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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 wo...

Look Of Disapproval

ಠ_ಠ , otherwise known as the "look of disapproval," is a character sequence commonly used as a reaction emoticon to express one's disapproval or disbe...

Ancient Aliens

Ancient Aliens is a series of image macros based on History Channel's TV series with the same name starring alien expert Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, who oft...

Bad Luck Brian

Bad Luck Brian is an advice animal -style image macro series featuring a photo of a blonde teenage boy wearing a plaid sweater vest and braces, accomp...

Big Chungus

Big Chungus refers to an image of the cartoon character Bugs Bunny, usually captioned with the phrase "Big Chungus" and presented as a game for PlaySt...

Brazzers

Brazzers , not to be confused with the eponymous adult entertainment production company, is a photoshop meme that involves superimposing the logo of t...

Dat Boi

Dat Boi (a colloquial pronunciation of “that boy”) is a nickname given to a 3D character model of a green frog riding a unicycle, typically accompanie...

Derp

Derp is an expression associated with stupidity, much like the earlier forms of interjections like "duh" and "dur." In image macros , the subject is t...

Do A Barrel Roll

Do a Barrel Roll is a catchphrase used to call on someone to perform a 360-degree horizontal spin, which was originally taken from the 1997 N64 video ...

Doge

Doge (pronounced /ˈdoʊdʒ/ DOHJ) is a slang term for "dog" that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed "Shibe") and internal mo...

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, i...

Ermahgerd

Ermahgerd (also known as "Gersberms" and "Berks"), a rhotacized [26] pronunciation of "oh my god," is an image macro series featuring a photo of a you...

Flipping Tables

Flipping Tables (written as: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ ) is a text-based emoticon depicting a person flipping a table out of rage. Primarily used by East Asian int...

Forever Alone

Forever Alone is a popular internet meme.

Gigachad

GigaChad is a nickname associated with the art project berlin.1969 / Ernest Khalimov, [1] which is a series of photoshopped photographs of several mod...

Good Guy Greg

Good Guy Greg (GGG) is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a square-jawed man smiling at the camera with a marijuana cigarette in...

Has Anyone Really Been Far Even As Decided To Use Even Go Want To Do Look More Like

"Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?" is an incoherent question which is often quoted on image boards...

Hello There

"Hello There" is a memorable quote uttered by the character Obi-Wan Kenobi , portrayed by actor Ewan McGregor, in the 2005 science fiction action film...

I Took An Arrow In The Knee

"I Took an Arrow in the Knee" is a memorable quote originating from the role-playing video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim . An often repeated stock ...

Jessi Slaughter Cyberbulling Controversy

Jessi Slaughter Cyberbulling Controversy is a popular internet meme.

Lemon Party

Lemon Party (domain: lemonparty.org) is a shock site displaying an image of three elderly males in a bed kissing and performing oral sex. It is common...

Loss

Loss , also known as CADbortion , Loss.jpg and | || || |_ , refers to an iconic cartoon strip from the video game -themed webcomic series Ctrl+Alt+Del...

Me Gusta

Me Gusta is a Rage Comic face that is typically used to express one's approval of an awkward or perverse situation. The caption "me gusta" translates ...

Monkas

MonkaS is a Twitch TV emote featuring an illustration of Pepe the Frog appearing frightened while sweating, which is typically used in Twitch chat dur...

My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a Canadian /American flash cartoon series, produced by Studio B Productions (now rebranded DHX), based on the M...

Navy Seal Copypasta

Navy Seal Copypasta (also known as the “Marine Copypasta ”, " Internet Tough Guy Copypasta” and “Gorilla Warfare Copypasta”) is a facetious message co...

Neil Degrasse Tyson Reaction

Neil deGrasse Tyson Reaction is a rage comic character and reaction face of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson making a defensive gesture. The charact...

No Rage Face

The No. face is a rage comic character that is used to dismiss or disapprove of another person’s idea. When in a comment, it is sometimes used as a st...

Not Bad Obama Face

Obama Rage Face (also known as "Not Bad" Face ) is a rage comic reaction face based on a press photograph of Barack Obama wearing a sturgeon face duri...

Okay Guy

Okay Guy is a sullen-looking rage comic character who is typically accompanied by the caption "okay." The face is often used in the final panel of com...

Overly Attached Girlfriend

Overly Attached Girlfriend is an advice animal image macro featuring webcam picture of vlogger Laina Morris and various captions portraying her in the...

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 creatu...

Piper Perri Surrounded

Piper Perri Surrounded , also known as the White Couch Meme , refers to a series of object labeled and photoshopped image macros of adult film star Pi...

