We Are Number One Except It’s an Article About Why It’s Meme of the Year hodorekl Follow Dec 16, 2016 · 2 min read

If you are going to talk about 2016, you cannot go without discussing the memes that have been popular on the internet this year. Of course, one would think that the meme of the year would be Harambe because of how much it was used and referenced, and the past Presidential election has also spawned many great ones as well. I also couldn’t go without mentioning the unicycle frog, Dat Boi either. But the meme I am nominating for Meme of the Year is different because it was for a cause. I am talking, of course, about Robbie Rotten and We Are Number One memes.

Actor Stefán Karl Stefánsson — most famous for playing Robbie Rotten on LazyTown — announced in October that he was suffering from pancreatic cancer. Fans responded by making a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for his living expenses while he was unable to work. The internet then started taking the clip from the show that featured Stefán singing “We Are Number One” as his character Robbie Rotten. You can find many variations of the meme on YouTube, distorting, editing, clipping, or changing the recording for the comedic value but the whole point is to raise awareness for the campaign to help Stefán out.

In the end, the campaign surpassed it’s goal of $100,000, reaching $100,300. The meme came to life in December when Stefán thanked his supporters by performing the song in a Facebook live stream with the other cast members from the video.

I give this meme a 10/10 would watch again and again because it had a good cause behind all the ridiculous comedy of it. Even if you aren’t a fan of it like I am, you should still take a look at the campaign fundraiser page here:

It shows the results of a little meme going a long way.