Then, the following year, viral content website Mashable produced an article identifying the sources of popular GIFs, which included Redford’s nod. No, the viral “nodding guy” meme isn’t ...

The so-called nodding man meme has been making the rounds since at least 2012. Of course, many, many people on the internet already knew that and can’t understand how other people missed the memo.

On July 9, Zach Galifianakis, 49, started trending on Twitter because the Internet just figured out that our favorite comedian is indeed not the “nodding meme guy” — that honor instead goes ...