Harambe the Gorilla

Harambe the Gorilla was a 17-year-old Western lowland silverback gorilla who was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo after a child fell into his enclosure in late May 2016. The incident was wildly criticized online by many who blamed the child's parents for the gorilla's untimely death. On May...

Roll Safe is an image macro series featuring a screenshot of actor Kayode Ewumi grinning and pointing to his temple while portraying the character Reece Simpson (a.k.a. "Roll Safe") in the web series Hood Documentary. The images are often captioned with various jokes mocking poor decision making and...

Ugandan Knuckles is the nickname given to a depiction of the character Knuckles from the Sonic franchise created by YouTuber Gregzilla, which is often used as an avatar by players in the multiplayer game VRChat who repeat phrases like "do you know the way" and memes associated with the country Ugand...

Mewing is a slang term referring to a tongue exercise in which the tongue is rested against the roof of the mouth, which some have claimed can change the shape of one's jawline. The term "mewing" was coined by British orthodontist Mike Mew. On October 27th, 2011, Mew created the Orthotropics YouT...

Garfielf refers to an intentionally poor quality parody video of Garfield, made by Jim Davis. The popularity of the original video spawned a number of remakes and parodies featuring MS Paint artwork and the same voices for text-to-speech narration. On April 4th, 2013, YouTube user PilotRedSun upl...

Gandalf Sax, also known as Epic Gandalf Sax, is a viral video of Lord of the Rings character Gandalf (Ian McKellen) nodding his head in a loop in time with the Epic Sax Guy music. The video became an iconic Lord of the Rings meme and became the subject of one of the most popular 10-Hour Videos in in...

Balkan Memes are a series of image macros, exploitable images, captioned pictures and other media about countries and people in the Balkan Peninsula. The memes are usually made by online users from the Balkans with the purpose of mocking, insulting, or bantering about other Balkan countries. The...

Side Eyeing Chloe, also known as Side Eye Chloe, is a photoshop meme based on a screen capture of a concerned-looking little girl in a YouTube video of two children reacting to their parents' announcement of a surprise trip to Disneyland that went viral in September 2013. On September 12th, 2013,...

Dimitri Finds Out, also known as “musical personality" ("Музыкальная личность”) in Russian , is a series of parody videos that use false subtitles in a similar manner to the Hitler Reacts series. The videos feature a clip of an interview taken inside a Russian night club and are accompanied by custo...

Supa Hot Fire is a character in a popular series of satirical YouTube videos, parodying battle rap. The videos consist of rapper Supa Hot Fire battling multiple rappers, which has included guests Soulja Boy, Chris Rock, Timothy DeLaGhetto and Eli Manning. The videos revolve around the crowd biasing...

Yeet is a choreographed dance stylized by dipping one's shoulder in rhythmic steps with both hands out in front and knees bent as if the performer is riding a bicycle. It became popular in February 2014 after footage of people performing the dance were uploaded to the video-sharing sites Vine and Yo...

Tylko Jedno W Głowie Mam are the opening lyrics of the song "Gdzie jest biały węgorz ? (Zejście)" by Polish musical artist Cyprian "Cypis" Racicki. The song exploded in popularity in July 2020 after it was included in various dancing videos, most notably a dancing cow dubbed Polish Cow. On Octobe...

Thug Life Remixes are a series of YouTube videos that typically begin with home movies of preadolescents using overly confrontational or expletive language, followed by a freeze-frame at a close-up image of the subject and an instrumental fade out to Dr. Dre's 1999 gangsta rap song "The Next Episode...

Shadow Wizard Money Gang, continued We Love Casting Spells, is one of Dj Smokey's producer tags, used in the Joeyy song "Gout," released in early December 2022. The producer tag, which is similar to the "legalize nuclear bombs" tag also popularized by Joeyy, went viral on TikTok in January 2023 when...

Shia LaBeouf's Intense Motivational Speech, also known as Just Do It, is a video featuring actor Shia LaBeouf intensely shouting inspirational messages to the camera while gesturing bizarrely. The clip, filmed in front of a green screen, inspired numerous parodies, remixes memes and reaction videos....

Press F (X) to Pay Respects is an action prompt featured in a quick time event from the 2014 first-person shooter Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Upon the release of the game in November 2014, many players of the video game mocked the funeral cutscene for its forced element of interactivity that see...

