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Memes: Other Internet
"SUP DAWG, I HERD U DIDN'T LIEK FORMING BABBY, BUT I ACCIDENTALLY IN YOUR BASE."
— xkcd

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Internet, memes are being generated every hour of every day! (Scare Chord)

NOTE TO TROPERS: Please read the entire page before adding your meme. Duplication is a serious problem here, and we'd like to keep it down.

Formatted examples:

  • First! Explanation
    • First? Yaoi for you.
      • That's nice, but what are your thoughts on yaoi?
    • First? Boobies!
    • Comments on "I Can Haz Cheezburger" and related sites take it further, with people sometimes posting "Third!" "Fifth!" "Ninth!"
    • Alt. version common in anime fandom: "lol, I stole your comment virginity."
    • The art site Elfwood had this in the form of the first comment dance, with variations including first comment breakdance, tapdance and tango.
    • The meme itself probably predates Slashdot, but truly entered the internet zeitgeist via that site's "first post" troll posts.

  • [Citation Needed] Explanation

  • !!!!!1111oneone111eleven Explanation
    • !!!!!!111!11one!11!cos(0)
    • !!!!111!!!!1one!11one!!!(lim from x to 0 of sin(x)/x))

  • PROGRESS Explanation

  • All the (noun)s. All of them. Explanantion

  • JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION! GET IN THE CAR!Explanation
  • The site You're the Man Now, Dog (named after a Sean Connery quote from the movie Finding Forrester) is nothing but a giant Memetic Mutation generator. Most remain there, but some escape into the wild.
    • One of the more notable Memetic Mutations born at YTMND is actually a mutation of something that began as a meme in the first place; namely, the depiction of World of Warcraft player Leeroy "At least I have chicken" Jenkins as Martin Lawrence's character from the movie Black Knight holding a bucket of fried chicken.
    • A Dramatic Reading of a Real Breakup Letter from a Real Person has become one of the most quotable things on the entire Internet.
    • Note also Olmec, the giant, well, Olmec head from the kids' game show Legends of the Hidden Temple. YTMND of him usually feature him giving extremely long directions for how to get through said temple. A common variation is to substitute other memes for the various artifacts in the temple that he describes.
      • ...which will bring you into the SHRINE OF THE SILVER MONKEY
      • Did somebody said silver monkey?
    • Another meme from YTMND is the Epic Maneuver meme, which began with Geordi LaForge rolling in an epic way set to Ghost Love Score. It expanded into characters doing anything mundane in an epic way, always set to Ghost Love Score by Nightwish. It also started the increase of the usage of the word "epic" throughout the Internet.
    • And one that was purely internal to YTMND, based on nothing outside, and for that matter, precious little inside... NEDM. No, we're not going to explain it, other than mention that it's tied to a loop from the song "We Interrupt This Program(Jean Claude Ades Remix)" by Coburn, starting at around 2:15 into said remix, and the I Can Has Cheezeburger cat.
      • Screw it. Originally, a video of a cat being set on fire was uploaded, and a comment was made that "Not Even Doom Music" could make the video anything but horrifying. It then took on a life of its own.
  • There are hundreds of "Chuck Norris Facts" purporting examples of the Walker, Texas Ranger star's bad-assness, a common theme being roundhouse-kicking someone into oblivion. Examples include "Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried. Ever." and "Chuck Norris doesn't sleep; he waits." One of these Chuck Norris facts (that Norris has a third fist in place of a chin) was even shown being literal in an episode of Family Guy. Similar cases have even been given their own trope.
    • ...which spawned the Norwegian 'Lars Monsen' facts about a well-known outdoorsman, playing off his 'man of the wild' image. When asked by a Troper whether he had heard of them himself, Monsen responded with a pained "yes".
      • Lars Monsen was born in a hut that he built for himself!
  • And speaking of Mr. T, there are so many "Mr. T vs." sites on the web, consisting of everything from fanfic to Photoshopped comics to Flash cartoons with Mr. T fighting people, that a site entitled Mr. T vs. Everything was founded.
    • A World of Warcraft commercial has Mr. T laying down his "Night Elf Mohawk", and then verbally bitchslapping the director with essentially an admission of hacking the game to create a Mohawk class when the director points out there's no such class, and his Night Elf is actually a Warrior. If that doesn't add to his Memetic Badassery, then we dunno what will. Because of said commercial, the mohawk is now a selectable hairstyle.
      • And some smack-talkin' fools will try to say that Mr. T can't change the World of Warcraft, he ain't no computer hacker! But answer me this, sucka'! How do ya explain the Mohawk Grenades?!
  • Spider-Man Will Make You Gay.
  • One of the more infamous and objectively creepy memes on TwoCh involved a cute anime version of Nevada-tan, based on the real-life, unnamed, Nevada-logo-sweatered Japanese schoolgirl charged with murdering a classmate with a boxcutter.
  • The pool is a planet and the man is a room outside.
  • The seven-minute "Dr. Tran" video is still all over YouTube: it features a little boy in an undefined Asian country being harangued by an obnoxious movie trailer narrator. The man keeps claiming that the boy is Dr. Tran, a sexually promiscuous James Bond-style action hero that has starred in over thirty-thousand films. Just... watch it. Be warned, it's got language that's NSFW.
  • "DON'T TASE ME BRO!", derived from captured footages of a University of Florida student being arrested by a police squad at a forum held by John Kerry, resisted the police, and was tasered. You know something's a meme when it's quoted in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
  • Memetic Mutation even goes back to before the Internet went mainstream. "____ Ate My Balls" is one of the earliest known examples of an Internet meme, having started in 1996. Usenet newsgroups were also once fertile grounds for Memetic Mutation.
