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A special edition of Meme Documentation presents: female-presenting nipples meme

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It’s moments like these that I wish I were still documenting memes so posterity will understand why “female-presenting nipples” are a meme. 

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Do not fall in love with meme blogs like me. I will show you videos, and GIFs, and text posts, and document the memes you love, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave, you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.

Ancient proverb

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For auld lang syne

Dear fellow memers,

As the lyrical masterpiece “All Star” by Smash Mouth states, “The years start coming and they don't stop coming.” Indeed they don’t. It has already been yet another year of documenting memes.

I started Meme Documentation back in January 2015 because I felt a wistful sense of loss whenever a meme came and went. Folks who were on Tumblr before 2015 may remember some of the great memes of that time. The PSAT fandom started becoming a thing. (Gee whiz!) We wondered, when was the last time the girl kissed the boy in a teen romance? And people were submerging things in water just for the æsthetic.

One may dismiss these memes as just the fleeting obsessions of Internet culture, but for me, they were more than just that. Needless to say, the Internet has become a large part of our lives, and as such, memes aren’t just Internet culture—they’re culture culture. And it was a sad feeling to know that some of the memes I enjoyed so much, the memes that connected me with so many people around the world, may go unrecorded and perhaps even unremembered.

People talk about memes being dead, but I never thought that was truly accurate because memes live on in the hearts and minds of those they touch. True, memes may go out of style, but memes are a part of our history. They’re threads in the rich tapestry of what it means to be human in the 21st century. And as such, it’s important to be able to accessibly look back at that history, which so many of us share.

And so I was inspired to start Meme Documentation. Admittedly, it wasn’t a wholly original idea as the great website Know Your Meme had been documenting memes years prior. But as someone who is dear to me said, Know Your Meme is like the Library of Congress. Tumblr needed a local library to keep records of some of the memes that were being overlooked.

In the two years I’ve documented memes, I’ve learned to never doubt the capabilities and creativity of human beings. We discovered that a dress could be both blue/black and white/gold. We somehow found a way to make a meme about Meme Documentation itself. And we even imagined what Amish memes might look like.

But I have also learned that documenting memes is a big commitment, at least if one wants to do it well. Meme Documentation has always been something we’ve done in our free time, and with that, we have our limitations. We’re going to miss running this blog, but it will still be available and stand as an archive of all the various memetic happenings on Tumblr in 2015 and 2017.

With every ending, though, comes new beginnings. We hope that this blog inspires others to try out documenting memes themselves. Documenting memes can take many forms, but what’s important is that our shared online cultural heritage is preserved. The Internet, at times, gives us a false sense of security. Things on the Internet aren’t as forever as we’d like them to be. To get to some of the technical aspects, we’d recommend the Internet Archive as a great resource to find and archive webpages, and the site archive.is is also good for saving links.

So goodbye, fellow memers!

Goodbye to the cow that liks the bread!

Goodbye to the brains that expand to the cosmos!

Goodbye to the sounds of music playing from another room!

Goodbye to our beloved horse friend!

Goodbye to the Russian cats!

Goodbye to the Woody Collective!

Goodbye to the frog in Tom Holland’s mouth!

Goodbye to the man who is in a constant state of checking out another woman!

Goodbye to the cowboy who sings passionately above in the sky!

Goodbye to the eyes of Obama!

Goodbye to the girl reading this!

Goodbye to elf practice!

Farewell,

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The memes of 2017

(N.B. The months below offer only a loose means to put the memes in rough chronological order. Some memes may have started earlier, but Meme Documentation just aims to give a rough outline as to when the memes became popular.)

January

Hollywood sign meme

Bernie Sanders giant tweet meme

brother, may I have some oats

Salt Bae meme

Bye Bye Man meme

i lik the bred meme

Meitu meme

cash me outside how bow dah

punching Nazis meme

yaint meme

February

Roll Safe meme

confetti meme

blinking white guy meme

cope meme

Oscars meme

wot in tarnation meme

whomst meme

expanding brain meme

whoppy machine broke

pix2pix meme

“Shooting Stars” meme

March

this is the future that liberals want

student athlete meme

how Italians X meme

Meryl Streep yelling meme

playing from another room meme

come see the ocean meme

mess with X-o you get Y-o

April

horse friend meme

cuck comic meme

Spotify playlist meme

I’m weird meme

bone hurting juice meme

John C. Miller meme

thrussy meme

online millennial meme

he protec but he also attac meme

May

ordinary people creative people meme

avocado toast meme

mocking SpongeBob meme

sleeping Shaq meme

shidding and farding meme

cracking open a cold one with the boys

Sixpenceee Heals meme

covfefe meme

Russian cat meme

June

do you take constructive criticism?

