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Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.

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Lana Del Rey

January 20th, 2012 10:30 PM

This indie singer-songwriter’s infamous lips have become the subject of a celebrity photoshop meme started by the single topic blog “People With Lana Del Rey Lips.”

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Bacon

January 20th, 2012 7:01 PM

Though bacon has been eaten since the times of the ancient Romans, the web fell in love with the cured pork belly strips beginning in the late 2000s. Since then, countless bacon themed items and food porn sites have been created.

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Day Without Wikipedia

January 19th, 2012 1:30 PM

What happened during Wikipedia’s 24 hour blackout? Many took their complaints to Twitter and Facebook, while others figured out the ways to bypass the block. Some even jokingly opted for Microsoft Encarta, Wikipedia’s forgotten rival from the last decade.

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Dancing Alone to Pony

January 17th, 2012 3:00 PM

The YouTube fad of dancing solo to the 1996 Ginuwine song Pony went largely unnoticed for nearly four years before a single topic blog was created to showcase the highlights.

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I Hate X, But I Love Y

January 16th, 2012 6:54 PM

A video of Jefferson Bethke performing a poem about why he loves Jesus but hates religion received over 1.4 million Facebook shares within five days. It has spawned an image macro series of contradicting feelings.

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