According to Know Your Meme, one notable early instance of the phrase featured the so-called Gnome Child (a character from the online game Runescape) with the caption: “born just in time to browse dank memes.” Another shows a baby dressed as a police officer writing a ticket, with the...
Dank memecame about in 2013 on internet message boards like4chanand Reddit dedicated to makingparodiesof existing memes and mocking meme culture in general. The use ofdankhere isironic, as so-calleddank memesare so bad (or downright strange) that they’re somehow good. ...
nounInribbon-weaving, the batten of the Dutch engine-loom or swivel-loom. nounFiguratively, one of the articles or paragraphs formulating distinct principles which form the program or platform of a political or other party (the wordplatformbeing taken in a double sense). ...
Stonks memes are often used to make (often hypothetical) jokes about situations where a person thinks they are cleverly making a profit but aren’t or can’t. Profit. from dankmemes me$irl from me_irl Stonks is sometimes used in an extended way to comment on all sorts of non-financ...
Yeet seemed to fade again in popular culture again until March 2018, when users of the subreddit r/dankmemes—dedicated to so-called dank memes, which are deliberately odd and obscure—started posting new yeet memes. They riff on the word yeet in a variety of absurd contexts (perhaps as ...