2023 was the year of Charles officially becoming king, of the glory hole dad and the Roman Empire. And as night becomes day, it was also a big year for memes. You couldn’t mindlessly scroll past the detritus of Twitter, TikTok or Instagram without being confronted by the relentless ingenuity of your common man in memetic form. (Whether they’re actually good or not is a different story.)
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So whether it was the pints, chit chat and good people lads riling everyone up with their performative carefree nature, the Family Guy revival or how our cuck obsession cucked our brains, our lives online have been in no small part informed by and distilled into images and videos that reflect the wider culture. The most-searched for memes speak to our deepest passions and desires. Luckily, we happen to know your top 10 meme searches this year, courtesy of exclusive data from Google. But what does it say really about you if you buzz off one particular meme over the rest? Read on to find out.You love shoe-based rizz-related content. Damn Daniel and “What Are Those?” walked so you could run with one two buckle my shoe. You’re a 17-year-old lad who can withstand the nursery rhyme singing voice of the boy in the original, because that sound could bore a hole in a wall.If you love fed-up Affleck, it’s because you see a kernel of a deeper, eternal truth in his constant exasperation with existence. You see him take a drag in a parking lot like his whole life hinges on it, and it lifts you up. You see him juggling boxes of Dunkin’ Donuts and an iced coffee outside his front door, wearing a look of pure exhaustion, and you sing. You see him slamming the car door behind JLo, with the stored anger from a thousand intrusive paparazzi moments, and you can’t help but feel relieved. He is us, and you are him, you think – you see yourself in him. You are a millennial who grew up with him, and now you too are exhausted and jaded. You see him struggle under of weight of life, despite the dream wife and the money and everything else, and you take solace in the inescapability of it all. Truly, we are all Affleck.
10. One two buckle my shoe
9. Ben Affleck
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8. Disappointed Cillian Murphy
7. Ohio
6. Mr Beast
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5. Smurf Cat
4. Coronation
3. Sam Smith
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