    • Crosses over with the aforementioned "Mr. T" trope (also a staple of the early web) to form "Mr. T Ate My Balls".
    • And suddenly the troper finding photos of Spock making various comments about eating balls in old late 90's back issues in his old college newspapers several years ago makes sense.
  • Musn't forget The Slender Man Mythos. But that's all I can say. If I dig too far, who knows what will happen. I'm already too entrenched with this as it is....
  • Internet-related but not directly from it; In the 2000 Presidential campaign, Al Gore claimed partial credit for sponsoring legislation in the early '90s repealing a ban on commercial use of the Internet; this got twisted (by either the George W. Bush campaign, the news media, or a late-night comic who started it), into him claiming to have "invented the Internet".
    • Civilization IV references this by having the icon for the Internet advancement being - what else? - a picture of Gore.
    • In fairness, what he actually said was: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." In the quote's whole context, it's clear he was talking about lawmaking.
      • And trying to make people think he had something to do with creating the Internet.
      • Honestly, when Vint Cerf basically says you're allowed to take credit for creating the Internet, I think that means you're allowed to take credit.
  • Tay Zonday. Chocolate Rain. That is all.
    • Don't forgot Cherry Chocolate Rain.
  • German example: Bielefeld does not exist.
    • Hilarity Ensues when people form Bielefeld interact with the rest of the country. This Troper has seen signs put up at a conference that read "Bielefeld - Yes, we do exist. Fuck off!"
      • A particularly humorous example of this backlash graces the Wikipedia page; At one point in 1999 the Bielefeld city council released a press statement titled "Bielefeld gibt es doch!" (Bielefeld does exist!) to fight the meme — that point in 1999 being April 1st.
    • This has arrived stateside as "Maine does not exist."
    • Perhaps not related, but similar in theme: The Onion's pseudo-atlas Our Dumb World claims that Cameroon is a fictitious creation of an 18th-century cartographer, and the islands of Tonga are something they, the editors, just made up.
    • In 90's Chile, the TV show "Plaza Italia"'s host always said at the beginning of the show that "Combarbalá does not exist". Even when people from Combarbalá (either missing the point or keeping up with the joke) sent him letters and packages from there to prove they did exist.
    • John Hodgman's The Areas of My Expertise frequently denies the existence of Chicago.
    • Daniel Pinkwater's The Worms of Kukumlima features a character who declares that the alleged existence of Los Angeles is a practical joke.
    • As they explained on Garfield and Friends, "There is no such state as Wyoming. Think about it: Have you ever MET anyone from Wyoming?" If you heard it on television, it must be true!
    • Later referenced by Scott Adams in one of the Dilbert text books, with Switzerland. It was being used to explain why all "aliens" are actually Swiss people. Jokingly, of course.
    • In Brazil there are those who claim that the district of Acre does not exist.
      • This Brazilian troper agrees with this theory. He lives in Pará (not so far away from Acre, relatively speaking), and he never heard of anything related to Acre. People going to Acre? Nope, never. People coming from Acre? Never saw, never heard. News from Acre? Nevar. There's news from a lot of places in the TV, but Acre? Never. There is no Acre, gentlemen.
    • Perhaps related to all the above, in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Rosencrantz claims he doesn't believe in England (meaning he has no clear idea of what it's like, or what will happen when they get there - perhaps metafictionally reflecting that they completely disappear from Hamlet at this point) Guildenstern sarcastically replies "Just a conspiracy of cartographers?"
  • "IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER" (also known as "IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZER" and " SHOOP DA WHOOP ") is an Image Macro meme where various people and characters (notably Cell) are depicted in poorly drawn blackface firing lasers out of their mouths. The Lazer meme originated from a bad photoshop of Imperfect Cell with his mouth open.
  • JUST USE SPACE JUMP.
  • The trope-making internet parody Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series has been memetically mutated on this very wiki. Check out its entry for Recycled IN SPACE!. In addition, the series frequently references existing memes, including the above Dr. Octagonopus.
  • In addition to making use of memes from around the Internet, YouTube Poop has come up with a number of memes of its own, such as Uctions, the many alter egos of Luigi (among them Mama Luigi, Gay Luigi, and Emo Luigi) and Pedo Ed.
  • This legendarily silly Doom fanfic, known for its famous twist ending.
  • Dramatic Chipmunk (and I think by this point most of us are well aware that, yes, that's actually a prairie dog).
    • The original, unedited clip that it was taken from: [1]
    • Was even included into the Powerpuff Girls 10th Anniversary special with Mojo Jojo performing it.
    • Also appeared on the music video for Weezer's "Pork and Beans," along with many other Internet memes.
  • We could explain the Rick Roll to you, but this video explains it better than I ever could.
  • The Muppets have been all over YouTube, but it's OK, because Muppets are awesome.
  • Just ask any Farker about Rotsky. Go on, what do you have to lose loose lose? (Sorry, pet peeve.)
    • Fark.com itself has spawned a number of memes and in-jokes over the years (which they've dubbed "Farkisms"). For the record, Duke sucks, Hollywood has run out of ideas, and your dog wants steak.
    • You're a Farker who wants to make a snappy headline with fake multiple-choice questions. Do you C) leave out A and B and just Take the Third Option?
    • That's no UFO! That's a streetlight!
    • I [X] for a living, so I'm really getting a kick out of most of these replies.
  • Powerthirst ads take What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome? to levels previously unseen by man or beast.
