Conor McGregor may be the underdog going into his August 26 fight against Floyd Mayweather, but the Irishman continues to dominate the battle of mind games leading up to the bout.

The latest chapter in the ongoing saga of insults started with an Instagram post from Draymond Green. The Golden State Warrior thought he had found a picture of McGregor wearing his jersey and used the 'Gram to inform McGregor he was backing Mayweather in the fight.

"We rocking with Floyd bro not you," Green said in the caption. "Take that off bruh."

McGregor was quick to respond in a comment, correcting Green on whose jersey he was wearing: "That's C.J Watson mate. I don't know who the f--- you are. No disrespect tho kid, keep hustling and stay in school.

"Now ask yourself why I'm rocking C.j. when I don't know or give a f--- about basketball," McGregor said in another comment. "I dribble heads off the floor. Not a ball. This is no game here kid."

While the Watson jersey might seem like a peculiar choice, it's significant in the buildup to the Mayweather-McGregor bout.

Mayweather served two months in prison in 2012 on charges of domestic battery stemming from an incident with his longtime partner, Josie Harris. Harris told USA Today in 2014 that one night she awoke to Mayweather screaming and grabbing her hair after he had read texts between her and Watson, whom she described as her "summer love" in a draft of her book, according to the publication.

McGregor has previously brought up Watson in the lead-up to his fight with Mayweather, although the subtle reference came long before the fight was officially announced in June. This tweet from January shows that McGregor may have had this fight at the forefront of his mind for some time:

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos became the world's richest man for a brief time this week, surpassing Bill Gates.

The tech entrepreneur has changed a lot since he started Amazon in the 90s. 

Bezos wowed Silicon Valley's Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference earlier this month with a surprising physique that was quickly immortalized with memes. His "guns" were the most obvious change, but his shaved head also marked a departure from his previous bookish look.

Bezos also frequently used to wear sweaters over collared shirts — a look that he has now swapped for vests over t-shirts and sunglasses. His slouchy posture is also gone.

Take a look at the original tweet by account @dissruption and all the varitions it spawned below.

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• A meme comparing "young George R.R. Martin" with Jon Snow actor Kit Harington is going viral.
• But that's definitely not a yearbook photo of Martin.
• We know this because Martin has uploaded his real yearbook photos in the past.
• There's no trace of it anywhere except in meme form.
• Martin did look like Harington when he was younger, though.

Everyone loves a good "Game of Thrones" meme, but don't believe everything you see on the internet.

An old side-by-side image of "Game of Thrones" actor Kit Harington next to a supposed photo of "A Song of Ice and Fire" author George R.R. Martin is going viral again. However, we've done the research and it's almost certainly not a real picture of Martin.

BuzzFeed's Global News Director Ryan Broderick tweeted the meme on August 24, quickly racking up more than 28,000 retweets and 70,000 likes.

This meme made the rounds on Reddit and Imgur in July, but it found new life on Twitter after Broderick re-shared it.

When we went looking for the original source, the "yearbook" photo of Martin was nowhere to be found. The only results for the photo were the meme, which is usually captioned to indicate Martin is keeping Jon Snow alive in the books because he looks like him.

Martin's official website contains a autobiographical blog section, including a look back at his high school years. In two school portraits of Martin in his teen years, he's clean-shaven and has short cropped hair. You can see for yourself at the bottom of this web page.

Martin has shared pictures of himself from the '70s, often rocking a shaggy beard and longer curled hair (never blown out like that "yearbook" photo). But yes, he did look similar to Harington when he was younger:

Martin was born in 1948, so the above two photos were taken when he was in his mid-to-late 20s. That is not a time of your life when you're often photographed in yearbook-esque poses. 

Based on the lack of results in Google's reverse-image search, we're guessing the meme was Photoshopped by a fan who realized Martin did look like Harington and just wanted to drive the point home. They certainly share the same curled hair and beard, and even both wear glasses. But that doesn't mean the original meme is real.

