It’s utterly fascinating watching how memes evolve over time. Most of us know the cheesy pickup line, “Did it hurt? When you fell from heaven?” Well, the question has morphed and taken on a whole different meaning. And now, “Did it hurt?” memes are trending online, especially on Twitter.
The essence of the meme is very simple. You write, “Did it hurt?” then you throw out the second half of the classic pick-up line and, instead you add a burn, roast, or a witty but hurtful fact that’s like rubbing salt into someone’s wound. Twitter users have gotten exceedingly good at the trend, so our team here at Bored Panda has collected some of the very best “Did it hurt?” memes that mix humor with harsh kernels of truth to share with you.
Scroll down to check them all out, upvote your fave ones, and let us know which ones made you laugh the most.
Bored Panda reached out to British comedy writer Ariane Sherine for a comment about using humor to be honest with everyone, how to tell if a meme will go viral on Twitter (spoiler warning: you can't), and the need to avoid using pick-up lines that are cheesier than a large pizza with extra cheese. You can read our interview with her below, Pandas.
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U can't feel this pain when ur country has no recycling infrastructure whatsoever.
Comedy writer Ariane was brutal when I asked her about using cheesy pick-up lines like "Did it hurt? When you fell from heaven?" She said that even using them ironically should be avoided at all costs. We ought to put in a bit more effort! "I would avoid even ironic use in case the person doesn’t get the irony and thinks you’re a total muppet! Originality is so much more genuine and refreshing," she told Bored Panda.
Ariane, who is very active on Twitter and other social media platforms, said that predicting what will go viral online is a lost cause. There's too much luck involved.
"In my experience, it’s totally down to luck and you can’t predict virality whatsoever. I’ve tweeted things I thought would fly but they only got a handful of likes, and then I’ve tweeted things that I haven’t expected to do well but then a celebrity has retweeted them and suddenly they have thousands of likes! So who knows? That element of surprise is the beauty of Twitter," she shared her experience.
The not guarantee success thing is ok, but what sucks is that there is really no correlation between handwork and success under capitalism. That hurt to learn. Unless you were born into wealth or well connected you are basically screwed. And the deck being stacked against you is a hard pill to swallow
Charity: poor people in rich countries giving to rich people in poor countries.
Load More Replies...Or you could just donate directly to an organization. You don't need a middle man to do good deeds. Sometimes it doesn't even have to be money. An animal shelter or homeless shelter would love old blankets or clothing. Donate dry goods to a local church pantry. Or old books to a library. There are so many ways to donate without using a store as a middle man.
Agreed. I just think that people rarely donate small amounts without being solicited. So it makes sense for the charity, and it incentives the business to do it, but it doesn't feel right.
Load More Replies...when at the checkout they ask if you want to donate to X charity. What happens is the store collects (and keeps) the money, then they donate an amount equal to the amount collected to the charity. That way they get a fat tax write-off but don't actually lose any money in the process.
Load More Replies...What? Never been in a store that asks for donations. One has a box you can buy a can of cat food and put in for the local shelter and the store donates a equal amonut of stuff. I am sure that dont stop the taxes. Are we talking US here? Most weird things seems to come from there.
HEB only takes donations for certified 501c3 charities. HEB gets a deduction for their own charitable donations, not mine; the donation coupon has a UPC and rings up as a sale. If you want more details, ask HEB. If your grocer uses UPC coupons, they also pass the $$ to the 501c3.
When stores or fast food chains ask you to round up to donate to charity. Like dude I’m broke as hell, y’all should be donating money to me so I can pay my rent & feed my kid & dog 🤨 I already knew that no one in need actually gets all that money & I totally agree with helping out charities directly without a middle man getting tax write offs with the free money they con off customers!
