As Gen 8 approaches, let us remember 2016, the year that the last generation came out and the brand's most successful year of the 2010s.

Unfortunately, 2016 was also the biggest year dominated by garbage-tier memes for reasons that still remain a mystery to me. But as it happened, idiots on the internet decided to infect Pokemon with this shittiness as a way of "expressing themselves".

So, in honor of the Pokemon anticipation cycle, as warning to current anticipators on how NOT to express hype, let us create a virtual museum of memes that expressed the 2016 Pokemania in the worst ways possible.