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Order by the year each meme went viral. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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How to play the internet memes timeline game
Each card is a meme that spread across the internet, with a one-line description of what it was printed under the name. They go in order of the year each one went viral. The first meme is already on the timeline, dated. Work through the rest one at a time, dropping each into a gap. Right gap: the year pops up. Wrong gap: the meme still jumps to where it belongs, and one of your three lives is spent.
Expect a tour of the web's eras: early animated oddities and forum in-jokes, the first wave of viral video, image macros, dance challenges and the short-video brainrot of recent feeds. The middle of the deck is packed, and memes from neighboring years blur together. Animals are everywhere, which makes the cat cards especially hard to separate. Memes also live on long after their peak, so date the moment one broke out, not the last time you saw it.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Dancing Baby 3D baby doing the cha-cha
- Hampster Dance GeoCities page of dancing rodents
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us Botched Zero Wing translation
- Numa Numa Webcam lip-sync to an O-Zone song
- Leeroy Jenkins World of Warcraft raid gone wrong
- Lolcats Cats with misspelled captions
- Chocolate Rain Tay Zonday's deep-voiced ballad
- Pepe the Frog Matt Furie's frog spreads on 4chan
- Keyboard Cat Cat in a shirt plays you off
- Double Rainbow Ecstatic man near Yosemite
- Nyan Cat Pop-Tart cat flies through space
- Grumpy Cat Scowling cat named Tardar Sauce
- Doge Shiba Inu with Comic Sans text
- Ice Bucket Challenge Ice water for ALS awareness
- Damn Daniel Back at it again with the white Vans
- Harambe Cincinnati Zoo gorilla
- Mannequin Challenge Freezing in place to Black Beatles
- Salt Bae Turkish chef's elbow salt sprinkle
- Yanny or Laurel Audio clip that split listeners
- Woman Yelling at a Cat Reality TV screenshot meets a dinner-table cat
- Storm Area 51 Joke Facebook event to raid a secret base
- Coffin Dance Ghanaian pallbearers set to Astronomia
- Bernie Sanders' Mittens Senator bundled up at an inauguration
- Skibidi Toilet Singing heads popping out of toilets
- Hawk Tuah Nashville street interview catchphrase
- Moo Deng Bouncy baby pygmy hippo from Thailand
- Chill Guy Smirking dog in a sweater, hands in pockets
- Italian Brainrot AI creatures like Tralalero Tralala
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