We’re almost at the halfway point in the year and I thought I would give everyone a chance to yell at me. I’m making the most of all of the great Substack features this week in order to make the newsletter better. So please indulge me and engage with this thread!
What Memes Did I Miss So Far This Year? Was it a meme with an amorphous timeline that I couldn’t pin down or an image that took Instagram by storm that I otherwise ignored? Were you waiting for me to cover something and I didn’t? Please tell me! I’m going to cover them all before the public schools are out for the summer!
Please reply to this email with any memes I may have missed! Pictures and links appreciated! (Pics or it didn’t happen) Looking forward to reading them all! I’ll give you credit!
The premise is this woman stitches herself to the end of videos where someone is wearing something that looks like a thneed. She uses the same music and pose; however, I can't seem to find a specific TikTok sound that thneed girl uses which makes this trend difficult to archive. (I think this trend is a lot older than this year and has mostly run it's course, but it's still one I wish was covered!)
-Tell me X without telling me X... I'll start:
This one is more of a meta meme that created lots of trends on Twitter and TikTok. I think you may have covered specific iterations of this but I feel like the general format completely took over the viral quote tweet/TikTok stitch formula. I personally find it annoying but it's EVERYWHERE.
-Mike Kara + other TikTok stitch commentators
Mike Kara is a middle aged man who stitches TikTok videos with some sort of color commentary and always begining with "Mike Kara here". Not anything too crazy for the platform, but his sometimes non sequitur comments + his accent seem to make him very popular. People began to imitate him or specifically call out Mike Kara and he now does cameo requests, among other things. Imitator accounts or fan accounts have also popped up. Unfortunately, his profile is difficult to parse because he's now constantly engaging with other users or fans, but here are a few examples.
Other accounts do similar things, such as eliyoguy. He has SO many videos and almost every single one is him in a dimly lit corner responding with a comment about a video.
-Whiteboyz was a shorter lived tiktok sound from a week or two ago https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdGprQNP/
Maybe not a "meme" but a weird collection of people using the sound.
-Thneed girl: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdGpBRjq/?k=1
The premise is this woman stitches herself to the end of videos where someone is wearing something that looks like a thneed. She uses the same music and pose; however, I can't seem to find a specific TikTok sound that thneed girl uses which makes this trend difficult to archive. (I think this trend is a lot older than this year and has mostly run it's course, but it's still one I wish was covered!)
-Tell me X without telling me X... I'll start:
This one is more of a meta meme that created lots of trends on Twitter and TikTok. I think you may have covered specific iterations of this but I feel like the general format completely took over the viral quote tweet/TikTok stitch formula. I personally find it annoying but it's EVERYWHERE.
-Mike Kara + other TikTok stitch commentators
Mike Kara is a middle aged man who stitches TikTok videos with some sort of color commentary and always begining with "Mike Kara here". Not anything too crazy for the platform, but his sometimes non sequitur comments + his accent seem to make him very popular. People began to imitate him or specifically call out Mike Kara and he now does cameo requests, among other things. Imitator accounts or fan accounts have also popped up. Unfortunately, his profile is difficult to parse because he's now constantly engaging with other users or fans, but here are a few examples.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdGp42Ly/?k=1
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdGptsrC/?k=1
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdGpXwBM/?k=1
Other accounts do similar things, such as eliyoguy. He has SO many videos and almost every single one is him in a dimly lit corner responding with a comment about a video.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdGpvEGY/?k=1
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdGpsj7b/?k=1
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdGpWJSF/?k=1
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdGs1Qgk/?k=1
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdGpcxwT/?k=1
That's all I've got! Thanks for a great half year of memeforum!