[Music]
these provided us with some much-needed
moments of levity during a long hard
year welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top ten memes of 2016 will you be
getting your dick out this evening my
dicks been out for this list we’re
looking at internet trends and other
cultural phenomena that took hold of
society in 2016 and never let go due to
the nature of memes some of these may
have appeared on reddit or 4chan earlier
but they definitely flew onto our radars
in 2016
Oh Drake Andre number 10 I’m Rick
Harrison at my shop family comes first
and money comes second the opening
voiceover of the History Channel reality
series Pawn Stars was immortalized in
2016 when it was turned into a copypasta
seemingly overnight by the strange
people that control the internet but the
best part you never know what’s gonna
come through that door
this meme works one of two ways Rick
Harrison describing his family’s
business can either be used in its
original format and paste it anywhere
or it can be themed with any person or
character you can think of one thing
we’ve learned after months of this meme
there’s a little Rick Harrison in
everyone
number nine get you a man who can do
both we always hope that our celebrity
crushes are well-rounded people capable
of looking classy when they need to and
trashy when the time calls for it yeah
okay go with it this comparison
copypasta lets us know if our faves are
able to go both ways with the titular
phrase usually captioning pairs of
celebrity pictures with one shot of them
looking nice and one shot where they
look like they’re just takin it easy
Drake was the first to get this
treatment but the meme soon expanded to
all types of public figures including
Guy Fieri Judge Judy and even Jeb Bush
number eight confused mr. krabs
also known as when you wake up from a
nap it’s been a banner year for Sponge
Bob Square Pants memes the hilarious
primitive spongebob was a strong
contender for this spot but we
ultimately had to give it to this one
the ultimate meme for anyone who’s ever
been confused panicked or
discombobulated crafted from a still
taken from the spongebob episode paddy
hype this meme uses the Crustacea
cheapskate as a reaction image for
disorientation we want to refund Krabs
some examples include when you wake up
from a nap and your parents are already
yelling at you or when your mom leaves
you in line to get eggs and the cashier
says next of course this meme met its
logical conclusion when someone
captioned the image with when mr. Krabs
finds out everyone’s using his picture
and he ain’t makin one penny
number seven sad Affleck it was one of
the year’s most anticipated movies but
when Batman vs Superman dawn of Justice
was pummeled with negative reviews in
March 2016 fine an interview with Ben
Affleck and co-star Henry Cavill made
for a perfect meme during the interview
the two are asked what they thought
about the hate the film had been
receiving while cavil tried to put on a
brave front well the interesting thing
is that we get the critics who have the
personal opinion Affleck sported a
defeated disappointed face which the
internet reacted to in one of two ways
one they felt sympathy for the Oscar
winner or two they saw it as an
opportunity for comedic gold the most
popular of the sad Affleck memes
featured a close-up of a flex forlorn
face with Simon and Garfunkel’s the
sound of silence playing in the
background and you thought you couldn’t
feel worse for Batman in Restless dreams
I loved our streets of cobblestone
number six damn Daniel here we have the
second meme in as many years based
around footwear student Joshua Holtz
compiled a series of snapchat videos
wherein he is excitedly complimenting
the stylish white vans his friend Daniel
Lara is sporting damn Daniel back at it
again with the white vans to be honest
it’s hard to explain why the clip caught
on the way it did but it probably has to
do with Joshua’s tone when commenting on
his friend sneaks damn Daniel bed with
no one the duo was later featured on
Ellen where Daniel received a lifetime
supply of the shoes which he later
donated to a Children’s Hospital all
right that’s a nice surfboard for you
and you love vans so our friends at vans
are giving you a lifetime supply of
shoes and of course vans took advantage
of the video as the best form of free
advertising they could get ultimately
using it in their ad campaigns number
five that boy here comes up oh whoa
move over Pepe this year dat boy proved
that the internet was big enough for
more than one meme based around an
amphibian a bunch of different sources
came together to create this mean
there’s a crudely animated gif of a frog
