my current thoughts on the situation

so I don’t think I’ve talked about this but since I’m Phantom blogging, this last March I did something Stupid which was drive to New York on a Saturday, drive back to Ohio on a Sunday, drive to Pittsburgh that Sunday night, got No sleep, flew to Boston the next morning, and then immediately got in a car for a four hour drive to NYC.

No sleep. My friends were going to see Waitress, and my best friend and I trolled around Time Square looking for stuff to do,

and we decided to go to the theatre where Phantom of the Opera was showing 15 minutes before curtain to see if they had any cheap unclaimed tickets,

and in fact they had box seats, which they said were “partial view” and sold them to us for nothing.

So we got into the box, and we had full view, no idea what they were talking about, it was amazing.

BUT, as you may know, the Phantom demands a box be left empty for him at all times so he can sit in it to watch the opera,

and it happened to be the same as the box number we were sat in

and when he darkly said in a mysterious echo, “leave box 5 open for me,”

my friend and I held each other. The terror was so real. I was at that point of tired when you’re hysterical.

I was having a blast but I also kinda of thought the phantom was going to Murder me for real.

OP keep your hand at the level of your eyes AT ALL TIMES

THIS IS WHAT HE MEANT BY PARTIAL VIEW

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, three routes to healing

Big brain time

God was actually G.O.D, gravitational orientation display, the AI naviagation system that helped Adam and Eve land safely on earth.

so castlevania is one of those shows where you swear someone has added fake captions to a screenshot but it´s actually real.

since i’ve been seeing a lot of invader zim and steven universe crossovers, i thought it would be important to share this with ya’ll, lmao

original video

THIS IS SO WELL MADE WHAT THE HELL

memeception

WE’VE HIT TERMINAL MEME

@caesarianconfection

I’ve said “I hate this” so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, because “I hate this” is just shorthand for ‘this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasn’t expecting with intent to surprise’. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.

But this… This is something else.

The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.

For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?

….I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE

it is a YMCA reference - that’s one of the 6 memes being represented here

ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)

this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)

“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)

‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)

and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)

which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)

(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think i’ve ever seen. the initial ‘young man’ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock meme ‘gun’ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)

I wasn’t going to reblog this, but @pagesofkenna‘s comprehensive meme-by-meme annotation is a thing of beauty and should be shared.

average tumblr post contains one meme, this post, which contains six, is an outlier and should not be counted

it might also just be a coincidence due to loss.jpg’s format but the whole white minimalist four-panel setup is also suspiciously reminiscent of those early 2000’s rage comics

I was getting a political compass vibe too

tag urself im man door hand hook car gun

This works better than I thought it would.

This was in my senior project

I’m not sorry.

EIGHT MEME COMBO

FATALITY

We have officially created a new language 

I just had to do it to em

THIS FUCKING THREAD I’M GONNA CRY

I LOST IT AND MAN DOOR HAND HOOK CAR GUN AND DIDN’T EXPECT MORE I’M SOBBING

M E M E T E N

OwO?

You know I had to

I hope you know this is the most cursed addition to my post, and I love it

THIRTEEN!?

SOMEONE EDIT THIS FROM THE ORIGINAL PHOTO SAYING “this one does not spark joy” TO THIS VERSION SAYING “this one sparks joy”

well i added my contribution : )

why—

IM SCREAMING

This is the most elaborate meme I have ever seen and damn am I concerned by how it makes sense.

“You’re in your 30s, but you still understand all this meme stuff?” “Oh yeah, sure.” “Can you explain it to me?” “I absolutely fucking cannot.”

In this year of 2019 this monster is still mutating?

A person with an abusive nature will always register you standing up for yourself as an act of betrayal. Betray them.

By Jan and Odee

Very good compilation of Caleb/Liam reacting to Nott calling herself and being called Bren. It wasn’t even subtle if you knew when to look, especially that wince. Love being emotionally destroyed by Liam’s acting every single day 🙃

Via @iamdylancurran (Twitter)

not even apologizing for the longpost