Should we bring a little old Hollywood glamour to the meme list? Should we? Should we pretend like it’s the opening credits of a movie from the 1940s and we’re about to introduce the new ingenue? Do y’all mind if we do that? Cool.

These memes came to the internet with a dream. They packed their bags and said goodbye to their old, small-town lives. They shoved everything they owned inside of a trunk and shipped out to the wild wild west of the internet with nothing in their wallets but a dream. They took whatever jobs they could, in Reddit forums and Instagram pages, trying to make ends meet. The whole time though, they dreamed of stardom. And what does stardom mean for a meme? A coveted spot in a Memebase meme list, naturally. So today we’re proud to help the dreams of these scrappy memes come true. And you’re part of that journey.