Video of a police officer dousing Occupy protesters with pepper spray was one of the top three news-related memes of 2011, according to the analysts who follow this sort of thing at Know Your Meme.

When I first tried to rank the Internet virals of 2011, the diagrams just weren’t working. I kept trying to draw a graph in my brain, something I could mentally chart out and calculate to get some ...

The guest list sounds like the most bizarre party you've ever been invited to: Rebecca Black, Scumbag Steve, Occupy Wall Street protesters, Nyan Cat and a few hundred bronies. Then you see what kind ...

Know Your Meme compiles the top 40 memes of 2011, including #5 Pepper Spraying Cop. Yahoo! News has also compiled a list of the most popular status update topics for the year. My thoughts, it’s a ...

Whether silly image macros, viral videos, Twitter hashtags or goofy altered photos, memes have become a major part of contemporary culture. They have the potential to create celebrities, alter the way ...

Of all the Internet fads of 2011, nothing left viewers laughing quite as hard as the seemingly simple meme. These cartoonish caricatures provided some of the funniest, most realistic social ...

If you have currently, or have ever had, facial hair, you were not safe from the most hipsteriffic meme this side of… well most of 2011's other memes. The year's most Amazing meme Take vintage stills ...

It’s been a meme year, here on the Internet. Not that we ever have non-meme years, but this flip round the sun was was especially ‘lulzy.’ I know you don’t usually read such lax English here on TNW, ...

2011 is coming to a close and what better way to look back and reflect on a year well spent than with a recap of the year’s best memes? Know Your Meme has released a list of the best memes of 2011.

2011 may have seen the creation of some of the silliest internet memes yet, but it was also a year that validated their existence too: they became important and integral tools for global information ...