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We gather newly rising and long-lasting memes. We don't judge — we show them as-is. The interpretation is up to you.
A surreal animated series by DaFuq!?Boom! featuring human heads popping out of toilets, singing and battling camera-headed humans. The source of the Gen Alpha slang word "skibidi." Exploded in popularity 2023-2024.
A YouTube challenge combining taekwondo moves with the "Rolla" dance.
Korean commenters flooded a foreign YouTube video of squeezing latex sap from a rubber tree, creating a culture of rating how "cooked" the rubber looked using terms like "wanik" (perfectly set), "deorik" (undercooked), and "neomik" (overcooked).
Kids looking at their parents' old photos say "mom looks like she's from Blackpink!" "what about dad?" "dad's just a regular citizen." The format spread as a gushing/joking comment style on couple photos.
Sketches from this YouTube comedy channel became memes; recurring characters like the "Hansarang Mountaineering Club" and "'04 Is Back" have each spawned mass character memes.
Jang Sung-kyu's YouTube job-experience series. Its catchphrase "Clock in! Clock in!" and standout moments from each episode have become memes.
From a YouTube comment praising an actor's looks with zero relevance to the video's actual content. Became a meme for shamelessly, unapologetically gushing over someone's appearance out of nowhere.
Short for "holding in laughter" -- "laugh-holding challenge" videos became an entire YouTube genre.
Praise for a channel or creator who's consistently great at making content — like calling a restaurant a "food hotspot," but for content.
The formulaic outro every YouTuber recites — repeated so often it became a meme in itself, referenced ironically to mock generic content patterns.
From the YouTube animated series "Skibidi Toilet." Became a defining meme/slang term for Generation Alpha (born in the 2010s).
A phrase shouted by NMIXX's Haewon while transforming into a flight attendant on the YouTube show "Workdol." Used as a reaction for checking one's own appearance.
A casual way of saying thanks, shortened from the Japanese "arigatou gozaimasu" (あざす). Popularized by creator "Dr. Who" who used it frequently in his videos; now used both as genuine thanks and as a lightly sarcastic remark.
A positive exclamation meaning "yay" or "woohoo." It became a meme after comedian Ryu Geun-il shouted "Yareu~" while doing an exaggerated eating performance on his YouTube channel "Utgorithm." It's often paired with "Chagall" (used for bad moods) in the formula "Chagall when upset, Yareu when happy."
A meme born from a scene in the Yangddaeng Crew's Minecraft content, where the line became a widely quoted catchphrase.
A speech pattern from YouTuber Kim Bong-jun's parody persona of an ethnic-Korean-Chinese immigrant; his signature accented phrase "we're all bunched up together" (mungtaengi-ro ittanmalya) became a meme.
"Syagal" is a typo/variant of a Korean profanity used online — a neologism that softens or playfully re-spells a curse word so it lands as funny rather than harsh. It spread from YouTube.
A hand gesture (🤙👍) shown by a middle-aged man interviewed on comedian Kim Hae-jun's YouTube show "Romantic Couple" (uploaded Jan 7) went viral and became a meme signaling approval — a wordless "that's good."
