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The Origin Of The 'Is He Stupid?' And 'Jonkler' Memes Explained
Is He Stupid?, Is She Stupid? or Are They Stupid? is a catchphrase and phrasal template that started on the /r/okbuddychicanery subreddit in which users ironically ask about certain plot details of the Breaking Bad universe lore, calling out the villain Gus as "stupid" for complaining about a worker's cooking skills for his facade-restaurant, among other characters. The trend became popularized in February 2023, inspiring other fandoms to post memes of plot details that the main character could've easily solved. As the trend expanded into March 2023, other variations of the phrase setup emerged, particularly Is He Smart? and Is She Smart?, among others.
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Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, Responds To Contentious Remarks About Her
Vivian Jenna Wilson, who goes by @Vivllainous online, is an internet personality and Elon Musk's estranged daughter from his first marriage to her mother Justine Wilson. Elon Musk made several inflammatory statements in a July 2024 interview with Jordan Peterson, claiming that the Woke Mind Virus "killed" one of his "older boys [Xavier]" when he was "tricked" into signing documents approving Vivian Wilson's gender reassignment surgery. Soon after Musk's interview, Wilson took to Threads to criticize Musk, pointing out various factual inaccuracies in his account of her childhood and asserting that his claims about her life are entirely "made up." Wilson went on to rebut more of Musk's posts in August 2024 and created a TikTok account that month as well.
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Olympic Breakdancer, Raygun Becomes A Meme Legend, But Was She Really Trolling?
Raygun is the stage name for 36-year-old Australian breakdancer Rachael Gunn who competed at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics at the B-Girls breaking event. Gunn is also a professor at Macquarie University with a Ph.D. in cultural studies, focused on breakdancing. Multiple videos of Raygun performing at the Olympics went viral on Twitter / X and Reddit in August 2024. Many made fun of Raygun because of her seemingly poor performance, resulting in zero points overall and her elimination from the event. One video showed Raygun rolling around on the floor. Raygun the Australian Olympic Breakdancer memes surfaced across social media in August 2024, many of which championed Raygun because internet users lacking athletic skills saw themselves in her. Then, users discovered that Raygun had a Ph.D. and was a professor, resulting in more viral reactions and memes.
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Are Vitaly’s Shocking Predator Challenges Justice or Torture?
Vitaly "Catching Predators With" Kick Streams is a series of 10 planned livestreams hosted on the Kick streaming platform during which content creator Vitaly teams up with an influencer or celebrity each episode, including Lil Pump and Ty Dolla Sign, to bait, expose and humiliate child predators. The first stream took place on May 3rd, 2024, with several clips going viral online. Following the stream with Ty Dolla $ign on May 5th, a clip of a man punching one of the alleged predators in the face and knocking him out went viral, inspiring some rumors that the man died, although these were purportedly false.
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What Are The Best Minecraft Memes Of All Time?
Minecraft is an indie Java video game created by Markus Persson, also known as “Notch.” It is a sandbox building game in which the player gathers resources to create new objects by combining them in various ways.
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Hawk Tuah Reaches Ironic Meme Territory
Ironic Hawk Tuah Memes refer to jokes and ironic memes that parody memes about the Hawk Tuah Girl, often in the form of crossovers with other well-known memes like Big Chungus. The Hawk Tuah meme is sometimes seen as divisive, with some internet users relegating it to the more normie or Zynternet spheres of the web, as well as being oversaturated. Ironic Hawk Tuah memes are typically made by internet users who do not find the original video or its meme progression to be funny, with crossover memes often taking the form of puns using the words "hawk" or "tuah."
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July 2024's Meme of the Month Revealed
Know Your Meme's latest "Meme of the Month" poll has concluded for July 2024. Find out which meme was voted the best of them all!
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Olympic Sport Shooters Kim Ye-ji, Yusuf Dikeç, & Choe Dae-han Get Memed For Having Insane Aura
The 2024 Olympic Shooters and the 2024 Olympic Shooting Competitions refer to the Olympians who competed in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics sports shooting competitions, like air pistol shooting and rifle shooting events. For instance, Turkish shooter Yusuf Dikeç and South Korean shooter Kim Yeji became significant meme inspirations in mid-2024 for their role in the games. Other Olympic shooters also gained meme attention, like men's Indian shooter Sarabjot Singh women's Chinese shooter Jiang Ranxin and men's South Korean shooter Choe Daehan, whose unique posture with an arched back gained comparisons to the slang term "twink" among LGBTQ+ internet users, who also called him "Gay Little Marksman" akin to the Gay Little Monkey meme. The shooters became reaction images, amassed fan art and were combined in two-panel and four-panel exploitable meme templates.
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Why Are People Commenting 'Oil Up' And What Does It Mean?
Oil Up and Oiled Up refer to a series of memes in which someone is asked to or asks someone to "oil up," meaning to apply oil to their bodies, often with a sexual connotation. Memes about oiling up were first popularized online as early as 2014 with Ainsley Harriott memes about oiling up appearing on 4chan, becoming further popularized in late 2023 and early 2024 on sites like TikTok after a clip of someone asking Dana White if they can oil him up went viral online. In memes, "oil up" and "oiled up" are often used as copypastas and catchphrases.
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JoJo Siwa Is A Constant Source Of Memes, From 'Coining Gay Pop' To Unhinged Choreography
JoJo Siwa is an American dancer, singer, actor and YouTuber.
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Hannah Neeleman, The Trad-Wife of Ballerina Farm Claps Back At Reporter For 'Attack On Her Family'
Ballerina Farm Controversy refers to a viral debate and online controversy revolving around a prominent figure of TikTok’s Trad Wife trend, Ballerina Farm (whose real name is Hannah Neeleman) after a five-page article about her was released by The Sunday Times in late July 2024. The Times article details Neeleman as a victim of misogynistic circumstances and not as a representative of "trad wives" content creators fans assumed. The article sparked theories and commotion on Twitter / X, Reddit and TikTok, as people shared some of Neeleman's quotes about her aspirations to become a ballerina before moving with her husband Daniel Neeleman to a farm in the Utah mountains where she raises eight children.
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The Origin of The Glowing Eyes / Laser Eyes Photoshop Meme Explained
Glowing Eyes is a photoshop meme in which the eyes of various people, characters and animals are edited to appear as if they are glowing with bright energy, mimicking a common trope found in various animated films and television shows.
