Skeleton Calcium

About

Skeleton Calcium refers to jokes about skeletons consuming calcium to make their bones strong. While originally appearing online during the summer of 2017, images referencing the chemical element saw a resurgence in early October 2018 in response to Moth Lamp and Spooktober memes.

Origin

On April 29th, 2017, Redditor Djasslord submitted a comic of the character Meme Man discussing calcium with a skeleton to /r/surrealmemes,^[4] in which Meme Man absorbs a skeleton's calcium while saying "succ" (shown below).

Spread

On May 1st, 2017, Redditor master_mikkel submitted an image macro featuring a picture of a skeleton captioned with the phrase "Have you experienced calcium?" to /r/surrealmemes,^[1] where it gathered more than 2,600 points (97% upvoted) and 74 comments prior to being archived (shown below).

On June 7th, the image was reposted by Redditor bloodylipservice to /r/dankmemes,^[2] where it accumulated upwards of 1,600 points (95% upvoted) and 40 comments before it was archived.

On October 3rd, 2018, Redditor jimmyolsenblues submitted a post asking "What is up with all the Calcium posts?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[3] That day, Redditor UnitedMemesOfAmerica posted a Skeleton Calcium-themed Because Your Mother Loves Roses meme to /r/dankmemes^[6] (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Redditor Oluf0610 submitted a photograph of a horse skeleton captioned with a calcium reference to /r/dankmemes^[5] (shown below, right).

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