The Most Popular Memes of 2021

Our friends at Know Your Meme have put together a colorfully animated visual timeline that charts the most popular memes of 2021 using data from visits to their own site. As Cary Huang did for 2004-2019 and Know Your Meme did for 2011-2020, the timeline uses bar charts that race up and down in order to indicate how popular the meme was during a fixed period of time.

We’ve pulled the data and crunched the numbers. Here’s what the most popular memes of 2021 were based on pageviews to our website.

Lori Dorn
Lori Dorn

Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.