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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.