Drag Race memes have ruled queer culture for nearly two decades.RuPaul's Drag Race has given us some of the most iconic and hilarious memes in reality TV herstory. From dramatic scenes to shade-throwing remarks to unforgettable catchphrases, the queens of Drag Race have given us a lot of meme-able moments that fans love to collect and keep like precious gems.While recent seasons have definitely contributed to the overall Drag Race meme canon, there's no denying that the first decade of the show was jam-packed with even more moments that we're still referencing and obsessing over. Either way, let's take a trip down memory lane and remember some of the best memes, GIFs, and reactions that have been brought to life in the Drag Race franchise.'Back rolls?!' Alyssa EdwardsMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 Episode 5 (Untucked), "Snatch Game"Alyssa Edwards delivered an infamously bad impersonation of Katy Perry in the Snatch Game of Drag Race season 5, but was saved by her "immunity" that week from winning the previous maxi challenge.But little did the judges know that even more drama was happening in the Untucked lounge, as Alyssa engaged in another argument with Jade Jolie and was accused of having "ball rolls."The reaction shot of Alyssa in a confessional looking back and around the room to then ask the camera, "Back rolls?!" is one of those visuals that Drag Race fans can hear even without any sound.'I can't wait to see how this turns out.' RuPaulMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 Episode 4, "Black Swan: Why It Gotta Be Black?"RuPaul used her iconic opera glasses for the "Black Swan: Why It Gotta Be Black" challenge that included the highly anticipated collaboration between Alyssa Edwards and Coco Montrese dancing together on stage"I can't wait to see how this turns out," Mama Ru declared right before the maxi challenge started a legendary Drag Race meme was born.The return of the opera glasses. RuPaulMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 7 Episode 11, "Drag Race Gives Back Variety Extravaganza"The Variety Show episode All Stars 7, otherwise known as the all-winners season, featured Mont X Change serving what's considered one of the greatest singing performances in Drag Race herstory. During the werk room section of the episode, Mont teased RuPaul and asked if the opera glasses from season 5 could make a returnAnd they did! Before Mont started her mind-blowing performance singing opera, Mama Ru pulled out a pair of opera glasses and gave the meme a sickening update. You have to stan.'Not today, Satan. Not today.' Bianca Del RioMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6 Episode 12, "Sissy That Walk"Bianca Del Rio was the queen of throwing shade on Drag Race season 6, but it's hard to compare anything to her incredibly memorable line delivery of "Not today, Satan. Not today."A classic, timeless meme!'I feel very attacked!' Laganja EstranjaMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6 Episode 8 (Untucked), "Drag Queens of Comedy"Laganja Estranja felt like she wasn't shining as bright as her peers throughout season 6, and was instead being "attacked" by her Drag Race costars and the panel of judges.This entire drama culminated in a legendary Untucked moment where Laganja literally yelled out, "I feel very attacked!" Though it wasn't exactly hilarious to see a queen going through something this intense, the meme has lived on to take many other meanings and we love it (in the right circumstances).'Do I have something on my face?' PearlMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7 Episode 5, "The DESPY Awards"Fans have seen queens fighting back critiques from judges like Michelle Visage and Santino Rice, but never had a contestant faced off against RuPaul the way Pearl did in season 7.During a casual conversation in the werk room, Pearl and Ru engaged in a face-off that ended with Pearl awkwardly asking, "Do I have something on my face?"Mama, the drama!'You're perfect, you're beautiful, you look like Linda Evangelista You're a model.' AjaMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9 Episode 3, "Draggily Ever After"Aja has admitted over the years that she started feeling insecure about her spot in the competition around episode 3 of Drag Race season 9. Up until that point, Valentina had received nothing but rave reviews in all three episodes, which prompted Aja to unleash the most iconic Untucked monologue of the entire VH1 era of Drag Race."You're perfect, you're beautiful, you look like Linda Evangelista You're a model. Everything about you is perfect. Did you stone those tights? Oh, you're smiling! They eat her up every single time she's on that damn stage. She could walk out there in a fucking diaper, and they'd be like, 'Valentina your smile is beautiful.' The eat hear up every single time."'Facts are facts!' Mo Heart (ne Monique Heart)Moment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10 Episode 6, "Drag Con Panel Extravaganza"Mo Heart, who was then still under the drag name Monique Heart, delivered her signature "facts are