40 Funny Times The UK Was Caught Just Being The UK, As Shared On This Page (New Pics)

Bacon, the founder of both the GBM Group social creative agency and the Great British Memes project, opened up to Bored Panda about the company.

"Great British Memes was founded in 2017, and has now become one of many pages that GBM owns," he shared. "Great British Memes was a project I started whilst at uni, and began to kick off straight away!"

Meanwhile, Bacon founded the company itself in 2020, during the pandemic, after he finished his degree and graduated from Portsmouth University.

Bored Panda was curious about the types of memes that resonate the most with the audience of the Great British Memes project.

"Definitely British, of course! However, we jump on reactive and cultural things happening in the UK which really helps with keeping our audience up to date," the founder told us.

As for the popularity of the page, one thing that all content creators should definitely keep in mind is the power of consistency.

"Consistency definitely helps, we've been posting on Great British Memes daily for the last 6 years. That's some commitment!" Bacon said that they post at least 3 to 4 times per day.

At the moment, the GBM team consists of 7 people, with both full-time and freelance employees working at the London-based company. "The GBM-owned network is now over 10 million followers strong, with the majority of their audience based in the UK," Bacon said.

‘Great British Memes’ is a well-established internet project that focuses on relatable memes and funny posts.

It’s quite likely that you’ve seen a few of their memes while scrolling on your fave social media networks. On Instagram alone, the project has amassed a following of 2.2 million eager fans since 2017. 

Meanwhile, ‘Great British Memes’ has a further 980k followers on Facebook, as well as 17.3k fans on X (formerly known as Twitter, thanks, Elon).

It’s clear that the founder of the project has a deep appreciation for memes, humor, and Britishness as a whole. Combine all of them with lots of relatability and what you get is a solid community that loves a bit of banter and spans the internet. Of course, all of that success is bound to bring at least a few (dozen) copycats, too.

There are a lot of stereotypes floating around about what it’s like being a Brit. And though many of them are overly exaggerated renditions of life in the British Isles, there are some kernels of truth here and there. For one, the Brits really do love their tea! According to the UK Tea & Infusions Association, approximately 100 million cups are drunk every single day in the United Kingdom.

All of this amounts to nearly 36 billion cups of tea drunk per year in the UK. It’s mind-boggling! And the absolute majority—97.5%—of British tea is consumed from a tea bag. Meanwhile, coffee is also popular among Brits, but it still falls short of the widespread consumption of tea. Around 70 million cups of coffee are drunk by Brits. 

It’s not just a fascination with endless cups of tea that makes for truly British life. ‘Country Living’ points out that Brits are huge fans of dunking their biscuits in tea and simply love eating chips (aka fries) with weird toppings, from curry sauce (yum!) and cheese to gravy (delicious!). Anyone who’s tried curry or gravy on their chips knows that it’s hard to go back to plain potatoes afterward.

There is a culture of fried and heavy foods in the UK, too. People love having fried eggs, sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, and hash browns for breakfast. And if you didn’t get slightly hungry by the end of that sentence, we don’t know what to tell you. What’s more, some Brits enjoy eating specific meals based on the day of the week. Sunday roasts and fish and chips on Friday are two popular choices.

Some other quintessentially British things include the love of queues, avoiding sitting next to other people on public transport, and apologizing for practically everything and anything.

As ‘Country Living’ also notes, the British are said to often pretend to like people that they actually don’t. It’s this stereotypical non-stop politeness that has made some people wonder whether Brits really mean it when they apologize or if, for many of them, it’s simply a cultural habit. 

As British writer and comedian Ariane Sherine told Bored Panda during a previous interview, life in the UK has its fair share of upsides and downsides

"Let's start with the good things first: we have the NHS, a healthcare system which is free at the point of use. It's not perfect, but it needs to be cherished and protected. So medical procedures are free, except for dentistry, which is subsidized, as are prescriptions,” she said.

"Then we have strict gun laws which mean almost nobody has a gun and there's virtually no gun crime. We have seasonal weather which means you never really know what you're going to get. But it's nice to have changing seasons, with occasional snow in winter. I guess climate change is going to alter that though,” the talented comedy writer said.

However, the UK is far from perfect! "It rains a lot and is quite gloomy weather-wise for much of the time. People are quite negative, sarcastic, and bitter though I don't mind that so much,” Sherine told Bored Panda.

For some more awesome Great British Memes, be sure to follow their socials and check out Bored Panda's previous feature about them.