# The greatest internet memes of all time

The classics that show up in every 'greatest memes ever' ranking, from the dancing baby of the 90s to the cat yelled at by a Real Housewife, with where each one came from.

- 155 votes · 22 items
- Nov 21, 2025 · punmaster_bangalore
- https://even.best/en/l/446/the-greatest-internet-memes-of-all-time

## Top 20

1. **Rickroll** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — Tricking someone into opening Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' (1987); born on 4chan in 2007.
2. **Success Kid** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — Baby Sammy Griner clenching a fistful of sand on the beach in 2007.
3. **Doge** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Kabosu, a Shiba Inu photographed by Japanese teacher Atsuko Sato in 2010, with Comic Sans thoughts: 'such wow'.
4. **Distracted Boyfriend** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — A 2015 stock photo by Spanish photographer Antonio Guillem that went viral in 2017.
5. **Nyan Cat** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — A pixel-art cat with a Pop-Tart body leaving a rainbow trail, from 2011.
6. **This Is Fine** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — The dog drinking coffee in a burning room, from KC Green's 2013 webcomic 'On Fire'.
7. **Woman Yelling at a Cat** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — A scene from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills next to Smudge the cat at a dinner table (2019).
8. **Leeroy Jenkins** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — A 2005 World of Warcraft video in which one player charges in yelling his own name and ruins the plan.
9. **Is This a Pigeon?** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — A scene from the 1990s anime The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird: a man mistaking a butterfly for a pigeon.
10. **Gangnam Style** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — PSY's 2012 horse dance; the first YouTube video to reach a billion views.
11. **Hide the Pain Harold** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Hungarian engineer András Arató, whose forced smile in stock photos became legendary.
12. **Pepe the Frog** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Matt Furie's frog from the comic Boy's Club (2005): 'feels good man'.
13. **Drakeposting** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Two stills of Drake from the 2015 'Hotline Bling' video: rejecting one thing, approving another.
14. **Keyboard Cat** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Fatso the cat 'playing' an electric keyboard, filmed by Charlie Schmidt in 1984 and revived in 2007.
15. **Stonks** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — A faceless 3D businessman in front of a stock chart, a deliberately misspelled 'stocks'.
16. **Grumpy Cat** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Tardar Sauce, a cat with a permanently grumpy face, famous from 2012.
17. **Dancing Baby** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — The 3D baby dancing the cha-cha in 1996, one of the first viral videos, later seen in Ally McBeal.
18. **All Your Base Are Belong to Us** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — A broken English translation from the 1989 game Zero Wing, a meme around 2000-2001.
19. **Trollface** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Drawn by Carlos Ramirez in MS Paint in 2008, the face of internet trolling.
20. **Ice Bucket Challenge** (2 · ▲5 ▼3) — Pouring a bucket of ice water over your head to raise money for ALS research in 2014.
21. **Harlem Shake** (-1 · ▲2 ▼3) — The 2013 craze of 30-second videos where one person dances alone and then everyone goes wild.
22. **Bad Luck Brian** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — A school photo of Kyle Craven with braces and a vest, the face of misfortune since 2012.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.