The Top 50 Memes of the Decade: 50-41

This month, we asked you to help us narrow down the top memes of the 2010s in our Memes of the Decade community poll. Over the last 10 days, nearly 55,000 votes were cast as users passionately campaigned for their favorite viral phenomena, hoping they might secure their spot among the best memes circulated during this iconic era in internet history.

From now until Friday, join us as we run down the list showcasing which memes had what it takes to be ranked among the top 50 of the decade.

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50. It Is Wednesday My Dudes

About the Meme: An image of a Budgett's frog captioned with the phrase "It is Wednesday my dudes" which is commonly posted every Wednesday in various meme enthusiast communities.
Peak Year: 2016
Highlights: The image has inspired numerous photoshops paired with variations of the original phrase.

49. Shooting Stars

About the Meme: A series of remix videos often featuring footage of characters falling in space while the 2008 pop song "Shooting Stars" by Bag Raiders plays in the background.
Peak Year: 2017
Highlights: A Rickroll-themed variation created by YouTuber Grandayy received more than 8.3 million views.

48. Moe Anthropomorphism

About the Meme: The creation of human-like characters based on non-human subjects, such as inanimate objects, animals, brands or concepts.
Peak Year: 2017
Highlights: Numerous "-chan" characters have inspired fan illustrations over the years, including ISIS-chan (2010), Ebola-chan (2014), Smug Wendy's (2017), Earth-chan (2017) and Tide POD-chan (2018).

47. Steven Crowder's "Change My Mind" Sign

About the Meme: A photoshop meme based on a picture of conservative YouTuber Steven Crowder seated behind a sign with the words "Male Privilige Is A Myth / Change My Mind" printed on the front.
Peak Year: 2018
Highlights: Numerous edits have replaced Crowder with various fictional characters, including Patrick Star from SpongeBob Squarepants, Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes and J. Jonah Jameson from the Spider-Man franchise.

46. Gamers Rise Up

About the Meme: An image macro series featuring various depictions of the DC Comics supervillain Joker captioned with intentionally edgy or cringeworthy text.
Peak Year: 2018
Highlights: The meme was popularized on Facebook through the infamous Gang Weed page and on Reddit by members of /r/GamersRiseUp.

45. Nic Cage as Everyone

About the Meme: A photoshop meme in which the face of actor Nicolas Cage is superimposed on to other people's heads.
Peak Year: 2010
Highlights: While the original Nic Cage as Everyone single topic blog peaked in popularity in 2010, impressive Deepfake videos of the actor began circulating in early 2018.

44. Confused Math Lady

About the Meme: A reaction image based on a clip of the character Nazaré Tedesco in the Brazilian telenovela Senhora do Destino.
Peak Year: 2016
Highlights: The series spawned variations featuring animals, cartoons and other characters in place of the original woman.

43. Roll Safe

About the Meme: An image macro series featuring a screenshot of actor Kayode Ewumi grinning and pointing to his temple while portraying the character Reece Simpson (a.k.a. "Roll Safe") in the web series Hood Documentary.
Peak Year: 2017
Highlights: Photoshopped versions of the screen captured image featured jokes about the numerous other fictional characters, including Shrek, Luigi and Anakin Skywalker.

42. Is This a Pigeon

About the Meme: A photoshop meme and object-labeling series featuring a screencap of the character Yutaro Katori incorrectly identifying a butterfly as a pigeon in the 1990s Japanese anime series The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird.
Peak Year: 2018
Highlights: In late April 2018, the original image saw an enormous resurgence online with object-labeled variations.

41. Bowsette

About the Meme: A genderbent version of the Super Mario villain Bowser who has been given a Super Crown power-up from the game New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe.
Peak Year: 2018
Highlights: The character inspired the creation of other genderbent Super Crown characters, including Boosette and Chompette.