on a unicycle that was once featured in
a physics textbook the edited screenshot
of a news report that coined the name
and the cg image of pac-man that spawned
the signature catchphrase you see when
dat boy arrives people usually call out
his name and exclaim oh shit what up
honestly there’s not much more to say
because essentially that boy is the
concept of memes boiled down to its very
essence nobody can really explain it but
nobody really has a problem with that
watch him roll shit what up watch him
roll shit whatever number four crying
Michael Jordan this photo of one of the
greatest athletes ever tearing up at his
basketball Hall of Fame induction
ceremony has been circulating the
message boards for a couple of years but
2016 is when it reached its peak
MJ’s tear filled face is usually
photoshopped onto the face or any other
body part of someone or
something that’s going through hard
times we’ve seen it on countless losing
athletes politicians fictional
characters and even entire countries
highlights of this meme came when rapper
schoolboy q used a photoshopped version
of the picture – any facial features as
a fake cover for his upcoming album
[Music]
and when the University of North
Carolina Jordan’s alma mater lost the
NCAA basketball tournament to Villanova
producing the obvious reaction from the
internet number three the 2016 united
states presidential election a grueling
unbelievable presidential primary gave
way to a grueling unbelievable general
election between Hillary Clinton and
Donald Trump
and the number of memes generated by
that election was staggering Donald
Trump thinks building a wall will make
America great again but that’s none of
my business the primaries gave us
classics like the Hillary versus Bernie
charts jeb Bush’s plea for a response
from his audience please clap and the
conspiracy theory that will never die
that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac killer
favorite serial serial killer or
seriously even when the race was down to
two there was no shortage of memorable
moments like sweater clad undecided
voter Ken bone Hillary’s iconic Twitter
takedown of her opponent and of course
literally every word that came out of
Donald Trump’s mouth grab him by the
pussy I could do anything but the fun
didn’t stop once the votes were in Jill
Biden schemes to troll Donald Trump in a
post Obama White House kept us laughing
well past election day number two
harambe the gorilla I raised her on me
from the day he was born on May 28 2016
a year old boy fell into a gorilla
enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo where a
western lowland gorilla named Harambee
lived before the gorilla could harm the
boy zookeepers killed harambe and the
boy was rescued as is to be expected
this event generated mass outrage and
more than a few guilty humor means in
fact Harambee practically became the
ultimate meme generating levels of
public attention not gathered by most
internet phenomena the gorillas
unfortunate death became a symbol of all
the good we’ve lost in the world
prompting tributes parodies and even a
write-in campaign for the u.s. election
the pinnacle of these tributes the dicks
out for Harambee movement you can
probably guess what that entails if you
could say one thing to Rahm be right now
what would it be
dick so before we reveal our number one
pick here are some honorable mentions
[Music]
Maxo mungus okay
humongous walk humongous walk you mungus
humongous walk number one
Arthur is fist I’m not a baby are two
I’m not in the grand internet tradition
of ruining beloved children’s shows this
PBS KIDS series is the latest and
possibly greatest to get memed for a
show of its stature and popularity we’re
surprised this didn’t happen sooner but
the internet more than made up for the
delay in 2016 by posting stills of the
show with either disassociated or
inappropriate captions but the best
arthur meme 2016 gave us was the
reaction meme of Arthur’s fist it didn’t
fly for one second it’s not my fault if
you made a plane that can’t blow I told
you not to dodge and taken from the
episode Arthur’s big hit the still of
Arthur’s clenched fist is used to
represent boiling anger like when you
find out you shaved for nothing or when
your BAE reads your text but doesn’t
respond like the best means Arthur’s
fist is versatile and can be
photoshopped to represent anything from
Luke Skywalker to Mario or even Donald
Trump do you agree with our list what
memes stood out to you the most in 2016
for more dank top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
pokemons go to the polls
oh I’m sorry or my memes to turn fun
don’t let your means be dreams
you
these provided us with some much-needed