So stay vigilant, "Game of Thrones" fans. The internet is dark and full of fake memes.

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Stranger Things" season two.

Partway through "Stranger Things 2," a charming and unexpected moment happens between Hopper (David Harbour) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown). As Hopper and Eleven are cleaning up his cabin and turning it into their new home, Hopper puts on a record and starts dancing. Little did Harbour know, but "Hopper Dancing" would become one of the first big memes of "Stranger Things 2."

"I just had no idea or expectations that the 'dad-dancing' or 'white man Hopper dancing' was going to take off," Harbour told INISDER.

A Twitter account dedicated to "Hopper Dancing To (various songs)" sprung up the day after "Stranger Things 2" premiered on Netflix.

"It was funny, when we shot that scene it was supposed to be a bit more serious than it was," Harbour said. "I remember talking to [Shawn Levy, the episode's director] and they had this other song for it. But I love Jim Croce and I thought Hopper would to."

The song Hopper wound up playing in the scene was Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" from 1972.

"I was so excited to reintroduce the world to Jim Croce because he's one of these guys that never really made it like Bob Dylan or the Beatles or something," Harbour said. "But I really think he's so beautiful as a songwriter and as a performer."

Harbour went into this scene thinking it would be his big chance to help Jim Croce finally blow up with the "Stranger Things" fanbase.

"I thought like, 'I'm going to reintroduce all these kids to Jim Croce and he’s going to really take off," Harbour said. "I expected Jim Croce to take off, I did not expect 'David Harbour's white-man dancing' to take off." 

"But of course, that's the thing that hit instead of the Jim Croce," Harbour said. "So now we're putting him next to Wham! and whatever other songs. But I think that's so hilarious."

One of the best parts of this scene is the way Eleven reacts to Hopper's moves and the song. 

"I mean she's a little alien telekinetic girl, so I don’t know that she's ever seen a grown man in full khakis dancing before," Harbour said. "I imagine that would be very assaulting and confusing. Even if you've been locked in a room playing mind games your whole life, that might be the scariest thing you've ever seen."

Harbour saw the @HopperDancingTo account (which has been claimed by a Twitter user named Liz) almost immediately. He retweeted one of the videos, which caused director Shawn Levy to chime in, too.

"When I saw that stuff online I tweeted out to the people that it really warmed my heart," Harbour said. "It is such a sweet scene and to have it played to all this different music, I loved it."

Worry not, fans. We haven't seen the last of Harbour's moves as Jim Hopper.

"I feel like I need to have some redemption in season three, I want to really show people that I can actually dance,"  Harbour said. "So I'm going pitch the Duffers for a little more dancing in season three."

For more insights from Harbour, read our interview with him about the heartbreaking meaning behind Hopper's blue bracelet he wears on "Stranger Things."

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• Barack Obama's friendship with Joe Biden has been the subject of countless memes, and the former president finally decided to get in on the action himself. 
• Obama created his very own meme in honor of Joe Biden's 75th birthday, and twitter was loving it. 
• Biden recently admitted to being a fan of their friendship memes, making Obama's personalized tweet that much more special. 

Former President Barack Obama’s friendship with his trusted VP, Joe Biden, is famously meme-worthy. There are countless tweets and Instagram posts about their bond, and now Obama himself is getting in on the meme action with the birthday wish he just sent to Biden.

In honor of the former VP’s 75th birthday, Obama posted a picture of the duo doing their political thing together. In the foreground, the 44th US president can be seen giving an address at a podium, while in the background, Biden is grinning cheekily and pointing at someone in the audience. It’s undoubtedly prime for meme-ing.

Obama used the image to send a celebratory message, tweeting:

“ME:  Joe, about halfway through the speech, I’m gonna wish you a happy birth–

BIDEN:  IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!

ME:  Joe.”

He then added, “Happy birthday to @JoeBiden, my brother and the best vice president anybody could have.”

