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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They still get together every year. Unsure if grandma is still around, but he still visits the family every year :)
Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton. They've been together for Thanksgiving every year since the "wrong text" was sent in 2016. Here's their pic from last year, the extra person between them was a contest winner that got to spend the holiday with them, how cool is that? She lost her hubby, Lonnie, to COVID in 2020. Jamal-Hint...38381.jpeg
There was a lawyer that did this at the beginning of the pandemic. He had his assistant helping him and then couldn't figure it out.
This guy was actually a lawyer, and the other two people were another lawyer and a judge. They were very serious, but the cat lawyer did end up unwittingly getting them to smile. This one is definitely worth looking up to watch again.
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.
Now I want to listen to both versions of We Didn't Start the Fire (Billy Joel and Fallout Boy)
That is the day that commerce plummeted. All those cargo ships delayed by it were loaded with merchandise that was delayed and then the dockworkers and it seems everyone went on strike. Then of course Covid really @!%*#@ things up worse. Well, not so much Covid as our elected officials and "doctors".
I think a lot of those depended on the monitor. The colors were different between my work computer and my home laptop.
And I guess also depending on how you understand white-balance on images?
Load More Replies...My sister is a very analog individual and had never heard about this. I looked it up to sent it to her about a month ago. Although I always saw it as white & gold, I discovered that if I scrolled past the image rapidly, I'd see it as blue & black for just a fraction of a second - that was a very bizarre experience.
Haha, the exact opposite happened to me! I always saw it as blue:black but when I would quickly scroll to it, it looked gold/white just for a moment!
Load More Replies...Nope, I thought that too, so I asked my husband about the dress colors without telling him why. They weren't the colors I saw. We both doubted each other for a few minutes.
Load More Replies...I’m still worked up about this! How different people can see the same image SO differently is really incredible and interesting to me!
Load More Replies...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...
Had to look it up, myself https://people.com/human-interest/woman-loses-nasa-internship-over-tweet/
Load More Replies...1924: by 2024 we will have flying cars! 2024: New warning signs on the next gen bottle "Do NOT use as hair product"
Load More Replies...Woman used glue instead of hair gel to keep jair in place. Turned out that you cannot just wash glue out of the hair. Her hair was rock hard and like a helmet.
Load More Replies...At my age, body parts are indiscriminately falling off. I've tried Gorilla Glue, but the damn monkey keeps falling off!
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
And a really good reason why you did not shovel it before she got home and had to do it after a 12 hour shift...
Load More Replies...If he's at home watching her and taking pics, in my mind there are very few reasons why he's not out there shovelling, preferably alone whilst she puts her feet up.
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!
Tadhg Fleming and his family. They are very funny. Also look for him trying to get his dog Otis to open a locked car door. Made my day.
Ah yes. Next to our late crack smoking mayor, Ikea Monkey was the height of Toronto's global viral fame in the 2010s.
Rob Ford! I'm really sorry his brother is your premier
Load More Replies...The one from India? The thread was pretty long, live reporting the whole thing. Quite hilarious.
Better link https://cheezburger.com/12444421/twitter-thread-frustrated-husband-buys-entire-truck-of-rice-madness-ensues
Load More Replies...As far as I remember he was tired of being sent out by his wife to buy rice every day, so he did the time and money saving thing by ordering in bulk - only a typo or something happened, and his one sack turned into a truckload. The OP (BIL of the buyer) wrote an endless string of updates about the goings-on: angry wife, truck drive unwilling to return the rice to sender, some warehouse guy (because storage), bribery attempts, phone calls galore, curious neighbours...the works. I actually read it only recently here on BP, originally posted in 2020. https://www.boredpanda.com/rice-story-truck-lorry-india/
Load More Replies...If I remember rightly, she was on her way to South Africa and made an awful joke about hoping to not get AIDS.
She was one of the inspirations behind the Jon Ronson book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed". I think he even interviewed her. She posted a really bad joke on Twitter while representing the company she worked for and people went absolutely insane, even tracking her flight so they'd be able to watch what happened when she came back online and found out she was now Public Enemy Number One. (Specifically she tweeted that she was going to Africa but can't get AIDs "because I'm white, lol". Like I said, terrible, terrible completely unfunny attempt at humour).
She was actually making a point about iniquity. She worked in that area and knew how unfair the whole system is. She had a handful of followers, friends, who she expected to understand the point she was making, but one of them didn't, took offence, and shared it.
Load More Replies...Justine Sacco. I'm South African and one of my best friends died from AIDS. What Justine tweeted is not funny and was never funny. Being white does not make you immune. Justine was a moron.
For anyone who doesn't know the context, Ned Fulmer from the Try Guys (a Youtube channel about guys trying things they've never done before that was previously on Buzzfeed but broke away to do their own thing) was a "wife guy", meaning he made his whole personality about loving his wife and mentioned her in videos all the time. He also included her and their children in several of their videos. He got caught cheating on his wife with an employee of the Try Guys production company on camera by fans of the channel. It's blew up, he got fired, and the explanation/apology video the other three Try Guys made got parodied on SNL for some reason.
"Some reason" being that he was friends with one of the writers of SNL. And he wasn't fired because he had an affair, but because he was her boss, so there was a huge power imbalance. Huge respect on how the other three Try Guys handled the whole situation though. They couldn't have done a better job.
Load More Replies...Where did he get the idea that “eyes aren’t real”? Was he trying (and failing miserably) to be “deep” or something?
Um, yeah. He is just about THE f*cking weirdest person I have seen. I love Will Smith - his progeny, not so much. You a freak, boy.
An American pro-gun enthusiast who replied to the question about who needs to have an assault rifle: "And what should I do when 30-50 feral hogs show up and endanger my children?"
Load More Replies...I have to get up at 4:am, but it so worth it to kiss my husband goodbye. What if that were the last time?
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
Gramarically, it should be "soiling itself"... although "soiling yourself" IS something it is capable of, too.
Load More Replies...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.
I've worn masks for a whole day and they were never like this. Come on! Did she spill her coffee in it or what?
Or used it as a filter? For either cigarettes or coffee.. or just kicked the mask..
Load More Replies...Who is this? How did this happen? She's some kind of anti-masker who has done something to that mask in order to trick people into believing anti-maskers actually have a valid point. Right? RIGHT?
I laughed at “How is babby formed” for FOUR DAYS. AND I managed to infect my then-boyfriend with it, too! Nothing has EVER come close to making me laugh for FOUR DAYS again!
How is babby formed? And way instain mother 😂 that was comedy gold in the early 2000s
Eh, was this a meme, or are we thinking about Lake Placid, with Betty White? "I hope the alligator eats all of you!" Gawd, I miss her.
What did the kid do that he “deserved it a lot” to be eaten by an alligator?! Context, please, people!
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 :)
Not much different that the free chips and salsa at Mexican restaurants. 😋 It's usually a good indicator of how the rest of the food is going to be. If the chips and salsa (or bread!) is yummy, the other stuff should be too
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?
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?