facts!" catchphrase in episode 6 of Drag Race season 10.The season aired in 2018, as the world was still learning how to navigate the dangerous surge of "fake news" now being spewed by authorities, politicians, and pundits. So not only was Mo Heart's line hilarious, but it also felt like a go-to reaction GIF and motto for anyone facing the "fake news" phenomenon in their lives.'I'd like to keep it on, please.' ValentinaMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 Episode 9, "Your Pilot's on Fire"Here's the tea: Valentina didn't know the words to "Greedy" by Ariana Grande upon landing in the bottom two and having to lip sync for her life against Nina Bo'nina Brown. But this queen did attempt to conceal the faux pass by keeping the mask on that she had for the runway.This was a lip sync, however, which meant that the judges and the viewers obviously had to see Valentina's mouth lip syncing. After a few minutes, RuPaul stopped the lip sync and told her to take the mask off. Valentina replied, "I'd like to keep it on, please."This dramatic Drag Race moment gained a new life during the lockdown of 2020, as it was included in numerous jokes about the (very real) need to wear a mask. Even Ru himself joked about it in an episode filmed during the lockdown, teasing that Valentina turned out to be right all along.'Miss Vanjie' Miss VanjieMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10 Episode 1, "10s Across the Board"Nine seasons later, Drag Race fans had seen quite a few funny and iconic exit lines from queen. But the bar for creating a memorable exit particularly if you happened to be the first-eliminated queen of a season was upped to impossible heights by Vanessa Vanjie Mateo's backward-walking-while-chanting moment in the first episode of season 10."Miss Vanjie" she said, looking at the judges and all around, while walking back toward the end of the stage. "Miss Vanjie" she continued, now with a somber twist. "Miss Vanjie," she concluded, in a way that almost made us feel like she had just woken up from a deep slumber and was attempting to remember who she was.This one's it: Drag Race's best, most impactful, and most memorable exit line of all time on Drag Race.'Protect queer art, but is she giving us anything worth protecting? That's the question.' Plane Jane (@) Moment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 Episode 2, " Queen Choice Awards"Megami's Variety Show number involved holding up a sign that read, "Protect Queer Art." While the performance could've been adjusted for the sentiment to really strike the judges and the fans, the sentiment itself has (unfortunately) aged well particularly as attacks directed at the LGBTQ+ community continue to intensify.In season 16, however, Plane Jane's reaction to the performance went ultra-viral on social media for being underwhelmed at the performance she had just seen. "Protect queer art, but is she giving us anything worth protecting? That's the question," the shady lady known as Plane Jane said in a confessional.'Don't joke about that.' Sasha VelourMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9 Episode 5, "Reality Stars the Musical"To be clear: Sasha Velour was absolutely right when she called out Eureka in season 9 for cracking jokes about other queens for being too thin, which led to several of them sharing stories about eating disorders.Even though the reason for this meme to exist is not fun (or funny) at all, the meme has absolutely become a joke within the Drag Race fandom and is used as a reaction GIF for pretty much anything that a person doesn't want to talk about. And, within that context, the line is pretty hilarious indeed.Jimbo holding a lipstick to eliminate X/Twitter from the competition. FAN EDITMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 8 Episode 9, "Carson Kressley, This Is Your Gay Life!"Jimbo's first lip sync win on All Stars 8 followed many episodes of the Canada's Drag Race fan-favorite losing every single lip sync for your legacy she had been in. Finally, in episode 9, dressed as her signature Casper the Baloney Ghost character and performing to "Freak-A-Zoid" by Midnight Star, Jimbo won the lip sync and got to hold up a lip sync to eliminate one of the queens.On the actual show, Jimbo sent Alexis Michelle home. In this viral fan edit, Jimbo asks X/Twitter itself to sashay away.RuPaul holding up her middle fingers to Utica Queen's roast jokes.Moment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13 Episode 12, "Nice Girls Roast"The "Nice Girls Roast" comedy challenge of season 13 was pretty rough, OK? That was the first U.S. flagship season to be filmed during lockdown, which meant that restrictions were stricter than ever. The cast also didn't have several queens who were great at comedy And one of them was Utica Queen.During her comedy set in this challenge, Utica made remarks not jokes that were rather mean. And a roast is a safe space to be mean, yes, but you've gotta be funny for that to work. Utica didn't succeed. In one of the jokes, Utica claimed that Mama Ru wasn't fully dressed in drag behind