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Only 90's kids will understand this specific expression of existential dread. Lisa Frank's wildly colored animal art was all the rage nearly two decades ago, and now it's being repurposed by the Nihilisa Frank Facebook page to give an entirely more philosophical message. The memes are a perfect combination of nostalgia and jaded misery - and possibly the best thing we've seen on the internet this week.
This bizarre, dank, and often deep-fried meme leaves us with a lot of questions:
- Why would someone want to 'shop Youtuber/video game commentator Markiplier with Lord Farquaad from Shrek?
- Why the letter E?
- Why did people start to blend this meme with the Zuckerberg trials?
- Finally, WHY is this meme still going since its creation in April?
These questions kind of prove the point the first 'Markiplier E' memes were trying to make. The first examples fall into the Memes Then/Memes Now category. The heavily distorted and arguably hideous 'shops really do make the contrast between current memedom and the Impact memes of yore extra palpable. But that doesn't mean we really "get" these memes at all.
Today in THINGS WE DESPERATELY WISH WE COULD UNSEE...Twitter made 'Shaved Mario' a thing. A few days ago, Twitter user @yourfaveisbald2 uploaded a proud-looking pic of Mario photoshopped to appear completely bald. Sans eyebrows even. The post quickly became viral and garnered a range of reactions - from understandably perturbed to weirdly turned on. Where do you stand?
Most Marvel fans are in a state of shock following the Marvel Cinematic Universe's equivalent to The Red Wedding. So much death and destruction, packed into a very short period of time. As with any important moment in pop culture history, the disintegration of everyone's favorite superheroes has become the subject of a good many dank memes. It's worth nothing that disintegration effect memes have been around for about a year - one even predicted Spider-Man's fate to a T. We can't wait for Thanos to get his ass whooped and for all of our beloved characters to return, safe and sound.
Connect Four box parodies have been around since 2007, but they're making a huge resurgence after being featured on the r/memeeconomy subreddit earlier this month. The parodies range from dark and surreal to classic nonsensical shitposts. We've put together a healthy combination of our favorite and most bizarre examples of the Photoshops - who's down for a game?
People always seem to be forgetting this incredibly important rule: If you pose with a sign or a piece of paper, you will get meme'd. Conservative podcaster Steven Crowder learned this the hard way after sharing an audacious photo of himself with a sign claiming that male privilege is a myth. His dare for people to change his mind on the matter was quickly turned into a prolific meme. Here are our favorites of the bunch.
A slew of new posters for Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One were released yesterday - and they've caused quite a stir on the internet. The posters, which are designed to look like classic films (The Matrix, Blade Runner, and The Breakfast Club) garnered quick criticism - and quicker memes. People started making their own posters for the upcoming film, using decidedly bad movies as their "inspiration."
This isn't the first time Ready Player One posters have been scrutinized. Back in December, there was a meme uproar over the hilariously awful depiction of the protagonist's leg. We've included those too - because they're amazing.
