About the Meme Graveyard

What is this?

RIPthisMEME is a memorial site dedicated to the memes that once dominated our feeds, group chats, and conversations—but have since passed into the great beyond.

Here, we honor their memory with obituaries, pay our respects, throw a little shade, and sometimes argue about whether they're really dead.

How it works

• Browse the graveyard — Explore tombstones of fallen memes
• Pay respects (F) — Honor the dead with a heartfelt message
• Throw shade (S) — Some memes deserved to die. Let them know.
• Resurrect (R) — Think a meme is still alive? Dispute its death!
• Submit a meme — Know of a dead meme we missed? Report a memurder.

Why does this exist?

I walked up to my kids, hands raised like I was weighing invisible options, and drawled: "Siiiix... sev-en."

They were less impressed than even McKayla Maroney. "Dad," they said, with the pained exasperation of Robert Downey Jr. rolling his eyes, "that meme is dead."

Dead? It had been alive for less than a year! (Maybe... 6 or 7 months? 🙄) I'd just learned about it. The hand motion. The pitch change. Dictionary.com had literally named "67" their Word of the Year. And now it was already in the ground?

In true dad fashion, I replied: "What? I missed the funeral?!"

But then I actually went looking. Surely somewhere on the internet there was an official record—a death certificate, an obituary, something to tell me which memes had shuffled off this mortal coil. There wasn't.

So I built one. For every parent who's ever been told their reference is "cringe." For every millennial discovering their cultural touchstones are now "vintage." For anyone over 30 who just wants to know if it's safe to use "That's what she said" in a meeting.

You're welcome.