Draft:9gag meme monument

The 9gag meme monument is a stone monument dedicated to Internet memes that was created in 2017 by Antonio Soler for social media site 9gag to celebrate the website's 9th anniversary. The monument was called the "first man-made monument to humor", and was buried in a desert in Europe to be discovered by future generations.

Creation and design
The monument is a carved limestone monolith that weighs 24 tonnes and stands at four meters tall. It was created by the Spanish sculptor Antonio Soler, who was hired by the Barcelona-based company LOLA MullenLowe on behalf of 9gag.

9gag asked its users to vote on their favorite memes, receiving 650,000 votes in total. The nine most popular memes were carved into the monument. Various Internet memes are displayed on it, including DickButt, Friendzone, We Need AIR Support, World VS USA, PPAP, Doge, Salt Bae, Shit Just Got Real, and Hardest Name in Africa.

The entire project, from the conception to the burial of the monument, took two months, including four days to quarry the stone. Lilian Leong, the chief operating officer of 9gag, said that it was buried on 19 April 2017 in "a European desert". Nacho Oñate from LOLA MullenLowe stated that the monolith was meant to leave behind a symbol of humanity's sense of humor, as opposed to other monuments which he described as "too serious and meaningful and intelligent".