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Can't Nintendo throw Waluigi and his fans a bone? The trailer for Super Smash Bros Ultimate, despite its blaring claim that "Everyone is Here" is missing one important absence - that of the purple-clad villain-version of Luigi. This absence caused an uproar on Twitter, a tsunami of memes on Reddit, and even a dramatic piece from The Washington Post.

Waluigi is one of the most meme-able characters in the Nintendo universe (check out this entry from Know Your Meme) so it's no surprise that the community has chosen to rebel by flooding Reddit's r/dankmemes community with memes of the weirdly lovable character. We've rounded up some of their best work, as well as Twitter's most mournful reactions so that you, too, can understand this unforgivable injustice.

This bizarre, dank, and often deep-fried meme leaves us with a lot of questions:

1. Why would someone want to 'shop Youtuber/video game commentator Markiplier with Lord Farquaad from Shrek?
2. Why the letter E?
3. Why did people start to blend this meme with the Zuckerberg trials?
4. Finally, WHY is this meme still going since its creation in April?

These questions kind of prove the point the first 'Markiplier E' memes were trying to make. The first examples fall into the Memes Then/Memes Now category. The heavily distorted and arguably hideous 'shops really do make the contrast between current memedom and the Impact memes of yore extra palpable. But that doesn't mean we really "get" these memes at all. 

Le sigh. When nothing seems to be going right, there's always memes.

This one's for the gamers.

Earlier this month we reported on the bizarre popularity of these Deathclaw memes, and they've shown no sign of slowing down. The creepy, cursed images seem to have won the hearts of netizens - inserting themselves into other popular meme formats. While we wouldn't want to run into a Deathclaw IRL, we're enjoying the друг (meaning friend, pronounced "droog") craze. Keep on creepin' on, друг.

Well, maybe your boredom problems. These memes are tearing it up on Reddit and Twitter, and it's easy to see why. Most of us have those little problems that we pretend to cure with distractions like video games, food or alcohol. The Uber Eats meme is especially triggering.

We wrote about these "Who Killed Hannibal" memes last week, but we did not expect the format to take off the way it has. The meme, in which Eric Andre appears to have murdered Hannibal Burress, has even taken a somewhat political turn. To see more of this viral meme, check out our first list or the insane, 100+ image gallery on Know Your Meme.