Doomer
created at #4chan, 6 months ago [rating: 10.00][up votes: 16][down votes: 0] Doomer

The Doomer meme is an internet phenomenon that captures the pessimism and existential dread of modern life, particularly among Millennials and Gen Z. Emerging around 2018 on forums like 4chan, the Doomer archetype quickly resonated with audiences facing economic struggles, climate anxiety, and feeli...

Pepe the Frog
created at #4chan, 6 months ago [rating: 5.45][up votes: 6][down votes: 5] Pepe the Frog

Pepe the Frog is an anthropomorphic frog character from the comic series Boy’s Club by Matt Furie. On 4chan, various illustrations of the frog creature have been used as reaction faces, including Feels Good Man, Sad Frog, Angry Pepe, Smug Frog and Well Meme'd. In 2005, artist Matt Furie created t...

Moo Deng
created at #tiktok, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 3][down votes: 4] Moo Deng

Moo-Deng the Baby Hippo refers to a female pygmy hippopotamus named Moo Deng who was born at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand in July 2024 and went viral online in September of that year. Moo Deng's photographs and videos, particularly an image in which she is being sprayed from a water hose whil...

Sigma
created at #twitter, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 8][down votes: 1] Sigma

Sigma Males or Sigma Male is a slang term referring to a supposed classification for men who are successful and popular, but also silent and rebellious, a type of man who likes to "play by his own rules." In most analyses, they are considered "equal" to Alphas on the hierarchy but live outside of th...

GigaChad
created at #4chan, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 7][down votes: 0] GigaChad

GigaChad is a nickname associated with the art project berlin.1969 / Ernest Khalimov, which is a series of photoshopped photographs of several models created by Russian photographer Krista Sudmalis for her project Sleek'N'Tears. The name "GigaChad" indicates that the person, who was initially assume...

Pop Cat
created at #reddit, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 2][down votes: 2] Pop Cat

Pop Cat refers to a series of videos in which use two images of a cat named Oatmeal, one with its mouth closed, and the other photoshopped as if the cat is holding it wide open in the shape of an O. The images have been used to create videos in which the cat lip syncs various songs, similar to Baby...

Slerf
created at #twitter, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 1][down votes: 1] Slerf

Slerf refers to a cryptocurrency meme coin promoted by the X account @SlerfSol. In March 2024, Slerf became the subject of memes and discussions after the creator of the coin claimed they accidentally lost $10 million worth of funds raised via the presale of the coin. News of @SlergSol "burning" the...

Harambe the Gorilla
created at #youtube, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 2][down votes: 0] 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...

Wojak
created at #4chan, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 5][down votes: 1] Wojak

Feels Guy, also known as Wojak, is an MS Paint illustration of a bald man with a sad expression on his face. It is often used as a reaction image to represent feelings such as melancholy, regret or loneliness. Wojak memes as a genre have grown to include various remixes and edits to the character --...

Skibidi Toilet
created at #tiktok, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 3][down votes: 0] Skibidi Toilet

Skibidi Toilet is a series of Source Filmmaker videos by YouTuber DaFuq!?Boom! featuring a remix of "Give It To Me" by Timbaland and "Dom Dom Yes Yes" by Biser King in which an army of toilets with men's heads coming out of them are shown singing the song in various settings. The series follows a pl...

oof
created at #reddit, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 5][down votes: 0] oof

The Roblox Death Sound (alternatively known as Oof, labeled as Uuhhh in the official sound file, and other interpretations of the noise) is a short, one-second sound clip used in the MMORPG Roblox. Online, the sound effect is notably utilized in various fan remixes of existing scenes and songs from...

Winter Arc
created at #urbandictionary, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 2][down votes: 0] Winter Arc

Winter Arc refers to a fitness challenge in which people spend their winters bulking and gaining muscle and then cutting the fat to look fit and shredded by summer. The challenge can be traced back to at least late 2022. However, the phrase "winter arc" only received meme attention in 2024 as intern...

HUH
created at #tiktok, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 2][down votes: 0] HUH

Huh? Cat is an exploitable video meme format depicting a confused or shocked-looking cat making a "huh?" sound. with its mouth open and eyes wide The clip was uploaded to TikTok in early 2023 and is often used alongside object-labeling captions about situations in which a person feels confused and l...

Pedobear
created at #4chan, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 3][down votes: 1] Pedobear

Pedobear is a cartoon mascot that became a well-known icon through its usage on 4chan to signal moderators and other users that illegal pornographic content had been posted. Due to the widespread nature of its application, Pedobear has been often misinterpreted as a symbol of pedophilia and lolita c...

looksmaxxing
created at #tiktok, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 2][down votes: 0] looksmaxxing

This is referring to physical improvement of a person's body - in terms of development of facial features or muscular improvement - in order to make oneself more attractive or easier to like. This term is derived from a video game type idea of statistics (stats) and a levelling system where looks...

