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Charles Curtis

The 11 best memes of 2023, from Kevin James to Taylor Swift’s F-bomb

Taylor Swift Kevin James Andrew Garfield Barbenheimer Barbie Livvy Rihanna Roman Empire (Organization)

We’re about to say goodbye to 2023, and whew, a lot happened this year and a lot is about to happen in 2024, so buckle up.

But before we say goodbye to this year and look ahead to 2024, we’ve got to take one more look back at the memes we all created and shared and then shared some more.

We’ve included a bunch of sports memes, but as you’d expect, there are some from TV and movies (and you know which movies got the most memeing on social media, thank you Barbenheimer!).

So here they are, the best memes of 2023 in no particular order:

1
Rihanna stares into your soul

Her Super Bowl halftime show was so good and had lots of memes.

2
Rihanna's dancers run out

SO MANY MEMES!

 

3
Barbie

My God, the memes are STILL dropping.

There was Mojo Dojo Casa House:

The posters:

“His job is beach”:

4
Barbenheimer

A separate category:

 

 

5
Kevin James

The most random and yet maybe the funniest:

 

6
Taylor Swift drops an F-bomb

You knew it the moment you saw it happen live:

 

7
Andrew Garfield at the Oscars

8
Tiger Woods "big dog"

A late-year entry!

 

9
Roman Empire

Born out of the theory that men think a lot about Roman Empire, and then we got these:

10
Grimace Shake videos

It became a horror movie:

11
Livvy rizzed up Baby Gronk

Thank you to Olivia Dunne and Baby Gronk:

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