Meme Encyclopedia
Media
Editorials
More

Popular right now

RaptureTok / Rapture TikTok image examples.

RaptureTok / September 2025 TikTok Rapture

Sakshi Sanjeevkumar

Sakshi Sanjeevkumar • about 12 hours ago

Тотя / totr spongebob meme image example.

Тотя. ❤️ / Totr

Sakshi Sanjeevkumar

Sakshi Sanjeevkumar • 8 days ago

Somehow Trans People Got Smth To Do With This meme.

Somehow Trans People Got Smth To Do With This

Sakshi Sanjeevkumar

Sakshi Sanjeevkumar • 3 days ago

Zoe Kalotheos My GF Has A Pouch Like Pic Post from 4chan.

My GF Has A Pouch Like Pic

Phillip Hamilton

Phillip Hamilton • about 7 hours ago

67 meme / six seven meme

6-7 Song

Phillip Hamilton

Phillip Hamilton • 7 months ago

Know Your Meme is the property of Literally Media ©2024 Literally Media. All Rights Reserved.
Img_0003

Confirmed   46,857

Part of a series on The Beatles. [View Related Entries]


John Lemon

John Lemon

Part of a series on The Beatles. [View Related Entries]

PROTIP: Press 'i' to view the image gallery, 'v' to view the video gallery, or 'r' to view a random entry.

About

John Lemon is an anthropomorphic lemon fruit often depicted online wearing the iconic circular glasses worn by deceased singer-songwriter and Beatles co-founder John Lennon.

Origin

On August 20th, 2007, YouTuber indeedable posted a picture of an orange photoshopped with John Lennon's glasses and hair singing his 1971 soft rock song "Imagine" (shown below).



Spread

In February 2011, Tumblr user accordingtoant published a post announcing that Justin Bieber was "better than John Lemon."[1] The original post was subsequently deleted.


ㄇ ATTENTION TUMBLR: accordingtoant Deactivated Justin Bieber is better than John Lemon. Suck my d---.

Later that month, deactivated Tumblr user Ohmycroft posted a screenshot of accordingtoant's post along with a photoshop of a lemon wearing John Lennon's signature circular-rimmed sunglasses (shown below).[2] Over the next six years, the post gained over 28,500 notes.


block 21 notes retain ATTENTION TUMBLR: ustin Bieber is better than jobn Lemon Suck my d--- Justin Bieber is better than John Lemon. John Lemon. Lemon ohmyroft.fumbl.com

On January 13th, 2012, the image was reposted by FunnyJunk user mrmoxie, along with an "All the Things" photoshop with the caption "Imagine All the Citrus!" (shown below). Within five years, the post received upwards of 63,000 views and 3,800 upvotes.


Jmajne ALL THE CITRUS

On October 29th, 2014, YouTuber Filthy Frank posted a video titled "Loser Reads Hater Comments," in which he reads a Facebook comment referring to John Lennon as "John Lemon" (shown below, left). On February 17th, 2015, YouTuber Direct 2 Brain uploaded a commercial for the Italian supermarket chain Esselunga, featuring an anthropomorphic lemon mascot named John Lemon (shown below, right).



On May 26th, 2016, Redditor offandthenonagain submitted a photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono to /r/dankmemes,[3] referring to Lennon as "John Lemon" (shown below, left). On January 1st, 2017, Redditor EternallySexual submitted a post titled "New Year New Meme" along with a photoshopped a picture of a lemon wearing John Lennon-style sunglasses to /r/dankmemes[4] (shown below, right).


F--- it I'm just gonna say it. John Lemon deserved to die for walking like this 鸚.

Over the next 24 hours, other John Lemon-themed images were submitted to /r/dankmemes,[5] including a photoshop of an anthropomorphic lemon being sliced in a 1,000 degree knife video (shown below). On January 2nd, Redditor The_Sliding_Lion submitted a post announcing that the John Lemon memes were "on the rise" to /r/MemeEconomy.[6]


EXPERIMENT Glowing 1000 degree KNIFE VS JOHN LEMON MrGear Subscribe 4,893,035 2,915,912 views 40 266 퀴 10482 Add to Share More

Search Interest

External References


Comments ( 22 )

    Meme Encyclopedia
    Media
    Editorials
    More