Memes
A meme is an image, phrase or video format that spreads
online by being copied and re-captioned. This page groups every format on MemeYell by category, so
you can find one by subject rather than by name.
Browse by category
Meme TemplatesNamed formats you caption — classic, cartoon, gaming, anime and modern.CoreReaction MemesFaces and gestures for replying: crying, side eye, thumbs up, confused.CoreAnimal MemesCats, dogs, hamsters, monkeys, lizards and the rest of the menagerie.BrowsePeople MemesFormats built around a specific person’s expression or moment.BrowseLife & OccasionsDays of the week, birthdays, holidays, work and school.BrowseMeme DictionaryWhat the slang means — origins, dates and real usage.Learn
What actually counts as a meme
The word covers three different things that often get mixed up. An image macro is
a picture with caption text laid over it — the format most people mean. A reaction
image is a still used as a reply rather than a joke in itself. A catchphrase
is a phrase that spreads with no fixed image attached at all.
Meme collections
Cat MemesOrigin, meaning, captions that work — plus an editor loaded with this template.176,700 searches/moDog MemesOrigin, meaning, captions that work — plus an editor loaded with this template.147,900 searches/moHappy Birthday MemesOrigin, meaning, captions that work — plus an editor loaded with this template.130,600 searches/moMonkey Thinking MemeOrigin, meaning, captions that work — plus an editor loaded with this template.47,000 searches/moJob Application MemeOrigin, meaning, captions that work — plus an editor loaded with this template.40,000 searches/moGood Morning MemeOrigin, meaning, captions that work — plus an editor loaded with this template.37,300 searches/moCrying Cat MemesOrigin, meaning, captions that work — plus an editor loaded with this template.31,000 searches/moDog Side Eye MemeOrigin, meaning, captions that work — plus an editor loaded with this template.23,500 searches/mo
What this page does not cover
Two things share the word “meme” but are not what this site is about. Meme stocks
and meme coins are financial terms borrowed from internet culture — we deliberately
do not cover them. And in academic use, Richard Dawkins’ original 1976 sense of “meme” means any
unit of cultural transmission, which is far broader than the image formats here.