Obama’s followers loved both the sentiment and the silliness of the message. “Obama/Biden the best combination in history!” one tweeted in response, while another wrote, “http://best.meme.ever 😂😂”

Biden himself acknowledged the prevalence of memes about his friendship with Obama in an interview with NBC News earlier this month, saying the sentiment they convey is “in essence…all true.”

“A couple of ones I liked were ones where I was trying on Ray Bans and he’s lying on the couch and I turn around and I said, ‘Which ones do you like?’ And he looks at me and says, ‘Joe, Joe, come on, focus here,'” the former veep told NBC.

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• Eminem just released a new album, "Revival," and he's celebrating with a pop-up shop called "Mom's Spaghetti"
• The store will sell spaghetti, meatballs, and merchandise.
• It's a riff on the "Mom's Spaghetti" meme started by Eminem's 2002 song "Lose Yourself."
• Fans are loving the dad-joke level reference Eminem has chosen with this pop up.

Eminem has entered the meme cycle, ladies and gentlemen.

In celebration of his new album "Revival," the rapper is opening a pop-up store in Detroit called "Mom's Spaghetti"— a reference to the meme created after his 2002 song "Lose Yourself" opened with a description of regurgitating (you guessed it) "mom's spaghetti" onto himself:

"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti"

Originating on 4chan and moving to the likes of Tumblr, Reddit, and Twitter, people began circulating memes about the "mom's spaghetti" line around 2010.

One notable example is a Tumblr post which had an MS Paint style spaghetti drawn onto Eminem's arms and the caption reworking the song's lyrics. 

The creator replaced the last word in every line with "spaghetti":

"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms spaghetti
There’s vomit on his spaghetti already, mom’s spaghetti
He’s spaghetti, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop spaghetti
But he keeps on forgetting what he spaghetti"

Now Eminem is leaning into the meme with the "Mom's Spaghetti" pop up he announced on Twitter.

The store will sell "Revival" merchandise along with "Mom's Spaghetti" and a "S'ghetti Sandwich." The three-day pop up can be found at Detroit venue The Shelter (below Saint Andrews Hall).

Some fans were delighted by Eminem's choice to own the meme in such a literal manner.

Meme-expert Anthony Fantano, a popular music critic YouTuber, also weighed in:

For lucky Eminem fans who can make it to Detroit this weekend, the "Mom's Spaghetti" meme will come to life. You can stream Eminem's new album "Revival" on Spotify and Apple Music now. Or just go re-listen to "Lose Yourself."

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• On Saturday, Madison Napoli shared a funny video of her parents on Twitter.
• In the clip, Madison's dad, Joe, reacts with disappointment and dismay when his wife, Marie, suggests buying an artificial tree for Christmas this year.
• People on social media have turned his dramatic reaction into a hilarious, and relatable, new meme.
• Luckily, the Napoli family ended up getting a real Christmas tree.
• "[My parents] are both very playful and silly with one another, so it was all in good fun," Madison told INSIDER.

A dad in Ontario, California, has blessed the internet with one of 2017's last memes.

On Saturday, Madison Napoli shared a video of her parents on Twitter. "My mom suggested to my dad that they get an artificial tree this year, and he wasn't too thrilled," she tweeted.

Madison, 21, told INSIDER that her family gets a real tree every year, so she knew her mom, Marie, was joking. "She's super funny and jokes around like that all the time with him," Madison said. So when she noticed her mom was "getting under [her] dad's skin a little bit," Madison started filming because she "wanted to see his reaction."

The short clip starts with Madison's dad, Joe, asking Marie, "Do you know [artificial trees] are bad for the environment?" He adds, shouting, "The whole thing is freaking plastic!" Meanwhile, Marie can be seen laughing, clearly joking, in the background.