oh, worm? meme

gay Babadook meme

one thicc bih meme

the floor is lava meme

“Fireflies” meme

all women are queens meme

this post can be reblogged by anyone

buenos dias Mandy meme

not you meme

Woody Collective

classic gaming emotion meme

how to talk to short people meme

boneless meme

do not interact meme

pee your pants meme

July

Aaron Paul screaming meme

nothing but respect for MY president

Tumblr, we need to talk

dancing hot dog meme

me talking about X meme

sometimes things that are expensive are worse

powder that makes you say “yes”

Glee defense meme

swear jar meme

hewwo meme

frog in Tom Holland’s mouth meme

right in front of my salad meme

hey there demons meme

widdle toesies meme

August

are you slappin meme

understandable, have a nice day

piss jello meme

haha just kidding but that sounds like something someone on here would say doesn’t it

so… chunks, huh? meme

fancy font meme

you are already dead meme

country girls make do meme

Crash Bandicoot “whoa” meme

I don’t know X and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

Dobby pussy indulgence meme

I am a X looking for Y meme

man checking out another woman meme

Rick and Morty copypasta

none but in yellow meme

deactivate your almonds meme

all my shirts are disappearing meme

fellas, is it gay meme

X can’t come to the phone right now

September

thanks for coming to my TED talk

wake me up meme

force-feeding cat pills meme

jock–nerd/prep–goth meme

millimeters of bone meme

unnecessary footnotes meme

“Big Enough” meme

that’s pussy babe meme

slutty slutty years meme

Hotel Mario meme

inhaling seagull meme

domesticated clown meme

Elf on the Shelf meme

maid café meme

monkey haircut meme

October

eat the child meme

it’s true but he shouldn’t say it

homeboy is going to like get it meme

warn Markiplier meme

grain entrapment meme

I diagnose your with X meme

oh you haven’t heard? meme

then perish meme

November

forbidden snacks meme

types of headaches meme

horny on main meme

why are you booing me? I’m right

gay–bi–lesbian/distinguished–functional–disaster meme

triple gay meme

my bike got stolen recently meme

petting dog meme

Safari tabs meme

pretty/bitchin’ meme

women be shopping meme

karma got its kiss for me meme

the girl reading this meme

McDonald’s chat meme

December

Slothful Jeremiah meme

“Put Your Head on My Shoulder” meme

not valid NSA agent meme

elf practice meme

“I Will Survive” meme

requesting bitcoin meme

I eat bees meme

I put arsenic in the wine. And the pasta.

Americans be eating cheesed burger

Earth-chan meme

start off your new year right meme

there in the 5th row stands meme

before 2017 ends meme

Cartoon Network schedule meme

tsuchinoko real meme

shirtless Kylo Ren meme

this is a gays only event meme

the sound this image makes meme

Peasley rant meme

why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?

small but knowing clown meme

aphobe block list

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when school goes back into sesion our meme club will hold a funeral for you

Thank you.

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Are y'all going to make a 2018 version of this?

We personally aren’t.

However, we know of two meme documenting blogs from 2018.

@meme–hunters

@2018memecalendar

@2018memearchive 

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i like to imagine that someone waaaay in the future uses this blog as their main source in an earth-shattering revolutionary study of internet culture

You have a beautiful imagination!

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are you going to stop documenting at midnight and if so in what timezone?

Yes, GMT.

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The real last meme of 2017 was the friends we made along the way

<3

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Farewell!

Thanks for everything, @memedocumentation.

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You don't know how much your blog helped me, thanks for being here, And have a happy 2018 (let there be more memes)

Aw, thanks for the sweet message! Farewell!

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Do you enjoy memes?

I mean, I did spend two years documenting memes, so I do think that I am somewhat fond of them.

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Hey it's the 31st of december now and I just want to say that I'm going to miss you guys in the coming year. I respect your decision to focus on your personal lives though and I wish you all the best, even if you choose to never return to this blog.

Thank you and farewell!

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Explained: the sound this image makes meme

This meme is an image- and audio-based meme. It involves posting an image along with an accompanying audio clip, which represents the sound of the image.

The origins of this meme are murky since the concept of making audio based on images has been around for a while. This post from 5 May 2017, though, titled the track “the sound this image makes”.

One of the popular instances of the meme is a 30 July 2017 post that features an image of a SpongeBob SquarePants popsicle that only has one eye. The accompanying audio is of a wailing sound. This post garnered more than 33,000 notes.

Subsequently, the concept became popular in the following months, especially in December 2017.

On 20 December 2017, the Tumblr @thesoundthisimagemakes started posting, helping in the spread of the meme.

Click here to see examples of the sound this image makes meme.

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