MEME FINDER COLLECTION
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The Makiivka Spring
A picture naming a water source in Makiivka, with deliberately crude text about its contamination. It grew from the retelling of a local post whose truth is hard to verify, so it w
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McConaughey Nervously Smokes
“McConaughey Nervously Smokes” is a reaction with Rust Cohle from True Detective, whose intense gaze during a drag on a cigarette became a sign of tense anticipation. In memes, the
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McConaughey Crying
A still from Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) where Matthew McConaughey's Cooper holds back tears with a hand over his mouth. A universal reaction to moving, unexpected or e
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McConaughey Throwing Up His Hands
A still from True Detective season one where Matthew McConaughey's Rust Cohle spreads his arms at a table. Used as a reaction to a question with an unknown or irrelevant answer, co
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Macron Called
Emmanuel Macron on the phone, looking seriously aside. The meme draws on his real diplomatic calls with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky in February and March 2022; the joking
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Macron Celebrates a Victory
“Macron celebrates a victory” is a family of reactions and photomontages featuring Emmanuel Macron, who celebrates emotionally after a goal in the 2018 World Cup final. In the orig
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Max, Go Fuck Yourself
A crude Russian caption for a photo of a German shepherd by the sea at sunset, with a huge ghostly second dog's head faintly showing above it. The author of the edit and the source
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Sharoyoby (Ball-Fuckers)
A slang word linked to video blogger Maxim Ozherelyev, who publicly claims the Earth is flat, for people who believe it is a sphere. It quickly became an ironic label and a meme in
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Baby Yoda
The little one with huge ears and dark eyes from the series “The Mandalorian” became the biggest meme of late 2019 under the nickname Baby Yoda, or “little Yoda.” Officially the ch
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Tiny Keanu Reeves
A photo edit of actor Keanu Reeves: the figure on stage looks disproportionately small, with short arms and legs. The meme is linked to an appearance at E3 2019, where the actor to
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Little Mike Wazowski
Little green Mike Wazowski, with one huge eye and a gentle smile, stands on a staircase and looks straight into the camera. The frame is used as a sweet, slightly naive reaction: w
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Baby Yoda Sipping from a Cup
A still from the series The Mandalorian: a small green character, known as Baby Yoda, holds a cup with both hands and drinks from it. The picture became a reaction for situations w
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Skeptical Baby
A photo of an infant pursing its lips and raising its eyebrows, as if eyeing the viewer with distrust. A popular reaction image since the early 2010s for chats, comments and captio
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Boy and Girl With Coffee
A still from a 1980 film where a boy in a suit asks a question while a girl in a dress calmly sips coffee and answers with pointed indifference. The contrast between anxious and un
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Boy or Man
“Boy or Man” is a caption that turns one and the same snapshot into a debate about maturity. In the photograph, a man in a green T-shirt occupies the left foreground; a woman in th
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A Boy Yodels at Walmart
The boy yodeling in Walmart is Mason Ramsey, whose store appearance went viral in spring 2018. A white shirt, a red bow tie, and a serious manner of performing stand out among ordi
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Middle Finger Kid
Middle Finger Kid is an iconic press photo of a young fan of Rotterdam's Feyenoord football club, taken in the stands in 2002. The child's emotional, almost caricatural gesture has
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Boy at the Board ("Here")
A schoolboy stands before an old world map, presses his palm to his chest and says the short word "Here." Taken from an ad around 2014, it is used to stress that something matters
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Boy, You Didn’t Get It, Bring Us Some Vodka! We’re Flying Home
“Boy, you didn’t get it, bring us some vodka! We’re flying home” is a line spoken by Dasha in the final scene of the film “Brother 2.” In memes it accompanies a return, the end of
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Mama Otlichnika (The Honor Student's Mom)
“Mama Otlichnika” (“The Honor Student's Mom”) is a nickname that stuck to Russian YouTube blogger Elena Pavlovna Kolotilova. She became known for an emotional video about her husba
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Pet the Cat (Pallas's Cat)
Photos of the Pallas's cat, or manul, a wild cat with thick pale gray fur from Central Asia, became a Russian-language internet staple around 2008. The meme is tied to the phrase "
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Māori Haka in Parliament
On November 14, 2024, MP Hana-Rawiti Maipi-Clark began performing the Ka Mate haka in New Zealand's Parliament during the vote on the Treaty Principles Bill. The image carries real
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Puppets Control Each Other
“Puppets Control Each Other” is a picture of orange puppets that shrink from a large figure on the right down to tiny ones at the bottom, each one holding the strings of the next.
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Mark Zuckerberg
The meme Mark Zuckerberg is a deliberately calm character whom jokes present as a robot, a reptilian, or an observer of other people’s lives. A new wave of such images was prompted
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