ironic memes

According to r/bonehurtingjuice, a meme must intentionally misuse its format in order to qualify as a 'bone hurting juice' meme.  It's pretty easy to make one of these memes—one must simply remove the joke, metaphor or original meaning and instead turn the image into a hilariously literal scene. We've collected some of our favorite gems from r/bonehurtingjuice for anyone who can appreciate memes that are all wrong on purpose.

Greetings, internet friends. We thought we'd take you on a little journey through meme history via @OldMemeArchive, our favorite repository of blursed relics of the internet. If you're old enough to remember the time of Rage Comics, Bad Luck Brian, Scumbag Steve and SomethingAwful.com, then you might feel a little nostalgic scrolling through these ancient memes from a forgotten era. Either that, or you'll cringe in embarrassment for your entire generation. Whether you think these le epic old memes represent a golden age, or you believe society has progressed past the need for impact font, you've gotta admit that those sure were simpler times. Le sigh.

It's been an interesting time for memes to say the least. Not only has Reddit managed to meme the stock market, but dogecoin (which started out as a joke nearly a decade ago) is making a huge comeback in the strange world of cryptocurrency. At first, dogecoin seemed to piggyback off viral meme stocks like GME and AMC, surging over 800% in just a day last week. The dust quickly settled and dogecoin stopped trending for a moment there, that is until Elon Musk posted a series of supportive tweets about dogecoin early yesterday. In no time, doge was back up 50%. The price of dogecoin has since settled to a new floor of $0.04, which is pretty remarkable if you consider the fact that the meme coin was worth about $0.008 just last week. There's no doubt that dogecoin is an extremely volatile crypto and throwing your money into it is much more akin to gambling than safely investing. It's pretty fun to watch from the sidelines though. You know, for the memes. 

To celebrate the unlikely rise of dogecoin, we've put together some some classic memes featuring everyone's favorite iconic yellow shiba. Such meme. Very funny.

Ah, the birds and the bees. We've featured some galleries about woefully stupid people who desperately need sex education. Today we're focusing on purposefully dumb memes about sexy time. They're very cringey and make very little sense, but somehow that ups the humor factor by a lot. If you want more, you can browse through hundreds of similarly stupid sex memes at Know Your Meme. Happy scrolling!

If we had to choose a favorite kind of meme, we'd definitely go with extremely dumb memes. Trending meme formats and relatable content really bore us these days. Stupidity is truly the only thing we can count on. Stupidity is forever. And these Impact memes, which ironically mock some pretty un-funny jokes, definitely fall into the stupid category. See for yourslf.

Reddit's new favorite meme format comes straight from 2012's Wreck It Ralph. The format, which has become popular on r/dankmemes and r/HistoryMemes, features Fit-Felix exasperatingly uttering "Why do I fix everything I touch?" In the movie, he's managed to made the bars of his cell thicker instead of thinner, much to his chagrin. The format's mainly being used for sarcastic and ironic purposes instead of literally. And some of them are spicy as hell. We've put our favorites together in this gallery, but if you need more intel visit the entry on Know Your Meme.

These memes bring us back to the glorious days of Three Wolf Moon shirts and incense stores that blast Pure Moods. In the last year, memes about "the two wolves" inside you have been making the rounds. It's no wonder: The pairing of ironic humor and nostalgic, earnest imagery is irresistible to most Instagram meme accounts. And we're not immune to their charms either. That's why we've put all the best iterations right here for your perusal.

It's true: the good vs. bad comparitive format has been done a million times. But this one, featuring Swole Doge and goofy-looking Cheems somehow feels fresh, even though it's got a bit of a Virgin vs. Chad vibe going for it. The ironic Shiba Inu memes are being used to compare everything from international super powers in different time periods, to film directors such as Martin Scorcese and Quentin Tarantino. While serving up a hot take can be seen as low-effort meme creation, we think that these examples have a lot going for them. After all, almost any meme is better once you add Doge to the equation. 

Smart memes are great. We respect them. We consume them. We aspire to make them. But there will always be a special place in our hearts for any meme that is incredibly dumb or pointless. A shitpost, if you will. 'X in the Y, What Will He Do?' memes are basically the epitome of this. The text is completely unnecessary - we all know what we're looking at. But there's something about the completely inane text that just makes these memes hilarious. Here's a few of our favorites.

On a day when "Ok Boomer" is one of the biggest memes, it's funny that another trending meme could be seen as its greatest enemy. "I Found A Picture Of Your Grandfather" memes roast recent generations, using cringey photos to make a point about kids these days. While a few of them are sexist and homophobic, the meme is now being used in an ironic shitposting fashion - and we hope it stays in that zone. There's enough hateful garbage on the internet to last at least a millenia.

Fishing has been a vital source of food for an incredibly long time, and more recently it's been one of our favorite leisure activities. Bumper stickers that read "I'd rather be fishing" are all over the place, and it seems every damn uncle is just waiting to tell you about the whopper he caught when he was on that trip with the boys. Fishing memes, however, are just recently popping off. While many of them are super corny and laced with irony, others are simply just memes for those of us who'd rather be sitting on a boat or casting off the shore, enjoy the little things in life.

Now that pride month is over, memers are roastingthe hell out of companies for their quickness at shedding their rainbow branding. But the LGBTQ community isn't the only demographic seeking support and awareness. This month, gamers want their time. Well, they're pretending to. The "Gamers Rise Up" memes are seeing quite a resurgence as people post satirical messages on social media, expressing the need to support the world's "oppressed gamers." The parody posts are actually very clever, and very funny. We just hope people aren't taking them super seriously. 

We love a good ironic meme,and these fishing memes more than satisfy that craving. Fishing hobbyists go pretty hard on the internet and IRL, so these low quality and antiquated Impact font memes are pretty good at reflecting the culture, all while employing some serious tongue in cheek humor. We obviously appreciate the joke, but let's be real. If you've ever been to a Bass Pro you'll know they're pretty much heaven on earth. So there's some truth to these bangers.