Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made perfect use of this 20-year-old video game meme

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants the super-rich to pay a heavier share of taxes.

The newly elected Congresswoman’s proposal that any earnings higher than $10 million carry a 70 percent tax rate has been widely popular. That’s true even among voters who might be more inclined to put on a MAGA hat; a recent Hill-HarrisX poll showed that some 45 percent of GOP voters agree.

On Friday night, Ocasio-Cortez greeted the news of her plan’s popularity with a play on the deepest of deep cut memes.

All your base (are) belong to us 👾 https://t.co/brwNKJ8wrh

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 19, 2019 Read more…

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Blindfolded Bird Box Challenger crashes car

Remember, way back on January 2 when Netflix issued a warning to its customers over the viral Bird Box challenge meme to “PLEASE DO NOT HURT YOURSELVES WITH THIS BIRD BOX CHALLENGE?” That warning wasn’t heard or followed by at least one 17-year-old in Utah who decided to give the challenge — which involves a blindfold — […]

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This runner’s epic finish line fail has become a beautiful meme

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Not many people can say they’ve had the glory of celebrating a European Cross Country Championship win in front of a crowd of cheering people.

Not many people can say they’ve become a meme after face-planting in the mud, either.

Well, Jimmy Gressier can say both. Over the weekend, the runner claimed victory in the men’s under-23, rounding off an epic race off with an attempted knee slide through the mud.

As you can tell from the following video, it didn’t quite go to plan.

Let’s get another angle on that:

How not to finish a cross country race. 🙈#Tilburg2018 pic.twitter.com/2kJ3I6WOFb

— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) December 9, 2018 Read more…

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Celebrity gives thumbs up after eating bull’s penis, becomes instant meme

Some moments are just such a mood that they are almost begging to become a meme. One such moment occurred Sunday on UK TV show I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here.  
When Arrow star John Barrowman had to eat unspeakable things for his so-calle…

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‘They did surgery on a grape’ is the weird meme that’s your new obsession

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In May, surgery was performed on a grape. A grape!  And for whatever reason, the internet is now delighting in this fact.

The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia used a grape to showcase the delicate and efficient surgical work that robots can perform. 

BEHIND THE SCENES. Here’s some pictures from today’s shoot with Peter Mac’s Director of Robotic Surgery @declangmurphy showing @ScopeTV11 how our da Vinci Xi robot works, performing precision surgery on a grape#roboticsurgery #robot #davinciXi pic.twitter.com/dfzGszpzN6

— Peter Mac Cancer Ctr (@PeterMacCC) May 29, 2018

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The ‘Don’t say it’ meme is so relatable for anyone whose mouth has a mind of its own

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Sometimes your mouth is just not in the mood to follow instructions from your brain.

We all know the feeling of having no control over the words coming out of our mouths. And now, that feeling has been encapsulated in the “don’t say it” meme.

The meme, which has spread rapidly over Twitter,  is all about those situations where you end up saying the one thing you’re trying your hardest not to.  

This is a classic. 

*Gets in taxi*

My brain:
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it

Me: “Been busy?”

— George Aylett (@GeorgeAylett) November 7, 2018 Read more…

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The ‘Me voting in 2016 vs. Me voting in 2018’ meme captures our collective exhaustion

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A lot can change in two years — just look at the meme taking over Twitter feeds in the day before the midterm elections.

The meme encourages people to think back to the day of the 2016 presidential election — a time when millions of Americans happily went to the polls to cast their ballots. A time when people did not constantly exist in a fiery rage of terror.

To participate, simply type the phrase, “Me voting in 2016 vs me voting in 2018,” and choose two drastically different images — one that represents you voting two years ago, and one that represents you voting in Tuesday’s midterms. (Hint: The more dramatic the transformation, the better.) Read more…

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The best Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson memes ever to exist on the internet

Many blessings for the man, the myth, the legend: The Rock.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has come a long way since the ’90s, when he graced our television screens as a superstar WWE pro-wrestler. Since those days, Johnson has really made a name for hims…

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Colin Kaepernick’s Nike ad is naturally a meme now

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On Monday, Nike unveiled athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick as one of the faces of its new campaign and soon after chaos ensued, because…of course it did.

Kaepernick’s Nike ad features a close-up of the football player’s face, and ad copy that reads, “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”

Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything#JustDoIt pic.twitter.com/SRWkMIDdaO

— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) September 3, 2018

The athlete rose to national fame for being the first NFL player to kneel during the National Anthem in protest of police brutality against African-American people in the United States. His protest has since inspired players across the league to do the same. Read more…

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