10 celebrities who became meme favorites in 2023
How strong is your meme game? Today’s world is all about short diction and speaking through memes. Though the World Wide Web is full of funny memes, the ones featuring celebrities oattract more attention. From Rihanna to ‘Barbie’, here is the list of ten celebrities who ruled the meme world in 2023.
Barbie
Barbie hit the theatres in July of 2023. However, even before its release, Margot Robbie’s movie gained a lot of love on the internet and became a favorite of meme creators. One of the most iconic memes was the Barbenheimer meme, taking a dig at 'Barbie' by Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan’s 'Oppenheimer', released together. While one was about dolls, the other was about weapons of mass destruction.
Rihanna
Rihanna’s performance was everything at the Super Bowl earlier this year. She rocked a red jumpsuit for the event as she revealed her pregnancy. But what caught internet users’ attention was the 35-year-old singer’s on-stage dancers, who donned puffy white jumpsuits, giving birth to hilarious memes.
Kenergy
Just like Barbie, Ryan Gosling’s Ken was also not away from the eyes of the meme creators. People began comparing fictional couples and real-life exes to Barbie and Ken.
M3GAN
M3GAN created a lot of buzz among cinema enthusiasts but memes of M3GAN also became fan favorites online because of her bizarre looks and actions.
Angela Bassett
It’s safe to say Ariana DeBose was the mother of Angela Bassett's meme as she rapped “Angela Bassett did the thing” during the 2023 Bafta Awards.
Later when Bassett won the coveted Entertainer of the Year prize, and Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for ‘9-1-1’ along with Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’, she funnily said, “I guess Angela Bassett did the thing!” giving birth to n number of memes.
Pedro Pascal
Pedro Pascal became a meme favorite because of a scene he had with his ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ co-star Nicolas Cage. In the scene, the actors gave two very different reactions, which led to numerous funny memes.
Kevin James ‘The King of Queens’ Smirk
Kevin James’ Doug Heffernan from ‘The King of Queens’ once again became a meme favorite when one of his scenes from the show resurfaced online, showing him resting his hands in his pockets and smirking.
King Charles
Meme creators did not even spare King Charles while getting their creative juices flowing. The new king of England looked amused as a person holding his lines showed him the paper during his coronation, resulting in a lot of memes.
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez became a meme favorite this year after her friend friend Dominic J West shared a photo of her while she donned a blanket. The 31-year-old singer even reacted to it by posting two of her memes on her Instagram Stories.
Vince McMahon
A very delicate moment of Vince McMahon became a meme hit. It was culled from an interview when the former WWE CEO was asked about The Undertaker, and he got emotional and could not say anything.
