The Distracted Boyfriend meme was everywhere on the internet in 2017. Originally a Shutterstock image by Antonion Guillem, described as “Disloyal man with his girlfriend looking at another girl,” the image became a popular template to describe our fickle nature and the incredible rate of new information flowing to our fingertips every second.

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In this May 21, 2017 photo, from left to right: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, Saudi King Salman, United States First Lady Melania Trump, and President Donald Trump visit the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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The Eagle Creek wildfire burns as golfers play at the Beacon Rock Golf Course in North Bonneville, Washington, on September 4, 2017. A teenager was charged with reckless burning in an incident involving fireworks that is believed to have started the fire that eventually burned nearly 50,000 acres.

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Melissa McCarthy portrays an agitated White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer during an episode of Saturday Night Live.

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Former FBI Director James Comey takes his seat to testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on June 8, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May, center, stands next to candidate “Lord Buckethead,” as they wait for election results for the general election in Maidenhead, England, on June 9, 2017. Lord Buckethead won 249 votes in the election. Also visible, at left (red, fuzzy), is the Give Me Back Elmo Party candidate.

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Barron Trump (top right), son of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, uses a fidget spinner while stepping off Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on June 11, 2017.

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Children perform tricks using fidget spinners during a contest held in Ashdod, Israel, on May 11, 2017.

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Robert Kelly, left, a political science professor at Pusan National University, holds a press conference with his wife Jung-a Kim, right, and children James and Marion at the university in Busan, South Korea, on March 15, 2017. As Kelly spoke from his home office via Skype with BBC about the just-ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye, his eyes darted left as he watched on his computer screen, his young daughter parading into the room behind him. Her jaunty entrance resembled the exuberant march of the Munchkins celebrating the Wicked Witch’s death in the The Wizard of Oz.

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Jordan Horowitz, producer of La La Land, shows the envelope revealing Moonlight as the true winner of Best Picture at the Oscars on Sunday, February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Presenter Warren Beatty and host Jimmy Kimmel look on from right.

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Protesters walk up Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women’s March on Washington, with the U.S. Capitol in the background, on January 21, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Large crowds attended the anti-Trump rally a day after President Donald Trump was sworn in.

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The “Weinstein Effect,” or the #metoo movement, or “The Reckoning.” A wave of of sexual-misconduct allegations against men in positions of power built slowly through the year. It started in April of 2017, with the ouster of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, followed by several smaller stories through the summer.

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A parking sign for people visiting for the solar eclipse is shown in Depoe Bay, Oregon, on August 9, 2017.

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Guests watch the final moments before the total eclipse at the football stadium at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, on August 21, 2017.

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The moon covers the sun during a total eclipse in Weiser, Idaho, on August 21, 2017.

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President Donald Trump looks up at the partial solar eclipse without eye protection, standing beside First Lady Melania Trump on the balcony of the White House in Washington, D.C., on August 21, 2017.

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The San Francisco 49ers kneel and stand in solidarity on the sidelines during the national anthem, prior to the game against the Arizona Cardinals at the University of Phoenix Stadium on October 1, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, Roy Moore, displays a pistol to express his support for the Second Amendment as he speaks at a campaign rally on September 25, 2017, in Fairhope, Alabama. Moore was defeated by his opponent, Democrat Doug Jones, in an upset vote in December.

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A young girl dances with an American flag in baggage claim while women pray behind her during a protest against the travel ban imposed by executive order, at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas, Texas, on January 29, 2017.

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A woman who told police that she and her family were from Sudan is taken into custody by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers after arriving by taxi and walking across the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada, on February 12, 2017. Throughout the year, asylum-seekers continued to cross into Canada, uncertain of their future in the United States.

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On January 28, 2017, President Donald Trump speaks by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office, joined by (from left) Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior advisor Steve Bannon, Communications Director Sean Spicer and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, at the White House in Washington, D.C. In the months since, Priebus, Bannon, Spicer, and Flynn all resigned or were fired.

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Former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski (center) says hello to reporters as he and White House advisors, (from left) Sebastian Gorka and Omarosa Manigault, and Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci accompany President Trump for an event celebrating veterans at AMVETS Post 44 in Struthers, Ohio, on July 25, 2017. In the months since, Gorka, Manigault, Scaramucci, and Lewandowski all resigned or were fired.

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A tweet is displayed at The Daily Show-produced “Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library,” on June 16, 2017, in New York City. The parody library showcases President Trump’s tweets through the years.

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Bahtiyar Duysak, former temporary worker at Twitter poses during an interview at the Reuters office in Frankfurt, Germany, on December 8, 2017. Duysak was responsible for setting into motion a process that deactivated President Donald Trump’s Twitter account for a total of 11 minutes, sparking insane amounts of conversation. Twitter quickly restored the account. Duysak was working in Twitter’s customer support department as part of the Trust and Safety division, and was on his way out the door on his last day of work when he noted that someone had reported Trump’s account. As a last act, he started the deactivation, and walked out.

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Women dressed as handmaids from the novel, film, and television series The Handmaid’s Tale demonstrate against Planned Parenthood cuts in the Republican Senate healthcare bill at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on June 27, 2017.

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White nationalists carry tiki torches on the grounds of the University of Virginia, on the eve of a planned “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11, 2017.

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President Donald Trump tosses rolls of paper towels into a crowd of local residents affected by Hurricane Maria as he visits Calgary Chapel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 3, 2017.

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Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo is honored with a bust in his likeness at the Madeira International Airport outside Funchal, the capital of Madeira island, Portugal, on March 29, 2017. The unusual appearance of the bust led to many memes and comments on the internet for weeks.

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Vehicles pass beside a wall of flames on the 101 highway as it reaches the coast during the Thomas wildfire near Ventura, California, on December 6, 2017. California motorists commuted past a blazing inferno Wednesday as wind-whipped wildfires raged across the Los Angeles region, with flames triggering the closure of a major freeway and mandatory evacuations.

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Disneyland is seen as wildfires rage near Anaheim, California, on October 9, 2017.

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