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Sweating Bear
A Rilakkuma drawn on some surface and covered in water droplets looks as if it is nervously sweating. The picture is used to express anxiety, awkwardness, or hidden panic when one
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Because They Hire All Kinds of Dumbfucks
An astronaut on the Moon with a bottle looks at the Earth in response to the question “Do you know why?” The template combines solemn cosmic silence with a crude, deliberately mund
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Wasted
A meme from the unofficial Russian translation of GTA San Andreas, where the on-screen word "Wasted" appeared as the odd "Potracheno." Today it is an ironic expression for somethin
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Outstanding Move
“Outstanding Move” is a macro featuring a man in a light shirt standing beside a large chessboard, who praises an unexpected move in either an ironic or a sincere tone. The phrase
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The Scent Thief
The alias of blogger Alexander Dmitrenko, who began reviewing perfume and became known for sharp one-liners and his female persona, Shura Stone. His voice and lines have spread int
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Looks Like You're the Only One in Russia
A message a name-popularity website showed for any word that wasn't a real name. After a Twitter flash mob, users proudly shared being the only "Superman" or only "normal person" i
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Kiss on the Table
A meme based on stills from the 2016 film Passengers, where Jennifer Lawrence's character climbs across a table to kiss Chris Pratt's. It is captioned in reaction images about eage
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The Kiss of Timothée Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp
Two young people kiss on the deck of a yacht: a man with dark curly hair, seated with his back turned, has his face toward a woman in a swimsuit. Paparazzi photos appeared in Septe
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Why Were You Silent for Eight Years?
An anime character pointing a weapon repeats "eight years", turning the question "Why were you silent for eight years?" into a visual attack. The formula cites the real war in east
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Why Is My Sister Named Rose?
A series of memes pairing neutral stock photos with captions that rewrite their meaning, based on an old joke about parents naming children after their hobbies. The format took sha
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Fuck Off and See You Tomorrow
A still from the American comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm: Larry David, at a wooden door, tosses a crude farewell to his interlocutor, promising to be back tomorrow. The image b
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Let's Make Some Noise!
The signature catchphrase of the Versus Battle rap league host Restorator, shouted as a call to the crowd. It quickly outgrew the battle scene and became a meme used to hype up a c
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Preved Medved
A garbled "Hello, Bear" from the Russian internet of 2006, born in the era of padonkaffsky slang and attached to a drawn bear exclaiming "Preved." It became one of the most famous
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Perfection
A six-panel comic using a still of Michael Fassbender from X-Men: First Class (2011). It is built on the character's reaction to events and the contrast between his calm expression
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There Is 1 Impostor Among Us
Memes built on Among Us, where an impostor hides among colorful astronauts, shown through the game's start-of-round screen.
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Identify Yourself, Scum
A phrase TV host Vladimir Solovyov addressed to a Twitter follower in 2015. It became a meme with his photo and captions that play on the harsh tone of a public spat.
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Donald Trump's Presidential Alert
The Presidential Alert is a parody of the nationwide test message that compatible phones in the United States received on October 3, 2018. The real notification stated outright fro
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“Hello, Peter” (Doctor Octopus in the No Way Home Trailer)
Doctor Octopus, smiling through smoke in a still from the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer, says “Hello, Peter”. Russian users played on “Piter”, the nickname of St. Petersburg, and
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Hello, Descendants! How Are Things There?
A four-panel comic in which Yuri Gagarin addresses people of the future and asks about their achievements, only to hear about pointless inventions. His growing sadness is the joke,
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Hi, I'm the Sheriff
A 2017 challenge in which users build little figures out of emoji, with the cowboy hat face as the main piece, and add funny captions. It spread across Twitter and showed how simpl
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Prigozhin Asks for Shells
A meme built on Yevgeny Prigozhin's public appeal about the Wagner PMC's ammunition shortage and his harsh way of speaking. In the local frame a man in camouflage points ahead; jok
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Kung Fu Panda Finger Move
The finger move from Kung Fu Panda has become a meme about a solution that looks surprisingly simple and ends with a huge effect. Po calmly holds his opponent’s finger, though a sm
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Acceptable
A white cat with an impassive face on the body of a man in a dark suit, captioned "Priemlemo" ("Acceptable"). It reacts to a situation you accept without enthusiasm or outrage: a d
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Ghost of Kyiv
A pilot in a helmet and oxygen mask giving a thumbs-up, linked to the legend of the Ghost of Kyiv, a composite heroic image of Ukrainian pilots. Ukraine's Air Force later stressed
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