But the highlight of the video comes when Marie suggests getting a "Glade candle that smells like the tree." Joe, of course, reacts with a mixture of utter dismay, disbelief, and shock as he processes what he just heard. After a few seconds of silence, he lets out a heavy sigh.

"I don't know what's happened to you, and I know I can't solve it, so I'm just going to let it go," Joe says to Marie before walking out of the room.

Madison's video quickly went viral, racking up over four million views and 220,000 likes since Saturday. And it wasn't long before people turned Joe's dramatic reaction into a hilarious, and surprisingly relatable, meme.

A Twitter user named Devinkfitz posted four screenshots of Joe's appalled reaction, along with the caption, "Me looking at 2017 and leaving for 2018."

Twitter user apocalypticmoon commented, "The way he scoffs and then takes a deep exhale and walks away is literally my life story."

One Twitter user named dngerousprince even made a GIF of the exact moment Joe let out a heavy sigh and walked away from Marie in disbelief.

And while some people pointed out that there is a small tree in the background of the video, Madison explained on Twitter that it's there for a "family tradition." 

Madison, who posted the video on Twitter to make her friends and family laugh, told INSIDER she had no idea it would go viral. "The blow-up was super unexpected," she said. "[My parents] think it's super cool that they went viral, and they keep asking me for updates on the view count."

Luckily, the Napoli family ended up getting a real Christmas tree like they do every year, Madison told INSIDER. She continued: "I think [Joe] knew my mom was joking... His reaction was totally genuine though, he is absolutely against fake trees. They are both very playful and silly with one another so it was all in good fun."

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Since Danielle Bregoli took the internet by storm in January, it was clear that 2017 would be a strong year for memes and meme appreciators. From Salt Bae to Covfefe, here are the 9 best memes of 2017.

1. Salt Bae

2. White Guy Blinking

3. Snapchat Hot Dog

4. SpongeBob Mocking

5. Cash Me Ousside

6. Distracted Boyfriend

7. Roll Safe Meme

8. Covfefe

9. Nothing But Respect For My President

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• Emo Kylo Ren is a perfect parody of the popular "Star Wars" character.
• The Twitter account (@kyloR3n) has been around since December 2015, but no one knew who ran the account.
• Washington Post writer Alexandra Petri is behind the popular Twitter account.

If you're a fan of a galaxy far, far away and are actively on Twitter, you probably follow the Emo Kylo Ren parody account @kyloR3n. But you probably didn't know who runs the account, until now.

The face behind the account isn't a man. It's Washington Post writer Alexandra Petri (@petridishes).

The account, which launched December 21, 2015, following the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" premiere, perfectly imagines what Ben Solo/Kylo Ren was like growing up. Sometimes he writes Dear Diary entries to his beloved grandpa and other times he's talking about his budding friendship with General Hux.

Other times, he's just being an angsty teen.

Petri told SyFy Wire she created the parody account after she didn't see anyone else creating something similar.

"I left the theater after 'Force Awakens' thinking, 'This guy is clearly ridiculous,'" Petri said. "I waited a while and [the internet] still wasn't full of jokes about how ridiculous Kylo Ren was, and that was the only content I wanted to consume. So, finally, I was like, 'I need to be the change I want to see in the world.' So I started the account. Because I just had so many jokes about this guy."

The parody account resurfaced in December after the release of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi." 

The film's shirtless Kylo scene and his Force conversations with Rey have served as fodder for Petri's growing list of Twitter material.

"There have been some changes," said Petri. "He's been working out. He made a friend on 'ForceTime' or Skype or whatever the term is people have decided to use for it. He's undergone stuff. He almost made a good choice. He's been growing and changing and now he's in a new phase. So I feel like there's this new side of him to explore because before it was like a whiny teenager who doesn't understand anything."

@KyloR3n currently has over 915,000 followers on Twitter. You can follow along with the account here.

