2018 was truly the year of the meme. In January. teens were eating Tide Pods and watching Logan Paul. In February, our FBI agents were texting us and kids were playing Fortnite. In March, we were laughing at SpongeBob memes. In April, we couldn’t get enough of the yodeling boy. In May, we had debates over yanny and laurel. In June, we got upset over IHOP’s poor marketing decision and fell in love with “The Incredibles Two.” In July, everyone came down with Ligma and was doing the zoom challenge. In August, we watched Jojo Siwa destroy her hairline for five minutes straight and Johnny Johnny eating sugar. In September, a moth fell in love with a lamp. In October, we got the bread and cringed at every tik tok we saw. And in November, we watched surgery on a grape. Now in December, we must decide which meme reigns supreme as the 2018 meme of the year.

We had a great year in the meme community, but in my opinion, the top five memes for 2018 are Tide Pods, the yodeling boy, the international house of bad marketing decisions, Ligma and last but certainly not least, Jojo Siwa’s receding hairline.

Although those are excellent memes, only one can take the spot for meme of the year; with  six out of five Harambes,that meme would definitely be Tide Pods. For those of you who are very lost, let me explain. There are many commercials and labels telling parents to keep detergent pods away from their children because if eaten they can be fatal especially to small children. But the bright colors of the Tide

Pod and the shiny packaging caused teens to start referring the pods as a ‘forbidden snack’. So of course, teens starting making memes, eating them and getting hurt. In total, there were 86 reports of teens intentionally ingesting laundry detergent. But what really did it for me with this meme was going to the grocery store had seeing that they locked up all of the detergent pods. Although the meme is side-splittingly hilarious, please don’t eat tide pods or any detergent for that matter. Until next year, this has been @PaigeWillAlwaysLaugh with the meme of the year.