the judging panel, and literally told the host to stand up to prove her point.RuPaul did not stand up. He gave Utica the middle finger. Both of them, actually. Iconic!Roxxxy Andrews crying in drag language. FAN EDITMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 Episode 7, "RuPaul Roast"Both Roxxxy Andrews and Alyssa Edwards bombed in the first-ever roast challenge of Drag Race, which happened in season 5. As both of them fell in the bottom two but earned a Double Shantay from Mama Ru, Roxxxy broke down in tears and revealed the story of how she was left at a bus stop by a family member.The image of Roxxxy crying, in context with the story she told, is absolutely heartbreaking. But, like other memes on the list that gain new meanings over time, this fan edit of Roxxxy "crying in drag language" is a fan-favorite within the fandom.Alyssa Edwards wears a face mask.Moment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2 Episode 2, "All Stars Snatch Game"Despite the fact that Alyssa Edwards was just trying to wear a "beauty mask" for her skin, one couldn't help but notice that she was low-key giving Hannibal Lecter realness wearing that thing with her big eyes and thick lips. For a beauty mask, it was giving "BEAST!" Nonetheless, the fans couldn't do anything else other than laugh at the moment and re-use this meme hundreds of times for the past nine years since All Stars 2 aired on Logo TV.'Oh, at all.' Coco MontreseMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2 Episode 1, "All Star Talent Show Extravaganza"There are two types of fans in the online Drag Race multiverse: The type of fan that struggles to remember this quote given how much was going on in episode 1 of All Stars 2 And the crazier stans, like yours truly, who have repeated Coco Montrese's "Oh, at all" line almost daily.For context, Coco was the first-eliminated queen from All Stars 2 which means that she was the first queen to hear about the twist that could bring one of them back into the game. When asked by producers (but staying on camera) how fiercely she would do if she could return to the competition, Coco said that she wouldn't hold anything back "Oh, at all."Denali's reaction face while sitting in the Porkchop Loading Dock.Moment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13 Episode 1, "The Pork Chop"Denali was one of the queens who lost their very first lip sync at the premiere of Drag Race season 13 and had her fate decided at the Porkchop Loading Dock that honored first-eliminated queens of past seasons. As more queens entered the space and they all waited for further instructions, episode 1 ended with Denali's facial expression saying everything you needed to know.'I smell a stunt.' Alyssa EdwardsMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2 Episode 5, "Revenge of the Queens"Alyssa Edwards wasn't fooled by the "buffoonery" and "shenanigans" of her competitors of All Stars 2, and went as far as saying that she could "smell a stunt" upon talking to certain eliminated queens like Ginger Minj and Jaremi Carey (F.K.A. Phi Phi O'Hara) in her episode returning to the All Stars 2 competition.'A sensible 74.' JujubeeMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 5 Episode 5, "Snatch Game of Love"Picture it: Jujubee comes back for her third season, All Stars 5, and impersonates a kitty-coded Eartha Kitt in the franchise's first-ever Snatch Game of Love challenge. While discussing her ideal scenario with a romantic partner, an in-character Jujubee declared how heavenly it would feel to reach for the thermostat and set the temperature to "a sensible 74."RuPaul couldn't stop laughing at the line, and Drag Race fans around the world lost their minds, too.'They got me, gal!' Ginger MinjMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2 Episode 3, "HERstory of the World"One could say that Ginger Minj's most iconic line in Drag Race herstory was "they got me, gal!" during her elimination in episode 3 of All Stars 2.A few years later, Ginger returned to compete on All Stars 6 and finished as one of four finalists. Then, many years after that, Ginger returned for her fourth Drag Race lap and won All Stars 10.'Party!' KatyaMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2 Episode 7, "Family That Drags Together" As All Stars 2 frontrunner Alaska fell in the bottom and was eligible for elimination for the first time in her entire Drag Race odyssey fans forget that Alaska never landed in the bottom throughout season 5 and freaked out over the prospect of being eliminated by another competitor for having too good of a track record, Katya was in a very different mindset of having fun and knowing what she'd do.The tea is that Katya wasn't going to eliminate Alaska anyway, and assumed that Alaska knew that. Alaska did not know that, however, which led to her very intense reaction to Katya jokingly saying "Party!" in their werk room deliberations about choosing a lipstick to eliminate a queen on All Stars 2.'I understand your concern, but I do not have the same concern.' Gigi GoodeMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12 