The Holy Grail of Memes. The OG.  The meme to end all memes. It’s BACK! Thanks to James Harden and this photo the Sixers took, “MOM MADE PIZZA ROLLS” has made it’s triumphant return. This was the one that jumpstarted it all 10 years ago:

If you were on early Twitter you know we have developed (maybe) as a society. Only 10 years ago this is what the epitome of comedy looked like on the Internet:

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If you posted this in 2011 you were given a 30 minute standup special on HBO. Your aunt’s current Facebook profile would pass for the peak of comedy during Obama’s first term. The advancements society has made on memes is crazy. It’s like when you find out that your iPhone today has more power in it than the first spaceship that landed on the moon. Kobe memes are the spaceship. No Kobe meme had a proper crop job pre-2015:

The heyday though was before LeBron’s first title:


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Just like the NBA can thank Michael Jordan for ushering in the next era, we can thank “Crying Jordan” for getting us to the next era of memes. “Crying Jordan” is where you started separating the boys from the men:

The meme had a Jordan-like run in the 90s. It was everywhere for two straight years, which in Internet culture is the equivalent to two decades. We had people Photoshopping them into Manu Ginobili’s scalp, people were going the extra mile and making gifs, and even three year olds weren’t safe:

What a wild time 2011 was. Between this and Coinbase commercial during the Super Bowl last night, nostalgia has been at an all-time high.