I stumbled on some wild meme history.
“Manul Cat” started going viral around 2014–2015, mainly on Twitter and Tumblr.
The posts were simple:
just photos of a Pallas’s cat.
Big round eyes.
Flat face.
Angry expression.
the Squidward cult
https://t.co/mpPE5IU0QU
The “Squidward Cult” is one of those classic 4chan-style surreal fandom jokes where a totally normal character—in this case Squidward from SpongeBob—gets turned into something mysterious, ominous, or pseudo-religious for no reason other than comedy.
The meme usually features Squidward dressed in dark robes, standing in front of Kingdom Hearts–style Organization XIII members, or surrounded by hooded figures like he's some kind of eldritch prophet. Anons treat it like a spooky but weirdly wholesome cult, where Squidward is the central figure of worship.
bals dog
Bals Dog is one of those beautifully stupid / wholesome 4chan micro-memes that somehow stick around forever.
He’s basically just a heavily edited Doge image with fat pink cheeks, staring into your soul and saying exactly one word:
bals.
That’s it.
That’s the whole character.
The magic is that the thread becomes a chain of people replying “bals,” “he bals,” “nice dubs bals,” or making progressively cursed edits of him. Sometimes he appears with different textures (ballsacks, chicken skin, etc.), but the energy stays the same: low-effort, soft chaos.
The charm is in how committed everyone is to keeping the bit going. No matter the context, no matter the image:
he bals
bals dog page 11
check my doubles!!! bals!!!
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It’s pure, classic 4chan nonsense — a character with literally no lore, no joke structure, no purpose… and yet somehow, he endures.
Because sometimes all a thread needs to thrive is a round pink dog saying:
bals.
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Beeg yoshi
Beeg Yoshi is a simple, wholesome meme that comes from an oversized, low-poly Yoshi model. It originated from Mario Party on the Nintendo 64, where a stretched, chunky version of Yoshi appears in certain minigame assets. Because of the N64’s limited graphics, the model looks big, soft, and a little goofy, perfect meme material.
On 4chan, people started posting him with the caption “beeg yoshi”, intentionally misspelling “big.” That style of baby-talk spelling is part of the humor: it makes him feel even more gentle and harmless.
https://t.co/XDOaoxNcrL
Check the dubs
Check the Dubs Girl — often called Dubs-chan or just Check the Dubs — is a classic /s4s/ character born entirely from the board’s obsession with repeating post numbers. She basically embodies the whole “check the dubs” culture, where anons celebrate trips, dubs, quads, and any repeating digits like it’s a cosmic miracle.
Her design is intentionally goofy and rough, which is exactly why she stuck. She looks like a chaotic crayon drawing with energy levels permanently set to 200%, popping into threads only to scream:
“CHECK THE DUBS!”
“NICE TRIPS ANON!”
“QUADS??? OMG!!!”
That’s the entire joke — she doesn’t need lore, motives, or world-building. She exists purely to point at numbers and get unreasonably excited about them.
https://t.co/lefssuInw0
Now we add a star on froge's belly. It's much bigger than the one on froge's head.
Update time! Show me your froge!
And Username, redo your froge. Srsly.
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Smugzonk is a niche 4chan-style doodle character that blends two classic internet archetypes:
The Wojak lineage — simple, emotionally expressive faces
The “smug” meme aesthetic — usually showing a character with a self-satisfied, almost mocking confidence
Smugzonk is basically “Zonk” drawn with a smug, self-assured attitude, often used in threads where someone wants to respond with playful superiority, sarcasm, or a “I already knew that” vibe.
RER is one of those weird little /s4s/ inventions that feels like it crawled straight out of a corrupted MSPaint file. It started as a crude, stretched, almost melted-looking face drawing — basically a bootleg trollface that went through a washing machine cycle too many times.
People on the board started calling it "RER", mostly because that’s literally all the OP posted. No context. No meaning. Just “rer.”
From there it evolved into a kind of anti-meme trollface. Instead of being used to mock or troll others, RER became a symbol of absurdity — the kind of thing you post when words fail you and you want to contribute absolutely nothing to the discussion.
https://t.co/6LRuHhuCie
trucke
Trucke (also spelled truke / troke) is one of those classic /s4s/ style image-spam memes that started from a single post of a white van with the word “trucke” under it.
The joke comes from how confidently wrong the spelling is, it’s not even a truck, it’s a van — but everyone just goes along with it and starts posting more vans while proudly calling them “trucks.”
From there, the thread becomes a ritual:
someone posts a van → someone replies “nice trips” or “good truke” → more people post different vans → the word “trucke/truke/troke” mutates every few replies.
It’s basically a collaborative nonsense meme, where the misspelling is the entire joke, and the fun comes from how seriously everyone pretends to treat it.
https://t.co/1NMaQvpka7