The Area 51 meme phenomenon peaked in 2019 following the viral Facebook event titled 'Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us.' What started as a joke by Matty Roberts quickly evolved into a massive internet movement involving millions of people planning to 'Naruto run' into the secret military base to 'see them aliens.' The memes typically depict people leaving the base with futuristic technology, befriending captive aliens, or the humorous ways guards might react to the invasion. It represents a unique moment in internet culture where collective irony transformed a niche conspiracy theory into a global social media event that defined an entire summer.