I donate to projects directly. Not to charities, as some of them have such a disproportionally big management behind that swallows a big portion of donations. I love it when my (rather large) employer asks us to buy overpriced flowers on Valentine's as a part of the proceedings will be donated.. same for home made cookies (by some employees).. or asks us to donate school supplies although I'm sure they get great condition when ordering in bulk. But I guess you don't get rich by spending your money on donations when you can just guilt trip your employees into doing it for you
£100 in, £100 out. Don't class the in as taxable. They are no better off. Yes charity is tax deductible. if they use their own funds they don't pay tax, but it's using the money you gave. So they are net neutral. Only looks good on their end of year reports but not money saved for them
Big charities which REALLY are "non-profits" can be counted on one finger. To really be sure 100% of your donation go to the ones who need them, please donate directly to people in need like e.g. homeless, to animal shelters which don't euthanize, to small private groups that actively help people after a catastrophe, private animal rescuers, like single people who care for abandoned stray pets on their own expense, etc. It's easy! Too many well known organizations are not even what they seem to be. Like the WWF says on its Canadian website "WWF is not an animal welfare organization." They openly support the annual excessive seal hunt. Just ONE example...
I realized I would rather donate to a good cause. My grocery donates thousands of dollars to food banks and weather relief. I never have enuf to deduct from my taxes; if HEB gets a pittance of tax relief from my tiny donation, good on. But they don't. They have UPC coupons for designated 501c3 charities.
Stores used to match donations, making it not just a tax avoidance scam. I always ask if they match, but they never do anymore. They do raise incredible amounts for hospitals and charities so even though it's a scam it's not all bad.
Just about every store is doing this now and it really annoys me, especially when you decline and the cashier gives you the "look"! It's almost as annoying as the "tip" line that shows up on the POS (point of sale) terminal and the "tip jar" in fast food restaurants!!! I'm sorry (sarcasm) but if you work in fast food you are not on the "tipped minimum wage" as a server in a regular restaurant, you are regular hourly and being paid a regular wage to do that job and should not be expecting or soliciting tips. Be for anyone who disagrees, ask yourself how often you tip the random cashier or shelf stocker at ordinary retail stores. Do you tip the UPS guy each time your Amazon package is delivered? Would leave a tip at checkout on Amazon or Ebay if presented with that at checkout? This whole asking for donations and tips everywhere is beyond excessive and absurd.
the prices hurt (the poor) at donation stores. costs them NOTHING, and i cant clothe my kids....
and then sold at outrageous prices to people with little income. Yah.. I'm talking to you Goodwill and Salvation Army.
I shop at Goodwill, not because I have to but because it repurposes and it employees so many. I always find some great buys, and occasionally a ridiculously bad purchase (pink glitter boots, but not the same size L&R). Prices seem a tad arbitrary, not always based on condition, but not outrageous.
Load More Replies...This is incorrect and should be taken down. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0
I love the downvotes from people who... couldn't provide a counterargument?
Load More Replies...Ariane noted that humor can often soften and diffuse a message. That's why some people tend to rely on it to share their real opinions about important topics. It also acts as a safety net in case things go awry. "Humor often softens and diffuses a message. It also has the bonus of you being able to say, ‘I wasn’t serious, it was only a joke’ if your message lands badly. With straight social commentary, you don’t have this leeway."
Meanwhile the line between mean jokes that are still funny and mean jokes that are downright mean depends on how sensitive the person is. "In general, we tend to think a joke is much funnier if it’s aimed at someone else than if it’s aimed at us," the comedy writer said.
According to Know Your Meme, the cliché pick-up line “Did it hurt? When you fell from heaven?” implies that the stranger you’re trying to woo at a bar (or the library, we’re not judging you Ravenclaws) is “considered cheesy and unusable.”
However, very recently, in the summer of 2021, the line morphed and became a ‘snowclone’ on Twitter. Internet users replaced the second half of the pick-up line with other humorous questions.
No because that's not bad. It's crap when you wake half an hour before and you can't make yourself go back to sleep.
A snowclone is a meme template where some words can be replaced with others for comedic or other effects. It’s all very similar to Mad Libs, the ‘fill-in-the-blank’ game, and shows that memes have a tendency to change and be updated over time.
Did it hurt? When you farted and it sounded too mushy to be just a fart.
Did it hurt? When you realized that you had left an empty shoe box on your front seat, pracitically as an open invitation to have your car broken into, resulting in hundreds of dollars of easily avoidable car damage.
