We started off real strong, that's for sure. Kids were eating Tide Pods and Logan
Paul was filming dead bodies. That was a fun start. Then that song by Drake came out and people started jumping out of moving vehicles for the sake of viral
Internet videos, though really nothing went quite as viral as Bongo Cat did. Speaking of
memes, Ugandan Knuckles was a thing. Patrick Star
memes went a little viral. Yakko's World went totally insane and stayed relevant for quite a while. That was a good
meme. Grape surgery, however, was... It was the bane of my existence. Like, yeah, sure, it's fun to say, but it got annoying. Anyways, I digress. Billion Surprise Toys was spreading like wildfire. Oh, did I make that joke too soon after the California wildfires? I kinda feel bad. So they birthed Johnny Johnny onto the nation, and I have to say, in my opinion, that was among the top
memes of 2018. It had a good run. Funnier than Amazon Echo
memes, that's for sure.
Fortnite blew up, too. You
don't know pain until you've seen a 12 year old kid flossing to Despacito in a TikTok ad. TikTok was a gold mine for Tracer
memes, too. I kind of liked the ok hand thing, even though it gets kind of forced after a while. It wasn't along the same lines for me as grape surgery, but it's starting to turn down the same road. And last but not least, Big Chungus. It hasn't really hit it's prime popularity yet, I think, but it'll probably be one of those rare gems that'll stay relevant until next year.
Wow, I've been ranting on about
memes for so long. I haven't even gotten to tragic passings of this year. Anthony Bourdain, Aretha Franklin, Stefan Karl, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Hillenburg, Stan
Lee, and even Ronnie "Oni" Edwards (I had to mention Ronnie considering I'm a loyal Theorist). I can't even make a joke here. Rest in
peace. You'll all be missed.
So, I guess that's it, huh? 2018's had its ups, and its downs, and all of its insanity. Good
memes, bad
memes, strange challenges, wildfires, tragedies, innocent families arrested at the border, and a partial government shutdown to top of this strange, flaming 9-car pileup of a year with some extra horse crap. And now it's all over. Ah well. At least we have a whole other year ahead of us. Lets
hope 2019 only sucks half as much.