Posted by on December 24, 2019 1:00 am
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If you’ve only just got your head around Distracted Boyfriend … well, a year has gone by and the memes have kept coming. Which can you recall?

One for the rural Americans among us: how many feral hogs are there, and how long for them to run into your yard while your small kids play?

20-40; 3-5 minutes

30-50; 3-5 minutes

20-50; 2-3 minutes

30-40; 1-2 minutes

The New York Times columnist Bret Stephens invited a Twitter critic to come to his home and call him what to his face?

Wrong

A bad writer

Morally bankrupt

A bedbug

What was the hashtag with which New York influencer – and alleged scammer – Caroline Calloway regaled Instagram with stories of her life (and alleged scams)?

#adventuregrams

#nofilter

#instascam

#calloways

What filter did a Pakistani official accidentally apply to his face during an official briefing streamed via Facebook?

Plastic surgery-style beautifying filter

Cat ears

A lolling dog tongue

Hearts-for-eyes

Why did millions of people say on Facebook they would storm the Area 51 military base?

They wanted to see them aliens

They were directed there by a cryptic clue on an Aphex Twin album cover

They were protesting government surveillance

They were looking for marijuana, with “Area 51” slang for cannabis

Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road became a viral hit on TikTok as the soundtrack to users drinking “yee yee juice”. Per the meme, what does drinking said juice do?

Transforms you into a cowboy

Perfects your lassoo aim

Gives you the voice of Billy Ray Cyrus

Puts the horses in the back

“OK boomer” entered the cultural lexicon as Generation Z’s devastating dismissal of older people on the internet. Which of the below is not true of the online riposte?

It was deployed by a millennial MP during a speech about climate change

Fox filed a trademark application to use it as the premise and title of a TV show

“OK boomer” merchandise, including phone cases and sweatshirts, was sold online

Athletics brand Puma launched a line of trainers with the slogan “OK Puma”

“LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH!” tweeted President Trump. What was the photograph of?

Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger

Trump meeting with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, holding printed-out tweets

Potus – photoshopped to have more hair – with his wife, Melania

Barack Obama travelling by private jet while campaigning for environmental awareness

What did the Bird Box challenge you to do?

Catch a pigeon in a box

Attempt challenging tasks while blindfolded

Compete to hold each other’s eyes open for longest

Harass people eating chips by flapping your arms like wings

The “Momo challenge” sparked a moral panic that children were being driven to harm themselves online, but was quickly proved a hoax. What was the unsettling Momo image actually of?

A still from an upcoming horror film

A Photoshopped image of a little girl

A sculpture by a Japanese artist

A character from the “creepypasta” internet subculture

What moment of Meryl Streep’s star turn in the second season of Big Little Lies was made into a meme?

Her awkwardly handling an iPad

Her sinister stare across the dancefloor at a party

Her screaming at the kitchen table

Her withering putdown of Reese Witherspoon’s character, Madeleine

Andy King, event producer of the Fyre festival, was the unexpected highlight of Netflix’s documentary – and hailed a hero by the internet. What was he prepared to do to save the disastrous event?

Trade sexual favours to release drinking water seized by customs

Give stranded influencers his MediVac tent and sleep outside himself

Bail out founding fraudster Billy McFarland with his son’s college fund

Take over the entire catering operation himself with 50kg of beef mince

5 and above.

Middling. We assume you have a rich and fulfilling offline life. You do, right?

8 and above.

Pretty good – you can be proud of yourself … if you think spending so much time online is something to be proud of

12 and above.

You need to get outside more – that level of internet knowledge is unhealthy

0 and above.

Did you actually go online this year? How did you even find this quiz?

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