This year was another big one for exploitables, but these remixable meme formats of 2021 are those that climbed their way to the top of the pile to stand above the rest.

This year, we decided to take a moment to celebrate some of our personal favorite memes of 2021, because even if they weren't necessarily the most popular or most important memes, they brought us joy as we worked to keep KnowYourMeme running.

We thought 2020 was supposed to be the weirdest year ever. Then 2021 happened and proved to us all that "weird" is just the reality we live in now.

Fuelled by pandemic loneliness and general internet horniness, 2021 brought us more than a handful of lewd, NSFW memes to enjoy in the privacy of our own homes. Here are the best ones.

Every year you keep surprising us with new, imaginative ways to meme, and with people literally bringing memes from their dreams and having neural nets make memes for them, 2021 was no exception. Here's our review of breakthrough meme formats that defined the past year.