High schoolers celebrate 'Meme Day' with memes new and old

So many memes, so little time
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Marcus Gilmer
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Got to give credit where it's due: the kids these days are committed not just to the hip new memes, but also to the memes of yesteryear.

Take these kids from California who celebrated "Meme Day" at their school, with a wide-range of memes from the recent hit Salt Bae all the way back to some old school memes like Slender Man.

In the above video, posted by Nicole Pinto, we roll through (I think):

There were plenty more, too, including, yes, more Salt Baes.

So props to these kids not only for their deep meme love but for also for the costumes.

Still, they have a ways to go if they want to top the all-time single-serving meme event, Weezer's "Pork and Beans" video.

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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