As the decade comes to a close, it's time to take a look back at the one thing that really defined the 2010s on the internet: memes. So many twisted, ridiculous, delightful, confusing, and — yes — dank memes.
Memes, of course, existed well before 2010, but it was during this decade that they really penetrated the mainstream and reached absurdist new heights in their form. At the beginning of the 2010s, we'd get a major new meme every few months. In 2019, thanks to the ubiquity of social media platforms in our lives, we get a new one nearly every day.
It's so much to keep up with that even those of us, who spend all our waking hours sifting through the internet, have a hard time remembering what happened ten days ago, much less ten years ago. Even still, we asked our merry band of culture reporters to try to set aside their brain worms and pick their one — and only one! — favorite meme from this chaotic decade. Read more...
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