"Challenge Accepted" is an expression used to indicate that the speaker is willing to attempt completing a difficult task. The phrase is often associated with a rage comic character illustrated as a stick figure with crossed arms and a smug facial expression. "Challenge accepted" began as a catch...

"Cash Me Ousside / How Bow Dah" is a memorable quote and catchphrase uttered by 13-year-old Danielle Bregoli on an episode of The Dr. Phil Show, during which she challenges the show's audience to a fight with the phrase "Catch me outside, how about that?" in a thick accent. Online, the clip has been...

Gangnam Style (강남 스타일) is a 2012 dance pop single written and performed by Korean pop singer Park Jae Sung, better known by his stage name PSY. Since its release in mid-July 2012, the highly entertaining music video has spawned hundreds of parodies and copycat dance videos on YouTube and surpas...

"Sandstorm" is a 1999 trance techno song by the Finnish electronic music producer Darude. Upon its release, the song instantly gained mainstream recognition and continues to remain relevant as a pre-game "pump-up" track before sporting events and background music for a wide range of videos hosted on...

Sweet Brown is a pseudonym used by Kimberly Wilkins, an Oklahoma City resident who was interviewed by local news station KFOR News Channel 4 after evacuating from her apartment building that was set on fire. Her emphatic testimony of the chaotic scene quickly led to massive exposure on YouTube, simi...

"Serbia Strong", commonly known as "Remove Kebab", is a propaganda music video produced by a group of four Bosnian Serb Army soldiers--a trumpet player, an accordion player, a singer and a keyboard player--as a patriotic tribute to Radovan Karadžić, the former Bosnian-Serb politician and convicted w...

Baby Shark is a nursery song about a family of sharks which spawned the #BabySharkChallenge viral video fad in Indonesia, featuring footage of participants performing choreographed dances to the song. On June 17th, 2016, the PinkFong YouTube channel uploaded the "Baby Shark Dance" song, which rec...

Staring Default Fortnite Guy refers to a viral image of Fortnite character Commando Spitfire, better known as one of the default Fortnite skins, staring at the camera. Starting in late December 2018, the image has seen active use as an exploitable, particularly in ironic memes.

3D Saul Goodman refers to a viral video where a 3D rendering of Saul Goodman's (played by Bob Odenkirk) head moves around the screen while the intro music from the TV show Better Call Saul plays. The video was uploaded to YouTube in October 2021 and the 3D Saul Goodman head saw use in video edits ov...

Epic Handshake, also known as the Predator Handshake, is a memorable scene from the 1987 science fiction action film Predator in which two men greet each other with an arm-wrestle handshake. Due to the campy nature of the scene, it has inspired many parody and remix videos on YouTube, often featurin...

Clash Royale King Laughing or HE HE HE HAW refers to an emote from the mobile game Clash Royale, a spinoff of Clash of Clans, showing a king laughing in a specific way that sounds like "he he he haw." The emote is frequently spammed in-game by the winning team against the losing team to mock them. I...

Pomni is main protagonist of the 2023 animated dark comedy series The Amazing Digital Circus. The most recent human to enter the digital world, Pomni is trapped together with the rest of the characters in the digital dimension and seeks a way out. Pomni's digital appearance is that of a jester. Foll...

Shocked Black Guy or Surprised Black Guy is an image of comedian Jslutty making an expression of shock, bulging his eyes and holding his mouth agape and his hands behind his head. Starting in June 2022, the photo has been used as a reaction image meme on Twitter and Discord, as well as other sites o...

Trumpet Guy, also known as Trumpet Fight Guy, is a nickname given to Douglas Levison, who is most famous for his appearance in a viral YouTube video where he gets into an argument with a teenager over the boy's playing of the trumpet. The clip inspired numerous video and redraw memes.

PPKKa 뻑가 is an anonymous South Korean YouTuber known for making videos that attempt to expose what he perceives as "radical feminists" in South Korea. The YouTuber is an outspoken critic of South Korea's 4B movement in which women attempt to distance themselves from men, citing Korea's supposedly...

"HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA" is the unofficial title of a 2005 animated music video in which the fictional superhero character He-Man sings a rendition of 4 Non Blondes' 1992 hit rock single "What's Up." Since entering online circulation in May 2005, the video has been widely used as a popular material fo...

Confused Nick Young, also known as Swaggy P, refers to a reaction image featuring NBA basketball player Nick Young with question marks surrounding his head, which was popularized on Black Twitter to express confusion online, most notably during the Drake and Meek Mill Feud.

