And the meme of February 2022 goes to…

With 24 percent of your votes, it's no one else but Kirby himself who snatches the crown this month. As Kirby's new ability called Mouthful Mode was revealed in a Nintendo Direct, it didn't take Twitter even an hour before first shitposts exploring the mechanic started popping up. Since then, talented artists have stretched the pink goofball over cars, Transformers, the impossible triangle and pretty much every other object imaginable, continuously delivering quality laughs for the best part of the month.

L + Ratio + You X

While L + Ratio did not really originate in February, it's hard to debate the fact that the meme EXPLODED in popularity during the last month. Stemming from your normal everyday Twitter ratio, the format became a full-fledged meme as soon as it dipped its toes into the absurd territory. The pirate version alone deserves a medal for excellence in shitposting, and many other versions hit almost just as hard. Second place with 22 percent of your votes.

Talking Ben the Dog

The unbelievable comeback of Talking Ben the Dog app into the cultural mainstream has everything to do with one man: the rising star of reaction streaming iShowSpeed. It was iShowSpeed's ability to pick the right questions ("Do you love God?!") and get the most entertaining answers – as well as his eccentric reactions – that made the decade-old app relevant again. iShowSpeed and Ben's Man vs. Machine routine inspiring memes, fan arts and TikTok trends, and 14 percent of your votes bring them a bronze medal in our competition.

Markiplier's "Smash or Pass"

On February 12th, 2022, beloved YouTuber Markiplier confirmed to his audience of 32 million people that he would have sexual intercourse with a Beedril (among many other of your favorite Pokemon). This admission earned him a sizable amount of social media attention, memes, fan art (look at these at your own caution) and, of course, the coveted fourth place on Know Your Meme's meme of the month list thanks to 13 percent of your votes. Can you blame him?

I Love Lean!!!

Chilling in fifth place with nine percent of your votes, I Love Lean!!! meme format may not have been the best meme format of the month, but it surely was the most purple one. An exercise in pure-form shitposting, I Love Lean!!! tested limits of both your fantasy and your sense of humor, with the best versions of the format abandoning any connection with reality and alienating audiences for the sake of refining the joke.

Our list wouldn't be complete without mentioning the memes that didn't quite have it to make it to the upper half of our list. Among the bottom feeders we find the bait-and-switch of the month in The Skeleton Appears (6%), Kanye West's personal crusade against Pete Davidson (5%), a musical triumph of the Fortnite Battle Pass Song (4%), Julia Fox's peculiar way of saying 'Uncut Gems' (1%), the ambiguous Goblin Mode and the divisive Wordcel / Shape Rotator debate.

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