The Most Popular GIFs (and Memes) of All Time | Data Ranking 📱#️⃣

This data visualization ranks the most popular GIFs of all time to include details like year, origin, meaning, and use.

The GIF (*) is over 30 years old and the meme (**) is 40+ years old, where the two now go hand-in-hand on the internet.

(*) The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite on 15 June 1987. It has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability between applications and operating systems.

(**) A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that becomes a fad and spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. It was first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 as a way to explain how cultural information spreads and meme culture began to emerge in the 1980s as people frequented early internet forums such as Usenet.

Most Popular GIFs:
00:00 Rank 25: RickRoll, Rick Astley
00:30 Rank 24: Dancing Baby / Baby Cha-Cha
00:45 Rank 23: Dancing Banana / PBJT, Buckwheat Boyz
01:00 Rank 22: Dramatic Chipmunk
01:15 Rank 21: Spinning Disco Chicken
01:35 Rank 20: Leave Britney Alone; Britney Spears
01:51 Rank 19: Dumpster
02:07 Rank 18: Speechless Nathan Fillion
02:23 Rank 17: James Van Der Beek Is Crying
02:41 Rank 16: The Slow Clap Orson Welles
02:54 Rank 15: Mind = Blown
03:11 Rank 14: I Understood That Reference, The Avengers
03:27 Rank 13: Drinking DiCaprio
03:45 Rank 12: Homer Slowly Backing Away
04:00 Rank 11: Blinking White Guy
04:20 Rank 10: This Is Fine
04:36 Rank 9: Kermit Flail
04:53 Rank 8: Supa Hot Fire's Ultimate Rap Battle Win
05:09 Rank 7: We Were All Rooting For You!; Tyra Banks
05:26 Rank 6: Surprise! Everything is on fire
05:43 Rank 5: Simon Cowell is happy for once
06:00 Rank 4: Wiggle with Shaq and that Kitten
06:18 Rank 3 Side-Eyeing Chloe
06:35 Rank 2: Crying Michael Jordan
06:52 Rank 1: popcorn.gif; Michael Jackson

Publications:
https://giphy.com/
https://tenor.com/
https://knowyourmeme.com/
https://influencermarketinghub.com/best-gifs/
https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/15/15804082/greatest-reaction-gifs-supa-hot-fire-blinking-white-guy
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/our-list-of-the-ten-most-popular-gifs-of-all-time-3704823.html

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