank replies with humorous statements.

Added March 24, 2026

A March 2026 AI-generated TikTok meme format in which a skeleton traveling through history repeatedly encounters an insufferably philosophical Socrates who pesters them with questions and occasionally twerks.

Added March 23, 2026

A comparison meme contrasting lavish spending right after payday (Week 1: lobster dinner) with extreme austerity before the next paycheck (Week 2: "Ice Soup").

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.

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 21, 2026

Exploitable snowclone meme based on a Facebook post where a Pakistani man dramatically announced he was ending his friendship with Mudasir.

Added March 20, 2026

Object-labeling image macro using a stock photo of one woman forcing an open milk bottle to another's mouth, widely used to caption situations involving unwanted forced consumption—most notably tweeted by Elon Musk in 2023 to mock Twitter's algorithm.

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 16, 2026

Drake Hotline Bling uses stills from Drake's 2015 "Hotline Bling" video as a two-panel reaction format for rejecting one option and approving another.

Added March 16, 2026

Change My Mind uses a photo of Steven Crowder behind a campus table sign and is captioned to present a hot take or opinion for others to challenge.

Added March 16, 2026

Expanding Brain, also known as Galaxy Brain, is a multi-panel format that escalates from normal thinking to cosmic enlightenment, usually to mock increasingly absurd takes.

Added March 16, 2026

Cortisol Spike or Cortisol Level is a slang phrase and reaction image format used to humorously describe moments of sudden stress, shock, or second-hand embarrassment. It references the stress hormone cortisol and became a popular way to caption cringe-worthy or anxiety-inducing content.

Added March 16, 2026

Computer Guy, also known as Computa Guy or Computa, Make This Guy X, refers to a series of viral TikTok videos in which a user instructs an AI image editor to transform a photo and reacts with surprise or delight at the result. The format spread across platforms as a template for absurd or unexpected AI image transformations.

Added March 12, 2026

Two Buttons, also known as Daily Struggle, originated as a 2014 webcomic by Jake Clark showing a sweating character unable to choose between two labeled options. The blank buttons make it a popular template for illustrating contradictory choices, indecision, or hypocritical decisions.

Added March 12, 2026

Your AI Slop Bores Me is a website and game where users submit questions they would normally ask an AI, then rate the human answers. It became a viral meme format mocking the homogeneity and low effort of AI-generated content shared online.

Added March 12, 2026

Left Exit 12 Off Ramp is based on a 2013 YouTube video of a car drifting off a Norwegian highway. As a meme, the highway sign labels represent two options and the car swerves sharply toward the preferred one, used to express a strong and decisive preference for one thing over another.

Added March 12, 2026

Always Has Been features two astronauts in space, with one looking at Earth and saying "Wait, it's all X?" while the other points a gun and responds "Always has been." Originating as an MS Paint comic in 2016 and going viral in 2019-2020, the format delivers surprising revelations with a conspiratorial or dark punchline.