About the Meme Taste Test

A two-minute humor test you take for yourself and share with friends. There's no matching with strangers, no account and no database.

Privacy

Your swipes stay in your browser. When you share, they're packed into the part of the link after the “#”, which browsers never send to any server. Anyone with your link can see which memes made you laugh; a result link holds both people's swipes. No cookies and no analytics.

Where the memes come from

Every caption and text meme was written for this test. The paintings are public-domain works released under CC0 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access program; the copies here were resized. Famous meme formats (Distracted boyfriend, Expanding brain, This is fine, Two buttons, Is this a pigeon?, Woman yelling at cat) are described in words rather than copied, because the original images belong to their photographers.

The deck avoids memes about real people, politics, religion, sex and anyone's appearance.

Artwork credits

• Portrait of a Man, Italian Painter. Caption: “Said I'd have one bite. Ate the whole thing. No regrets.”
• Portrait of an Old Man, Hans Memling, ca. 1475. Caption: “Me after one (1) social event.”
• Portrait of a Man, Hugo van der Goes, ca. 1475. Caption: “Please, let this meeting be an email.”
• Portrait of a Man, Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1693. Caption: “Just sent an email that starts with “Per my last email.””
• Portrait of a Man, Corneille de Lyon, ca. 1540–50. Caption: “When someone says “irregardless” in a meeting.”
• Portrait of a Man, Anthony van Dyck, ca. 1618. Caption: “Guarding the last slice of pizza like it's my birthright.”
• Portrait of a Man, Spanish (Andalusian) Painter. Caption: “The accountant who just found the missing three cents.”
• Portrait of a Woman, British Painter, ca. 1600. Caption: “My “just running to the store” outfit.”
• Portrait of a Woman, Quinten Massys, ca. 1520. Caption: “Grandma when you say you're “not that hungry.””
• Portrait of a Woman, Giovanni di Francesco del Cervelliera, ca. 1445. Caption: “Listening to gossip I'm absolutely not going to repeat. (I'm going to repeat it.)”
• Portrait of a Woman, Master of the Castello Nativity, probably 1450s. Caption: “Ignoring 47 unread messages with grace and dignity.”
• Portrait of a Woman, Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), 1633. Caption: “Hearing my own voice in a video for the first time.”
• Portrait of a Woman, Bernhard Strigel, ca. 1510–15. Caption: “Me at 3 p.m. after waking up at 5 a.m. to “be productive.””
• Portrait of a Woman, Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby), ca. 1770. Caption: “Me after organizing one drawer: I'm basically a minimalist now.”
• Portrait of a Woman, Henri Fantin-Latour, 1885. Caption: “Listening to someone explain a movie I just told them I've seen.”
• A Woman with a Dog, Giacomo Ceruti, 1740s. Caption: “This is Sir Biscuit. He's a lawyer now.”
• An Old Man with a Dog, Giacomo Ceruti, 1740s. Caption: “Me and my emotional support pug, politely declining your invitation.”
• A Limier Briquet Hound, Rosa Bonheur, ca. 1856. Caption: “Dog who heard the cheese drawer open from three rooms away.”
• Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal, Bartolomé Estebán Murillo, ca. 1665–72. Caption: “Hired a bodyguard to stop me texting my ex. He's a very good boy.”
• Portrait of a Woman, Bernardino Campi, late 1560s. Caption: “My dog, on the table he's not allowed on, judging my life choices.”
• Two Children Teasing a Cat, Annibale Carracci. Caption: “Science experiment: does the cat like the crayfish? (The cat does not like the crayfish.)”
• Portrait of a Young Man; (reverse) Girl Making a Garland, Hans Süss von Kulmbach, ca. 1508. Caption: “Nodding along while the sommelier describes “notes of wet stone.””
• The Dissolute Household, Jan Steen, ca. 1663–64. Caption: “The house ten minutes after the parents leave.”
• Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), 1787–88. Caption: “Three cats, absolutely not plotting anything.”
• Teasing a Sleeping Girl, Gaspare Traversi, ca. 1760. Caption: “My friends when I fall asleep first at the sleepover.”
• The Third-Class Carriage, Honoré Daumier, 1864. Caption: “Morning commute, 1864. Still no Wi-Fi.”
• A Woman Reading, Camille Corot, 1869 and 1870. Caption: “Rereading the same page for the fourth time because my brain wandered off.”
• Portrait of a Man, Lucia Anguissola, ca. 1560. Caption: “My profile picture since 2011, and I'm not changing it.”

Open source

The code is on GitHub (MIT). Problems or meme suggestions: open an issue.