We thought 2020 was supposed to be the weirdest year ever. Then 2021 happened and proved to us all that "weird" is just the reality we live in now.

Fuelled by pandemic loneliness and general internet horniness, 2021 brought us more than a handful of lewd, NSFW memes to enjoy in the privacy of our own homes. Here are the best ones.

Every year you keep surprising us with new, imaginative ways to meme, and with people literally bringing memes from their dreams and having neural nets make memes for them, 2021 was no exception. Here's our review of breakthrough meme formats that defined the past year.

The unbelievable gets believed. This year was a big one for all types of trolls, rumors and hoaxes, but these stood out as some of the most memorable of 2021.

Internet slang is generally illegible to anyone not plugged into the online world 24/7, but if you missed a day on the internet in 2021, chances are you also missed a new, absolutely nonsensical slang term that was suddenly part of the public lexicon.