This is dated 2017, so must have been through a few phone-to-phone days transfers to be on my current one.

But in my main store of files that’s synced across machines, I have this from 1999

Memes were still finding their feet back then.

Dated to 2018

I downloaded this from Reddit on 6/22/12:

This one occasionally comes in handy:

I’m a feminist but I still can take a good joke. Had this for at least 8 years. Put it on my new phones and send it to new friends when I get them

Google photos has a date tag attached to this of 9/10/2008

A whole lot of stuff has traveled with me through the years swapping SD cards from one phone to another, and eventually things getting backed up to the cloud, etc. this is probably the oldest thing I have saved that can count as a meme. I don’t know if that date is when I actually first found it, when it first somehow got backed up, if maybe that’s just from some metadata left over from whoever made the meme originally, or something else entirely

But that date does generally feel about right, and the humor feels about right for high school-aged me.

Specially good for when people comes up with serious BS

i make memes and drop them into the void, no save button

2015

This, apparently:

And this is the second oldest: