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Laundry Sauce is a slang term for laundry detergent. After being used in a viral tweet in the fall of 2016, it became the subject of jokes in various popular meme templates at the beginning of 2017.

Origin

While "laundry sauce" had been used as a name for homemade laundry detergent products prior to the fall of 2016,^[1] it did not begin spreading as a meme until September 14th, 2016, when Twitter user @BRENTHOR^[2] tweeted "Who the fuck call laundry sauce 'detergent'? Ok mr scientist lmao." The tweet, shown below, has gained over 41,000 retweets and 69,000 likes as of April 10th, 2017.

Spread

As the tweet went viral, it was applied to various meme templates. The first few popular examples were made using 10 Guy, aka "Stoner Stanley."

At the start of 2017, Laundry Sauce memes began appearing in popular meme templates on various meme-focused subreddits. On February 14th, alecdude16 posted an Expanding Brain joke to /r/dankmemes,^[3] where it gained over 600 points (shown below).

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Laundry Sauce jokes have also been used with Sleeping Shaq and Who Would Win? templates. The original tweet has also been referenced on Twitter as people refer to detergent as "laundry sauce."

Various Examples

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