Internet memes introduced in 2019

The Backrooms are a fictional location originating from a 2019 4chan thread. One of the best known examples of the liminal space aesthetic, the Backrooms are usually portrayed as an impossibly large extradimensional expanse of empty rooms, accessed by exiting reality.

Japanese organizing consultant, author and television show host (1984-)

2019 single by Billie Eilish

Internet aesthetic capturing strange places

2019 video game

viral photo of an egg posted on Instagram

ageist catchphrase and Internet meme

Facebook event to breach the military base Area 51 in Nevada, United States

2018 video game

Ugandan LGBT rights activist

steps in Highbridge, The Bronx, New York City

"Epstein didn't kill himself" ("EDKH") is a conspiracy theory phrase used to question the official cause of the death of American child sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. Authorities concluded that he died of suicide by hanging in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City in August 2019. Epstein was a convicted sex offender with connections to and public interactions with many powerful and wealthy people. His incarceration led to public hope that he might reveal the identities of other sex offenders, especially those in positions of authority and influence. When his suicide was reported, numerous hypotheses and conspiracy theories emerged to speculate about the true nature and cause of his death, framing the official suicide narrative as a lie, typically labelling it as part of a cover-up.

PizzaExpress (Restaurants) Limited, trading as PizzaExpress (also called Pizza Marzano or Milano), is a British multinational pizza restaurant chain. It has over 500 restaurants across the United Kingdom and 100 overseas in Europe, Hong Kong, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Saudi Arabia. PizzaExpress was founded in London in 1965 by Peter Boizot. In July 2020, it was taken over by its bondholders under a debt-for-equity swap with the previous owner, Hony Capital. In November, Hony Capital left the business and the group restruct

Balltze (, 9 January 2011 – 18 August 2023), nicknamed Cheems in online memes, was a Shiba Inu from Hong Kong. He was called Ball Ball () by his owners.

2019 single by Masked Wolf

2010 song by Iyaz

Internet meme

Wooloo (; Japanese: , Hepburn: ) is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon media franchise. First introduced in the video games Pokémon Sword and Shield, they were inspired by the large amount of sheep native to Britain, the location on which Sword and Shields Galar region is based. Since their initial appearance they have appeared in both Pokémon GO and the Pokémon Trading Card Game, as well as various merchandise related to the franchise. In addition, they appear in manga and anime adaptations of the Pokémon franchise, with their appearances in the latter being voiced by Rika

2019 single by Chris Brown featuring Drake

Gaysper is an LGBT symbol based on the ghost emoji () of Android 5.0. It is a modification of the original icon that uses a background with the colors of the rainbow flag. It became popular in Spain from April 2019 following a tweet posted on the official account of the populist far-right party Vox, after which a multitude of users belonging to the LGBT movement began to use it as a symbol. The icon has established itself as an example of the phenomenon of reappropriation of elements of the anti-LGBT discourse in contemporary society through social networks.

Polish artistic universe created by Wiktor Stribog, being an internet channel on YouTube

2012 song by Nicki Minaj

song from TV series The Witcher

Generation Z subculture