    • "400 BABIES! Give Shockolate to your babies so they'll be good at SPORTS! Make your babies run ABNORMALLY FAST! They'll run as fast as KENYANS! People will watch them running and think they're KENYANS! They'll run as fast as KENYANS against actual KENYANS and people will see them running and think they're KENYANS and it'll be a tie and they'll get deported back to KENYAAAAAAAAAA!"
    • What if everything you ever wanted... CAME! IN! A! ROCKET-CAN?! POWERTHIRST: ROCKET EDITION! Contains flavours like MANANA! FIZZBITCH! and...GUN! You've had the worst, now try the THIRST!... QUENCHER!
      • You'll win at running, football, arson, weddings, and ART!
      • You'll even win at IRONY!
      • TOP SCORE.
    • SNAKE EYES!!!
    • You'll be so fast Mother Nature will be like "Slooooow Dooooown" but you'll be like "Fuck you!" and kick her in the face with your ENERGY LEGS!
    • Now with preposterous amounts of testosterone! PREPOSTERONE!
    • When life gives you lemons, you find a new god!
    • "It's like crystal meth in a can! It's crystal meth in a can! Powerthirst is crystal meth!"
    *Warning: may contian Anna Kournikova.*
  • Charlie the Unicorn.
  • Snape. Snape. Severus Snape.
    • Harry is feeling very angry and pubescent today!
    • Bother!
    • I mean every word I ever say, ever, because I'M. HARRY. POTTER.
    • I'm Harry Potter, school is for losers, I'm totally awesome...
    • NAKED TIME!
  • Aretha Franklin's hat from the 2008 Presidential Inauguration. It probably could have been seen from space.
  • Shock and prank sites.
  • TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!
  • Everyone loves Magical Trevor, 'cause the tricks that he does are ever so clever.
  • Badger Badger Badger. Semi-accurate description of a Tu-16 attack.
  • Fandom_Wank is responsible for "My hed iz pastede on yay", as posted in response to a really lousy Photoshopped picture of Sam from Lord of the Rings. It can be used to represent anything that has that "obviously fake" look to it (e.g. "My angst iz pastede on yay!")
  • Inside Dungeons & Dragons, a comedic audio clip by the Dead Alewives (never mind that video), has in the very least meme-ised the phrase "I'm attacking the darkness!"
    • AM I DRUNK YET?
    • IF THERE ARE ANY GIRLS THERE, THEN I WANNA DO THEM!
  • Several Jack Chick tracts. Especially this strip◊ from the "Hi There!", which later became "This is an ass sandwich, it is made of ass and poo◊". One wonders if Jack Chick gets this strip on his mailbox often...
  • In the late 90s, a Polish audio clip entitled Trzy słowa do ojca prowadzącego ("three words to the presiding father") did the rounds on the internet. It consisted of an anonymous person phoning the host of a right-wing religious broadcast in order to say the titular three words, which literally translate as "dick in your arse", and can be heard here with the phrase in question at 0:08.
  • Mitchell Henderson became an hero after his iPod was stolen.
  • Extreme Marketing!
    • Do you want to see a website cataloging all the damn crazy shit in the world? You bet your pasty ass you do, Jesus fuck! You won't believe all the goddamn hilarious shit on this website! It's like a fucking tidal wave of awesome that's going to make you come in your pants! Just look at all the fucking text! Holy fuck, that's a lot of shit that everyone wrote together like a bunch of fuckers in an orgy! It just makes you want to write a goddamn fucking article, shit!
    • Big Bill Hell's would like to say FUCK YOU, BALTIMORE!
    • HOLY SHIT ITS BISMUTH!
  • "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!"
  • In before Longcat.
  • Longcat is loooooong
    • X Y is X...the ultimate memetic snowclone, where X = adjective and Y = noun.
    • In after Longcat.
  • If you doubt this is a meme, how is it there are PYGMIES + DWARFS??
    • Happy Monkey!
    • PZ has a cyberpistol!
  • Memes? On my Internet? It's more likely than you think.
  • facepalm.jpg
  • I can has tropes?
  • IM IN UR WIKI, EDITIN UR TROPES.
  • Ceiling cat is watching you.
  • Cake or death?
    • Umm... cake please.
      • Very well. Give him cake!
      • Fools! The cake is a lie.
      • Wait, so my choice is just "or death?"...Well, I'll have the chicken, then.
      • People seemed to like this better, but only marginally so - the way one might prefer to be stabbed than shot. Optimally, one isn't stabbed or shot. Optimally, one eats some cake! But there are times when cake is not available, and instead we are destroyed. This is the deep poetry of the universe. --Tycho of Penny Arcade
    • No.
  • Shoes. You can't text-message breakup. Lemme borrow that top. Shall I go on?
  • BOB SAGET!!
  • I divided by zero—OH SHI- (is sucked into black hole)
  • what is this i don't even
  • On TFWiki, if you are old, it is because you are HARD.
    • Sentinel Prime is a jerk.
    • And (G1) Prowl is a prick.
    • And Ultra Magnus can't deal with anything, at the moment.
    • And (Animated) Bumblebee is harsh.
    • And (Movie) Bonecrusher hates EVERYTHING.
    • And him Grimlock King!
    • Soundwave superior; others inferior.
      • Who're you callin' "uncrazimatic"?
    • Omega Supreme. Favoured punctuation mark: colon.
    • Skywarp'll push you down some stairs.
    • (Movie) Optimus Prime says "GIVE ME YOUR FACE".
    • Transformers is Ruined FOREVER! And it ruined TV Tropes and Wookiepedia too!
    • Anything with wings is like a vast, predatory bird.
  • I put on my Robe and Wizard Hat.
