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This is like killing the joke, but there are many clueless people with internet acces and I don't want to go into a "you are just saying it's sarcasm to not look stupid, yo thought the name was actually fake", so, yes, that's the actual name, it's just sarcasm... I guess... or it's irony... mmm... what's the definition of both.

sarcasm
noun
sar·casm ˈsär-ˌka-zəm
Synonyms of sarcasm
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2 a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b : the use or language of sarcasm

irony
noun
iro·ny ˈī-rə-nē also ˈī(-ə)r-nē
Synonyms of irony
1 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony
c : an ironic expression or utterance
2 a
(1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
(2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity
b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
called also dramatic irony

3 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning
called also Socratic irony

Oh wow, so it's not really sarcasm, it's irony, situational irony, going against the expectation of receiving missinformation and actually getting real information. I guess I learned something new today.

Well, I usually don't notice this since this isn't my native language and i find it to slow to use a translator, because I have to read it to find if it's ok, and sometimes it's relly wrong...

wait, I drifted... what was I talking about?

oh yes, the meme, It's just irony.

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Matching CEO Names refers to a series of memes spreading humorous misinformation that CEOs of various organizations have names that match the names of their corporations or companies, such as the ROBLOX Corporation CEO's name being "Robert Lox" or the TikTok CEO's name being "Tikfang Toksheng." A development of the Real Name Google Searches meme, the format achieved virality in January 2025.

Origin

Predecessor

On December 10th, 2017, Redditor TheDartron123 posted a B Is Short for Bichael meme that humorously imagined the name of the website Pornhub is short for "Pornelius Hubert." The post (shown below) received over 7,600 upvotes in the /r/dankmemes^[1] subreddit in seven years.

PornHub Is Short for Pornelius Hubert original meme.

On October 7th, 2018, the Facebook^[2] page I play Deftones to my potting soil SMOKE cigs and kill Rabbits posted an information card falsely claiming that Pornhub was created and named after "15 year old Pornelius Hubert." The post (shown below) received over 510 reactions and 2,800 shares in six years and was widely circulated online in the following years.

In 2018, the Real Name Google Searches meme achieved viral popularity. The format involved users posting doctored Google Knowledge panels for celebrities who use an alias, with that alias being extended in a humorous way, such as Cardi B standing for Cardiovascular Bronchitis (example shown below).

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2025 Meme

On January 12th, 2025, the Instagram^[3] pages basedarchives and caustic_flesh posted a doctored Google Knowledge panel for the CEO of ROBLOX Corporation David Baszucki, with his name changed to "Robert Lox," humorously matching the name of the company. The post (shown below) garnered over 191,000 likes on Instagram and 450 reposts and 17,100 likes on Threads^[4] in nine days.

Spread

On January 20th, 2025, X^[5] user @LocalBateman reposted the meme, with the post garnering over 8.5 million views, 10,000 reposts and 307,000 likes in one day.

The repost was followed by users on X / Twitter posting similar memes based on Google Knowledge panels, replacing the names of CEOs of various companies with humorous fakes that matched the names of these companies.

For example, on January 20th, 2025, the X^[6] account @EverythingOOC posted a meme that imagined the TikTok CEO's name was Tikfang Toksheng (authorship unconfirmed). The post received over 9.3 million views, 19,000 reposts and 310,000 likes in one day.

Matching CEO Names meme spreading misinformation that TikTok's CEO is Tikfang Toksheng

The meme format is loosely based on nominative determinism, a hypothesis that people tend to choose areas of work that reflect their names.

Various Examples

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Search Interest

External References

^[1] Reddit – Porn is short for Pornelius.

^[2] Facebook – I play Deftones to my potting soil SMOKE cigs and kill Rabbits

^[3] Instagram – basedarchives

^[4] Threads – @basedarchives

^[5] X – @LocalBateman

^[6] X – @EverythingOOC

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