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• Beyoncé and Jay-Z looked stunning as they headed to a pre-Grammy party on Saturday.
• In one photo Beyoncé shared on Instagram, a woman looks dumbstruck as they pass by.
• The picture has gone viral, mostly because people find her expression highly relatable.
• See the epic shot below (along with other flawless photos of Beyoncé and Jay-Z).

Beyoncé and Jay-Z kicked off the 2018 Grammys early when they celebrated at music producer Clive Davis's pre-award show party on Saturday night. When Beyoncé shared a series of photos from the night on Instagram, there was an instantly meme-able shot spotted by fans.

The picture shows Beyoncé and Jay-Z holding hands and walking through a hallway — and a woman nearby is staring in shock at the couple with her eyes wide, mouth agape, and looking generally speechless.

The photo was part of an Instagram album Beyoncé shared. You can swipe through the album below:

Virtually everyone found the image of the unnamed woman highly relatable. From reporters to media outlets and regular fans, everyone was tweeting and re-sharing the picture with a similar message: "Same."

Both Beyoncé and Jay-Z were noticeably absent from the Grammys red carpet on Sunday night, but these photos from their glamorous Saturday evening are more than making up for it. 

Jay-Z is the most-nominated artist of the night, with a total of eight Grammy nominations. Beyoncé appears on one of his nominated singles, "Family Feud," which lost the award for best rap/sung performance to Kendrick Lamar's "Loyalty" (featuring Rihanna).

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• "Black Panther" has been in theaters for two full weeks. 
• The Marvel movie has been a smash success.
• The M'Baku challenge is picking up internet steam.
• The challenge consists of fans reenacting M'Baku's speech on Challenge Day. 
• These fans are nailing it. 

"Black Panther" fans are dominating the internet with a new meme.

Fans are sharing videos of themselves completing the M'Baku challenge. It consists of them reenacting the Jabari leader's speech on Challenge Day when he confronts T'Challa over his role as Black Panther and king of Wakanda. 

Though the movie has only been in theaters for two weeks, the challengers have the speech memorized, and their impersonations are impressive. 

They are hilariously spot-on.

Actor Winston Duke, who plays M'Baku, weighed in on the videos.

"The #Mbakuchallenge is killing me!! Keep them coming-O!!!" he tweeted.

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• Jennifer Garner's hilarious mid-clap pause during the 2018 Oscars instantly turned into a meme, and Twitter users offered explanations as to what caused the actress to look so deep in thought.
• Garner took to Instagram to joke about the viral moment and provide her own reasons for the unexpected pause. 
• Her commentary made references to Oscar winner "The Shape of Water," her partnership with Capital One, and her upcoming starring role in a HBO comedy developed by Lena Dunham.  

At the 2018 Oscars, Jennifer Garner's hilarious mid-clap pause went viral as Twitter users tried to explain what caused the moment. Now, the actress is responding and offering a few explanations of her own.

Taking to her Instagram story, Garner posted a few videos showing the Oscars moment and jokingly suggesting what she might have been thinking about when she stopped clapping and paused for a moment, appearing deep in thought.

In the first video, Garner joked about her love life.

"Congrats to 'Shape of Water,'" she said as the video from the Oscars started playing. "Maybe I should date a fish?"

In another video, the actress referenced her partnership with Captial One and their famous tagline. 

"Hey Jimmy Kimmel, what's in your wallet?" Garner said. "Wait, where's my wallet?"

In her final explanation, Garner suggested that perhaps she was thinking about her recently announced role in an HBO comedy titled "Camping," which was developed by "Girls" star Lena Dunham. 

"Can't wait to work with Lena Dunham! Wait, did I sign a nudity waiver?"

At the Oscars, which took place on Sunday in Los Angeles, California, the cameras caught Garner clapping after Common and Andra Day performed "Stand Up for Something." The moment that sparked memes was when Garner was seen abruptly stopping mid-clap and appearing confused. 

 Twitter was quick to generate memes based on the viral moment. But luckily, Garner didn't seem to mind or be offended.

