Holy smokes, Internet, you treated us to a bucket of laughs this year. High-profile events like the Summer Olympics and U.S. presidential election provided an abundance of meme-able moments. But not every highly shareable piece of web culture debuted on a big stage.
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Curators like Reddit surfaced the Internet’s hidden gems, and Tumblr shined the spotlight on bits of hilarity that may have gone ignored elsewhere.