7
Meme Day

Meme Day

Part of a series on Memes. [View Related Entries]

Updated Sep 19, 2019 at 06:11AM EDT by Y F.

Added May 21, 2018 at 03:37PM EDT by Adam.

PROTIP: Press 'i' to view the image gallery, 'v' to view the video gallery, or 'r' to view a random entry.

This submission is currently being researched & evaluated!

You can help confirm this entry by contributing facts, media, and other evidence of notability and mutation.

Overview

Meme Day refers to an annual event started at Olympian High School in California in which students dress up as characters from viral videos and images for a day. After the success of the first day, other high schools took up the practice.

Background

On April 26th, 2017, Twitter user @nicnaastyy, real name Nicole Pinto, tweeted about it being Meme Day at her high school, California's Olympian High School, along with a video showing some of the costumes students at her school wore (shown below). The tweet gained 7,000 retweets and 15,000 likes.




Developments

After the tweet spread, Select All[1] interviewed Pinto about the day at her school. She clarified that the day was part of her school's annual Spirit Week in which teens dress up in different ways in anticipation of graduation and prom. Included in the article was a tweet from user @alandizn1 (shown below), who went dressed as an Idiot Sandwich, referencing a Gordon Ramsay clip.[2]



2018 Meme Day

The following year, many more high schools participated in Meme Day and shared their outfits on Twitter. Some popular examples @kamerxn_ tweeted a video compiling outfits from her school, gaining over 39,000 retweets and 87,000 likes (shown below, top). Another popular tweet by @jcortiola gained over 60 retweets and 170 likes (shown below, bottom). Select All[2] covered the memes posted that year.







Search Interest

External References

[1] Select All – Extremely Good Teens Celebrate Meme Day at California High School

[2] Select All – High School Spirit Weeks Have Meme Day Now, and I Can’t Stop Watching

Related Entries 17 total


View All Related Entries

Recent Videos

There are no videos currently available.

Recent Images

There are no images currently available.


Top Comments

Nedhitis
Delete
NSFW
Nedhitis

Since I predict there will be a lot of negative comments saying how cringy this is or how this "kills memes", let me be the one person to try and be the positive one here:

1) At least a US school is finally getting attention for something other than a shooting or some political drama.

2) Sure, a lot of these are outdated memes, but at least they are doing it for fun, not for commercial gain, like many big brands using memes today.

3) Outdated or not, at least they avoided actual trash memes like Cash Me Ousside or forced Spongebob memes. Some thought went to this, and I think that merits a mention.

4) A US school is finally getting attention for something other than a shooting or some political drama. Seriously, this is important. Verily.

So, yes, I would rather not be the fun police here and just be glad that other people are having harmless fun, and shove any ounce of meme elitism I may or may not have up the first cavity it fits in.

+49
Reply

+ Add a Comment

Comments (16)


Display Comments

Add a Comment


'lo! You must login or signup first!