The 25 Funniest Memes of January 2013

The Mayans were wrong, and the world as we know it continues to turn. On New Years we all rejoiced, because we knew we had three things to look forward to on the Internet in 2013: memes, memes, and more memes.

The Internet heard our cheers, so thank you #BASEDGOD! To sum up the month, we bring you this collection of The 25 Funniest Memes of January 2013.

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What better way to ring in the New Year than with memes that poke fun at our doomed resolutions and bad choices?

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This meme is an updated blend of Scumbag Congress and the Fiscal Cliff memes we saw last year. We avoided the cliff; that's a good thing right? No one really knows what the Fiscal Cliff was, but we do know that wordplay involving fictional characters from television as social commentary is funny.

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Sometimes there is no explaining why things spread on Reddit, or why pretty girls would want to make ugly faces and share them. This is one of those instances.

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News broke that J.J. Abrams will be directing Star Wars VII, and the Internet seemed to share one universal expectation: lots of lens flare.

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Even one of the highest regarded musicals of all time and its recent movie iteration aren't safe from the Internet's jokes.

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Beef in Ireland and Great Britain tested positive for horse DNA this month. Do you know what that means? We don't either.

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What photogenic meme do you think will be next? Cast your votes for no prize at all.

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RG III tore his ACL and LCL during a game against the Seahawks and needed total knee reconstructive surgery to repair it. He instantly became the Manny Pacquiao of the NFL.

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The first official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge (painted by Paul Emsley) was unveiled to mixed reviews and lots of meme parodies.

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This Tumblr came out of left field (the best memes do) and caught the attention of both Julia and Conan O'Brien.

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This meme had the misfortune of debuting at the end of the year, so it was largely overlooked...until now. Old Money Dog definitely deserves some shine for being hilarious into January.

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We've seen Secretary of State Hillary Clinton angry before, but rarely has she let loose like she did recently on Senator Ron Johnson when he asked what caused the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi. This meme is just getting started and we expect a lot more anger and lols in the future.

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The virus hit the country hard this season, and people are still struggling to find shots that may or may not work. Why is that funny? The Internet has a weird sense of humor.

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Let's face it, animals are only here for our entertainment. Place them into anthropormorphic scenes and let hilarity ensue.

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Bey stole the show at the 2013 Inauguration, even though she was lip-synching. Boss.

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The Lakers started 2013 with a thud. When you break a six game losing streak with two wins then lose four in a row, fans are bound to be frustrated. Team leader Mr. Bryant was probably also not pleased. This meme was bound to make a comeback, and if the Lakers don't turn it around soon, we'll be seeing more of it in the months to come.

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Actor Tommy Lee Jones was not impressed during the 2013 Golden Globes and his resemblance to "Grumpy Cat" was uncanny.

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Bill never disappoints. During the 2013 Presidential Inauguration for Barack Obama's second term, the ex-President was seen checking out Kelly Clarkson from behind during her performance of "My Country, Tis of Thee." We can't fault him for looking, but it is pretty hilarious that he got caught.

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The fallout for Lance Armstrong has been brutal since he was stripped of his medals and recently confessed to Oprah that he doped for most of his career. The Internet is heartless.

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Bulls point guard, Derrick Rose, was photographed peeking around a corner after a game in Miami. Need we say more?

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Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics and Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks got into an altercation during a game, and apparently Garnett ethered him by saying that his wife, Lala Vasquez, tasted like the popular breakfast cereal. Classic.

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Just when we thought that song had retired, someone decided to "remix" it. They took the lyrics, translated them through 14 different languages, then translated them back to English and had a woman sing the results in a captioned video. Good luck getting this one out of your head.

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Chief Keef was arrested for gun possession and is serving 60 days in a juvenile detention center. #FreeSosa.

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When University of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o told the media that his girlfriend was in a car accident and died after battling leukemia, we all felt terrible...until we found out that she didn't exist. The verdict is still out on whether or not he was in on the hoax, but "too soon" is not in the Internet's vocabulary.

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The pregnancy heard round the universe. Kanye pretty much broke the Internet with his mid-concert announcement that Kim is having his child. Ignoring the "gold-digger" jokes and prayers for the unborn child's mental stability for the time being, the Photoshopped images of the child having Kanye's face and Kim's head are the best thing we have until the ultrasounds "leak."

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