Episode 6, "Snatch Game"Gigi Goode decided to play an android named Maria the Robot for the Snatch Game of season 12. Besides the lack of familiarity with a robot who wasn't a celebrity in the traditional sense, RuPaul also warned Gigi that the character might come off Well, a bit robotic.But Gigi stood her ground and told RuPaul in the werk room, "I understand your concern, but I do not have the same concern." And that is NERVE, right there, isn't it? Plot twist: Gigi won the Snatch Game.'Fuck my drag, right?' Kennedy DavenportMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3 Episode 3, "The Bitchelor"Kennedy Davenport fell in the bottom two on All Stars 3 episode 2 alongside Thorgy Thor. In the end, Shangela won that lip sync for your legacy and sent Thorgy not Kennedy home. This situation was brought into the werk room of episode 3, which featured Milk mourning Thorgy's loss and suggesting that Thorgy, not Kennedy, had a lot more to show in the competition."Fuck my drag, right?" Kennedy said in a confessional. This iconic queen was not pleased, let's just say that.'Is she gonna jump from there?' Milk, featuring Morgan McMichaelsMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3 Episode 1, "All-Star Variety Show"Milk asked, "Is she gonna jump from there?" in the first episode of All Stars 3 as Morgan McMichaels looked extremely concerned and perhaps even had her hands together as if in a prayer. They were both gagged and gooped about seeing Aja on top of a box during the Variety Show performance.Thankfully, Milk's question was promptly answered: Yes, Aja did jump from there, and it was freaking legendary.'This is not RuPaul's Best Friend Race!' Lashauwn BeyondMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 4 Episode 1 (Untucked), "RuPocalypse Now!"Justice for Lashauwn Beyond.Despite this queen's short run on Drag Race season 4, she gave the series one of its most-used catchphrases in herstory: "This is not RuPaul's Best Friend Race!''I could not believe it.' RavenMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 1 Episode 1 (Untucked) "It Takes Two"The (unrehearsed and unexpected) roasting of Mimi Imfurst in the first episode of All Stars 1 in the Untucked portion of the program was a Hall of Fame-worthy reality TV mess. There's simply too much to recall and reference from this episode, but Raven's "I could not believe it" is easily one of the most hilarious and meme-able lines from this multiverse of madness that felt like Mimi Imfurst vs. the world.Moment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 1 Episode 1 (Untucked) "It Takes Two"Besides Raven not believing that Mimi Imfurst had gotten enough fan votes to come back and compete on All Stars 1, one could never forget about Tammie Brown's contributions to this epic and messy episode.At one point, Tammie turned to the fellow queens and yelled out "Well, c'mon, Teletubby! Teleport us to Mars!" Did it makes sense? No. Did have to make sense? Nope. Planet Tammie Brown is a stunningly complex place that we love to visit.'I've HAD IT, officially.' DetoxMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 Episode 2, "Lip Synch Extravaganza Eleganza""I've HAD IT, officially" is one of Detox's most popular catchphrases in Drag Race herstory. The sentence and the feelings that led to it had the fans shaking in their boots. With that said, the phrase was delivered to Serena ChaCha in season 5, who was indeed being quite difficult as a costar to a room full of veteran drag performers.'Life's not fair.' Naomi SmallsMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 4 Episode 9, "Sex and the Kitty Girl"Even though Manila Luzon's shocking elimination by the hands of Naomi Smalls happened in episode 8, "RuPaul's Best Judy's Race," the iconic "life's not fair" delivered by Naomi came in the following episode ("Sex and the Kitty Girl") as the queens tried to understand and discussed what had just happened.Yes, Naomi Smalls really did eliminate the frontrunner of the competition up until that point. And, yes, life's not fair.Moment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3 Episode 2, "Divas Lip Sync Live"Trixie Mattel couldn't deal with the very emotional Milk in the "Divas Lip Sync Live" episode of All Stars 3. As Milk cried about not landing in the top and being praised by the judges, Trixie pointed out in a confessional that Milk was well, safe!"I think that's a lot of emotion for safe" is a line with endless potential, and we're all glad that Trixie introduced it to the Drag Race lexicon.'LOVE Pink.' Thorgy ThorMoment in herstory: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 7, via The Pit StopBob the Drag Queen hosted The Pit Stop for the all-winners season of Drag Race, otherwise known as All Stars 7. In one episode, Bob reunited with her fellow NYC and season 8 sister, Thorgy Thor. As the conversation turned to them expressing their feelings about Pink, Thorgy uttered the "LOVE Pink" sentiment heard around the queendom.This is easily one of the most popular Drag Race memes in recent years, and we love to see it.