"Johny Johny Yes Papa", sometimes spelled "Johnny Johnny Yes Papa", is a nursery rhyme about a young boy who is confronted by his parent for eating sugar without permission. On YouTube, the song is often featured in "amateur quality" animated music videos.

You've Been Gnomed is a computer animation of a gnome mythical creature named Noggin Clontith, who taunts the viewer at the end of the clip by saying "You've been gnomed!"

Magikarp Guy is the nickname given to an audience member featured in a promotional clip for the Australian reality TV talent show Australia's Got Talent, who gained much notoriety online in December 2015 for his overly dramatic reactions to the contestants' performances, including one particular fac...

iDubbbz's "I'm Gay" refers to a memorable quote uttered by YouTuber iDubbbz while jumping off a table in a video uploaded by MaxMoeFoe in mid May 2016. The scene has been widely used in various remixes on the YouTube and Vine, often paired with clips of people falling to the ground.

Terrified Noot Noot, also known as Staring Noot Noot, refers to a viral video of Pingu the penguin saying Noot Noot while a dramatic, symphony orchestra/opera plays in the background, leading to him looking terrified or uncanny. The video was originally shared on YouTube in May 2022 but soon spread...

Ryback Eating Chips refers to a viral video of former WWE wrestler Ryback recording a video of himself eating Ruffles potato chips in ASMR. The video was parodied by other YouTubers by putting him in different animated movie scenes or putting him in Zoom meetings.

Wide Putin Walking, also known as IT'S HIM, is a viral video of Russian President Vladimir Putin walking down a hallway, stretched and set to Piano Fantasia’s “Song For Denise” (Maxi version). The video is often paired with a caption or used to fill blank space in exploitables and first appeared onl...

Sweaty Speedrunner refers to a viral webcam footage in which YouTuber H*ck No pretends to be going through an intense gaming session, appearing focused, nervous and sweating profusely. Originating from a viral Among Us meme, the footage has since been reused for various Meme Speedrun videos.

Giga Cheddar is a creator on YouTube known for his meme videos, which often reference and utilize video games including Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, adult animation and Sigma Grindset memes. Giga Cheddar posted his first video to YouTube in February 2022 and continued to regularly post over the f...

Zamn She's 12? refers to a controversial YouTube thumbnail used for a February 2021 upload by The Prince Family titled "GUESS HER AGE CHALLENGE **WE FAILED**" that shows Damien Prince and his wife Biannca reacting in shock to an image of a supposedly 12-year-old girl taking a selfie in her underwear...

IShowSpeed Penis Flash Accident, also known as IShowMeat or IShowSpeed Dick Slip, refers to a viral, explicit clip of streamer and YouTuber IShowSpeed (or Speed for short) accidentally flashing the camera on stream when air-humping while playing Five Nights at Freddy's. The clip surfaced in mid-Augu...

Let Him Cook, also known as Let That Boy Cook, is a slang term and catchphrase used as a callout to give someone the space to plot, strategize or hone their craft. A common use of the term is to refer to someone's rizz or game when it comes to flirting, with "Let Him Cook" being a common response to...

Zangief Kid (a.k.a "Casey the Punisher") refers to a video clip showing a 12-year-old student Ritchard Gale harassing the taller 15-year-old Casey Heynes. After being punched and harassed for several moments, Heynes retaliates by grabbing Ritchard and power slamming him into the ground. Casey has be...

Mr. Incredible Becoming Uncanny are a series of memes based on edited images of character Mr. Incredible in which he appears increasingly traumatized. The format, which gained popularity on YouTube and TikTok in December 2021, is a development of July 2021 Traumatized Mr. Incredible meme format.

This is Bob is a Unicode-based copypasta of a stick figure character named "Bob," which is most commonly used to spam the comments section on YouTube. ☻/ This is bob. Copy and paste him so he can take over youtube. /▌ /\

Vince McMahon Reaction is a series of remix videos and animated GIFs that combine a variety of humorous video clips and footage of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Chairman and CEO looking utterly shocked in amazement.

I'll Fuckin' Do It Again is a memorable quote uttered by the character Goofy in a crudely animated parody of a comedic sketch by YouTuber Filthy Frank. A screenshot of Goofy saying the line has become a reaction image macro used to express a lack of remorse for an offensive action and desire to comm...