See The Winner Of August 2024's Meme Of The Month!
And the meme of August 2024 goes to …
He might have gotten silver at the 2024 Summer Olympics, but he is not going to settle for less than gold this time: It's Yusuf Dikeç, the Turkish pistol shooter, who finishes first with over 32.5 percent of total votes! The natural-born shooter from Turkey impressed viewers of the Olympics with his lack of equipment and a relaxed pose, holding his hand in his pocket while hitting his targets and people's hearts. Did we mention he's also a cat guy? He's a cat guy.
I Guess We Doin Circles Now
"A circle? In a triangle factory??" That's right, the two-panel exploitable about a factory worker getting a quick update regarding factory operations gets second place on our monthly poll thanks to nearly 15 percent of the voters. The highly flexible format has been used in all sorts of ways, from making fun of companies that engage in wildly different stuff (looking at you, Michelin) and surreal humor that is covered in layers of meta to funny crossovers with other memes.
Raygun the Australian Olympic Breakdancer
While Olympic shooters were undeniably the biggest meme stars of the 2024 Paris Olympics, their strongest contender was Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn, the Australian breakdancer, who made a huge impression with her moves … just not exactly in a good way. Striving to impress with her artistic approach rather than with her technical skill, Raygun did not quite achieve the results she wanted as her bizarre performance earned her comparisons with a kangaroo, among other things. Love her or hate her, Raygun is here in third place with nearly 9 percent of your votes.
Rainbow Dolphin / Symphony Dolphin
The memes combining dark thoughts with positive imagery are not exactly new, but the latest variation of this trend, called Rainbow Dolphin or Symphony Dolphin, has been a huge hit this past month. Writing out one's depressive thoughts – or simply weird stuff – over images of jolly dolphins jumping out of water against a rainbow in the background has been the thing to do on TikTok in August. And no, the most popular image of a dolphin frolicking in the ocean (seen on the left) is not AI — it's a painting by Hawaii-based artist Christian Riese Lassen! Rainbow dolphin memes score fourth place with 8.5 percent of total votes.
Brazilian Miku / Every Country's Miku
Wrapping up our top five for August 2024 is Brazilian Miku — or rather, every country's Miku at this point. The fun art trend started with artists imagining vocaloid character Hatsune Miku as a young Brazilian woman in a crop top and jean shirts, but it obviously couldn't just stop there. From Brazil, Miku has since traveled all over the world as artists depicted her as a national in every country and place on Earth … even Michigan. Miku's international tour ends up in the fifth spot with 7 percent of total votes.
And now for the memes that didn't believe in the heart of cards and therefore didn't manage to place top five this August: pancreatic cancer not qualifying as an emotion (6.5%), being very demure, very mindful (6.5%), the Jonkler and his evil cart (4%), China's national treasure Xiaopang the Dog (4%), quirkless Deku flipping burgers at Macky Dees (2.5%), Republicans being called weird (2%), South Korean pistol shooter Kim Yeju and her crazy loadout (1%), J.K. Rowling possibly having black mold in her house (1%) and Farbuckle the Goblin and his self-sacrificing kink (0.5%).
Thank you for voting and see you next month!
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Baithooks
On one hand, an actual meme, on the other hand
The meme lost popularity half a month in and died immediately.
You still see circle variations come around, Brazilian Miku retains relevancy since people always love Brazil and it's culture and people, but the guy is sort of just lost to the month
GeneHunt
A well deserved win for once.
Boykisser
I voted for my girl Miku so I'm glad she got a spot! We out here!
Mudkip97
Finally something that actually makes sense won. And I even voted for the winner.
Before it was just a bunch of nonsense.
KozaChain
Surprised that an actual meme won. But I'll take it; I saw Turkish Pistol Shooter everywhere, remixed into a lot of different things, so it certainly had holding power. Others like Miku were just a hair too late at the end of the month, so they didn't get the traction needed.
MildKidneys
Feel good about the memes this month. I liked a lot of them, surprisingly. Maybe a sign of good things to come.
red4567
He may have came second in the 2024 Olympics, but he certainly came first as August's Meme of the Month.
Quiet_boi
Dissapointed Miku didn't got a bit higher but the top two are still some really solid choices.
Specially the second.
Sheeps44
thank god, the fact that the dolphin got into the top four is still worrisome.
Nkil
I voted for the dolphin specifically because that genre of kitschy dolphin art you always see hung up in the bathroom when you're taking a dump reminds me of a time when my mother was still sane, we used to have a lot of dolphins in our house, they went away when it felt like she stopped finding much joy in anything anymore. Cherish the things you have when you have them, especially the cheap, lenticular dolphin picture Moms buy at Goodwill because they want something to look at on the toilet.
Triplem