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• Jennifer Garner talked with Ellen DeGeneres about her viral meme moment from the 2018 Oscars on "The Ellen Show" Friday.
• The hilarious shot showed Garner, 45, looking confused while clapping.
• Garner told DeGeneres that she can't watch the clip because it is "too embarrassing." 
• "I have no control over this. What am I doing?" she asked herself. "I don't know. What is wrong with me?"
• The actress had a hilarious initial response when she posted some fake voice-overs on her Instagram describing her thoughts. 
• Watch the interview below.

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• The Tired Spongebob meme is for people who are exhausted with life's small tasks.
• It's going viral on Twitter for its extreme relatability.
• The image comes from "Nature Pants," the same episode the Evil Patrick meme is from.

There's a new Spongebob meme on the internet, and it's perfect for everyone who's exhausted after doing a simple task.

It's called Tired Spongebob, and it shows Mr. Squarepants in the nude, leaning against a coral wall, and out of breath.

The image comes from "Nature Pants," an episode on the first season, where Spongebob gives up the luxuries and headaches of modernity and goes off into nature to live with the jellyfish, naming himself "Jellybob."

It's the same episode that the Evil Patrick meme comes from. In the scene from the meme, Patrick is upset that Spongebob abandoned him and tries to capture him, as if Spongebob were an actual jellyfish. Spongebob just avoided capture for a moment and was catching his breath.

In its meme context, Tired Spongebob is used to demonstrate being worn out after accomplishing one simple task. It always starts with the phrase "me after." According to The Daily Dot, a Philadelphia DJ was the first person to use it on Twitter.

From there, it was everywhere.

It's the third meme from Nickelodeon's "Spongebob Squarepants" to go viral this year, following Evil Patrick and the Chum Bucket vs. Krusty Krab meme. Spongebob memes aren't going away any time soon.

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• Fleetwood Mac is back on the Billboard charts after a meme went viral.
• A video with over 160,000 retweets showed a group of cheerleaders dancing to an overlay of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" from the iconic 1977 album "Rumors."
• The video was posted on Twitter by user @BottledFleet on March 22.
• Twitter is showing that the video has been viewed over six million times. 
• According to Billboard, "Dreams" is now No. 14 on the Hot Rock Songs chart.
• The meme is credited with launching the song back into the spotlight.

The Fleetwood Mac renaissance continues this week as the 1977 song "Dreams" re-enters Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart. According to a report from Billboard, the resurgence of popularity is being credited to a meme posted on March 22 by Twitter user @BottledFleet.

The Twitter video was captioned with a popular meme format in which the poster sardonically calls themself an intellectual for having superior taste:

"'Fleetwood Mac's music is so boring, you can't even dance to it'

Me, an intellectual:"

"BottledFleet" then put the song "Dreams" over previously memed footage of what appears to be a college dance team performing on the track field.

The tweet has racked up over 160,000 retweets, and Twitter indicates the video has been watched 6.2 million times.

"The widespread sharing of the tweet [...] and other similar tweets referencing the meme helped spark the song's 36 percent surge in download sales in the latest tracking week [...] to 2,000," Billboard reported. "Additionally, the song racked up 1.9 million on-demand streams, a 24 percent gain."

Fleetwood Mac's iconic "Rumors" album was brought back into the streaming spotlight last year when Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" used the song "Chains" during the climactic battle sequence. 

Clearly this is one classic rock album that won't be forgotten in pop culture any time soon.

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• A performance by The Golden Girls dance troupe at Alcorn State University was recently transformed into a meme in a viral tweet about Fleetwood Mac.
• The Washington Post spoke with The Golden Girls' captain, Elexis Wilson, who's featured most prominently in the memed section (the original video is 20 minutes).
• Wilson said the meme didn't bother her: "You know how the internet is."
• Watch the original video below.

People online have been buzzing about college dance troupes, Fleetwood Mac, and the standard meme cycle that follows a viral tweet.

