17 Edited Memes That Work Surprisingly Well

Have you ever seen those odd memes with blacked-out words? The ones that mean something completely different due to the erasure? Well, they've become more and more popular over the years. And while they seem like a niche type of meme, they're actually so versatile and entertaining that you can make an old meme mean something completely new. You can make wholesome content dark, or you can make a sentence mean something totally dumb and out-of-context, all while keeping things funny and perfectly fitting for sharing online and earning those upvotes for creativity. That's why /r/SpeedOfLobsters exists.

Sure, the subreddit /r/SpeedOfLobsters might have a bizarre name, but it's a treasure trove of brand new memes that were created thanks to heavy editing. And, to make matters even stranger, they somehow still manage to be funny. Here are 17 of our new favorite meme phrases that were born unexpectedly. We salute those who expressed their delightful creativity below.