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The best memes of 2011

Remember Nyan Cat, Scumbag Steve and the Dating Site Murderer? Time to look back on the most popular memes of 2011…

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SOME VERY IMPORTANT, world-changing things happened in 2011 – this post celebrates none of those things.

It’s time to take a walk down meme-ory lane… (sorry).

The best memes of 2011
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  • X all the Y

    X all the Y – otherwise known as X all the Things - is an exploitable cartoon that manages to reach the heights of hilarity (maybe) by inserting different words into the ‘x’ and ’y’ categories alongside a corresponding picture. Examples: “clean all the things”, “burn all the things”, “loathe all the mortals”... you get the idea.

  • Planking

    Ah planking... if there is any physical comedy greater than lying face-down and perfectly still on unusual objects or places, we didn’t come across it in 2011. Image: ninasaurusrex/Flickr

  • First World Problems

    Your parking space is too far away from the door; you consider the amount of goats cheese in your salad excessive; you can’t fit leftovers into your fridge because there’s too much food in it already. These are First World Problems.

  • Fun fun fun fun

    We we we so excited.

  • Scumbag Steve

    Scumbag Steve is an undesirable character that we are all, unfortunately, familiar with: he’s the type of guy who always wants to borrow your car, who talks to your little sister too much, and who gets bitten during the zombie apocalypse... but tells no one.

  • Mubarak Steve

    A nod also went out to people who may be affiliated with Scumbag Steve...

  • The Little Hipster

    Font-based humour is the best humour... right?

  • Pictures of women laughing alone with salad

    Also popular: pictures of men laughing alone with salad.

  • Dating site murderer

    Other classics from our favourite Intense Looking Man of 2011: "I'm going to follow you home... and make sure you get there safely." "I will eat your baby... carrots if you don't like them." "I will make you scream... for ice cream"

  • Pepper-spray cop

    We all know the pepper-spray cop is a doghearted lout (no, we're not allowed to swear properly) because of his treatment of peaceful student protesters at UC Davis - but just look where else he's turned up to causally spray people with chemical weapons...
  • X all the Y – otherwise known as X all the Things - is an exploitable cartoon that manages to reach the heights of hilarity (maybe) by inserting different words into the ‘x’ and ’y’ categories alongside a corresponding picture. Examples: “clean all the things”, “burn all the things”, “loathe all the mortals”... you get the idea.
  • Ah planking... if there is any physical comedy greater than lying face-down and perfectly still on unusual objects or places, we didn’t come across it in 2011. Image: ninasaurusrex/Flickr
  • Your parking space is too far away from the door; you consider the amount of goats cheese in your salad excessive; you can’t fit leftovers into your fridge because there’s too much food in it already. These are First World Problems.
  • We we we so excited.
  • Scumbag Steve is an undesirable character that we are all, unfortunately, familiar with: he’s the type of guy who always wants to borrow your car, who talks to your little sister too much, and who gets bitten during the zombie apocalypse... but tells no one.
  • A nod also went out to people who may be affiliated with Scumbag Steve...
  • Font-based humour is the best humour... right?
  • Also popular: pictures of men laughing alone with salad.
  • Other classics from our favourite Intense Looking Man of 2011:
  • We all know the pepper-spray cop is a doghearted lout (no, we're not allowed to swear properly) because of his treatment of peaceful student protesters at UC Davis - but just look where else he's turned up to causally spray people with chemical weapons...

Nyan Cat!

Face of a cat, body of a strawberry-flavoured Pop Tart – some things have to be seen to be appreciated. Nyan Cat is one of them.


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