Since Fleetwood Mac's 1977 song "Dreams" recently wound up on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart following a popular tweet, we've been learning more about the new meme's backstory.

The Washington Post reports that the tweet in question used footage from a Mississippi college dance team called The Golden Girls.

The Golden Girls performed with the marching band at Alcorn State University in September, and the YouTube account Killa Kev Productions posted a video of the 20-minute routine. It was later uploaded to an Instagram fan page for The Golden Girls, then it made its way to Twitter.

The Post spoke with the dance team's captain, Elexis Wilson, who's featured most prominently in the meme. Wilson says she was shocked by the attention given to the video.

"People have been emailing me and just telling me, 'Did you know your video got 7 million likes?'" Wilson told The Post.

You can watch the full-resolution video below (the memed section begins at 14:25):

Wilson also told The Post that the meme didn't bother her.

"You know how the internet is," she said.

The Fleetwood Mac tweet isn't the only time The Golden Girls' routine has been set to a different piece of music. After "the Walmart yodel kid," aka Mason Ramsey, went viral, someone overlaid his singing with the dance team's performance — though that syncing doesn't work nearly as seamlessly as with "Dreams."

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• Prince Harry became a viral meme after footage of him running away in the middle of a 2013 ABC interview in Afghanistan re-surfaced. 
• Twitter users were quick to relate his abrupt departure to the average person's reaction to hearing their favorite song come on in the club. 
• People have related the footage to hearing everything from Beyoncé to the ice cream truck song. 

Prince Harry just checked a peculiar item off his bucket list and it’s truly one for the (internet) ages. 

The prince, who served in the army for ten years, became a viral meme when footage of him making an abrupt departure in the middle of a 2013 ABC interview in Afghanistan re-surfaced. Twitter users noticed that his instant response to the call of duty kinda resembled the average person’s reaction to hearing their jam come on in the club. See for yourself: 

Having trouble envisioning it? Let’s add a little music. 

“Gasolina” is great and all, but it wouldn’t quite make us react the same as this next one…

Who can resist the allure of Beyoncé, amirite? Or this nostalgic melody.

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• Mason Ramsey went viral two weeks ago for yodeling "Lovesick Blues" at a Walmart.
• Now, the 1949 version of the song by Hank Williams charted on Spotify.
• There was a similar situation last week, when Fleetwood Mac's 1977 song "Dreams" hit the charts after a video with it went viral.
• The meme has taken a life of its own.

Nearly a century after it was first published, in 1922, "Lovesick Blues" is headed to the top of the charts.

The 1949 recording of the song by Hank Williams— which made the singer famous — now has a place on Spotify's Global Viral 50 chart, currently at No. 22.

It reached its height at the No. 4 spot, according to The Washington Post. The song was first published in 1922 by Cliff Friend and Irving Mills, the composers who also wrote the theme music for "Looney Tunes" cartoons, according to the Library of Congress.

The song's newfound popularity can be credited to an 11-year-old-boy named Mason Ramsey. He went viral two weeks ago when he yodeled "Lovesick Blues" at a Walmart in Illinois. 

It's a similar phenomenon to what happened earlier in April, when the 1977 Fleetwood Mac song "Dreams" charted on Billboard after a tweet featuring the song went viral.

The yodeling meme has taken a life of its own.

There have been remixes of Ramsey's yodeling, which have themselves enjoyed virality.

And people have gone to Walmart to yodel themselves.

Ramsey's performance also landed him a spot Tuesday on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on NBC. DeGeneres announced that Ramsey would perform Saturday at The Grand Old Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, the same venue where Williams played the song in the performance that launched him to fame.

