A quick disclaimer - no feral hogs were harmed in the making of this post. But now you've probably guessed that today we're going to talk about memes. And the people who, willingly or unwillingly, became the ‘heroes’ of these memes.
Over the years, we've seen a huge number of memes, some incredibly funny, some just plain stupid - and even captivating in their own stupidity. And the commenters in this viral thread on X are recalling the ‘disposable’ heroes of the internet from recent times. And Bored Panda is making a selection of the best memories from this thread.
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It all started with a tweet from the user Jamie Loftus who recently asked people: “Who are the internet main characters of the day you still think about? Good, bad, indifferent, who's stuck with you. Can be any era.” And, as it often happens, the post got covered by a real avalanche of witty responses. As of today, there are 4.7K quotes and over 45.3M views. After all, a meme is perhaps the main creative form of modern culture.
I think a lot of those depended on the monitor. The colors were different between my work computer and my home laptop.
Unfortunately he is still free to move around the country stirring up trouble.
Well, come November hopefully that human cheeto will be behind bars
Load More Replies...He's a racist, convicted felon, adulterer, bully, grifter, rapist, and one of the dumbest animals on the planet. And supply size christians think he's the second coming. And people with no character or morals yearn to smell his diaper and will vote for him to destroy our country.
I think you hit every nail on the head. He's definitely not the second coming, but I'm not sure he isn't the anti-christ.
Load More Replies...He was convicted on 34 felony counts, and somehow is not in jail where he should be.
AND he’s gonna run for president! Aren’t there ANY requirements for running for president, like, oh, I dunno, maybe not having any FELONIES? I swear I don’t understand this at all!
Load More Replies...We just watched almost 4 years of a guy who could barely speak. The bar is low in this country.
I'd think 'treasonous felon' would be a bit more important, but to each their own...vote blue.
Load More Replies...Hm. I wonder how he feels about "regular" rapists? You know, the crime he was found guilty of?
Load More Replies...If you don't remember, let us remind you that the very concept of ‘meme’ was introduced in 1976 by the famous English biologist and popularizer of science Richard Dawkins. In his bestselling book The Selfish Gene, the scientist defined a meme as a unit of cultural information, similar to a gene in biology. Like a gene, according to the scientist, a meme can be copied, transmitted from carrier to carrier, and undergo evolution.
However, even such an outstanding scientific mind as Richard Dawkins could hardly have imagined the evolutionary direction that memes have acquired in recent decades...
Forget who he was, but he basically forgot to change accounts and completely outted himself in one tweet.
The great artist Andy Warhol once said that ‘everyone will get their 15 minutes of fame.’ I don't know about everyone, but the ubiquity of the internet and the Share button have actually done their job. Literally any of us can become famous all over the world - and not necessarily in a good way. One viral tweet or video on TikTok is pretty much enough.
Over the past decade and a half, there have been hundreds of folks and stuff that the whole world has literally talked about - only to forget about them a couple of days later. The specificity of modern thinking - another dose of fast dopamine has been received, you can move on to looking for the next one!
My brother, that breakfast better be a trip to Paris for some French Toast
So now just meet the white and gold (or black and blue) dress, 30 or 50 feral hogs, that poor giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal a couple of years ago - and dozens of other memes that actually fulfilled their main function - they made us smile. After all, it’s not that easy to smile in such a wild and difficult contemporary world!
Ah yes. Next to our late crack smoking mayor, Ikea Monkey was the height of Toronto's global viral fame in the 2010s.
The one from India? The thread was pretty long, live reporting the whole thing. Quite hilarious.
If I remember rightly, she was on her way to South Africa and made an awful joke about hoping to not get AIDS.
I don’t know this one, but after Paris Hilton’s baby hate, as someone who isn’t a fan of kids, I don’t get how anyone can online shame and bully a baby, it’s a freaking baby, it’s capable of 5 things - crying, drinking milk, soiling yourself, sleeping and smiling
My wife cannot eat fajitas without cheese. So far this is the only one on the list I could identify.
If he took off his shirt and grabbed an elongated mallet, he would look like that guy from the game ‘Getting Over It”
That was a very sad tale of child abuse, s*xualisation of minors, exploitation and the dangers of internet trolls.
Let's just all agree to start telling our ages in months, that way no one gets confused, personally I'm 529 months and 8 days :)
The lady that "fixed" the Jesus fresco and accidently gave the world Monkey Jesus.
The person who sold a VCR on eBay and got a beautiful hand-written thank you from the older gentleman who purchased it. And the dude in the Elsa costume who single-handedly pushed a Boston cop car out of a snowbank.
The Scottish sports presenter who didn't have any sport to announce in the early days of Covid so he started narrating his dogs walks like they were in a sporting event. It kills me every time I think about it.
I just discovered Olive and Mabel because of this comment!! Awesome, thank you!!
Load More Replies...How about dancing baby? I'm that old. Frog in a blender? Hamster dance?
For some reason all I can think of are children: the boy who said he liked turtles, the boy who said, "Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy?", and the boy who was especially fond of saying "apparently". Then I loved the two bickering colleagues of that NYC TV station who had it out on air while one of them was reporting on a neighbor dispute in some apartment building, the woman who said "I so pale" while not knowing she was on air, the Phoenix-area meteorologist who had some fun with a massive screw-up with some temperatures on the weather map, the New Zealand woman who lost it when she was reporting on "an emergency defecation situation", and the Atlanta-area traffic reporter who often inserts some pretty slick references to people he's paying tribute to while doing his reports.
The lady that "fixed" the Jesus fresco and accidently gave the world Monkey Jesus.
The person who sold a VCR on eBay and got a beautiful hand-written thank you from the older gentleman who purchased it. And the dude in the Elsa costume who single-handedly pushed a Boston cop car out of a snowbank.
The Scottish sports presenter who didn't have any sport to announce in the early days of Covid so he started narrating his dogs walks like they were in a sporting event. It kills me every time I think about it.
I just discovered Olive and Mabel because of this comment!! Awesome, thank you!!
Load More Replies...How about dancing baby? I'm that old. Frog in a blender? Hamster dance?
For some reason all I can think of are children: the boy who said he liked turtles, the boy who said, "Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy?", and the boy who was especially fond of saying "apparently". Then I loved the two bickering colleagues of that NYC TV station who had it out on air while one of them was reporting on a neighbor dispute in some apartment building, the woman who said "I so pale" while not knowing she was on air, the Phoenix-area meteorologist who had some fun with a massive screw-up with some temperatures on the weather map, the New Zealand woman who lost it when she was reporting on "an emergency defecation situation", and the Atlanta-area traffic reporter who often inserts some pretty slick references to people he's paying tribute to while doing his reports.
