Earlier this year, a deep-fried image of the Let's PlayerMarkiplierphotoshopped onto the face of Lord Farquaad from Shrek captioned "E" appeared online. It was a perfect cocktail of surreal shitpost signifiers, combining YouTube culture, Shrek, gross filters, and the ultimate nonsensical text. In April, it spread like a mind virus infecting the meme subreddits, and eventually the meme reached its zenith when PewDiePie reviewed it (using many images culled from the KnowYourMeme gallery, thank you Felix).
Here are some of the staff's favorite examples of this brain-melting meme.
