Urlies 2011: The Best Memes Of The Year

Every December Urlesque celebrates the best web culture trends of the year with awards called the Urlies. This year, along with our partners at HuffPost Comedy, we decided that instead of choosing the winners in each category on our own, we would do things a little differently.

We're going to let you, our readers, choose who wins the Urlies for Best Meme, Best Viral Video, Best Single-Topic Blog and Best Cute Thing for 2011. It's an unprecedented amount of power, but we have faith that we're leaving the task in good hands.

To kick off the week we're introducing our nominees in the Best Meme category, which includes all of the image macros, photo-editing trends and stock photo tropes that spread like wildfire through our blogs and hearts.

There's some stiff competition, so be sure to rate the memes and let us know if we missed anything in the comments!

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[HuddledMasses]

09:58 PM on 12/15/2011

Holy crappola, what a waste of time. None of those are remotely funny and most of them I;ve never heard of.

[jottlover26]

07:08 PM on 12/14/2011

Uh, is this comedy? I thought this was a complete waste of my time looking at images that wouldn't know funny if it slapped them in the face with a fish.

[Jenn Liu]

06:56 PM on 12/14/2011

check out this video: it's the new obama girls f0r 2012. the video is called 'Grow A Pair; An Ode to Obama'.
http://youtu.be/RAUnzG6SwyY

[Megan Anderssen]

04:29 PM on 12/14/2011

What is this crap?

[Bernard Marxism]

04:27 PM on 12/14/2011

Actually, doing a "Lynndie" predates planking, but that was so long ago I'm hardly shocked no one remembers. (People have even photoshopped the guys from the moon landing doing a Lynndie - just google images it)

[jarzod114]

03:49 PM on 12/14/2011

No Tebowing??

[wishescometrue]

03:01 PM on 12/14/2011

what a waste of time .. sigh

[The CXO]

02:56 PM on 12/14/2011

www.intheexitrow.com. Consulting humor sprinkled with tasty meme-inems.

[maple shaft]

01:49 PM on 12/14/2011

Funny that they mention all of the Reddit created memes and conveniently ignore the ones that started on 4chan.

[MNCommenter]

12:22 PM on 12/14/2011

I haven't heard of any of these, to me there was one HUGE meme this year -- honey badger. He don't care,

[elifos]

12:22 PM on 12/14/2011

Planking is SO 2010 ~ Stocking is the New Planking! http://stockingisthenewplanking.com/

[napoleon54]

10:46 AM on 12/14/2011

The writing on the stick of butter is a mirror image, it's been shopped. Paula Deen is not actually riding a giant stick of butter! Photoshop FAIL!

[anniezhang94]

11:43 AM on 12/14/2011

Amazing, Napoleon. I did not know you could deduce that there is no such thing as a stick of butter that could realistically support a Paula Dean.

[thejaysus]

05:47 PM on 12/14/2011

hahaha awesome! annie, you're an idiot.

[Underabridge]

09:12 AM on 12/14/2011

Those memes were awful... Not even remotely close to the top 10.

[Shyla22]

08:51 AM on 12/14/2011

I hate to say it, but this was a real Billy Madison moment, looking through some of these pictures. "Everyone is now dumber for having listened to you... may God have mercy on your soul.."

[shadow090787]

11:49 PM on 12/13/2011

I've never heard of any of these, I might have know them, but I recently took an arrow to the knee.