  • This video is responsible for roughly half of all Norwegian internet memes, despite being in Swedish. Such phrases as "Låter som en gåta" ("Sounds like a riddle"), "Du för dålig för att kasta sten" ("You're not good enough to throw stones.") and "Detta här har jag sett på TV, vettu, det är bara att trycka här, vettu, och så sjunger du nåt" ("I've seen this on TV, y'know, you just push here, y'know, and then you sing something") are almost as universally recognizable as "42".
    • Not to forget "Den er jo av sten! Den skulle jo vara av plast!" ("It's made out of stone! It was supposed to be made of plastic!")
  • This meme is bad... for Obama.
    • This is excellent news!! For Hillary!!!
  • Because of it's well-known effect on people there are certain forums where it's a meme to respond to links to this site in the same way that you respond to someone mentioning The Game.
    • Goddammit!
  • There are lots of remixes/covers of The Angry Video Game Nerd theme song (which the Nerd himself actually encourages), including the Mario Paint version, the punk version, the '80s metal version, the romantic ballad version, the French version...
  • The 2008 Candidate Comparisons, courtesy of Fark.com.
  • I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.
    • Also known as "I c wat yoo did thar"
  • The Angry German Kid. Also known as "Echter Gangster" in Germany, where he's more famous for his original video.
  • Yahoo Answers has provided a few low-level memes, although the original posters(one hopes) may have been Trolls.
  • I guess the only thing better would be ten friends on a--FOOT DOCTOR!! (Hydrocity Zone music plays)
  • Any number of phrases from the Chad Warden video: "Sup byeetches!" "I'm talking 'bout the Pee-Ess-Triple", "Dildo", "gay niggers" and Chad's pronunciation of his own name, which sounds like "Chairw'll".
  • PROMOTIONS!
    • Which is a summary of "I GOT PROMOTED!", which is itself derived from "I GOT FIRED!", presumably for looking at NSFW images. Internet memes are weird.
  • If it involves a Dancing Theme popular in Japan, chances are this guy has danced it.
  • Survival of the Fittest has several localised ones.
    • IT'S A STEAK! Explanation
    • I don't know if we've said it yet, but Rick Holeman is a marine. Explanation
      • Rick Holeman is a marine.
    • Don't forget the ROCKS OF DOOM! Explanation
    • Rape hands! Explanation
    • X has killed before and she has no particular qualms about doing it again. Explanation
    • mimefan would like to let everyone know that nobody thinks like him, so they can't think like him. Explanation
    • NITPICK. Explanation
    • Charlene Norris and her jelloshots. Around six to eight of them. Explanation
    • and then minase died of aids Explanation.
    • Rosa x ANYTHING Explanation
    • ...She dropped her bread. Explanation
    • Jimmy Brennan. Pretty much everything about him.
      • Craig Hoyle will rape you and wear your skin as a coat. Explanation
      • Make mine Moxie. Explanation
    • I'M FROM DETROIT I KNOW HOW TO USE THIS! Explanation
    • YOU WIN THIS TIME GRAVITYYYYYYYYYYYYY-
      • -YYYYYYYYYYYY! Explanation
    • Bridget Connolly/Border Collie OTP. Explanation
  • Memetic Mutation: you're doing it wrong.
  • Lord help you if you ever get McRoll'd.
  • JAK ER SNEL HEST ("I iss nise hors") is a Swedish internet meme that's grown to ridiculous proportions. It started with an ugly picture of a horse and the words JAK ER SNEL HEST, followed by Hestmatematik◊* . These came to serve as a a bunch of incredibly lame puns and lots of general weirdness. Some of results are available [[here]], although most will be pretty incomprehensible if you're not familiar with Swedish popular culture.
  • Goddammit, Freehaven.
  • Yo dawg, I heard you like memes, so I put a meme in your meme so you can mutate while you mutate.
  • "Literalizing" music videos, i. e. rewriting / redubbing the lyrics of popular songs so that the describe what's going on in the video for that song. For example: Birdhouse In Your Soul
  • This troper accidentally a coke bottle.
    • The whole thing?
    • Is that dangerous?
  • This page is on fire... COLD FIRE! But it didn't die, 'cause it's a pirate!!
  • O RLY? spawned tons of related image macros (though the site that hosted them, orlyowl.com, is now dead).
  • LEAVE BOND TO ME
  • YOU MUST PAY WITH YOUR LIVES!!
    • This originally came from a line in a internet literary work in which the main villain says this to stumbling NATO forces.
    • This also works great in SimCity 4... (If those lazy citizens can't pay their taxes...)
  • There are no girls on the internet.
  • Suddenly, MEMES! Thousands of them!
  • I think TV Tropes is a pretty cool website, ti categorizes trpoes and doesn't afraid of anything.
  • Hey Dad! Dad, I love you!
    • Son... I am disappoint.*
  • EXAMPLE FAIL.
    • Apparently, it's now a Youtube meme to ask/assume that someone who hurts themself in a Failblog video died.
      • Did the meme die?
    • Did the external link die?
  • 436 does not exist.
  • ursulav's work The Biting Pear of Salamanca has been turned into a meme with the addition of the text 'LOL WUT' at the bottom. It's used to denote general weirdness.
    • Indeed, it's been parodied and abused quite a bit on deviantART itself. The sheer number of plz accounts (accounts with an avatar that can used as an emote, by linking to it in a post) involving it is staggering. Also, the horrific abuse of plz accounts deserves to be listed as a meme of it's own, if not given it's own trope (if that's been done, feel free to correct my mistake here).
      • The admins seem to have decided to just dealWithIt.gif, so to speak.
