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Added August 5, 2026

A history-meme format joking that the British Museum is an "active crime scene" of colonial artifact theft—popularized after John Oliver's 2015 Koh-i-Noor segment and /r/HistoryMemes in 2019.

Added June 2, 2026

An image-macro trend that uses historical Paul Revere ride paintings to joke about breathlessly warning a fandom that big news—album drops, game launches, or gossip—just dropped.

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 13, 2026

Ancient Aliens macros use a History Channel still of Giorgio A. Tsoukalos gesturing with wild hair; the punchline is that any mystery—pyramids, bugs, bad Wi-Fi—is explained as aliens.