yesterdaysprint

Daily Mirror, England, April 8, 1920

aseaofquotes

Emery Lord, The Start of You and Me

plaid-n-converse

memeception

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey

WE’VE HIT TERMINAL MEME

bl00dlikeice

@caesarianconfection

fidefortitude

I’ve said “I hate this” so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, because “I hate this” is just shorthand for ‘this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasn’t expecting with intent to surprise’. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.

But this… This is something else.

The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.

For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?

mommacomms

….I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE

pagesofkenna

it is a YMCA reference - that’s one of the 6 memes being represented here

ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)

this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)

“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)

‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)

and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)

which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)

(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think i’ve ever seen. the initial ‘young man’ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock meme ‘gun’ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)

animatedamerican

I wasn’t going to reblog this, but @pagesofkenna‘s comprehensive meme-by-meme annotation is a thing of beauty and should be shared.

jewishzevran

average tumblr post contains one meme, this post, which contains six, is an outlier and should not be counted

japhers

it might also just be a coincidence due to loss.jpg’s format but the whole white minimalist four-panel setup is also suspiciously reminiscent of those early 2000’s rage comics

maps-and-elvis-and-zelda-n-shit

I was getting a political compass vibe too

your-uncle-dave

tag urself im man door hand hook car gun

politicalcompassmemes

This works better than I thought it would.

chiribomb

This was in my senior project

kait-the-kitty

I’m not sorry.

desertdaylight

EIGHT MEME COMBO

biggest-goofiest-fish

FATALITY

inthishousewekinkshamefnaf

We have officially created a new language 

inthishousewekinkshamefnaf

I just had to do it to em

buggykin

THIS FUCKING THREAD I’M GONNA CRY

I LOST IT AND MAN DOOR HAND HOOK CAR GUN AND DIDN’T EXPECT MORE I’M SOBBING

inthishousewekinkshamefnaf

M E M E T E N

inthishousewekinkshamefnaf

OwO?

garecc

pawsofponies

W o w

cherrysconeslut

You know I had to

plaid-n-converse

I hope you know this is the most cursed addition to my post, and I love it

deceit-the-snakey-snake

THIRTEEN!?

ninapop45

SOMEONE EDIT THIS FROM THE ORIGINAL PHOTO SAYING “this one does not spark joy” TO THIS VERSION SAYING “this one sparks joy”

astral-ghoul

its-eggo

well i added my contribution : )

why—

fandersunite

IM SCREAMING

robynspreciousnest

This is the most elaborate meme I have ever seen and damn am I concerned by how it makes sense.

operahousebookworm

“You’re in your 30s, but you still understand all this meme stuff?”
“Oh yeah, sure.”
“Can you explain it to me?”
“I absolutely fucking cannot.”

biggest-goldiest-spoon

One does not simply explain this

biggest-goldiest-spoon

Edit:

Another freaking layer!!!

shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey

16 motherfucking layers

timetravelingcacti

In the future someone’s going to ask me to explain this and I’m going to be at a loss.jpg for words

official-lucifers-child

you just… understand this. you do not get to explain it, nor would you be able to explain it. you simply understand the meme in and of itself.

norcross

imagine the valuable information my brain could be holding on to instead of all of this historical meme knowledge.

soapamine

luzialowe

I’M SCREAMING

gothiccharmschool

I will never not reblog this. 

gothiccharmschool

Told you.

chaosdeathfish

@elldritch-horror