  • "His music the hipster garabe I've ever heard", which originated as a comment posted about Aphex Twin on last.fm, an internet radio and music community website. "Hipster garabe" is now generally used to refer to artists that are well-respected by indie-rock fans.
  • Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat features people usually falling over and hurting themselves, followed by a cat in a baby blue shirt playing some song on the keyboard. The song itself is one of the worst kinds of ear worms.
  • A gentleman on an imageboard once inquired about the possibility of his bound-for-boot-camp girlfriend possibly being unfaithful. The succinct reply? "SHE IS GOING TO FUCK A LOT OF DUDES."
  • The point to these memes is to, you guessed it, Take Over the World.
  • Super Mecha Death Christ.
  • This page: 5000 hours in MS Paint.
  • "inb4mogar" is a meme deriving from a person with the username "Mogar" being, if not the first, then close to it, poster on the forums of the game Cyber Nations.
  • Every time you masturbate, God (or Kaworu) kills a kitten. Please...think of the kittens.
    • I know I always do.
  • Happy Falker Satherhood! Now with origins and new cakes.
  • Good luck. I'm behind seven proxies!
  • GRAVITY!!
  • The Straight Dope Message Board has its own quirky in-jokes and memes that occasionally require some explanation. Among them:
    • Given that the tagline for the Straight Dope is "Fighting Ignorance Since 1973", any claim made by anyone, especially in the "Great Debates" section (the board for controversial topics), are met with cries for "Cite?", though this is also used humorously in other contexts as well.
    • Because of the user named "Opalcat" complaining that lists have to come in items of three or more, the third item on any list of any length is now "Hi, Opal!"
    • A user named "Hal Briston" once left his workstation unlocked while signed on, and a mischievous college started a topic for him: "Sex with sheep is fun." Needless to say, he has yet to live this down.
    • Simultaneous posts involving a question about the Duran Duran song Rio has resulted in the joke answer of any question being "Rio by Duran Duran".
    • Multiple attempts to send a post through about the Marianas trench results in other things having been attempted "once, in the 1960s, for about twenty minutes".
    • A question about weapons of mass destruction garnered the (then dead serious) answer of "1920's style Death Rays".
    • Any anecdote about cats (and occasionally other pets as well) will be bombarded by requests for pictures.
    • It's pretty much an open secret that The Straight Dope column writer Cecil Adams is the Pen Name of "editor" Ed Zotti, but most long-time posters, including board moderators, like to pretend that this isn't the case.
  • Speaking in the case of Cracked.com, these examples don't appear to be very dongtacular.
  • ITTY BITTY BABY ITTY BITTY BOAT
    • I don't believe it!
      • Habeeb it!
      • TWINKIE HOUSE!
  • On Rotten Tomatoes, one user dared to go against the simple majority opinion that The Ugly Truth is not a good movie. She summed up her thoughts on the movie thusly and posted them (several times) in the comments section of some of the rotten reviews: "What movie were you watching? The sold-out audience in the Friday night sneak preview giggled and laughed out loud throughout the entire film. We all left in a good mood." Because of her persistence, people decided to sarcastically copy and paste that onto other rotten reviews of the film (y'know, to save her the trouble). People have begun to do this on other negative film reviews on the site. "And that, little Billy, is where bab—er, MEMES come from!"
  • I am aware of all Internet traditions.
  • I'm droppin' the banhammer on this troll! Get the f* ck outta here!
  • An old Wizards of the Coast forum response to bad/stupid DMs was suggesting the use of a hammergun. This originated when someone suggested someone be shot, with a hammer.
    • Chimney Imp is the most broken card EVAR!
      • It untaps every turn for free.
  • 2009 may be remembered as the "year of the fail" since a number of clusterfucks involving racism, homophobia, sexism, transphobia, and other failures have been snowcloned as "X Fail":
    • The fail-meme began with RaceFail '09, over racism in science fiction and by Sci Fi authors in their blogs after fans point it out.
    • In April, Amazon.com suddenly removed books with LGBT themes from its search listings, calling them "adult." Neil Gaiman helped propagate awareness with the Twitter hashtag "#Amazonfail."
    • MammothFail. Because First Nations are just too inconvenient to write about when there's cool megafauna.
    • An Electronic Arts contest encouraging gamers to "commit acts of lust" on "booth babes" at Comic-Con was dubbed #EAFail.
    • An epically fail-tastic survey done by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam that tried to use fans' love of lemons and slash fic to somehow prove there were hard-wired gender differences in the brain was tentatively dubbed OgiFail, BrainFail, and finally SurveyFail.
  • WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS PAGE? I wanna know whose idea was this page RIGHT NOW.
  • HEY, IT'S FRED!
    • DAMMIT FRANK
      • IT'S FRED NOT FRANK YOU IDIOT!
  • Move faster, Pokey! Faster!!!
    • DEATH WATER!!!
  • I roll with gangs!
  • ಠ_ಠ
  • BABY FUCK BABY FUCK!
    • IT'S AWWWWWWWWRIGHT!
  • "You know who else did something I don't approve of? Hitler."
  • So I'm sitting here editing TV Tropes, when Bill Murray strides up next to me, pulls the keyboard out from under my hands, and starts vandalizing every article I have open. With gay porn. I'm dumbstruck. Just as he gets up to leave, he turns to me and says, "No one will ever believe you."
  • Cool story, bro!
  • i am a heron. i ahev a long neck and i pick fish out of the water w/ my beak. if you dont repost this comment on 10 other pages i will fly into your kitchen tonight and make a mess of your pots and pans
  • <insert your Forced Meme here>
  • Herbert Cumberdale, you taste like soot and poo!
