These Halloween costumes won the internet this year

• These days, creative minds come up with Halloween costume ideas with the hope of going viral.
• From Peter Pan and his shadow to a shirtless Leonardo DiCaprio with a water gun, here are the most viral costumes of 2017.

Dressing up to scare people is so outdated.

In 2017, people make costumes on Halloween because they want to go viral.

These are the costumes that were creative enough to achieve viral success on Twitter. Some of them also appeared in Reddit's Halloween costume contest. The best ones cleverly reference pop culture, are a creative take on a viral meme, are adorable, or simply take a ton of effort.

Here are the most viral Halloween costumes of 2017. 

A pair dressed up as Peter Pan... and his shadow.

One woman said she polled 100 people for "the most unnecessary Halloween costume in the history of the world." She went as their answer: sexy Steve Harvey.

This guy went as a meme about men.

A couple dressed up as Chucky and Chucky's Bride. Except one of them isn't quite right...

One kid went as his dad — including the snow cone and duros cart he operates.

His cousin apparently went as another street food vendor.

One group of friends pretended to be the family that went viral after a daughter gate-crashed her dad's BBC interview.

A woman dressed up as the thing that her exes were most afraid of. She tagged them all in her Instagram photo.

"I am pretty sure most of my exes thought it was funny,"she told INSIDER.

One couple parodied a scene from "Hell's Cafeteria," a parody of "Hell's Kitchen."

But contrary to whatever Gordon Ramsay thinks, even a rat can cook.

Some guy dressed up as a very specific viral photo of Leonardo DiCaprio running shirtless with a water gun.

Everyone's favorite characters from "Zootopia" are the sloths at the DMV. They made a killer Halloween costume.

And if you're going to do a "Moana" costume set, making a custom Tomatoa outfit is a whole new level.

Don't forget about the pun costumes. Change the Rapper was too easy.

This couple had an interesting take on Van Gogh's paintings.

One woman got creative with her red hair and went as orange soda.

Mr. Krabs is already a meme character, so why not combine it with the "One thicc bih" one as well?

An employee at the Philadelphia Inquirer came to work as the publication's paywall.

And here's a young woman who dressed up as a kneeling Colin Kaepernick.

One of the more regrettable costume choices may have been dressing up as Rufus, the naked mole rat from "Kim Possible."

Two friends nodded to their costume from last year, dressing up as red and white wine.

"Stranger Things" fans were deeply impressed by a man who dressed up as Eleven.

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