Was history made on your birthday?

With only 365 days in a year and thousands of years of recorded history, there’s a good chance something important has happened on your birthday. Canvas users celebrated their birthday events with drawings.

Fernando Alfonso III

Updated on June 2 2021 4:37 pm CDT

With more than one million posts last year, Canvas is the image board of choice for meme junkies. Every afternoon, the Daily Dot highlights a collection of images that reflect Canvas users’ current obsession.

Illustration by Fernando Alfonso III

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Fernando Alfonso III

Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.