    • I like rusty spoons... I like to touch them...
  • FSTDT has a number of memes, running gags, and in-jokes:
    • "Shiny Mirrors" and the destruction of "Irony Meters", both as responses to hypocrisy from the fundies being quoted.
    • Various image macros mocking the tendency of Christians to claim they're being oppressed despite being the majority religion in the US. A pie graph with the massive Christian segment saying "Help! I'm being oppressed!" is a favorite. There's also an animated version of the graph in which that segment eats the rest Pac-Man style, and the "persecuted/not persecuted" photo montage.
      • "They'll know we're Christians by our love, by our love" is another big one.
    • "TV Tropes is not a documentary!"
    • "TV Tropes for Jeebus!"
    • Dropping Flat Whats and links to the TV Tropes Flat What article.
    • Accusing people who claim to kill demons of "murdering vagrants again".
    • Blood For the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne! in response to fundies advocating the deaths of people they don't like, or fantasizing about Jesus coming back and killng said people.
  • A number of years ago, RPGNet had the evil Scree-fice Menace, alien Eldritch Abominations that ate people's eyes and kidneys, could shapeshift, could take over people's bodies, and could only be stopped by mango tea, which was toxic to them and when ingested made people's kidneys inedible to them.
    • The name came from a typo of "sacrifice" on a Tangency thread (where it was spelled "scrifice"), and the community just picked it up and ran with it.
    • RPGNet member TrapperQ made a LittleBigPlanet level based on the meme, which can be seen here.
  • "I wasn't being an asshole! It was, uh... a 'social experiment'. Yeah..."Explanation
  • I give this meme an A++++. would lol again.Explanation
  • No one listed Rage yet?! FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
  • [X] is the cancer that is killing TV Tropes.
  • I liked the part when That Troper posted an example.
  • I am showing you a really weird picture. Your argument is invalid.
    • My hair is a bird. Your argument is irrelevant. (Possibly the original one.)
  • Please Stop Let's Playing I Wanna Be The Guy, SNES9X, and anything from the NaviGTR/Flights of Fantasy video Retsupuraes count as memes for Retsupurae.
  • The Livejournal Roleplaying community in general is a fan of memes, and they're quickly starting to spawn some of their own, including "DO YOU FEEL LIKE THE ONLY ONE?" and "spooky jamjar".
    • I am a MEDIATOR. I am INVOLVED. DEARIE DEARIE CHILDREN DEARIE.
  • "Nie mogę ci pomóc, jestem koniem" (I can't help you, I'm a horse), spawned by a simple comic strip drawn in MS Paint◊. Three frames: a girl crying "Help me! Someone stole my car!", a horse looking at her and saying "I can't help you", the horse staring creepily and saying "I'M A HORSE!" It became an instant hit on Wykop, the Polish equivalent of Digg.com.
    • Which on its own was spawned by eRepublik Poland's political statement towards Russia, and almost immediately led to Poland being called "Horseland".
  • "Daj kamienia" (Gimme a stone!), which comes from a recording of a soccer match between two small-town teams. The guy holding the camera screams "Daj kamienia!" when the goalie lets a particularly lousy shot through. A lot of Memetic Mutations were created.
  • READ THE STORY! Born here. It gets ridiculous.
  • A far-from-comprehensive list can be found here. (The fact that we are not one of the sites listed should be evidence of its incompletion.)
  • While the origin's uncertain, there seem to be a lot of pictures of anthropomorphized animals accompanied by the caption "Yiff in Hell, furfags!" The most popular, which may or may not be the original, shows the title character of Disney's animal version of Robin Hood surrounded by flames. This has mutated at least twice, into the pornographic version "Yiff in heaven, furfriends!" and into the 300 crossover "Tonight we yiff in hell!"
  • Basically anything to do with Sonichu and the TRUE and ORIGINAL Christian Weston Chandler.
    • I'm not afraid to SHOW MY FANGS!
    • I'LL BREAK YOU DEAD!
    • I'LL SSSSTRANGLE THAT CLYDE CASH!
    • I! NAME! IS! NOT! IAN! BRANDON! SOMETHING!
      • CALL HIM A REAL NAME that God has given to him and the bear at Regency Square Shopping center, during 1989, YOU DAMN MOCKING BASTARD!
    • The REAL tropes have been made out of Crayola fucking Model Magic and acrylic PAINT!
    • The entirety of the Madman Rising:
      • I am not a Pedofork, you DORKS!
      • I like dykes, dykes! CHINA!
      • Crudely drawn pictures of... Dicks!
      • That is Megan's eyes that are censored, not Crystal!
  • It's hard to tell if publications take this seriously or not, but every year since 1999 has been the Year of the Linux Desktop.
  • Wyoming'd.
  • >implying that implications don't need to be on this list.
    • >reactionimage.jpg
      • On the subject of reaction images, many people have taken to misnaming them humorously. This may have been started by laughing_elf_man.jpg◊, which may or may not have been unintentional (this troper doesn't know). A misnamed reaction image sometimes leads to a long chain of people reacting to the filename of the previous image with a misnamed image of their own.
  • I fucked it. I fucked it and I hated myself, and now it's gone.
  • That's not funny, my brother died that way
  • pic unrelated.
  • This page is TOTALLY AWESOME!
    • It's on Mars
    • I love Zefron the most!
    • WHO DISRESPECT DA UMBRIDGE?
  • im in your tvtropes editing ur page
  • I've been a [noun] for [number] years, and I'm highly offended!
  • Awesome Smiley of course.
  • "GINGERS HAVE SOULS!" Now accompanied with Stupid Statement Dance Mixes galore.