Press F To Pay Respects

Press F (X) to Pay Respects is an action prompt featured in a quick time event from the 2014 first-person shooter Call of Duty : Advanced Warfare . Up...

Rage Comics

Rage Comics are a series of web comics with characters, sometimes referred to as "rage faces", that are often created with simple drawing software suc...

Ricardo Milos

Ricardo Milos is a Brazilian adult model known for his erotic dance video. His dance video, often referred to as Danced Like a Butterfly , inspired a ...

Ridiculously Photogenic Guy

Ridiculously Photogenic Guy (RPG) is a photoshop meme and advice animal featuring a photo of a smiling man called Zeddie Little running in the 2012 Co...

Rule 34

Rule 34 is an internet adage in the "Rules of the Internet" list of protocols and conventions which asserts that "if something exists, there is porn o...

Rules Of The Internet

Rules of the Internet is a list of protocols and conventions, originally written to serve as a guide for those who identified themselves with the Inte...

Scumbag Steve

Scumbag Steve is a popular internet meme.

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 le...

The Mandela Effect

The Mandela Effect is a slang term for the phenomenon in which a large group of people shares false memories of past events, referred to as confabulat...

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 m...

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...

Woman Yelling At A Cat

Woman Yelling at a Cat (not to be confused with Screaming Cat ) refers to a meme format featuring a screen cap of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills...

Y U No Guy

"Y U NO" Guy (also known as "Y U No [X]?") is an image macro series using SMS shorthands and carefree grammar as a way to bring someone's attention on...

Yao Ming Face Bitch Please

Yao Ming Face (sometimes referred to as "Fuck That Guy" or "Dumb Bitch") is a rage comic -style contour drawing of the professional basketball player ...

You Dont Say 3

"You Don't Say?" is a rage comic face based on a contour drawing of Nicolas Cage that is that is used as a sarcastic response to an obvious observatio...

You Know I Had To Do It To Em

You Know I Had to Do It to Em is a photoshop meme based on a picture of Twitter user LuckyLuciano17k standing on a sidewalk wearing a light-colored sh...

Zerg Rush

Zerg Rush is an online slang term used to describe a situation where one is outnumbered by a force of an overwhelming scale. The term originates from ...

ಠ_ಠ Look of Disapproval

ಠ_ಠ , otherwise known as the "look of disapproval," is a character sequence commonly used as a reaction emoticon to express one's disapproval or di...

[10] Guy

[10] Guy (also known as " Really High Guy " and " Stoner Stanley ") is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a young man who app...

60's Spider-Man

60's Spider-Man , also known as "Retro Spider-Man", refers to an image macro series based on still shots from the original Spider-Man cartoon serie...

Annoying Facebook Girl

Annoying Facebook Girl is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a teenage girl rolling her eyes with her mouth agape, accompanie...

Ayy LMAO

" Ayy LMAO " is an expression and Tumblr hashtag which is almost always associated with pictures of aliens.

Belle Delphine

Belle Delphine is the online pseudonym of United Kingdom-based cosplayer and model Mary-Belle Kirschner, who gained much internet notoriety for pos...

Blue Whale Challenge

Blue Whale Challenge , also known as the Blue Whale Trend or Blue Whale Suicide Game , is an internet urban legend about an online game and challen...

Boxxy

Boxxy is the online pseudonym of Catie Wayne, a YouTube personality who became known on 4chan in 2009. She claims ownership of several YouTube acco...

Bye Felicia

"Bye Felicia" is a memorable quote from the 1995 comedy film Friday [19] which is often used online as a dismissive farewell. [18]

Cash Me Ousside / Howbow Dah

"Cash Me Ousside / How Bow Dah" is a memorable quote and catchphrase uttered by 13-year-old Danielle Bregoli on an episode of The Dr. Phil Show , d...

Challenge Accepted

"Challenge Accepted" is an expression used to indicate that the speaker is willing to attempt completing a difficult task. The phrase is often asso...

Chris-Chan / CWC / Christine Weston Chandler

Christine Weston Chandler , a.k.a. Chris-Chan , CWC and formerly known as Christian Weston Chandler , is a YouTube vlogger and creator of the webco...

Copypasta

Copypasta is internet slang for any block of text that gets copied and pasted over and over again, typically disseminated by individuals through on...

Dank Memes

"Dank Memes" is an ironic expression used to describe online viral media and in-jokes that are intentionally bizarre or have exhausted their comedi...

'Dat Ass

The man in the picture has been identified as southern rapper Rich Boy (real name: Maurice Richards), who was co-hosting MTV's music variety progra...

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 i...

Dick Butt

Dick Butt is an illustration of an anthropomorphic phallus with a pair of testicles and a penis protruding from its backside. In multi-pane image m...

Do You Even Lift?

