The 10 best memes of 2024, from Raygun to Just a Chill Guy

What a year for memes.

We’re about to say goodbye to 2024, and oh my goodness, A LOT happened this year and A LOT more is about to happen in 2025, so hang in there.

But before we say goodbye to this year and look ahead to 2025, we’ve got to take one more look back at the memes we all created and shared and then shared some more.

We’ve included a few sports memes we loved, but as you’d expect, there are some from TV, movies and music.

So here they are, as we look back one more time: the best memes of 2024 in no particular order:

Raygun

PARIS, FRANCE – AUGUST 09: B-Girl Raygun of Team Australia

reacts during the B-Girls Round Robin – Group B on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Place de la Concorde on August 09, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

We loved Raygun, but the memes were everywhere from the Olympics.

The Olympic pistol shooter

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tud6nPIXoBw

Thank you, Yusuf Dikec, for casually working your way into our hearts.

Holding space for Defying Gravity

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bbM6B4qFz3Q

An all-time great that came out of the Wicked press tour.

The Dwyane Wade statue

Oct 28, 2024; Miami, Florida, USA; A general view of the new Dwyane Wade statue in front of the Kaseya Center. Mandatory Credit: Rhona Wise-Imagn Images 

These are too good.

Very mindful, very demure

@ash_kholm

VERY Demure @Khloé Kardashian @Jools Lebron @Dimitri Giannetos #verydemure

♬ original sound – Ash K HOLM

Everyone was doing these on TikTok in 2024.

MUSTARD!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H2X3priMlUs

Thank you, Kendrick Lamar.

Moo Deng

Moo Deng, a two-month-old female pygmy hippo who has recently become a viral internet sensation, stands next to her mother Jona, 25, at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province on September 15, 2024. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) (Photo by LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images) 

The pygmy hippo is the best.

Just a Chill Guy

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wTuxD5kVTkc

A dog in a sweater, just being a chill guy. Good way to end 2024.

Brat

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kC5hpfvKywA

Charli XCX took over for a while there.

“In da clurb, we all fam.”

This one was funny.