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• On Saturday, a Twitter user named Ida (@YoRHaw) unearthed an illustration from a July 1921 issue of "Judge," a now-defunct satirical magazine that was published weekly in the US from 1881 to 1947.
• In this copy of "Judge," the comic is credited to the "Wisconsin Octopus," which was published at the University of Wisconsin between 1919 and 1959.
• This "flashlight" joke is remarkably similar to a current meme that juxtaposes what you think you look like with what you actually look like.
• Earlier issues of the "Wisconsin Octopus," published in either 1919 or 1920, include jokes printed in the same "Expectations vs. Reality" format.
• Although the "flashlight" comic was not the first to joke about our expectations falling short, it does indeed fit the modern definition of a meme.

People online are freaking out over an almost century-old comic strip that's still somehow extremely relatable.

A Twitter user recently shared a comic from a satirical magazine published in 1921.

On Saturday, a Twitter user named Ida (@YoRHaw) unearthed an illustration from a July 1921 issue of "Judge," a now-defunct satirical magazine that was published weekly in the US from 1881 to 1947. In this copy of "Judge," which you can see in full here thanks to the University of Iowa, the drawing is credited to the "Wisconsin Octopus," which was published at the University of Wisconsin between 1919 and 1959.

Like many popular memes today, the comic strip shows a side-by-side image of two people. The drawing on the left shows a polished-looking man with luscious lashes and a glossy lip. His portrait is captioned: "How you think you look when a flashlight is taken." The drawing on the right shows a distorted, cartoonish version of the same man along with the caption: "How you really look."

The joke might sound stilted at first, thanks to some archaic language.

In this case, the word "flashlight" refers not to a portable electric light but rather to an early form of flash photography. At the time this comic strip appeared in the "Wisconsin Octopus" and "Judge," photographers would ignite rapidly-burning flash powders or magnesium ribbons to produce bright bursts of artificial light. Flashbulbs were not commercially produced until the late 1920s, and electronic flash was not widely used until the late 1950s.

Language aside, the format of this comic strip seems surprisingly contemporary. As people on Twitter quickly pointed out, this "flashlight" joke is remarkably similar to a current meme that juxtaposes what you think you look like with what you actually look like. Today, the comic strip's captions would probably read something like: "What you think you look like when you take a selfie" versus "what you really look like."

On Twitter, some wondered if this image from "The Judge" could be considered the "first meme."

But, according to the BBC, earlier issues of the "Wisconsin Octopus," published in either 1919 or 1920, include jokes printed in the same "Expectations vs. Reality" format. In one very dated example, a comic strip shows the difference between what a woman looks like when your roommate describes her ("beautiful") and what she actually looks like (not so "beautiful").

While the "flashlight" comic was not the first to joke about our expectations falling short, it fits the modern definition of what a meme is.

As the BBC noted, the Oxford Living Dictionary defines memes as "images, videos, or text that are copied and spread by internet users, often with slight variations." This ability to be widely shared, understood, and applied to various situations — that's almost always what makes a meme take off.

Take, for example, what Twitter users have already done with the "flashlight" comic. Some have turned the 97-year-old image into a recent meme that plays on the old adage, "If you can't accept me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best."

Other variations on the "flashlight" comic invoke the "You vs. The Guy She Told You Not to Worry About" meme.

It's not clear whether this comic strip can be considered one of the first recorded memes in US history, but what makes it resonate — the often comical difference between our expectations and reality — will likely remain timeless. And isn't it comforting to know that even a century ago, enough people sometimes felt insecure about their appearance that they could publicly joke about it and trust that others would relate? Because same.

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• There's a new Twitter meme that lets you build a perfect man.
• Your budget is limited and you may not get what you want.

If you've ever wanted to give up on your dreams of finding the perfect person, you're not alone.

There's a new meme on Twitter where people offer the option of building the perfect man instead.

It's like a Build-a-Bear workshop, where you have a budget and can add up features to get a complete person.

The only problem is, parts are expensive and you're not provided with much cash. So your options are limited.

Yeah. You might get stuck with Stuart Little.

Or you might get stuck with some other pop culture character.

Or you might be stuck with someone else who's just terrible.

Good luck!

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