At last the most important top X things of 2023 post is out. Here’s Rolling Stone’s take on the 21 most defining memes of 2023.
Shamefully, I only even vaguely heard of around 14 of them. Not sure whether I can blame that on the great fragmentation of the Internet, my grumpy refusal to participate in most of the big social media networks or simply old age.
In case you want to test yourself with just the titles, here’s the list along with a tick for the ones I knew of.
- Angela Basset Did the Thing ❌
- Skibidi Toilet ✅
- Boston Cop Slide ✅
- Timothée Chalamet as Wonka ✅
- Tube Girl ✅
- Congress’s Vote for Speaker of the House ✅
- Kevin James ❌
- Big Red Boots ✅
- Chinese Spy Balloon ✅
- Nepo Babies ✅
- Dupes ❌
- M3GAN ✅
- The Roman Empire ✅
- Girl Dinner ✅
- Orca Attacks ✅
- One Margarita ❌
- Babygirl ❌
- Serving C*nt ❌
- Planet of the Bass ❌
- Grimace Shakes ✅
- Barbie ✅