30 Internet ‘Unexpected Stars’ Folks Online Can’t Stop Reminiscing About To This Day

A quick disclaimer - no feral hogs were harmed in the making of this post. But now you've probably guessed that today we're going to talk about memes. And the people who, willingly or unwillingly, became the ‘heroes’ of these memes.

Over the years, we've seen a huge number of memes, some incredibly funny, some just plain stupid - and even captivating in their own stupidity. And the commenters in this viral thread on X are recalling the ‘disposable’ heroes of the internet from recent times. And Bored Panda is making a selection of the best memories from this thread.

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Internet-Main-Characters

Final score:

130points

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Multa Nocte 2 months ago

Love this one.

24points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 months ago

They still get together every year. Unsure if grandma is still around, but he still visits the family every year :)

5points

Tiny Dancer 1 month ago

Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton. They've been together for Thanksgiving every year since the "wrong text" was sent in 2016. Here's their pic from last year, the extra person between them was a contest winner that got to spend the holiday with them, how cool is that? She lost her hubby, Lonnie, to COVID in 2020. Jamal-Hint...38381.jpeg

3points

Clarf 1 month ago

My favorite! Love that they have become friends.

3points

Celtic Pirate Queen 1 month ago

The fact they keep getting together is priceless.

0points

Michelle C 1 month ago

I believe this will be year nine for them!

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Internet-Main-Characters

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116points

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Panda Bear 2 months ago

The guy who tweeted this ended up adopting mom and babies

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Internet-Main-Characters

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110points

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James016 2 months ago

There was also the woman on Teams who turned on a potato filter.

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It all started with a tweet from the user Jamie Loftus who recently asked people: “Who are the internet main characters of the day you still think about? Good, bad, indifferent, who's stuck with you. Can be any era.” And, as it often happens, the post got covered by a real avalanche of witty responses. As of today, there are 4.7K quotes and over 45.3M views. After all, a meme is perhaps the main creative form of modern culture.

Internet-Main-Characters

Final score:

79points

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Paddy 2 months ago

There were boats that were stuck on the Suez Canal for eight years in 1967. Google 'The Yellow Fleet'. They formed their own stamps and everything.

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Internet-Main-Characters

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61points

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Owned-by-dogs 2 months ago

I think a lot of those depended on the monitor. The colors were different between my work computer and my home laptop.

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Internet-Main-Characters

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60points

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panther 2 months ago

Unfortunately he is still free to move around the country stirring up trouble.

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If you don't remember, let us remind you that the very concept of ‘meme’ was introduced in 1976 by the famous English biologist and popularizer of science Richard Dawkins. In his bestselling book The Selfish Gene, the scientist defined a meme as a unit of cultural information, similar to a gene in biology. Like a gene, according to the scientist, a meme can be copied, transmitted from carrier to carrier, and undergo evolution.

However, even such an outstanding scientific mind as Richard Dawkins could hardly have imagined the evolutionary direction that memes have acquired in recent decades...

Internet-Main-Characters

Final score:

56points

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Paddy 2 months ago

oh, I remember this. Did she actually lose it?

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Internet-Main-Characters

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52points

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Nikki138 2 months ago

🤦‍♀️ 🤣

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47points

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MaximumKarmaSaint 2 months ago

Forget who he was, but he basically forgot to change accounts and completely outted himself in one tweet.

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The great artist Andy Warhol once said that ‘everyone will get their 15 minutes of fame.’ I don't know about everyone, but the ubiquity of the internet and the Share button have actually done their job. Literally any of us can become famous all over the world - and not necessarily in a good way. One viral tweet or video on TikTok is pretty much enough.

Over the past decade and a half, there have been hundreds of folks and stuff that the whole world has literally talked about - only to forget about them a couple of days later. The specificity of modern thinking - another dose of fast dopamine has been received, you can move on to looking for the next one!

