I’m compiling a list of Internet meme role models. Here’s what I have so far. These people — they must be real human beings — must have either gone out of their way to do the right thing in a smart manner, something courageous with bonus points for being funny, or just be ridiculous. And they must be memeified. Exceptions will be made for exceptional but not memeified people like Hilde Lysiak.

Who else deserves to be on this list?

• Snack Man defused a violent fight on the subway between a couple before anyone got hurt. He did it by standing in between them and munching on Pringles and Gummy Bears.
• Ben Innes asked the EgyptAir Flight 181 hijacker who comandeered the airplane with a fake explosive belt if he could take a selfie with him. “I thought, why not? If he blows us all up it won’t matter anyway.”
• Hilde Lysiak is ten years old and the writer and publisher of Orange Street News. She doesn’t take shit from anyone.
• Salt Bae is…well you just have to see for yourself.