![]() ![]() The following list is the top 10 exploitables of 2021. Will they have ironic resurgences in years to come, or will they peter out, lost in antiquity, reserved for some "Meme Historian" to dig up and discover. Here at Know Your Meme, we wonder how long these formats will last. Chances are you were probably looking at so many exploitables this year that your partner was sitting on your lap asking, Baby, Can You Touch Me Already? No Baby, I'm too busy showing everyone that Divorce Leads Children To The Worst Places. There was Beware Of The Pipeline and Who Need They Pussy Ate?, which both gave the limelight to femboys across the web. Gotta Be One Of My Favorite Genders let the internet express who they like more than everyone else. Some honorable mentions include I Shoulda Never Smoke That Shit, which placed the anonymous stoner in absurd settings across cinematic universes. In 2021, there were almost too many good exploitable formats for a top 10 list. Most don't make it past a week or two after their peak, meshing and melding with other templates. Every year, new ones pop up and have their moment in the spotlight. ![]() This is the typical lifecycle of an exploitable meme. It becomes a race to see who can subvert the format further - who can make that next, original change? Soon, they run out. Meme creators start scraping the bottom, fiending and fighting for further use. If they're lucky, the meme goes viral, and more and more iterations flood the market until it's saturated. Someone else catches on, creating a variant by altering text or adding other elements. They start off as an image macro, maybe a cartoon or YouTube thumbnail, one person then makes a meme out of it and a template is born. ![]()
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