The 10 best memes templates of the last 10 years There are memes that age, and then there are the classics

Memes are the cultural phenomenon of the decade. From their birth, in the darkness of 4Chan forums, to modern digital art auctions, their success has been universal and their presence has spread throughout society: politics, fashion, marketing and so on. The most striking side of meme culture was certainly that it was able to become a deforming mirror of our world, explaining it one parody at a time. Whether it's a fight between boyfriends or geopolitical dynamics on a global scale, every human phenomenon has its own counterpart in the world of memes – but there are some formats that over time have turned out to be better and longer-lived than others, both for narrative versatility and for the potential for creative remixes. 

Below we have listed the 10 best memes templates of the last 10 years. For the collection of historical data and official names of templates, we have obtained our information from the main online meme database Know Your Meme, the main online archive on the phenomenon of memes.

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First appearing in 2019 in the first episode of The Mandalorian series, Grogu, better known to the public as Baby Yoda, has become a real cultural phenomenon, a character whose fame is second to that of Pikachu – and who like Pikachu has become the protagonist of at least six different meme templates. The most popular of all is Baby Yoda Drinking Soup, born on November 29 and characterized by a fundamentally ambiguous meaning used to describe a wide variety of situations and characters, but which generally expresses indifference, apathy or expectation.