Cast Your Vote For The Meme Of 2019
Dear Readers,
It's that time of the year again! To cast your vote, simply login to your Know Your Meme account and click the red button displayed at the top of your favorite meme's entry page. The eligible pool includes all meme entries that were submitted on, or after January 1st, 2019, as well as meme entries that saw their first breakout in 2019, regardless of submission date. The poll launches today and it will remain open until 11:59 p.m. (EST) on December 26th, Thursday.
How to Cast Your Vote
Step 1: Login or create an account at Know Your Meme.
Step 2: Proceed to the meme entry of you choice.
If you're undecided, check out our official ballot with the most notable memes from this year or browse the complete list of eligible entries and choose one.
Step 3: Click the red button at the top of the entry page to cast your vote.
Click "OK" to confirm. Remember, the widget is only visible in entries of memes that were submitted on, or after, January 1st, 2019.
Step 4: To recall your vote for an alternative choice, click the green button.
You can change your mind until 11:59pm on December 26th, Thursday.
Step 5: Thanks for voting!
The poll will stay open until 11:59 p.m. (EST) on December 26th, Thursday. The results will be announced shortly thereafter.
Eligibility
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Mii, Myself, and I
For me, it was a hard choice between "Me and the boys" and "You are not a clown. You are the entire circus."
Photo-Cropper
I'm going to be straight to the point here, 2019 had a lot of memes this year compared to the amount in other years. This is probably due to most memes nowadays dying quicker than usual.
With that out of the way, here is my list of top 10 2019 memes:
10. Hello Yoshi from Super Mario
9. Sasuke Choke Edits
8. "Bart, I don't want to alarm you"
7. Gonna Cry? Gonna piss your pants maybe?
6. American Dad Speedrun
5. Who's getting the best head?
4. Nordic Gamer / Yes Chad
3. Woman yelling at a cat
2. Me and the boys
And lastly, the best 2019 meme goes to…
Daretobestupid
Oh my god, I can't believe I forgot about the Area 51 raid! Now I'm torn between that and 'Me and the Boys'!
PYRO
Robbie wasn't #1, so who do I go for to vote "Anarchy"?
Daretobestupid
Area 51 raid; fight the power, they can't shoot all of us!
fastbreak333
I like Me and the Boys, I really do. But just barely, I voted for Woman Yelling At Cat, because I still crack up at seeing a grown adult yelling at a smirking little shit. Both memes had a lot of creative spins to it too, which made it hard to decide.
AKADarkie
After going through the full list (plus adding one notable meme not on the list), here's my personal top and bottom 5 for the year.
5 (Top): Consoomer
The first of the top slots was a rough choice, as there were several that didn't quite make the cusp, such as Epstein Didn't Kill Himself, Woman Yelling At A Cat, or the Bowling Alley Screen When You Get a Strike. I'm giving this one a bit of an edge, though. While the Coomer is more of an absurdist humor that I have a weird soft spot for, the Consoomer, to me, humorously highlights an increasingly-noticeable issue of people with absolutely zero restraint in supporting their favorite IP. Because if companies aren't held to task for releasing mediocrity, then they'll just continue to do so until the end of day. I enjoy quality in my media, dangit.
5 (Bottom): Lunch Table
The first bottom slot could have gone a few ways as well. The ridiculous abundance of Endgame memes, Islam is Right About Women, and Protegent Yes were all considerations, but the Lunch Table is just one of those rare memes that doesn't seem to have potential on paper. It felt more like a Facebook "tag your friends in this photo" type thing than anything else. Thus, it consistently fell flat. At least it died out within a reasonable timeframe.
AKADarkie
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4 (Top): Robotnik Pissing On the Moon
This may as well count as a 2019 meme, since it pretty much exploded well after it officially originated. That said, this may be one of the greatest improv pieces of recent memory, and is pretty quality copypasta. Unfortunately, I had to knock it down a bit because the 3 memes above it have more wiggle room.
4 (Bottom): Old Town Road
This song didn't deserve the attention it got, never really was humorous. That's all I got here, really.
3 (Top): American Dad Speedrun
This is an example of a meme you either won't find humor in, or you'll find to be brilliant if you actually get the joke. This is far and away the most entertaining parody of the speedrunning community I can think of, and I'm hoping someone figures out how to expand the format so it doesn't die off before reaching its full potential.
3 (Bottom): OK Boomer
While I do enjoy entitled demographics seething as much as the next guy, that's about all the nice things I can say about this meme. It somehow manages to dumb down political discourse even further, and there are very few contexts where it's genuinely amusing to me.
AKADarkie
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2 (Top): Storm Area 51
This event was a fun ride. From the ridiculous amount of shitposting leading up to it and the government actually having to issue a warning about it, to the pleasantly wholesome ending, there wasn't really any part of this I can say I hated by any stretch. It was just fun times all around.
2 (Bottom): Baby Yoda
My disdain for this meme comes from a combination from how "plastic" and corporate it feels, on top of how obscenely ubiquitous it's been since its inception. Hopefully it will wear out within a few months and not become a new Thanos, where people keep shitting out new memes based on it for years on end.
1 (Top): Me and the Boys
This choice was not as clear-cut as I thought it was gonna be. This meme had plenty of room for creative potential, and didn't last longer than it needed to, which is very rare in the modern culture of gold egg-laying goose slaughter that is modern meme creation. There were plenty of solid edits, and 60s Spiderman is usually a good time anyway.
AKADarkie
Continued (again again):
1 (Bottom): The "Nobody: " Format
Alright, I'm gonna need to take a deep breath for this one, because I AM ANGRY. ANGRY ABOUT MEMES. Let's go over everything that's wrong with this embarrassment of a meme. First: It adds absolutely zero comedic value to anything it gets tacked on. It just makes the user look ridiculous. Second: It's fucking everywhere. Pretty much every comments section on everything ever is infested with this nonsense. And once again, it adds nothing of value. Three: It won't fucking die. I actually had to look when this started, because I thought it started around February or March of this year. But nope, it started late last year, but fuck it, I'm already well into this tirade, and it really got big this year, so I'm counting it, damnit. Anyhow, back to my point, it's been almost a year since this shit really took off, and IT. KEEPS. FUCKING. GOING. FOREVER. AND. FUCKING. EVER. And guess what? We're probably gonna spend at least several more fucking months seeing "HURR NOBODY: I AM CLEVER" literally everywhere. Out of the literal thousands of uses I've had to be subjected to over the past several months, you know how many times this meme was actually humorous? ONLY FUCKING ONE, that being the Organization XIII joke, because that used the format in a genuinely clever manner.
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Juicydeath1025
I was going to vote for ¿Quieres? but I felt bias because I created the entry for it, so I went with Well Yes, But Actually No instead.
C_Mill24
Because I couldn't vote for ytp sexer, I chose Lego Yoda.
superjumpman
I picked the storming Area 51 meme cuz it's the most random event happening this year.
Nedhitis
While not the funniest meme per se, I would argue that it was the most elaborated and eventful meme of not just this year, but potentially top 10 of the decade on that regard. It really was a rollercoaster and a half.
Derptastic Derp Man
This year was definitely the year of a meme overload but it’s hard to choose which of the good memes should be the meme of the year.
I’ll go with Me and the Boys
Second choice is Joker dancing
Third choice is Nick Fury looking at Pink Guy
Cordelius
No one is voting for Area 51? It was the most talked about joke of the year outside of the internet.