Mogging
created at #4chan, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 5][down votes: 1] Mogging

Mogging or Mog is a slang term describing the act of dominating another person, commonly but not necessarily through the means of appearing more physically fit and attractive than them. Coined by pickup artists and initially popularized within the "manosphere," the term saw gradual popularization on...

Roll Safe
created at #youtube, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 2][down votes: 0] Roll Safe

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...

Doge
created at #miscellaneous, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 1][down votes: 3] Doge

Doge (pronounced /ˈdoʊdʒ/ DOHJ) is a slang term for "dog" that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed "Shibe") and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog's face or captioned with interior monologues in Comic Sans font. The pr...

Never Kill Yourself
created at #twitter, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 1][down votes: 0] Never Kill Yourself

Never Kill Yourself is a catchphrase and copypasta used in caption memes alongside an image of something that gives the poster joy, most often gaming, drinking or eating, to suggest you should not commit suicide because then you cannot experience these joys. The phrase was popularized on X / Twitter...

Trollface
created at #4chan, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 1][down votes: 1] Trollface

Trollface is a rage comic character wearing a mischievous smile that is meant to represent the facial expression of an Internet troll. The image is most commonly used to portray a character as a troll in rage comics, or alternatively, to identify oneself or another participant as such in online disc...

Kappa
created at #4chan, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 0][down votes: 0] Kappa

Kappa is a graphic emoticon commonly used by trolls as a postscript to a sentence to convey sarcasm on the live streaming video platform Twitch; it's popularity has also lead to the emoticon being used as a form of spam. The Kappa emote is based on a grey-scale photograph of Josh DeSeno, then an...

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) / Lenny Face
created at #4chan, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 0][down votes: 1] ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) / Lenny Face

͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) is an emoticon created with unicode character symbols. The face is often used to spam forums and image boards, similar to the Japanese word "desu". On 4chan, it has also come to be known as "Le Lenny Face" or "Le Face Face." One of the earliest appearances of the emoticon was posted to...

Nyan Cat
created at #miscellaneous, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 2][down votes: 0] Nyan Cat

Nyan Cat, also known as Pop Tart Cat, is an 8-bit animation depicting a cat with the body of a cherry Pop-Tart flying through outer space. While absurd themes like flying kittens and pastry cats have been around for some time, the surreal humor behind this particular combination has captivated YouTu...

Deal With It
created at #4chan, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 1][down votes: 0] Deal With It

"Deal With It" is an expression used as a retort in response to someone's disapproval. It is often associated with image macros and animated GIFs in which the subject wears a pair of sunglasses. "Deal with it" as a colloquial phrase has unknown origins. The Idioms and Expressions online database...

Facepalm
created at #miscellaneous, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 0][down votes: 1] Facepalm

Facepalm, also known as Facepalming, is a slang term that refers to the act of placing one's face in one's hand, a form of nonverbal-communication common among many cultures. The action conveys a message of dismay and is often a reaction toward someone's momentary lapse of logic, judgment or memory....

Aura
created at #tiktok, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 1][down votes: 0] Aura

Aura is a slang term that was popularized online in 2023 and 2024, often used to compliment men for their charisma or presence. The term first grew prevalent in soccer and basketball communities on X / Twitter, likely due to people commending Liverpool player Van Dijk for his "aura." Memes about peo...

Slender Man
created at #miscellaneous, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 0][down votes: 1] Slender Man

Slender Man (a.k.a Slenderman) is a mythical creature often depicted as a tall, thin figure wearing a black suit and a blank face. According to the legend, he can stretch or shorten his arms at will and has tentacle-like appendages protruding from his back. Depending on the interpretations of the my...

Donald Trump's Mugshot
created at #miscellaneous, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 2][down votes: 1] Donald Trump's Mugshot

Donald Trump's Mugshot is the booking photo of former President Donald Trump, released by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office in late August 2023 after he was arrested in Georgia on charges of allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 United States Presidential Election results in the state. Many of...

Dolan
created at #4chan, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 3][down votes: 0] Dolan

Dolan is an MS Paint web comic series featuring a variety of poorly drawn Disney cartoon characters. The main character Dolan, based on Donald Duck, is often portrayed as a psychotic killer and sex addict. According to Uncle Dolan, the comics were originally created during the summer of 2010 by a...

Ugandan Knuckles
created at #youtube, 6 months ago [rating: in progress][up votes: 1][down votes: 1] Ugandan Knuckles

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...