  • Whether you're pissed over Shipping, or anything else that is Serious Business, posting "I RAGED. HARD." will usually suffice.
  • The German Lord of the Rings parody "Lord of the Weed" (which is practically an Abridged Series of the first movies first hour) was extremely popular for several months, that practically every single line has become a permanent meme among german Tabletop RPG groups.
  • TL;DR
    • Sorry, I skipped some posts.
    • Laconic Version:
    • Both of these variants are due to different filter configurations on the TV Tropes forums.
  • (X)star doesn't like Y!
    • Firestar doesn't like cookies!
    • Homestar doesn't like marshmallows!
  • The internet is Serious Business.
  • THE WORD "JAMMINGPLOX" IS NOW A MEME.
  • HI I'M GEORGE ZIMMER, FOUNDER AND CEO OF MEN'S WEARHOUSE. I ENJOY TELLING TITILLATING TALES OF MY MASSIVE MEAT TRUNCHEON'S EXPLICIT EXCURSIONS WITH THE FEMALE ANATOMY. THESE EXTRAVAGANT EVENTS ARE TYPICALLY LITTERED WITH LURID INNUENDO, BUT NEVER LIES. YOU MAY DISPUTE MY CLAIMS, BUT BE WARNED THAT YOU'LL BE MET WITH MY MAMMOTH MAN-MUSCLE EMPLOYED AS A BLUDGEONING BAT. I'M LOOKING AT YOU, SUCKER. I GUARANTEE IT.
  • You will never discuss tropes with your waifu. ;_;
    • You will never find the person responsible for this meme and kill them with your bare hands.
  • The SMBC Theatre: Post a meme, then touch him on the penis.
  • Pictures of Joseph Ducreux, the unorthodox French painter who painted a couple of really... awesome self-portraits, captioned with Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe song lyrics. Damn, it feels good to be a gangster◊, I like big butts and I cannot lie◊, It's gettin' hot in here◊, Fuck the police◊, among others.
  • [image of a woman] So, TV Tropes, what would you do to her?
    • Sex, in the missionary position, for the purpose of procreation.
      • Reported, filtered, hidden and called the cops! You sick f*** !
  • The Tourist Guy, a photoshopped image of a tourist caught at the top of the WTC building during the 9/11 terrorist attack. Follow-up photos showed him at the sinking of Titanic, the assassination of JFK, and numerous other events real and fictitious.
  • This page wins the internet.
  • HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS.
  • I like the part where (describes what happens throughout the most or all of the said video).
  • Has anyone seen Kyle? He's about this tall. Seen Kyle?
  • [SHOCKING] VIDEO OF * person* ATTEMPTING TO NAVIGATE THE MANDRILL MAZE
  • So I was going on TV Tropes, and looking at this Memetic Mutation page, it was really... inspiring... to see all these memes. AND THEN I JUST CHUNDERED EVERYWHAAAR.
  • Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
  • ORIGINAL CHARACTER, DO NOT STEAL
  • Edits of "Laws for Kids" based off a series of poorly done educational comic.
  • Hi. I'm 12 years old and what is this?
  • "WHAT THE FU-"BOOM! * Evil Laugh*
We will now place these memes in a time capsule, so future generations can learn everything there is to know about our civilization. Poor bastards.
  • Please stop Let's Playing I Wanna Be the Guy.
  • HATERS GONNA HATE.
    • TROPERS GONNA TROPE.
    • Dissenters will inevitably abhor.
  • JxcelDolghmQ
  • Even though very popular among teens and young adults outside of Austria and Germany, the band Tokio Hotel was the equivalent of Justin Biber over here. Once, a girl, Angie, spoke up against the haters in a youtube video. Her infamous line, "Haltet euren Maul!" (Shut your mouth, only with slight grammar fail, as it should be, "Haltet euer Maul!") was quoted for months as a joking response to haters.
  • In Canada, milk comes in bags.
  • Because I backtraced it!
    • CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!
      • YOU DUN GOOFED!
      • The above posts has been reported to the Cyber Police, and the State Police!
      • Now that she's back (bitches!), Jessi Slaughter's gonna pop a Glock in all of our mouths, and make brain slushies.
      • For some backstory, Jessi Slaughter was rumored to have a sexual relationship with the lead singer of her favorite band, Blood on the Dance Floor, and then Jessi retaliated in one of her videos by saying the aforementioned "brain slushie" line, talking about how perfect she is, and cursing up a storm.
      • Her father was arrested for child abuse in March 2011, which would explain a lot about Jessi's behavior. Not only did 4chan harass an 11-year old, the actions they were harassing her for may have been caused by child abuse. And since she's in therapy now, they probably made it worse.
  • How's college? @w@
  • This page is educated stupid. Pointless meme cannot exist without equal and opposite pointless meme.
  • THOSE ARE MY SHOES. GIVE THEM BACK, YOU ARE A DOG. THEY DON'T EVEN FIT.
  • THIS WEBPAGE IS NOW DIAMONDS.
  • With YouTube's new voting system, X People Missed The Like Button. And more creative versions of it, depending on the content of the video.
    • On the comments for a YouTube video, there's usually "[Number of dislikes] are [antagonist of video's subject]". For instance, for Portal videos it's "x people work for Black Mesa"; for Team Fortress 2, (whose "Meet The..." videos see the RED team win) it's "x BLUs disliked this."
  • RUN AND TELL THAT HOMEBOY.
    • Y'ALL NEED TO HIDE JO KIDS, HIDE JO WIFE, AND HIDE JO HUSBAND CUZ DEY RAPIN' ERRBODY OUT HERE!
    • WE GON' FIND YOU!