moments of levity during a long hard
year welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top ten memes of 2016 will you be
getting your dick out this evening my
dicks been out for this list we’re
looking at internet trends and other
cultural phenomena that took hold of
society in 2016 and never let go due to
the nature of memes some of these may
have appeared on reddit or 4chan earlier
but they definitely flew onto our radars
in 2016
Oh Drake Andre number 10 I’m Rick
Harrison at my shop family comes first
and money comes second the opening
voiceover of the History Channel reality
series Pawn Stars was immortalized in
2016 when it was turned into a copypasta
seemingly overnight by the strange
people that control the internet but the
best part you never know what’s gonna
come through that door
this meme works one of two ways Rick
Harrison describing his family’s
business can either be used in its
original format and paste it anywhere
or it can be themed with any person or
character you can think of one thing
we’ve learned after months of this meme
there’s a little Rick Harrison in
everyone
number nine get you a man who can do
both we always hope that our celebrity
crushes are well-rounded people capable
of looking classy when they need to and
trashy when the time calls for it yeah
okay go with it this comparison
copypasta lets us know if our faves are
able to go both ways with the titular
phrase usually captioning pairs of
celebrity pictures with one shot of them
looking nice and one shot where they
look like they’re just takin it easy
Drake was the first to get this
treatment but the meme soon expanded to
all types of public figures including
Guy Fieri Judge Judy and even Jeb Bush
number eight confused mr. krabs
also known as when you wake up from a
nap it’s been a banner year for Sponge
Bob Square Pants memes the hilarious
primitive spongebob was a strong
contender for this spot but we
ultimately had to give it to this one
the ultimate meme for anyone who’s ever
been confused panicked or
discombobulated crafted from a still
taken from the spongebob episode paddy
hype this meme uses the Crustacea
cheapskate as a reaction image for
disorientation we want to refund Krabs
some examples include when you wake up
from a nap and your parents are already
yelling at you or when your mom leaves
you in line to get eggs and the cashier
says next of course this meme met its
logical conclusion when someone
captioned the image with when mr. Krabs
finds out everyone’s using his picture
and he ain’t makin one penny
number seven sad Affleck it was one of
the year’s most anticipated movies but
when Batman vs Superman dawn of Justice
was pummeled with negative reviews in
March 2016 fine an interview with Ben
Affleck and co-star Henry Cavill made
for a perfect meme during the interview
the two are asked what they thought
about the hate the film had been
receiving while cavil tried to put on a
brave front well the interesting thing
is that we get the critics who have the
personal opinion Affleck sported a
defeated disappointed face which the
internet reacted to in one of two ways
one they felt sympathy for the Oscar
winner or two they saw it as an
opportunity for comedic gold the most
popular of the sad Affleck memes
featured a close-up of a flex forlorn
face with Simon and Garfunkel’s the
sound of silence playing in the
background and you thought you couldn’t
feel worse for Batman in Restless dreams
I loved our streets of cobblestone
number six damn Daniel here we have the
second meme in as many years based
around footwear student Joshua Holtz
compiled a series of snapchat videos
wherein he is excitedly complimenting
the stylish white vans his friend Daniel
Lara is sporting damn Daniel back at it
again with the white vans to be honest
it’s hard to explain why the clip caught
on the way it did but it probably has to
do with Joshua’s tone when commenting on
his friend sneaks damn Daniel bed with
no one the duo was later featured on
Ellen where Daniel received a lifetime
supply of the shoes which he later
donated to a Children’s Hospital all
right that’s a nice surfboard for you
and you love vans so our friends at vans
are giving you a lifetime supply of
shoes and of course vans took advantage
of the video as the best form of free
advertising they could get ultimately
using it in their ad campaigns number
five that boy here comes up oh whoa
move over Pepe this year dat boy proved
that the internet was big enough for
more than one meme based around an
amphibian a bunch of different sources
came together to create this mean
there’s a crudely animated gif of a frog
on a unicycle that was once featured in
