About

Boneless Water is an image macro series and photoshop meme featuring a bottle of Crystal Pepsi with "Boneless Water" edited over the label. While originally launched on Facebook in mid 2016, the images saw a large resurgence on the /r/me_irl subreddit in early March 2017.

Origin

On August 5th, 2016, the Boneless Water Memes Facebook^[9] page was launched, which uses a photoshopped picture of a Crystal Pepsi bottle with the words "Boneless Water" edited on the label as a profile picture (shown below).

Spread

On August 19th, 2016, the Pepsi bottle image was uploaded to the Shitpostbot 5000 image gallery.^[1] On September 9th, the Meta Memes Facebook^[5] page posted an image pairing Facebook reaction emojis with various fake beverages (shown below). On October 27th, the Robust Gourmet Memes Facebook^[6] page uploaded a multi-pane image of the Boneless Water bottle followed by the Angry Michael Phelps photo (shown below, right).

On January 11th, 2017, Twitter user @JervanF^[7] tweeted a photograph of a sleeping child captioned with a mock drive-through order including "cheese apple with two salts on it" and "boneless water" (shown below). Screenshots of the tweet were subsequently circulated on Instagram.^[8]

On March 7th, Redditor benjimaestro submitted a Persuadable Bouncer image featuring the Boneless Water bottle (shown below, left) and a Boneless Water-themed map of the United States (shown below, right) to /r/me_irl.^[3][4] That day, Redditor Socratic_Dragon submitted a post asking "What is boneless water and why is this a thing?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[2]

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