It’s not completely clear when the original “Did it hurt?” pick-up line originated. However, the first time it was mentioned in print was traced back to The Tampa Tribune in 1985. However, by then, the newspaper already suggested that people avoid using it.
I've gotten used to is. So have the people I thought I responded to.
Personally, I like to imagine that the cheesy pick-up line was with humanity from the very beginning. It makes for a pretty hilarious anthropological narrative when you consider the possibility that it might have been in use while we were still nomads, living in caves, or building the first cities as we settled down to grow crops and raise livestock. Of course, that’s all just conjecture on my part. But it’s fun to daydream!
No, because it was on bored panda and they mocked you for telling them to look it up for themselves
The pick-up line changed into the “Did it hurt?” meme this summer and became commonly used after Twitter user Bratzcokeden shared a post on July 20. They wrote, “Did it hurt? When u fell off” and got 58k likes and the post was retweeted 8k times, according to Know Your Meme.
After the Twitter user’s post, the new meme format spread like wildfire. People started using various humorous, slightly hurtful questions that acted like social commentary as much as they were sick burns. The memes mostly became very literal and direct, losing any link to their flirtatious and cheesy origin.
At first, then the pyrrhonian skepticism set in, and now it's just a game.
Internet users even began using the new meme to refer to other memes. For instance, on August 24, Twitter user Thisyearsgurl made a post poking fun of the people falling off of milk crates while they were doing the Milk Crate Challenge (kids, adults, Pandas, don’t do this at home!).
Mr Brightside by The Killers for those who don't understand the reference :)
Meanwhile, the new format became so popular, it even got major companies involved who wanted to be trendy and relate to their customers more. Swiggy, a food ordering and delivery platform, tweeted out, "Did it hurt? When you realized pineapple on pizza actually tastes kinda nice?", vindicating my amazing taste when it comes to pizza toppings.
Instagram referred to the most famous egg in the world when it wrote, "Did it hurt? When an egg got more likes than you?" While Xbox had this classic zinger: "Did it hurt? When you got handed the player 2 controller?"
It's allmost like the product doesn't do much except for empty your wallet.
Note: this post originally had 85 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Did you find the memes funny or painfully funny, dear Pandas? Do you have any “Did it hurt?” memes of your own design that you’d like to share with everyone else? Share your thoughts with everyone else in the comment section.
Did it hurt when you realized you will never get the time you wasted on this post back.
Did it hurt? When you found out that the owl house S4 is getting shortened to three 44 min specials.
I think it's a thing. A thing I didn't know was a thing but is in fact a thing.
Load More Replies...did it hurt when you realized every single post sounds like it's been written by a 12yo?
Did it hurt when you found out the National Archives recently put warning labels for "HARMFUL CONTENT" on the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence? Yeah man, that really has happened.
Did it hurt when you called someone ignorant on Facebook for commenting on an article without reading the article first and you got blocked for supposed bullying?
Did it hurt when you shared someone else's post on Facebook and you got a 30-day block for violating standards but the original poster didn't and the post you shared is still up on their timeline?
I don't even know what most of those things mean... But some made me very bitter, so... good job.
Did it hurt? Reading this list? No. Because I read the first 5, and then skipped to the bottom, because they were all stupid.
Did it hurt when you realized you will never get the time you wasted on this post back.
Did it hurt? When you found out that the owl house S4 is getting shortened to three 44 min specials.
I think it's a thing. A thing I didn't know was a thing but is in fact a thing.
Load More Replies...did it hurt when you realized every single post sounds like it's been written by a 12yo?
Did it hurt when you found out the National Archives recently put warning labels for "HARMFUL CONTENT" on the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence? Yeah man, that really has happened.
Did it hurt when you called someone ignorant on Facebook for commenting on an article without reading the article first and you got blocked for supposed bullying?
Did it hurt when you shared someone else's post on Facebook and you got a 30-day block for violating standards but the original poster didn't and the post you shared is still up on their timeline?
I don't even know what most of those things mean... But some made me very bitter, so... good job.
Did it hurt? Reading this list? No. Because I read the first 5, and then skipped to the bottom, because they were all stupid.