#10

Internet-Main-Characters

Final score:

45points

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Phoenix Burn 2 months ago

Participating in Ed Balls day!

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Internet-Main-Characters

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41points

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Chihuahua Mama 2 months ago

How big is a small boulder the size of a large boulder?

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Internet-Main-Characters

Final score:

38points

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Pandemonium 2 months ago

My brother, that breakfast better be a trip to Paris for some French Toast

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So now just meet the white and gold (or black and blue) dress, 30 or 50 feral hogs, that poor giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal a couple of years ago - and dozens of other memes that actually fulfilled their main function - they made us smile. After all, it’s not that easy to smile in such a wild and difficult contemporary world!

#13

Internet-Main-Characters

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36points

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Tracy Lanier 2 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN3Msg5DpEQ. Poor Debby!

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#14

Internet-Main-Characters

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32points

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k1ddkanuck 2 months ago

Ah yes. Next to our late crack smoking mayor, Ikea Monkey was the height of Toronto's global viral fame in the 2010s.

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Internet-Main-Characters

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31points

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BoredHouseKitty 2 months ago

The one from India? The thread was pretty long, live reporting the whole thing. Quite hilarious.

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Internet-Main-Characters

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25points

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Enna S 2 months ago

Nathan Fielder!

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Internet-Main-Characters

Final score:

8points

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ElfVibratorGlitter 2 months ago

My wife cannot eat fajitas without cheese. So far this is the only one on the list I could identify.

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Internet-Main-Characters

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8points

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Icedragocat 2 months ago

If he took off his shirt and grabbed an elongated mallet, he would look like that guy from the game ‘Getting Over It”

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Note: this post originally had 40 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.

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Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 2 months ago

The lady who sent a pic of Nicolas Cage instead of her resume

Dawn Eyestone 1 month ago

The lady that "fixed" the Jesus fresco and accidently gave the world Monkey Jesus.

7points

BookFanatic 2 months ago

The person who sold a VCR on eBay and got a beautiful hand-written thank you from the older gentleman who purchased it. And the dude in the Elsa costume who single-handedly pushed a Boston cop car out of a snowbank.

MrsFettesVette 2 months ago

The Scottish sports presenter who didn't have any sport to announce in the early days of Covid so he started narrating his dogs walks like they were in a sporting event. It kills me every time I think about it.

Illustrious G 1 month ago

I just discovered Olive and Mabel because of this comment!! Awesome, thank you!!

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Ephemera Image 1 month ago

I don't get most of these because I don't know most of these.

Dirk Daring 2 months ago

None Pizza with Left Beef

2points

Vincent Appel 2 months ago

Techno Viking!

Bartlet for World Domination 2 months ago

TECHNO VIKING!!!

Zero Costa 2 months ago

the hotdog queen herself 👏👏👏

Carla Phillips 1 month ago

How about dancing baby? I'm that old. Frog in a blender? Hamster dance?

That "mate" from an Australian news story

ArcanaPanda 1 month ago

For some reason all I can think of are children: the boy who said he liked turtles, the boy who said, "Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy?", and the boy who was especially fond of saying "apparently". Then I loved the two bickering colleagues of that NYC TV station who had it out on air while one of them was reporting on a neighbor dispute in some apartment building, the woman who said "I so pale" while not knowing she was on air, the Phoenix-area meteorologist who had some fun with a massive screw-up with some temperatures on the weather map, the New Zealand woman who lost it when she was reporting on "an emergency defecation situation", and the Atlanta-area traffic reporter who often inserts some pretty slick references to people he's paying tribute to while doing his reports.

Emery Walters 1 month ago

The gay weatheman and the cockroach, on camera

badger 1 month ago

"like that but cat"

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John Harrison 2 months ago

"She wore a crown and she came down in a bubble!! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uznUlgpKBzE

30 Internet ‘Unexpected Stars’ Folks Online Can’t Stop Reminiscing About To This Day

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