The meme history · Volume I

The Meme Codex

The canon. Every meme that genuinely mattered, from the Dancing Baby in 1996 to the Viking Row in 2026 — dated, classified, and honest about the ones with difficult histories. This is the memes themselves, not the slang. Search it, filter it, argue with it.

Sources

  1. TechCrunch, A brief history of the Dancing Baby meme
  2. ADL, Pepe the Frog
  3. Decrypt, Chill Guy artist threatens action over a meme coin
  4. STV News, What is the Viking Row (2026 World Cup)
  5. Oxford University Press, rizz named Oxford Word of the Year 2023

Facts on this page were checked against these sources on 22 October 2026. Spotted an error? Tell us.