Cast Your Vote For The Memes Of The Decade!
Over the last 10 years, we've witnessed the internet fully converge with mainstream culture and saw memes become more prevalent and influential than ever before. The sheer volume of memes being created has increased exponentially during this period, as social platforms like Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Instagram and Facebook became the giants they are today.
However, as the amount of memes spread across the web has grown, ones that manage to resonate far and wide across the internet, while maintaining relevance for extended periods of time, remain relatively rare. Far more common are the memes that spread like a brief viral outbreak, only to fade into obscurity over the course of a week.
To pay tribute to these elements of internet culture, we need your help to determine which memes rose above to become the best of the entire decade by voting in our online poll.
Note: For the purposes of this poll, we've restricted it to memes that were significant from the beginning of 2010 to the end of 2018. A separate poll for the top memes of 2019 will be launched on Know Your Meme later this month.
Instructions:
- The poll will remain open until December 15th, Sunday, 11:59 pm (EST)
- You may select up to THREE choices
- To nominate a candidate of your own choice, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "Others"
Thank you for voting!
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MemsAndDrems
chose wojak, pepe and baneposting. definitely would've chose doge if i had a fourth option
moathon
Wojack, Robbie Rotten and Gangam Style, as they all define a special event in each part of the decade.
SIMOMEGA
No Skyrim Skills or Fus-ro-dah?
zravel
I voted for:
Robbie Rotten ( Legacy )
Pepe ( Origin )
Ricardo ( Gay )
SlamGrene
my votes:
expand dong – the birth of a new image genre
robbie rotten – even beyond memes, he left an imprint on my own life
nyan cat – it's the most iconic video i can think of
honorable mentions:
rage comics – the ancients
doge – biggest example of meme resurrection
gangnam style – for years it was inescapable
harlem shake – (i think) was one of the first to hit primetime television
jay_doots
my votes:
this is fine – a personal favourite, it's a mood for a lot of people in a lot of situations
blinking white guy – another favourite, for mostly the same reasons
grumpy cat – a tribute, and also one of the first memes i was exposed to. as a zoomer i didn't grow up with rage comics or dat boi, i grew up with grumpy cat.
my other nominations:
- dat boi
- pepe
- nyan cat
- surprised pikachu
- hide the pain harold
- f to pay repects
- gabe the dog
- he protecc
- pee is stored in the balls
- megalovania
- doge
- e
- robbie rotten
- ayy lmao
- is this a pigeon
- loss
- send nudes
acidacidacid
I'll make the case for Rage Comics as a solid pick here: they were not only one of the largest memes of the decade, but they were some of the first truly viral memes. Rage comics were originated during the surge in internet broadband availability in 2007-2010, which catapulted them to mainstream popular culture and baked them into the history of the internet. Rage memes are now remembered as being run into the ground due to saturation and overuse, but they're notable in the sense that they were one of the first memes this happened to. These days, memes becoming "normie" and being killed by their own popularity is commonplace, but when it happened to Rage Comics, it was essentially unprecedented.
chris dude
i voted for:
doge, chad VS virgin, and for robbie rotten (''i am number one'' meme).
if i could vote for more memes, i would definitely add the ''advice memes'' (aka=the demotivational posters format, which started it all on the interenet inside-jokes, and also the ''rage comics'' which started long before it became ''cool''.
i could go on and on, but for now, that will do.
lets see who will win the contest: ''meme of the decade''!!1
Sieben Schnee
F- It's a meme that has trascended into common linguistic use
Rage comics- One has to remember one of the oldest memes out there
LittleUnderscore
No epic face? Or the word “meme” itself? :(
Jack the Dipper
Both predate 2010.