Throwback Thursday: Because Your Mother Loves X Memes

These memes first saw popularity on Twitter as early as 2011, but only really blossomed into its current stock photo glory in September 2016. They started out pretty innocuously, utilizing the joke to make fun of universal subjects like musical tastes. Since then, the memes have become more "meta," tackling subjects like net neutrality and political theory. We've rounded up some of the best examples from the past year.