This Week's Top Memes, Ranked
Here at Digg, we try our best to cover the most important and confounding memes that come across the timeline. But the web is littered with tons of great memes that never quite hit the mainstream, instead bouncing around the weird corners of Twitter or Reddit.
Enter: our recurring feature, Memes, Ranked, where we not only rank the funniest memes each week, we also keep a running top 10 of the best memes of 2019. Skip to that here.
For the week of October 14, we have a handful of contenders: Gifted Kids, Earphones Memes, Missing The Bus and "Fucking Mint" TikToks.
4. Missing The Bus
The meme: An ASCII Twitter meme that portrays an unlucky emoji person running for the bus and ultimately missing his or her ride. Missing The Bus tweets are all over Twitter, with hundreds of nearly identical tweets racking up thousands of RTs each.
The examples:
Verdict: These memes are no good. There's plenty of room to iterate and get creative here. Unfortunately, memers are not doing that, instead opting to just repost the same incredibly relatable but also pretty mundane ASCII cartoon. Weird online behavior if you ask me. But hey, while you're asking me, nearly all online behavior is weird. Which brings us to…
3. Earphones Memes
The meme: Another simple ASCII meme. There's an easy-to-follow premise to this one: people in your life ask if you're okay, and you say yes, but the music you're listening to tells a different story. The punchline to these memes tend to revolve around specific subculture references, which is part of the fun for these.
The examples:
Verdict: Super simple, not the most creative, but still infinitely customizable. There's always comedy in revealing inner trauma and guilty pleasures, and while not laugh out loud funny, these 100% Volume Earphones memes reveal both in spades.
2. Gifted Kid Memes
The meme: If you keep your eyes peeled to Millennials on Twitter, you might spy a lot of people who lead presumably normal lives complaining about the ***burden*** of being labeled a "gifted kid" early in their academic careers. Over the past few weeks, mounting wave of jokes has taken aim at these nerds.
The examples:
Verdict: Damn, this really was not the best week for memes. But Gifted Kids complaining on Twitter always deserve to get roasted a little bit, and we at least got that. Second place this week.
1. Fucking Mint
The meme: A new trend has emerged on TikTok (AKA the place where all the internet's hottest memes are now) — talking about a terrible thing that happened to you, making the "okay" symbol with your hand in front of the camera and letting out a throaty "fucking mint!" That's it, that's the meme.
The examples:
Verdict: Hilarious. There's a lot of wild internet energy in these dumb videos. They range from self-deprecating to savagely invasive. The joke is hilarious on video, but can be translated to text. It's quotable in real life. This is a top notch meme. Thank you TikTok, thank you Gen Z. You both are un-ironically fucking mint.
The Official Josco™ 2019 Meme Power Ranking
Click each entry on the ranking to see when it debuted.
- Vibes
- The Girl Drinking Kombucha Reaction GIF
- Fucking Mint
- Untitled Goose Game
- Avengers TikToks
- Trump Featuring Nickelback
- There Are Two Wolves Inside You
- No One Can Have Both
- Gifted Kids
- Earphones
Can we get a vibe check?
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