But Can You Do This? refers to a line said by PewDiePie regarding a gaming chair that he is selling for $399. The chair became mocked by his fans for its price point leading to Pewdiepie jokingly brag about the chair’s reclining capabilities with the line "But can you do this?. The line has itself become an in-joke amongst fans with image and video edits of the line.
Read MoreDouyin (抖音短视频), also known as "Tik Tok" in the United States, is a video sharing application similar to Musical.ly. The app allows users to make simple music videos, giving them a 15-second recording limit, basic editing tools and a list of background music to select. As of May 2018, the app had been downloaded more than 45 million times.
Read MoreBen Shapiro DESTROYS Liberals refers to titling conventions used by a subset of right-leaning YouTube channels for their videos, usually featuring prominent commentators and public intellectuals such as Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson debating or lecturing liberal or left-wing opponents. The titles are often parodied for their perceived sensationalism.
Read MoreBig Chungus refers to an image of cartoon character Bugs Bunny, usually captioned with the phrase "Big Chungus" and presented as a game for "PlayStation 4" console. The word "chungus" was coined by video game journalist Jim Sterling several years before the meme became popular.
Read MoreAnnoyed Bird is a four-panel exploitable based on webcomic by False Knees. The comic features a small bird being overshadowed by a much larger crow.
Read MoreChonk is an internet slang term used to describe overweight cats that grew popular in the late summer of 2018 after a photoshopped chart of cat body-fat indexes renamed the "Chonk" scale grew popular on Twitter and Reddit. Additionally, "Oh Lawd He Comin,'" the final level of the Chonk Chart, was adopted as an online catchphrase used to describe large objects, animals or people. It is not to be confused with the Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name.
Read MoreThe Ratio refers to an unofficial Twitter law which states that if the amount of replies to a tweet greatly outnumbers the amount of retweets and likes, then the tweet is bad.
Read MoreSlaps Chicken at 3725.95 MPH refers to a theory that the heat generated by hitting a chicken with a hand at 3725.95 miles per hour, or 1665.65 m/s, would be enough to completely cook it. Using the conversion between kinetic energy and thermal energy, a Facebook user came up with the theory, leading to the creation of memes in various templates about it.
Read MoreGonna Cry? Gonna Piss Your Pants Maybe? refers to a copypasta which grew popular in shitposts in early 2019. The phrase, which ends with "Maybe shit and cum?", was most popular on Instagram and Reddit and was paired with nonsensical images.
Read MoreFallout 76 is an online multiplayer RPG in the Fallout series of video games scheduled for a November 14th, 2018 release on Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, and Playstation 4. Notably, it is Bethesda's first online multiplayer game featuring a massive open world which is a representation of West Virginia.
Read MoreWalmart Yodel Boy refers to a video of 12-year old Mason Ramsey performing a country song in a Walmart. The video went viral as people applied various captions to it and remixed it.
Read MoreProJared Cheating Scandal refers to allegations that YouTuber ProJared, real name Jared Knabenbauer, cheated on his wife Heidi O'Ferrall with YouTuber Holly Conrad, also known as Commander Holly and the ex-wife of Game Grumps alum Ross O'Donovan. Furthermore, O'Ferrall alleged that Knabenbauer solicited and sent nudes to fans, some of whom were underage, via Snapchat while they were together. This was corroborated by several Twitter users who shared their messages with Knabenbauer on Twitter.
Read More"Nobody:", also known as "No One:" Tweets and "Nobody:" Tweets and "Literally No One:", is a phrasal template used to mock people who strive to attract attention and tend to provide unsolicited opinions, as well as for observational humor. The format rose to popularity in Autumn 2018 with tweets usually starting with the phrases "No one:", "Nobody:" and "Me:", continued with text or visual descriptions of an unprovoked action by a certain individual.
Read MoreAnt-Man Will Defeat Thanos by Crawling Up His Butt and Expanding refers to a humorous fan theory that suggests that in 2019 Marvel superhero film Avengers: Endgame character Ant-Man will defeat Thanos by entering the villain's body through the anus while in his microscopic form and rapidly expanding from the inside, killing Thanos in the process. In March 2019, the theory spawned a series of related memes on Reddit.
Read MoreSkyrim Skill Tree refers to photoshopped reaction images in which a headline about a person doing something is paired with a screenshot of a corresponding skill from the leveling-up system on Skyrim, demonstrating that person’s proficiency in said skill. For example, “Speech: 110” would be paired with an image of Bill Clinton saying he did not have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, showing his proficiency at lying convincingly.
Read MoreHey There Demons refers to a screenshot of an episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural in which a man addresses ghosts that may be in a room with "Hey there demons, it's me, ya boy." The shot became a reaction image in jokes where a person casually addresses their mental problems.
Read More2019 Christchurch Mosque Shootings refers to mass shootings that occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand in mid-March 2019, which were livestreamed on Facebook by the attacker. At least 49 people were killed in the attack and at least 20 more sustained non-fatal injuries. In a document circulated prior to the incident, the suspected shooter describes himself as a "kebab removalist" and cites the "great replacement" conspiracy theory as a motivation for the attack.
Read MoreShidding and Farding are intentionally misspelled variations of the words "shitting" and "farting," which are typically used to caption images in which various characters announce that they have soiled their undergarments.
Read MoreThe Backrooms is a creepypasta inspired by a comment on a picture of an "unsettling room" on 4chan's /x/board. The comment inspired an expanded creepypasta and YouTube videos reading the creepypasta.
Read MoreKaren is a slang term used as an antagonistic character in memes. "Karen" is generally characterized as an irritating, entitled woman, sometimes as an ex-wife who took custody of "the kids."
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