Christmas is the season to spread love and the New Year brings us an opportunity to reflect on the past year. It is the perfect time to think back and reflect on all the things we’re thankful for, all the things we’re lucky to have and all the little things that made us laugh and helped us get through the challenging year of 2019.

What better way to do that than by looking at the top 20 memes of 2019 (in no particular order).

Rise and shine

Kylie Jenner. Self-made (lol) billionaire. Mother. Vocalist.

Today’s tea

One of the first trends of 2019 (January) had us spilling all kinds of tea.

Paul Rudd

Who would’ve thought this would make the list?

Area 51

TBT to that weird time we all nearly got killed by the US Govt for bants.

Detective Coleen Rooney

They say every generation has their ‘Shakespeare’, this year we found ours.

Sorry to this man

I hope you don’t sound ridiculous by not knowing this one.

Imma head out

When it’s time to go, it’s time to go.

Pooja, what is this behaviour?

We stan.

Wincent

A tutorial on how to bouj up your life.

Aki and Pawpaw

Hard to scroll through insta without seeing some variation of this legendary Nigerian comedy duo.

Nobody:

Me: Here are the best memes from 2019

Love Island 2019

This whole period of Love Island, the memes and the world cup will go down in history.

Eddie Hearn

The most unexpectedly relatable man of the year.

Sco Pa Tu Manaa

One for the Twitter users.

Handshake

In a society that seems to encourage division, it was nice to be reminded of similarities between seemingly dissimilar things.

Shocked Pikachu

Didn’t expect this one!

Idris Elba chokes

I’m just tryna enjoy my meal.

I’m gonna tell my kids...

Bold of us to assume the planet won’t have been ruined by global warming.

Catfish

The internet remains undefeated.

Baby Yoda

What a way to end the year.

Let us know your favourite memes of 2019 and we might make a part 2!

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