Editor's Note: This article is part of Know Your Meme's Top 10 Review looking back at some of the most memorable and popular memes, events and people that defined the Internet culture in 2012 as we know it. And brace yourselves, the grand finale list Best Memes of 2012 is coming soon!
Competition for our attention online was fierce this year, with a slew of athletes, artists, entertainers, politicians and other personalities attempting to promote themselves across the web. With the end of the year closing in, the Know Your Meme staff took a look back at some of this year's biggest winners in social media and the mainstream Internet.
#10: Vermin Supreme
#9: Krispy Kreme
#8: Nate Silver
#7: Karen Klein
#6: Nicolas Cage
#5: Kim Jong Un
#4: Gabe Newell
#3: Andrew Hussie
#2: PSY
#1: Barack Obama
IshiJebel
Nicolas Cage, you don't say?
Gir554
I think they mean #3 Gabe Newell Winning point:He's Gabe Newell.
Omar51
Gabe is #3? What kind of witchcraft is this?
Philip J. Fry
Hi /r/Homestuck.
The Coconut With a Face
Vermin Supreme?
…This is a good list.
Sir Crona Crescent Duke of Landwales
AH beat Gabe? It must've been a tough run since they both have a knack for pissing off their fans.
Son Goku
A winner is Obama!
Rhettorical
Should have been Gabe at #1 (or at least #2).
Fridge
>Hussie at Number 3
>AH: Ride.
Yes.
Hell Yes.
Hell
Fucking
Yes.
And so came to an end the most heroic thing that ever happened in the history of metafiction.
Let's move on.
Tahrdan Ismeh Wu-Temporis
>Gabe #4
This list is doing it wrong. He should be #2 because Valve cannot count to 3! and 4 is greater than 3, last I checked.