  • Is this real life?
  • Disney Princesses doing funny faces
  • A local meme from The Daily WTF:
    Dear Troper,

    In case you can’t tell, this is a grown-up place. The
    fact that you insist on using your ridiculous handle
    clearly shows that you’re too young and too stupid
    to be using pmwiki.

    Go away and grow up.

    Sincerely,
    Bert Glastron
  • WHY CAN'T I HOLD ALL THESE LIMES?
  • >my face when X
    • also rendered as MFW.
  • "You have two cows". See Uncyclopedia's take on it for proof.
    • To elaborate, the meme is a parody of examples used in introductory economics, from which the two cows mutated into a representation of currency, capital, property, and anything else related to economics. This is usually used for political jokes and National Stereotypes, but in true meme spirit covers everything.
  • WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? [2]
  • X(number) people accidently clicked the dislike button.
    • Became widely popular when Youtube replaced the 5-star system with a thumbs system where people voted of either liking or disliking the video.
  • Red vs. Blue would like to remind you that camping is totally a legitimate strategy.
    • Bow chika bow wow!
    • That...was the worst throw, ever. Of all time.
    • What am the sky? How does eat food?
    • MY NAME, IS MICHAEL J CABOOSE. AND I. HATE. BABIES!
    • I also have my own acheiveables! BLEEP BLOOP!
    • You ever wonder why we're here?
    • Warthog? Looks more like a puma...
  • BOOM HEADSHOT!
  • The Rules of the Internet, a 4chan creation, best known for spawning Rule 34 and Rule 63.
  • ... AND THEN A SKELETON POPPED OUT.
  • Did you guys forget to HIDE YOU KIDS HIDE YOU WIFE THEY RAPIN' ERRYBODY OUT HERE!
  • Habbo Hotel: "Pool Closed Due to Aids".
  • fgsfds
  • While The Other Wiki is best known for the Citation Needed meme, the recent "Please read: a personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales" ads have been parodied on numerous sites; for example, Shortpacked! has "Please read: a personal appeal from Shortpacked! creator David Willis" linking to their online store.
  • WHO WAS PHONE!?!.
  • The Posh Mothershuckling Dangle Dongler Hour.
  • Pics or it didn't happen.
    • For quite a while, the Facepunch forums had the phrase "or it didn't happen" on autoban. No kidding, writing that in your post made the server instantly ban you for a day. Along with several other memes.
  • Edds World has Just a Bit Crazy.
  • Tvtropes FTW
    • Featured on TV Tropes! :D
  • "I wish I could talk in Technicolor..."
  • From Ghost Theory, people have begun to say "Chinese lanters." Whenever something unbelievable happens, the sarcastic response is "it was just a Chinese lantern." This spawned from a story about UFO's being debunked as chinese lanterns in one story. Not that the "debunking" made any sense.
  • INGLIP HAS BEEN SUMMONED. IT HAS BEGUN.◊
  • On SixBillionSecrets, it's common to post "WHY CAN'T YOU SEE THROUGH MY MAAAAASK." on a post having to deal with an OP wanting his/her friends to notice his/her depression. It's common to spell "mask" as "maaaaaask".
  • Sup TV Tropes. Why don't you have a girlfriend?
  • Among the Lolita community, Derpy-chan is slowly becoming a god. It started off when a girl posted a picture of a couple Lolitas, one of whom was holding a yellow pony plushie with a derpy expression. /cgl/ leaped on it immediately.
  • "Banker Girl" (a very newmeme which intersperses with in-print adverts and television adverts for Natwest), apparently using the photo of a blonde girl called Sara from adverts in newspapers, and Natwest's own publication. For some reason it's popular with the Photoshop crowd, becoming an Ascended Meme in itself. In any case, the advert in question can be viewed here. Ms. Ebrahimi has become very much popular in the United Kingdom, where she actually works as a bank manager, and not a banker like Fred "The Shred" Goodwin. In fact, the meme has become an Ascended Meme as people want to know who she is. It's even gone as far as pushing the Taylor Swift meme out the way in England... and this is despite bankers not being very popular at the moment in the United Kingdom.
  • Due to a bit of Mondegreen, part of a video of a Russian singer demonstrating his impressive vocal range has become a bit of an anthem for trolling and general shenanigans.
  • What has science done?!
  • "Two million Turks were killed in ex-Soviet Armenia in the 20s, you gum brain!" Explanation
  • PÔNEIS MALDITOS! Explanation
  • Playing Eric Prydz's Call On Me over collections of photos where someone's expression never changes.
  • Delete system32! Explanation.
  • *gets shot* Explanantion
    • Alternate version is *batteries die*, used when the PSP first came out to make fun of its low battery life.
  • That's it, people. Internet's over. You can all go home now. Explanantion
  • The Ringu/Ju-On-esque girl, Lo-Ki, whose scary-cute face has been spread incessantly along image board sites recently.
  • "I'm a melting pot of friendship!" Explanation
    • "I'm gonna get punitive damages out of your ass!"
    • "You will RUE the day...you will RUE the day!"
    • Cans.wav Explanation
  • .002 dollars is equal to .002 cents.Explanation
  • Summer Seal Explanation
  • More or less everything in asdfmovie, but special mention goes to "I like trains", as the kid who says it got a song about him.
  • Tell us how you really feel.Explanation
  • Dumb Running Sonic. Explanation
  • WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? Explanation
  • LET'S OPEN UP THIS PIT! Little 8 year old Juliet's hardcore song just hit 5 million views in one day.
By the way... this page? FUKKEN SAVED.
inb4 "Stinger"... Crap.
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