And the winner of May's Meme of the Month award, with 19 percent of the total votes, is …

The "Son meme" and its many variants!

The Son meme is a series of reaction images based on an edited photo of an overweight Anthony Mackie looking like he's about to laugh (via his signature smirk). The text, "son😭😭😭😭😭," is shown over the top of the memes and is meant to convey a feeling of humorous disappointment towards someone or something.

While the meme first went viral back in September 2025, it wasn't until May 2026 that people really started going wild with the edits.

These edits further alter the face used in the meme and the caption itself, sometimes replacing both to offer a new spin on the format. Many of these are pun-based, like the popular "Sonion" variant, featuring Mackie as an onion

Congratulations, Son memes, for coming back from the grave in a new trend and winning Meme of the Month.

Thragg and Viltrumites Panel

In second place with 14 percent of the total votes is the "Thragg and Viltrumites" meme, a redraw trend based on a very hard pic of Thragg from Invincible holding a skull and standing with his Viltrumite gang.

This redraw meme is based on the cover of Invincible: The Ultimate Collection: Volume 7, drawn by artist Ryan Ottley and colored by John Rauch.

The image resurfaced on TikTok in April after a TikToker used AI to recreate it. Shortly after, it was redrawn as a reference to Dragon Ball Z and then really took off on Reddit and X throughout May as artists replaced the characters with those from their favorite fandoms.

Turns out, whoever you place in this image, it immediately goes hard, making it a fitting second-place winner for Meme of the Month.

Director Christof

In third place with 11 percent of the votes is the Director Christof meme, a format from The Truman Show about the secret puppet master behind all of your biggest annoyances.

Christof is the antagonist of The Truman Show, a classic Jim Carrey movie where his character's entire life is being secretly manipulated for the sake of a popular reality television show.

The meme comes from a scene where Christof introduces Carrey's character, Truman, to his long-lost father to keep him from discovering that he's the subject of the reality show and blowing the lid off everything.

In May, the scene was popularized as a meme that depicts people's most embarrassing or frustrating moments, as well as notable tragedies, as if they were being manipulated by Christof.

The meme that sparked it all saw Christof starting the hantavirus on a cruise ship, and was quickly followed by memes showing Christof making job interviews go poorly, forcing the McDonald's ice cream machine to break, making the lineup at the post office particularly long and more.

Everyone, Get In the Car / Hermit Purple

With 5 percent of the votes, we have the "Hermit Purple" meme, a series of memes based on a scene from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure about Joseph Joestar's number one enemy: spiked fences.

The scene comes from the English dub of the series and shows Joseph trying to jump into a car. As Joseph hangs in the air above the car, it is revealed to be an illusion, transforming into a spiked fence.

The scenario itself is absurd, but couple that with the lengthy amount of time Joseph is in the air and the dialogue, where Joseph says, "Everyone, get in the car! We are leaving this town now! Ah, what the? Impossible! This isn't the car! No! No," before yelling "Hermit Purple" and propelling himself away from the trap, viewers were unable to resist turning it into a meme.

The memes blew up in May and are all about Joseph's hatred for spiked fences. As a meme, the scene inspired everything from recreations to animations to copypastas and more.

JPMorgan Lorna Hajdini and Chirayu Rana Scandal

Finally, with 4 percent of the total votes is the JPMorgan Lorna Hajdini and Chirayu Rana Scandal, an insane story about a lawsuit filed against JP Morgan Executive Director Lorna Hajdini detailing her alleged harassment of employee Chirayu Rana.

The story broke at the very start of May, and the details that emerged were shocking and bizarre, causing it to go viral. Among the described incidents were allegations of racism, threats, drugging and more, while some aimed their focus at Rana and his purported resemblance to the meme character "Tung Tung Tung Sahur."

As more and more details came out, the memes continued to flood social media along with a lot of speculation over whether or not the incidents described were real. JP Morgan refuted the claims, and many now believe that the whole thing was made up by Rana, and Hajdini is innocent.

Regardless, the memes were still prevalent across the internet, making for a fitting fifth-place Meme of the Month winner.

And now for the memes that didn't quite make the top five.

In sixth place with just under 4 percent of the total votes is the "Happy Birthday Daniel" meme, followed by the "Excuse Me Sir" edits, the "Welcome to Fortnite Sheldon" meme in eighth, "Bowie Knife99" in ninth and "Homer Drops His Donut" in tenth, with 3.5 percent of the total votes.

A little lower down the list, we had the "Hello It's Me Crewmate" meme, "Scooby Doo Creepy Run," "You Found Lost Media," "You Can Simply Walk Around It" and the "Ouu Shi" meme in 15th place.

Thank you for voting, and see you next month!