With another year’s end approaching, Know Your Meme community and staff list the top 10 most notable memes that took off in 2011. Check out KYM Review: Memes of 2011 for more info!

The strangest Pokémon battle you will ever see.

Our entry moderator Cyber6x recommends:

"A classic meme that's still going strong to this day. Being highly exploitable and memorable, Boromir's phrase is up there with the other great, distinguished internet memes."

Aww yea guy's Mexican cousin has the most epic sombrero known to man.

Tilt-shift effect is a photography technique achieved by "tilting and shifting" the position of camera lens or using a filter in post-production to make things appear like toys. Once a hobby limited to photographers, tilt-shift effect became a widespread trend through smartphone apps in 2007.