Creating a good meme is a delicate process. There is a fine line between a good meme and a really bad meme. One wrong move and something can go from perfect to terrible and cringeworthy. A bad caption is a common thing that can make a meme really bad. Many users on social media sites like Instagram and Twitter repost memes from other places, and with that they add their own caption to it. Something to give it their own spin. The only issue with this is that usually, the captions are totally unnecessary, and take away from the meme itself.

Lots of times there are even things added, like emojis or red circles, stuff that no one needed or asked for. These things are a sure death sentence for any kind of humor the meme may have held before, it is even worse, though, when it's an already-bad meme with those things added. Just making it worse. Reddit's "/r/comedyhomicide" is a resting place for all of these memes out there. There are hundreds of great examples of what not to do to a meme if you want to preserve it. Here are 24 of those sadly ruined memes.