Now That We’ve Hit Peak Meme, Let’s Take A Deep Dive Into Meme Culture

It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time

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After the dancing baby, basically, any dancing gif became an internet meme. The hamster dance was a gif of animated hamsters dancing to “Whistle Stop” from Disney’s Robin Hood.

There was also the “peanut butter jelly time” dancing banana. For those of you too young to remember the dancing banana, when Bryan from Family Guy dances in a banana suit he’s recreating this original meme. This was the early days of what people found funny on the web. The ability to share a moving image or GIF to any platform was a way of sharing humor never seen before.

These next memes are dead and gone, except in the awkward company-wide emails your boss sends.