November

• Not a Cell Phone in Sight

The phrase “Not a cell phone in sight, just living in the moment” caught on as one the more popular memes of 2018. It’s accompanied by odd or old pictures, some of which could have no context at all, and is honestly pretty funny. It was seen paired with anything, from historical events to scenes from cartoons.

• One taught me love, one taught me patience, one taught me pain

Ariana Grande’s hit single, “thank u, next,” took the Internet by storm for its strong message of female empowerment. One line from it, though, went viral on Twitter. “One taught me love, one taught my patience, one taught me pain” was a phrase that was accompanied by a series of three images, each of which matching one part of the lyric.

• Astonished Pikachu Face

A low-quality image of Pikachu having an astonished, surprised look quickly became a meme this November. It’s meant to be a look of sarcastic astonishment, for when you know something will happen and think it won’t happen, but it happens anyway.

• They Did Surgery On a Grape

There was no real reason for this to become a meme, but it did. A video on YouTube of “surgery” being done on a grape went viral in November, and was all over Instagram and Twitter, with simply the caption “They did surgery on a grape.”