MEME FINDER COLLECTION
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Good Guy Greg
Good Guy Greg is a series of macros featuring a balding man in a blue polo shirt who smirks slyly with a thin hand-rolled cigarette between his teeth. The captions describe an unex
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Okay, Bye, Mom
“Okay, bye, Mom” is a comic of four photographic panels: after saying goodbye, a boy dashes to a laptop and asks the search engine an unexpected question. The meme depicts the impa
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Do You Want It to Be Like in Paris?
The phrase “do you want it to be like in Paris?” is tied to a statement by Vladimir Putin on December 11, 2018, at a meeting of the Council for Human Rights: he commented on the ar
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Do You Want It to Be Like in Ukraine?
The formula “Do you want it to be like in Ukraine?” sounds like a direct question from Vladimir Putin, but in this form it is not his exact quote. It grew out of a reaction to an a
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The Laughing Spaniard (El Risitas)
A video meme from an interview with a mustached man laughing loudly, at length, and infectiously. The clip spread around 2014 and became a classic example of contagious laughter on
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Khochyu Olivier
The “Khochyu X” series combines a portrait of a man in a relaxed pose with a short phrase about a simple desire. In this image the caption is spelled without error: “khochu olive”
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Nature Guardian
“Nature Guardian” is a photo meme of Arnold Schwarzenegger among forest animals. The caption usually describes a small good deed after which the person imagines himself becoming th
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Who Am I? Who Are You?
A still from a video address with the subtitle «хто я?» (Ukrainian for “who am I?”): a man in a dark blazer and a gray high-collared sweater looks into the camera against a dark bl
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Worst Deal
“Worst Deal” is a macro of Donald Trump solemnly evaluating a disadvantageous exchange. The meme caption grew out of his criticism of NAFTA at the 2016 debates and became a reactio
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Fucking Morgen, Morgen, Fuckery
“[expletive]morgen, morgen, [expletive]” is a Russian obscene rewording of the sound of the Flemish song “Goeiemorgen, morgen.” The comic effect comes from the fact that the cheerf
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Fountain Hook
Na'Vi's Pudge and Chen combo at The International 2013: Dendi hooked enemies and Puppey teleported them straight into Na'Vi's fountain.
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Tsap-Tsarap
The phrase “tsap-tsarap” became popular after a speech by Vladimir Putin in November 2019, in which he reportedly joked about shale technologies. The picture with the inscription c
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The Color of Mood Is Blue
“The Color of Mood Is Blue” has turned from the title of a Filipp Kirkorov song into a way of describing mood through color, and into a family of memes built on frames from the mus
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Healing Lavrov
“Healing Lavrov” is a meme built around a photo of Sergey Lavrov with the Russian flag over his shoulder, published by the Russian Foreign Ministry in summer 2018. The joking promi
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Kissing John Travolta
“Kissing John Travolta” is a photo from the 2015 Oscars red carpet: the actor leans toward Scarlett Johansson while she looks ahead. The different directions of attention turned th
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Clinging Tom Cruise
A series of photoshops built on a still from Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, where Tom Cruise hangs onto a taking-off plane. He is cut out and dropped into unexpected, absurd s
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Keanu Reeves Quote That ‘Broke’ Social Media
In the mockup, Keanu Reeves seems to ask for the cramped text on the right to be moved: a solemn headline about a famous quote gives way to a mundane remark about layout. This is a
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Statham Quotes
Statham quotes are portraits of actor Jason Statham paired with lines that sound like gruff rules for living. The portrait shows only the actor himself, with no caption: the empty
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Tony Robbins Quotes
Memes about “Tony Robbins quotes” attribute invented platitudes to the motivational speaker, as if they were solemn truths from a big stage. The wave is rooted in Robbins's public
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The Numbers Hit Me in the Head
A clown-faced image paired with a viral line from streamer Nekoglai. People use it to joke about sudden mental overload when too many numbers, tasks, money, or metrics pile up at o
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Zuckerberg Is Watching You
“Zuckerberg Is Watching You” is a joke chat exchange in which the all-knowing founder of Facebook suddenly butts in. He seems to read other people’s messages and knows what the con
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Toby King (Digiday)
A meme about a catchy, hard-to-shake song by a Polish performer that circulated widely on the Russian internet in 2016. Its "digiday" chorus fuels jokes about music that won't leav
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Laughing Seagull
An image of a seagull with its head thrown back and beak wide open, as if laughing hysterically. Also called Screaming Seagull, it is used as a reaction to funny, unexpected, or ab
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Chuck Norris
The American actor and martial artist, star of Walker, Texas Ranger, who became a meme through "Chuck Norris facts," hyperbolic jokes crediting him with superhuman powers and compl
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