In 2025, memes are few, yet some treasures remain.

What makes memes so infrequent? The response lies in TikTok. The center of digital culture has migrated to TikTok, a platform for short-form videos. Memes now primarily manifest as TikTok trends, while traditional text-and-image memes have become rare.

Another contributing element is Twitter (RIP). After Elon Musk took over the app and rebranded it as X, it disrupted the leading text-based social media site. Memes used to emerge on Twitter, then transitioned to Reddit, Instagram, and eventually Facebook. As X grew increasingly difficult to use and declined in popularity, this trend has largely disappeared.

Nonetheless, memes endure to a certain extent on TikTok, Bluesky, Instagram, and even X. We have diligently tracked them and compiled seven of the top memes of 2025 thus far.

1. Trump takes an egg

Prior to President Donald Trump’s hefty tariffs leading to economic instability, the internet made jokes about eggs. It was quintessential absurdism, ridiculing those who voted for Trump hoping for lower egg prices as they skyrocketed.