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KYM Review: Best Meme Creators Of 2020
o matter what's going on in the world, there's always one constant we can all come back to for a laugh: memes. Even if aliens invaded the entire planet, that same night we would have at least three viable formats about the news covering our social media feeds, softening the blow at least a little bit. The more events popping up around the world the more memes we get, and the more depressing those events are (like, say, anything that happened this year) the harder meme creators have to work to temporarily lift us from the big sad and give us reasons to keep on laughing. It goes without saying that memers have been hard at work in 2020.
This list is a celebration of the meme creators who sacrificed their sanity making memes to help us keep ours (or maybe just lose it in a more enjoyable way).
Grandayy
Grandayy had a busy year. He's managed to consistently post high-quality video memes throughout the year on both his Instagram and YouTube pages, with arguably some of his funniest content being released this year. His biggest releases of the year are Pink Guy Plays Among Us (below, left) which hit 11 million views on YouTube in 3 months, followed by " Coffin Dance Meme in Minecraft" which has reached over 5.6 million in 8 months (below, right).
Grandayy knows what kind of content works for him and his fans. He plays off expected topics like gaming, politics, and popular meme formats and brings them to the next level with extremely high quality editing and a lighthearted sense of humor. This year Grandayy also joined Neverthink as a curator, providing his memes to the service. If you're someone who looks for quality in their memes rather than quantity, Grandayy is your man.
Davoiceplug
Voice dubs took the memeverse by storm this year, and a big part of their success can be pointed directly at davoiceplug. Davoiceplug began his meme-making career on December 31st, 2019 through a series of collabs with pgodcomedy in which davoiceplug shows off his hilarious Joe Swanson impression. People across the web responded well to these memes and davoiceplug ran with it, providing us with tons of hilarious Joe Swanson themed voice dubs throughout the year, many of which can be found floating around Twitter comment sections as reactions.
As the year went on davoiceplug continued to expand his repertoire, dubbing popular memes and adding characters like Solid Snake and Kronk (admittedly played by the same voice actor as Joe Swanson, but that kind of just makes it funnier) into the mix. Of all the voice dub memers out there today, davoiceplug is one of the strongest in the running, and definitely produces some of the most shared content of his contemporaries.
Bearboob
Bearboob is somewhat of an Instagram celebrity in the meme world these days. With over 350,000 followers at the end of 2020, Bearboob has been growing steadily over the year with high-quality ironic memes, an increase in video content, and an unmistakable style that falls somewhere between wholesome and completely ridiculous.
Bearboob has been working hard to expand his meme empire this year, including streaming on Twitch, getting active on Twitter, partnering with Neverthink, and expanding to TikTok, where he's managed to find great success, reaching over 150,000 followers within a year. Throughout the year, Bearboob has created what has to be one of the most stolen memes of the year (below, left) and also had a hilarious encounter with KSI in the process (below, right). Bearboob is a shining, wholesome gem no matter what platform you follow him on, and it's good to see him grow in such positive, successful ways.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6896161577683275010
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6832713254532320517
Markiplier & CrankGameplays (Unus Annus)
While not a traditional meme, this one-year-only experience from Markiplier and CrankGameplays channel, Unus Annus, is one of the most fascinating and hilarious social experiments in recent memory. For those out of the know, Markiplier and CrankGameplays spent 2020 posting at least one video per day to the channel, after which they deleted it forever. The videos were mostly challenges and stunts, with titles like "Drawing Memes From Memory" and "Purging Our Sins with a Neti Pot".
The channel was extremely popular before being deleted forever, creating an entire meme community around it through which it lives on. If you were a part of Unus Annus while it was happening, consider yourself lucky and hold onto those memories with your dear life (or check out some compilations I guess).
Billy Cobb
Billy Cobb may not be the most popular meme creator on this list, but he's absolutely one of the most underrated. Cobb has been growing his reputation as a musician and meme creator exceptionally this year, producing some of the funniest and most successful content of his career. The highlight of the year was a video where he sings Joji's "Slow Dancing in The Dark" in the voice of Carl Wheezer, gaining him nearly 3 million views on YouTube in 3 months (below, left). Then there's his incredible take on the meme "It's Okay to Leave A Dog in a Hot Car" in which he sings a fictional Beatles song about, well, leaving your dog in a hot car (below, right).
