It wasn't. I wasn't sure where it went, but the wet puddle on the floor and the empty bottle of Jack beside me had something to do with it. Of that I was sure. It was the only thing I could be sure of right now other than I would be late for my shift in the meme mines if I waited any longer. People think memes come from content creators. That's...true, but not how you think it is. We dig 'em up and toss them on the Internet. They find their way to people and then they're out in the world. Millions of them, every day. Most are worthless, or useless these days. Grandma Finds the Internet and First Day on the Internet Kid were early strikes, you can still find one or two sticking out of the ribs every now and then. Internet is Tubes was a massive vein, but it was only one and ran out quick. You'd find Wat? mixed in and have to throw the entire day's ore out. The first big strike, however, was Lolcats. Those things were everywhere, we chased them down tunnels. There were so many different ones, they were hot fires of fun in a cold pan of water...but we hit nyancat shortly after. Those ran out quick. After that? We found a huge vein of advice animals. All kinds, bears, seals, black man, dogs, ducks, asian man, even dinosaurs. Those ran for what seemed like forever. Heady days, we dumped thousands of those an hour on the Internet. Piles of the them, even the broken ones went as quick as we could upload. I can't even tell you how long that was, we still find them. But then it changed. Different kinds. Pepperidge Farm Remembers, Kermit Drinking Tea, some of them even moved as you looked at them. Gifs...how did they get here? But then, we came across something so rich, so varied, so intense, that we don't even see an end. Frogs. Rare Pepes. They stretch on forever. No matter how many we dig out, there's more. All different kinds. You won't run across a repeat for days, months...they dance in front of you...carrying their wine glasses and wearing hazmat suits. The Internet is insatiable, it takes everything we can give it and demands more. We've added shifts, opened new tunnels, but it's not enough. The upvotes roll in like golden dollar coins from heaven. The geologists say we may be digging these up for the rest of our lives. Oh sure, you still find other ones. Disaster Girl, Distracted Boyfriend, and even a Bro Not Cool now and then. But those frogs. They're making us rich men. May the Pepe continue forever.