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Billie Eilish's Songs Are So Sad also known as Things Sadder Than Billie Eilish's Songs, refers to a series of memes which showcase various sad and touching scenes from films, TV series and video games as things which one could consider sadder than the lyrics of Billie Eilish's songs. The format gained popularity on Reddit in early November 2019.

Origin

While memes poking fun at Billie Eilish's songs being perceived as extremely sad by the younger demographic have existed prior, the format in various scenes from films, TV series and videogames were compared against them did not gain popularity until early November 2019. The earliest known post following the format was made by Redditor AnimatedGalaxy on June 30th, 2019 (shown below, left).^[1] On November 2nd, 2019, Redditor hellllloooooooo263 posted a meme in which he claimed that a viral video of male students performing the Halo theme song in a bathroom was a better song than those of Billie Eilish, gaining over 40,300 upvotes in the /r/memes subreddit in six days (shown below, center).^[2] On November 5th, Redditor TrapperCome posted a meme which argued that a memorable scene from The Walking Dead video game was sadder than the songs by Billie Eilish. The meme gained over 10,700 upvotes in three days (shown below, right).^[3]

Spread

Following the TrapperCome's post, the format received a significant spread on Reddit, with multiple notable examples of the meme being posted by users in /r/dankmemes, /r/memes and other subreddits. For example, a November 5th, 2019, a post by Redditor gamer_warrior arguing that a memorable scene from the Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu series was sadder than Elish's songs gained over 15,700 upvotes in three days (shown below, left).^[4]
A meme using a still image from Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark" received over 8,200 upvotes in two days (shown below, right).^[5]

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