"Do You Even Lift?" (DYEL) is a condescending expression used on body building and fitness forums to question the legitimacy of someone's fitness e...

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-communicatio...

Fuck Yea

Fuck Yea is a series of four-pane cartoon strips featuring a stick figure looking complacent and confident. Originally posted via /b/ board in Febr...

Fukouna Shoujo 03

Fukouna Shoujo 03 (Japanese: 不幸な少女０３, " Unfortunate girl 03 " in English), also known as vvindows and vvindows me.gif , is an anime GIF by Japanese...

Futurama Fry / Not Sure If

Futurama Fry is an image macro series that uses a still of Fry squinting his eyes from the TV show Futurama , and is typically paired with overlaid...

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Grumpy Cat

Grumpy Cat is the nickname given to Tardar Sauce, a snowshoe cat that rose to online fame after several pictures of her annoyed facial expressions ...

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 ...

Harlem Shake

"Harlem Shake" , not to be confused with the hip hop dance style , is the title of a 2012 heavy bass instrumental track produced by Baauer. In Febr...

Haters Gonna Hate

Haters Gonna Hate is a catchphrase used to indicate a disregard for hostile remarks addressed towards the speaker. This expression has its roots in...

Hide The Pain Harold

Hide The Pain Harold , also simply referred to as "Harold" or "Maurice" is the nickname given to a senior stock photography model whose facial expr...

I Know That Feel Bro

“I Know That Feel Bro” (also known as "to uczucie" or "to uczócie") is an Internet slang expression used to convey empathy towards or agree with so...

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter is a copypasta about a male who dreams of becoming a helicopter. It mocks gender and sexual identificat...

If You Know What I Mean

"If You Know What I Mean" is a rage comic character based on a still frame of actor Rowan Atkinson portraying the fictional character Mr. Bean . It...

Joseph Ducreux / Archaic Rap

Joseph Ducreux (June 26, 1735 – July 24, 1802) was an eighteenth century French artist known for his unorthodox style of portrait paintings. On the...

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 ; i...

Lord Marquaad E

Lord Marquaad E , also known as Lord Farquaad / Markiplier E , refers to a deep fried image of the face YouTube Let's Player Markiplier photoshoppe...

Mega Milk / Titty Monster

Mega Milk , or Titty Monster , is an exploitable image of a woman holding her own breasts with a crazed expression on her face, while wearing a shi...

Momo

Momo is a nickname given to a sculpture of a young woman with long black hair, large bulging eyes, a wide smile and bird legs. In 2018, pictures of...

Moon Moon

Moon Moon is a fictional wolf character that is portrayed as a mentally challenged outcast in the pack. On Tumblr , the character is often paired w...

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 ...

Oh Crap / OMG Rage Face

The Oh Crap or OMG Face refers to an exploitable image used in rage comics to express an array of feelings including astonishment, revelation, or s...

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 pornographi...

Philosoraptor

Philosoraptor is an advice animal image macro series featuring an illustration of a Velociraptor paired with captions depicting the dinosaur as bei...

Rage Guy (FFFFFUUUUUUUU-)

Rageguy refers to the main character of a series of crudely-drawn comics typically consisting of four panes, portraying situations that can bring r...

Rule 63

Rule 63 is an internet adage which states that for every fictional character, there exists an opposite-gender counterpart. It is considered a notab...

Sad Keanu

Sad Keanu is a photoshop meme based on a paparazzi photograph of the Canadian American actor Keanu Reeves sitting on a park bench and enjoying a sa...

Stonks

Stonks is an intentional misspelling of the word "stocks" which is often associated with a surreal meme featuring the character Meme Man standing i...

That Really Rustled My Jimmies

"That Really Rustled My Jimmies" is an expression used to convey feelings of discontent or discomfort in response to someone else's post on image b...

The Most Interesting Man in the World

The Most Interesting Man In The World is an advice animal character inspired by the titular protagonist of the highly successful advertising campai...

To Be Fair, You Have To Have a Very High IQ to Understand Rick and Morty

To Be Fair, You Have To Have a Very High IQ to Understand Rick and Morty , also known simply as the Rick and Morty Copypasta , is a copypasta that ...

Wat

"Wat" is a variant of the English word "what" that is often used to express confusion or disgust, much like its better known acronym " WTF ", short...

Xzibit Yo Dawg

Yo Dawg , or Sup Dawg , is an image macro series based on portrait shots of American hip hop artist Alvin Nathaniel Joiner, [10] better known by hi...

"You Are Already Dead" / "Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru"

"You Are Already Dead" (Japanese: お前はもう死んでいる; Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru ) is an expression from the manga and anime series Fist of the North Star (Japa...