They say that all roads lead to Rome, but what they should really say is, "All roads lead to The Weekly Meme Roundup," where we go over five of the biggest memes of the last week that you might have missed.

This week, Alice In Wonderland's White Rabbit decided to stress everyone out by reminding them of how little time they have left, gamers showed us the difference between characters designed with gamers in mind vs. activists in mind, a 2022 video of a woman asking, "Who are you?" made a big comeback and more.

Without further ado, here are five memes from the past week that you need to pay attention to.

White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock

An image inspired by the 2010 Alice In Wonderland movie has resurfaced as a huge reaction meme to remind people that time is running out.

The White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock meme might look like it comes right from the movie, but it's actually an old piece of art by DeviantArt user Luz Tapia.

In May 2025, the image resurfaced on TikTok and started spreading as a meme. Mainly, the meme is used as a way of suggesting that time is running out, with one of the earliest examples reading, "How teachers be posted up when you start packing 1 minute before class ends."

This month in October, the meme really started to pick up on sites like TikTok and X, particularly after becoming a major part of the All Roads Lead to Rome memes on TikTok.

In the case of that meme, it's used to share the depressing idea that any relationship you get into will inevitably lead to heartbreak. More broadly, it's being used in its original context: to represent the passage of time in a funny and sometimes stressful way.

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Designed With Gamers In Mind

Gamers took up arms against Ghost of Yotei haters recently with the Designed With Gamers In Mind meme.

The meme comes to us courtesy of X user @MrPhillipChan, who, on October 8th, posted a bizarre image macro looking to point out the differences between a video game character designed "with gamers in mind" versus one designed "with activists in mind."

Essentially, the meme suggests that if Ghost of Yotei made the protagonist Atsu more stereotypically attractive (usually meaning giving her a bigger chest and a lot of makeup), the game would sell better.

The meme was seen by many as yet another example of a certain subsection of gamers trying to start a culture war about DEI and wokeness in gaming. In retaliation, gamers who were sick of hearing the complaints took the meme format and started making parodies.

These memes take popular video game characters and highly edit their body proportions to poke fun at the editing done to Atsu in the original iteration, skewering the idea that a female protagonist needs to stereotypically adhere to some made-up criteria to sell games.

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Abraham Lincoln Virus

Honest Abe is back in a big way thanks to a spooky TikTok trend known as the Abraham Lincoln Virus.

@swaggerigi Abraham Lincoln GMOD Virus #gmod ♬ original sound – Swaggerigi

The meme started when TikToker @swaggerigi posted a video made with Sora 2 AI, where a GMod model of Abraham Lincoln rises from the dead and infects a player's computer.

It's pretty typical creepypasta stuff, but TikTokers eat these types of videos up, resulting in a flood of similar videos about the so-called "Abraham Lincoln Virus" wreaking havoc on gamers everywhere.

The meme started by portraying the Abe Lincoln virus as a specific Garry's Mod virus, before spreading to other games. According to its loose lore, the virus straight up murders computers, which is at least better than murdering the gamers themselves, although some videos suggest it can do that, too.

Some examples of the meme use the poorly structured catchphrase, "Four score and severed your soul ago," a play on Lincoln's classic line, "Four score and seven years ago," only extremely grammatically awkward.

If you're someone who's afraid of beloved U.S. Presidents and loves Garry's Mod, this might be the meme you've been waiting for.

Examples

@cinnamn6 Abe virus #sora #ai #cs #lincoln #niche ♬ original sound – cinnamn

@orink678 Cuphead Abraham Lincoln virus #fyp #sora #lincolnvirus #cuphead #targetaudience ♬ original sound – orink678

@creepyviruses Abraham Lincoln virus #fortnite ♬ original sound – the one who knows the unknown

@creepyviruses Abraham Lincoln virus #deadbydaylight ♬ original sound – the one who knows the unknown

Heavyweight Susie

On a more niche side of the internet, Kirby fans excited for the release of Kirby Air Riders decided to take an obscure character and turn her into a massive fan art trend.

It all started when the official Kirby Air Riders X account announced that the tiny character Susie is a heavyweight rider, a reveal that both shocked and intrigued fans.

Naturally, this got people wondering what a true heavyweight Susie might look like, resulting in an unstoppable storm of fan art and memes portraying the usually petite Susie as a much larger lass.

Whether you're a fan of Kirby games or not, you might have seen Heavyweight Susie roll through your newsfeed over the past few days.

Artwork of the character has spread far and wide this week, from X to Reddit and beyond, as artists share their barely disguised fetish with the world via an obscure Kirby character.

Thanks, Nintendo. Very cool.

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"Who Are You?" Shocked White Woman

Finally, a bizarre Karen-coded video of a woman making a scene at a Starbucks made a comeback recently as a reaction image of an older woman asking, "Who are you?"

@1blesstmomma I’m a rewards member! I’m so upset. 5874 Antelope Rd Sacramento CA 95842 Starbucks you have lost a customer! @Starbucks #YellowstoneTV #fyp #viral #explorepage #greenscreenvideo #starbucks #coffee #momblogger #womanrights ♬ original sound – Jolie

In the video, which was uploaded by TikToker @1blesstmomma in 2022, the user confronts a Starbucks employee who knocked on the bathroom door to check up on her after they thought she was taking a long time. The woman isn't too happy about it and tells him to mind his business.

Then, at the end of the video, there's a cut to another woman crying and confronting @1blesstmomma over the caption, "Who are you?" The woman complains that her husband is dead and overall seems distressed about the scene that @1blesstmomma is causing in the Starbucks.

That scene has now been screenshotted and is spreading as a reaction image. Fittingly, it's being used to express a frantic desire to know who or what something is, often with an absurd twist, such as in a tweet reading, "thought I planted a tulip but turns out it was an onion."

Examples of the meme can be found as early as late 2022, but they've been picking up lately, suggesting a big resurgence for the format.

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We'll be back next Friday with another edition of our Weekly Meme Roundup series, so stay tuned!

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