Memes Of The Week: November 1st, 2019

"I remember this farm boy of yours, I think. This would be, what, five years ago? Does it bother you to hear? He died well, that should please you. No bribe attempts or blubbering. He simply said, 'Memes. Memes, I need to live.' It was the 'memes' that caught my memory. I asked him what was so important for him. 'The memes of the week,' he replied."

This week, the teens annihilated Boomers with two simple words, Trump tweeted a picture of him giving a medal of honor to a dog, YouTubers planted lots of trees, AOC went full gabagool, and Epstein didn't kill himself.

OK Boomer

Boomers are pretty much the most-reviled demographic online, so self-evidently awful that one needs only say "Boomer" to absolutely destroy a person. This is the conceit of the recent "OK Boomer" meme, which uses those two simple words to throw a man's entire career in the trash. It started, as many memes today do, on /r/okbuddyretard with an ironic doge edit before it spread to myriad other formats and Twitter replies. Once it hit Twitter, the New York Times freaked out about it, calling the meme, "The End of Friendly Generational Relations," which is an extremely bold claim. Let's hope it's true!

Donald Trump Awards Classified al-Baghdadi Raid Dog

Trump simply cannot let a good story go by without gunking it up. This time, after sharing a picture of a good dog who helped in the raid of Isis al-Baghdadi, he actually had the majority of people on his side for once in his presidency. Everyone likes dogs! And then he of course had to take it a step too far by sharing a picture of him giving the dog a medal of honor. Except he didn't actually give the dog the medal of honor. He gave a medal of honor to Vietnam veteran James C. McCloughan and shared a picture with the dog photoshopped over the human war hero.

Never forget everything is so stupid all the time.

Italian AOC

In the more light-hearted political meme realm, Twitter users noticed that a still image of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grilling Mark Zuckerberg looked like she was doing perfect Italian Fingers. This led to a series of extremely good memes, because Italian memes are always and forever funny. Gabagool!

#TeamTrees

MrBeast, the YouTuber best known for having a lot of money and giving it away, used his financial powers for good last week when he launched the #TeamTrees initiative, a plan to donate 20 million dollars to the Arbor Day Foundation, who would then plant 20 million trees to combat climate change. After making the YouTube and Reddit rounds, the campaign reached Elon Musk, who said he would donate 1 million trees. Overall, a very benevolent charity cause that may just actually do some work saving the planet. Thanks, super-rich people!

Epstein Didn't Kill Himself

This week featured a fantastic series of bait-and-switch memes wherein users would prevent a series of interesting facts before whacking you with "And Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself." The Epstein Conspiracy Theory seems more likely a reality than ever before, and while Epstein was a very gross person, his death has inspired a wild series of memes that continue to get more creative with each passing week.