a physics textbook the edited screenshot
of a news report that coined the name
and the cg image of pac-man that spawned
the signature catchphrase you see when
dat boy arrives people usually call out
his name and exclaim oh shit what up
honestly there’s not much more to say
because essentially that boy is the
concept of memes boiled down to its very
essence nobody can really explain it but
nobody really has a problem with that
watch him roll shit what up watch him
roll shit whatever number four crying
Michael Jordan this photo of one of the
greatest athletes ever tearing up at his
basketball Hall of Fame induction
ceremony has been circulating the
message boards for a couple of years but
2016 is when it reached its peak
MJ’s tear filled face is usually
photoshopped onto the face or any other
body part of someone or
something that’s going through hard
times we’ve seen it on countless losing
athletes politicians fictional
characters and even entire countries
highlights of this meme came when rapper
schoolboy q used a photoshopped version
of the picture – any facial features as
a fake cover for his upcoming album
[Music]
and when the University of North
Carolina Jordan’s alma mater lost the
NCAA basketball tournament to Villanova
producing the obvious reaction from the
internet number three the 2016 united
states presidential election a grueling
unbelievable presidential primary gave
way to a grueling unbelievable general
election between Hillary Clinton and
Donald Trump
and the number of memes generated by
that election was staggering Donald
Trump thinks building a wall will make
America great again but that’s none of
my business the primaries gave us
classics like the Hillary versus Bernie
charts jeb Bush’s plea for a response
from his audience please clap and the
conspiracy theory that will never die
that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac killer
favorite serial serial killer or
seriously even when the race was down to
two there was no shortage of memorable
moments like sweater clad undecided
voter Ken bone Hillary’s iconic Twitter
takedown of her opponent and of course
literally every word that came out of
Donald Trump’s mouth grab him by the
pussy I could do anything but the fun
didn’t stop once the votes were in Jill
Biden schemes to troll Donald Trump in a
post Obama White House kept us laughing
well past election day number two
harambe the gorilla I raised her on me
from the day he was born on May 28 2016
a year old boy fell into a gorilla
enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo where a
western lowland gorilla named Harambee
lived before the gorilla could harm the
boy zookeepers killed harambe and the
boy was rescued as is to be expected
this event generated mass outrage and
more than a few guilty humor means in
fact Harambee practically became the
ultimate meme generating levels of
public attention not gathered by most
internet phenomena the gorillas
unfortunate death became a symbol of all
the good we’ve lost in the world
prompting tributes parodies and even a
write-in campaign for the u.s. election
the pinnacle of these tributes the dicks
out for Harambee movement you can
probably guess what that entails if you
could say one thing to Rahm be right now
what would it be
dick so before we reveal our number one
pick here are some honorable mentions
[Music]
Maxo mungus okay
humongous walk humongous walk you mungus
humongous walk number one
Arthur is fist I’m not a baby are two
I’m not in the grand internet tradition
of ruining beloved children’s shows this
PBS KIDS series is the latest and
possibly greatest to get memed for a
show of its stature and popularity we’re
surprised this didn’t happen sooner but
the internet more than made up for the
delay in 2016 by posting stills of the
show with either disassociated or
inappropriate captions but the best
arthur meme 2016 gave us was the
reaction meme of Arthur’s fist it didn’t
fly for one second it’s not my fault if
you made a plane that can’t blow I told
you not to dodge and taken from the
episode Arthur’s big hit the still of
Arthur’s clenched fist is used to
represent boiling anger like when you
find out you shaved for nothing or when
your BAE reads your text but doesn’t
respond like the best means Arthur’s
fist is versatile and can be
photoshopped to represent anything from
Luke Skywalker to Mario or even Donald
Trump do you agree with our list what
memes stood out to you the most in 2016
for more dank top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
pokemons go to the polls
oh I’m sorry or my memes to turn fun
don’t let your means be dreams
you
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