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. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. Then, the movement exploded with reporting in October in the New York Times and the New Yorker about years of serious sexual misconduct by producer Harvey Weinstein, including accusations of assault and rape. After that, the gates seemed to open, and many more women started coming forward to tell their stories. Many of the accused men deny any wrongdoing and remain in their positions. Gathered above, just 20 of the dozens of men who lost their jobs and more as a result of this movement. Top row, from left: film producer Harvey Weinstein, former Fox News broadcaster Bill O'Reilly, New Republic contributing editor Leon Wieseltier, comedian Louis C.K., Walt Disney Animation Chief John Lasseter. Second row: PBS host Tavis Smiley, former "Prairie Home Companion" host Garrison Keillor, actor Jeremy Piven, Judge Roy Moore, former NBC News political commentator Mark Halperin. Third row: filmmaker Brett Ratner, documentary producer Morgan Spurlock, television host Charlie Rose, former Today Show co-host Matt Lauer, actor Kevin Spacey. Fourth row: Kentucky Representative Dan Johnson, Michigan Representative John Conyers, Arizona Representative Trent Franks, Texas Representative Blake Farenthold, and Minnesota Senator Al Franken. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. Full story from TechCrunch. #

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. #

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. #

A damaged nearly century-old Confederate statue lies on a pallet in a warehouse in Durham, North Carolina, on August 15, 2017. Investigators were working to identify and charge protesters who toppled the Confederate statue in front of a North Carolina government building, the sheriff said. The Confederate Soldiers Monument, dedicated in 1924, stood in front of an old courthouse building that serves as local government offices. #

Saturn's active, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus sinks behind the giant planet in a farewell portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view of Enceladus was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on September 13, 2017. It is among the last images Cassini sent back before burning up in Saturn's atmosphere after more than 13 years of orbiting Saturn and making observations. #

Sloane Stephens of the United States reacts with her winning check after defeating compatriot Madison Keys during their 2017 U.S. Open Women's Singles final match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on September 9, 2017. Stephens captured her first Grand Slam title through this victory. #

A rescue helicopter hovers in the background as an elderly woman and her poodle use an air mattress to float above flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey while waiting to be rescued from Scarsdale Boulevard in Houston, Texas, on August 27, 2017. #

In this Saturday, September 30, 2017 photo, the foundation of a heavily damaged house stands in the mountains after the passing of Hurricane Maria in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Morovis, Puerto Rico. #

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. #

A hearing attendee dressed as the Monopoly Man, or "Rich Uncle Pennybags," looks on as Richard Smith, former chairman and CEO of Equifax, Inc., testifies before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on October 4, 2017. #

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, and his wife Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills, the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza's signatures, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) in Washington, D.C., on November 15, 2017. At left is BEP Director Leonard Olijar. #

Juli Briskman, riding her bike, gestures with her middle finger as a motorcade carrying President Donald Trump departs Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Virginia, on October 28, 2017. After the photo was published, Briskman posted it on her social media profiles, and decided to alert her employer, Akima, a government contracting firm, that the photo might go viral. Akima fired her for violating its policies, but someone shortly set up a GoFundMe page for Briskman. #

People use their phones to take photos of the L'Oreal fashion show on the Champs-Élysées avenue during a public event organized by the French cosmetics group as part of Paris Fashion Week on October 1, 2017. #

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. #

People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival after apparent gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooter, Stephen Paddock, opened fire on fans attending a concert across the street from his hotel. He fired more than 1,000 bullets from the windows in a span of 10 minutes, killing 58 people and injuring another 546 before police entered his hotel room to discover him dead on the floor. #

Air Force One departs Las Vegas past the broken windows on the face of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, where shooter Stephen Paddock conducted his mass shooting along the Las Vegas Strip on October 4, 2017. #

A view of the Tianjin Binhai Library on November 14, 2017. The futuristic Chinese library wowed book lovers around the world with its white, undulating shelves rising from floor to ceiling, but if you read between the lines you might spot one problem. Those rows upon rows of book spines are mostly images printed on the aluminium plates that make up the backs of shelves. #

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. #