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The Legendary NKVD Finka
A large stylized Finnish-style knife on a red background, mocking pushy ads for a "legendary" blade. The joke is the commercial grandiosity, with stories and qualities inflated far
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Legen... Wait For It... Dary
A line from Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, delivered with a deliberate pause that splits the word in two. Used to express nostalgia, anticipation of something pleasant, o
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Legushka
Legushka is a jumpscare meme: a frame showing a gray cat's head with yellow eyes against a frog-like skin background, which suddenly appears at the end of a video. The caption “leg
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Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn
Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in the film “Joker: Folie a Deux”. Her unusual makeup and blonde hair made the portrait a base for jokes about transformation, theatricality and sudden mo
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Lady Gaga Stumbles
Lady Gaga, on the red carpet of the Golden Globes in January 2019, reacted to a journalist’s remark about the resemblance of her dress to Judy Garland’s outfit. Her bewildered reac
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Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper at the Oscars
A frame from the Oscars ceremony on February 24, 2019: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper sit close together, with Cooper leaning toward her face. A performance of the song “Shallow” bec
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Lady Dimitrescu
A very tall character from the horror game Resident Evil Village, shown in a wide-brimmed hat and a gold dress. After her official height was announced, she became one of the game’
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Lady Dimitrescu on the Phone
A still of Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil Village holding an old telephone receiver to her ear. The meme stands for the face of someone facing an unpleasant call or bad news.
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Lenin Is a Mushroom
A joke that became a meme thanks to a 1991 TV segment earnestly arguing that Vladimir Lenin was literally a mushroom. The phrase became an ironic label for any obvious nonsense pre
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Leonardo DiCaprio's Age-25 Rule
A meme riffing on an internet theory that Leonardo DiCaprio parts with partners when they turn 25. The 2022 breakup with Camila Morrone revived the joke, but the age coincidence do
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Let Me Speak From My Heart
The phrase “Let Me Speak From My Heart” is linked to Vitaly Mutko: in December 2010, in Zurich, he gave a speech in English at a FIFA Executive Committee meeting that decided the h
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Bouncing DVD Logo
The bouncing DVD logo is a black screen across which a white DVD Video logo glides smoothly, bouncing off the edges. The meme is built on anticipation: everyone waits for the logo
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The Cosmic Flyer
The Cosmic Flyer is the hero of a viral 2009 video who spends a long time psyching himself up before jumping from a height. His shifts from resolve to fear became a reaction to any
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Flying Cat
A fluffy ginger cat hangs in the air above garden grass with an unperturbed face, as if it had just been launched from a cannon. The frame became the basis for photo edits and serv
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Leeroy Jenkins
A viral 2005 World of Warcraft video in which a player charges into battle shouting his own name and gets his team killed. The name now describes anyone who acts aggressively and w
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Jerry's Face
A frame from Tom and Jerry where the mouse freezes with a puzzled, bewildered look. Appearing online in 2016, it became a universal reaction to a silly, absurd or unexpected situat
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Spaghetti Face
Genre of images in which a photograph or drawing looks as if it were made of strands of pasta, most often produced with neural style transfer. It is associated with 2015 and one fa
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Yandere Face
The flushed, intense expression of Yuno Gasai from the manga and anime Future Diary, reused as a template for overexcited or slightly unsettling reactions.
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Lobanov Hits
A close-up in which a man in a light coat or shirt sharply swings his fist straight at the lens, blurred by the motion. The template is associated with the character Lobanov from t
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Catch the Hamster
A blurred white rat flies toward the viewer while Eminem stands behind it with an arm outstretched, as if he has just thrown it. The caption 'Catch the hamster' became shorthand fo
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Catch the Junkie
A photomontage: the head of Gena the Crocodile on a figure in a dark suit at microphones, arm stretched out to the side, mouth wide open. The caption “Catch the junkie!” turns the
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Joker Trap
“Joker Trap” is a picture of the Joker’s face in a black-and-red graphic style, with the bold caption “Joker Trap” beneath it. Where the name came from and where it first appeared
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Logan Paul
Memes featuring Logan Paul in a green alien-head hat are tied to the scandal of late 2017 to early 2018, when the vlogger showed the body of a deceased person in a video filmed in
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Firefox Logo
A two-frame picture of two men beside cars in front of a palace. The top frame shows the detailed Firefox logo on a red car, the bottom a Shiba Inu badge, mocking how browser logos
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