It's officially New Year's Eve, but not for much longer. Soon, it'll be 2022, and we'll be leaving this awful year behind for a year that's (hopefully) not anywhere near as bad (update from March 2022: that didn't age too well, now did it?). While you wait for better times, let's look back on the memes you, the users of our site, preferred over all the others. These are our most highly ranked memes from 2021, dealing with popular trends from the year as well as some jokes about the year itself. You guys have great taste, and we're happy to recognize that with the memes that made you laugh this year. Behind the scenes at Know Your Meme, we're grateful for each and every one of you, especially the people who upload these memes. So now, we can celebrate what's left of the year with you. And what a year it was, with lots of memorable moments and a ton of reasons to beg for 2022 to be better. Here are our site's most popular memes of the year so you can appreciate them one last time. These were some of your top picks.