The Best Animal Memes of the Week (August 3, 2024)

Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor

Aug 3, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

I believe that animal memes will be around forever. Even if memes aren't around forever, animal memes will be the last ones alive before they go extinct. Animals were the center of some of the first memes to break through (Nyan Cat couldn't have done it as a pop tart alone), and I don't doubt that they'll be the last kind of meme to exist before whatever generation after Gen Alpha deems them obsolete. It's so easy to project human emotions onto animals, and it's even fun! It's way less harmless than projecting emotions onto a real person who has knowable feelings of their own and wouldn't like being misrepresented by duplicitous memes. Doge didn't know he was famous, and that's the most ethical kind of fame there is; at least, that's what I keep telling myself. If you like animals and the memes they're in, these animal memes will rock your world.