Somehow, we're more than halfway through 2022. From Wordle to inflation, this year has come with many wild moments — and as a result, new memes.
Here are just some of the funniest memes so far that have truly captured these past few months:
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1. There's the famous "she's a 10 but" meme on Twitter:
She’s a 10 but she asks you if you’d still love her if she was a worm
Because, you know, we all have our red flags.
shes a 10 but puts her milk before her cereal
2. When NASA's new James Webb telescope released its first images — and while the telescope's ability to capture galaxies that are billions of light-years away was impressive all on its own...
Space is lovely, dark and deep. You're looking at the deepest infrared image of the universe ever taken—the first full-color image from @NASAWebb. Go deeper on the galaxies of SMACS 0723 at https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I #UnfoldTheUniverse
...the internet decided to make a meme out of it:
it's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date
3. When people started coming up with hilarious double-meanings behind sending certain emojis in texts with the "when I send you"/"if I text you" meme:
when i send you 🦉 im tryna figure out who the fuck you talking to
Look at this perfect joke.
when i text you “🪗” it mean i’m finna start acting accordingly
4. All the Stranger Things jokes and memes since Season 4 came out — especially ones about Vecna:
idk vecna is giving grinch
5. When American Girl dolls resurfaced in the "we need an American Girl doll who" meme...
...which gave us an AG doll for quite literally every situation you can think of:
we need an American Girl doll who filed for unemployment during the pandemic
Like, really. Every situation.
we need an american girl doll who reposted this to her instagram in 2017
6. When Wordle took over our lives, and people shared tons of jokes and memes:
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Wordle memes even fit into famous movie moments — like the Say Anything... boombox scene:
Or the "How do you like them apples?" Good Will Hunting scene:
wordle
Long live the Wordle memes!
pivoting to wordle memes
7. When Marvel's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness came out, and people couldn't help but joke about the title by referencing iconic crossover moments in pop culture:
this was my multiverse of madness
8. When everyone roasted Morbius after it came out, and people couldn't stop making fun of the movie:
having No Way having Morbius Home spoiled spoiled for you for you
9. When Kim Kardashian gave some controversial advice to working women, and it became a quite a joke:
kim kardashian: nobody wants to work these days everyone working 40+ hour weeks and earning minimum wage: no shit
Basically this.
kim kardashian giving business advice:
10. When 50 Cent performed upside-down at the Super Bowl:
me trying to connect my charger without getting outta bed
11. When the US government announced they would be distributing 1 billion COVID rapid tests for free to every American household, but Twitter users made fun of the fact that you could only order up to four rapid tests per household — no matter how many people were living there:
They would only get four free tests
12. When Hollywood Unlocked falsely reported in February that Queen Elizabeth had died — which paved the way for a lot of memes:
hollywood unlocked reporter accidentally pressing publish on their queen elizabeth is dead draft
Yeah...
queen elizabeth finding out she’s dead https://t.co/h3Xn499JxT
13. When the idea of "soft launching" your S.O. on social media — aka, posting a subtle photo of your new boo without actually showing their identity — became a thing:
Girls soft launching their bf’s on Instagram
14. When the US Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 back in March in favor of a permanent Daylight Saving Time — and people had plenty of reactions:
If daylight savings time is ended or made permanent it’s going to be weird explaining to young folks how, for our entire lives, we occasionally played musical chairs with time.
15. All the memes about increasing gas prices nationwide — and BTW, back in March, the price of gas broke the record of the most expensive in US history.
Thankfully gas prices can never go above $9.99 since most of the signs only have three digits
It's rough out here.
Breaking news; A car has just fainted at a local gas station after hearing the new fuel prices 😭😭
16. Oh, and all the jokes about inflation in general:
gas is almost $5. 1 bedrooms starting at $2000. mcdonalds just told me $2.13 for 1 hash brown…. God please 😭
17. When the Elvis biopic starring Austin Butler was released late June, and people couldn't stop making memes about this very sweaty behind-the-scenes photo:
just took out the trash in 110 degree weather
Relatable, TBH.
“let’s get a table outside!” me
18. When Drake released his surprise house album Honestly, Nevermind — and it left some people feeling like this:
Drake’s surprise album was like when your teacher surprises the class with a pizza party and you end up with this
19. When the first photo of Ryan Gosling as Ken for the live-action Barbie movie was released — and people had lots of reactions to share:
Freddie Prinze Jr's Fred walked so Ryan Gosling's Ken could run
Shout-out to the Calvin Klein-esque Ken underwear.
Not sure why anyone's making fun of this picture. I too used to write my name on my underwear during sleep-away camp https://t.co/z0zOC4qGCI
20. And last — but definitely not least — when people couldn't stop talking about the new Minions: The Rise of Gru movie, and in came a flood of new Minion memes:
The movie underpaid theater employee watching the 40th group of teenagers in suits walking in to watch minions:rise of gru
Minions will always be the internet's obsession.
used to hate minions then i gru up 😈