Cobb balances his memes with a legitimate music career where he plays with genres and experiments with tons of different sounds. The man has mastered the art of music mixed with memes, perhaps proving it with his 2019 release "Zerwee," an album made in the style of everyone's favorite musical meme Weezer but pretty good, actually. Cobb's YouTube content includes humorous "mood" videos, himself singing songs made of Google Autocomplete lyrics, and parody songs like "Hey There Delilah, Hear You Got That WAP". Cobb is going nowhere but up right now, and is a creator to keep your eyes on.
Largetrap
Largetrap is a meme machine. He makes some of the highest quality memes out there, and does so at such a breakneck pace it's almost unbelievable. Largetrap had more than a few massive memes this year across Instagram and YouTube, propelling him to over 850,000 followers on his Instagram page by the end of 2020. A big contributor to this is his top-tier Among Us memes, which helped solidify the game's crucial importance in the meme world in 2020.
Largetrap started off the year big with his Siren Head Gangnam Style video and just kept hitting month after month, consistently producing memes that are anything but throwaway. A selection of his memes were reacted to by PewDiePie this year in his Among Us meme review (below, left) and he's currently on a bit of a Cyberpunk 2077 train, so if you're a fan of those memes, you might want to give him a follow.
Mr. Bruno
Mr. Bruno was a man born to meme. He first went viral on TikTok in July thanks almost exclusively to the hilarious (in the best possible way) way his face looks at the end of one of his memes, a video that gained him over 8.5 million views in 5 months (below, left). The video made the rounds on TikTok and beyond, with memers unable to get enough of Bruno's bizarre and enticing look. He continued to find success in similarly formatted videos throughout the next few months.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6852460264655211782
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6854663110779751686?refer=embed
With over 3 million followers on TikTok, Bruno has continued to up his meme game to massive views, as well as become a bit of a meme himself for others. It's exactly that type of perfect give-and-take that solidifies Mr. Bruno's place on this list. He's embracing the meme and giving great content to boot; what's not to like?
Nitro.if
Nitro.if has been killing it on Instagram and YouTube lately, with this year being particularly good to him. He started off the year strong with "Yoshi in different languages," hitting over 2.3 million views on YouTube, and kept slinging hot fire with iconic memes like "PET THE PEEPO" in August, garnering over a combined 2.9 million views between platforms.
Nitro.if is a master of breaking outside of the popular meme formats and offering a new twist each time, creating lasting memes that stand the test of time. He's consistent in posting, the quality is top-notch, and he's amassed a small army of dedicated fans, inspiring fanart to a degree that most meme accounts could never dream of. This is an account to keep an eye on.
Twomad
There's nobody that shitposts quite like Twomad. The Canadian-born streamer and internet personality has been blowing up this past year for his chaotic energy, his hilariously off-the-wall content, and for simply making the type of content that nobody else is today. His big blow-up came from a series of videos in which he invades random Zoom classes, a stunt that got him decent news coverage and inspired tons of memes. From there, people started to learn about the man behind the videos and fell in love with the chaos.
Twomad seems to find success on every platform he decides to join, with Twitter being one of his most successful outlets for shitposting and general meme-ing. He's appeared on multiple podcasts and interviews since his rise to fame, and has become the subject of many other meme creators' content, making him both a top-tier meme creator and meme.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6868435382611102981
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6864054805678116102
VideoGameDunkey
You probably know who Dunkey is. Even if you don't follow him, you've likely heard of his recent decision to stop making "quality videos" and start producing (almost) daily content like most other big gaming YouTubers. It's a pretty bold meme that doubles as a statement about YouTube, and as it turns out it was a great move for Dunkey, seeing as his latest batch of uploads have arguably been some of his best videos of all time.
When this change was first announced, fans weren't sure if it was a joke or a legitimate move away from high-quality content. Now it appears as if it's both, with Dunkey continuing to string his fans along with frequent uploads full of the staple Dunkey sarcasm, irony, and memes. It's unclear how long Dunkey will keep this upload schedule going, but we'll gladly keep taking it one day at a time.
Looking for more of this year's best viral phenomena and memes? Be sure to check out our other 2020 meme roundups below:
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