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Smiling Friends' Gwimbly Takes Over With Fan Art, Memes And Comparisons To Daniel Larson
Gwimbly is a character from Smiling Friends depicted as a '90s video game hero who has fallen on hard times. He is voiced by Zach Hadel and animated in 3D to resemble PS1-style graphics. Gwimbly first appeared in the season two premiere episode of the series, titled, "Gwimbly: Definitive Remastered Enhanced Extended Edition DX 4K (Anniversary Director’s Cut)," which aired on April 1st, 2024. Throughout the episode he says does his "iconic victory dance," during which he says, "ooh, ooh, ooh," several times and mentions collecting cans of creamed corn as one of the main draws of the games. In the following days, Gwimbly became the subject of memes, fan art and other fan content online, including theories that the character was based on lolcow Daniel Larson.
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Turkish Quandale Dingle and TikTok Rizz Party Lore Explained
Turkish Quandale Dingle is a nickname given to a teenage boy who appears in a series of TikTok Rizz Party 'Carnival' boys videos dancing at his friend's sweet 16 party. The nickname is a reference to the meme character Quandale Dingle and was given to the boy for a perceivable resemblance between him and an edited photo of rapper YoungBoy NBA with a large nose, which is often used to visually represent Quandale Dingle. The meme is part of a larger series of memes on TikTok Rizz Party lore. The most viral videos of Turkish Quandale were uploaded to TikTok in mid-March 2024 and were popularized in early April through video edits and memes expanding on the fictional lore of Turkish Quandale Dingle.
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Are The 'Carnival' Boys At A TikTok Rizz Party?
The TikTok Rizz Party "Carnival" Boys refers to a group of teenage boys at a Sweet 16 party singing and dancing to the song "Carnival" by Kanye West, featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, with one boy wearing a blue tie leading the group. The viral video spread on TikTok in early 2024 as many people likened it to the TikTok Rizz Party meme, essentially labeling the boys as cringe. Others called it the "Fortnite Rizz Party." As the meme spread, the kid with the blue tie was later revealed to be TikToker Seby_Sarms (@seby_sarms).
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Stellar Blade Scandal? Spicy Character Design and Employee Firings Explained
Stellar Blade Eve Discourse, also known as Stellar Blade Eve Design Controversy, refers to the viral debate relating to the character Eve from the 2024 video game Stellar Blade. The contentious debate, being similar to the the prior controversy regarding 2b from NieR:Automata, primarily revolves around the character's appearance in game, notably her figure. With the release of the demo for the game in late March 2024, discourse about the character, her design and the game as a whole began to appear after reviews started to come in.
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March 2024's Meme Of The Month Revealed
Know Your Meme is a site dedicated to the documentation and archival of memes, images, YouTube videos, and other important articles from internet history.
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How Donald Trump Getting 'Arrested' Became A Prevalent Meme Thanks To AI-Generated Images
Donald Trump Getting Arrested AI Art refers to multiple AI-generated images of former President Donald Trump getting arrested and running away from police in New York City. The images were inspired by Donald Trump's rumored March 2023 arrest and were used by meme creators on Twitter on the day of his supposed arrest (March 21st, 2023). News outlets started debunking the AI art and memes as many internet users satirically spread misinformation by claiming that they were real photographs.
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"To Be Fair, You Have to Have a Very High IQ to Understand Rick and Morty"
Drop your Szechuan sauce and get ready for some mindbending science and existential dread! In this special (and yes, overdue) episode of Know Your Meme 101, we take a closer look into the world of Rick and Morty fandom through the "high IQ" copypasta meme.
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Foodom (Part II)
In this second half of our two-part special episode on Foodom (short for “food fandom”), we take a look at some of the most notable examples of anthropomorphic shipping featuring America’s favorite fast food and casual dining restaurants.
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Foodom (Part I)
In this first half of our two-part special episode on Foodom (short for “food fandom”), we delve into the oh-so-fascinating consumer subculture that has sprung up around America’s favorite fast food and casual dining restaurants.
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Pepsi United Spicer
In this episode of Know Your Meme 101, we take a look back at the series of increasingly stupid PR failures from last month that snowballed into one epic Frankenscandal meme now known as the "Pepsi United Spicer."
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Who Would Win?
Internet experts Eric and Jon try to answer some of the most difficult hypothetical questions that got a lot of folks on the Internet stuck in the thinking hole since 2010.
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Shooting Stars
In this episode of Know Your Meme 101, internet experts Eric and Jon dive head-first into one of the biggest music video parody memes that swept across YouTube in March 2017.
