knowyourmeme

40 minutes ago

Thanks! The weirdest thing for me was the Ugandan Knuckles/Tide Pods/Somebody Toucha My Spaghett meme explosion in January. All of them died almost instantly but gave us huge traffic that month.

-Adam

Adam here.

Trying to find the origin of a meme that's a screenshot from porn is an incredibly soul-draining process. But the meme that comes to mind as the absolute worst for me to document was Bench Tails, though everyone will have their own horror stories.

We were definitely aware of Behind the Meme and we have a page on him. The fact he appeared to be paraphrasing our entries was not lost on us but I guess it never bothered us so much as it was a joke in the office. I can do a pretty decent impression of him.

-Adam

Checking sites like Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc. frequently throughout the day, i.e. living in a near-constant state of misery.

-Matt

Explaining what we do to our family got easier over the last decade. For some of us who started on the project from the beginning (c. 2009), it was a challenge to describe (or justify rather) to our family exactly what we do, so we'd say "we work on the internet" or "you know, lolcats," but nowadays, we say "we work on a wikipedia of memes" and most people, including family and friends, seem to get it!

• Brad

Edit: added name