About

School Pizza Party Slices refers to a series of memes about the cliche of pizza slices at elementary school pizza parties being cut extremely thin to make the most slices possible. The phenomenon first became the subject of memes as early as August 2020 on X / Twitter, spreading to other social media platforms over the following years. In 2025, a meme reading, "How it feels to realize why class pizza party slices were so small," suggesting a sad meaning behind the phenomenon, went viral. The meme purportedly refers to the teachers in North America making arguably low wages and having to pay for the pizza out of their own pocket, meaning they cut the slices thin to save money.

Origin

The exact first meme to reference tiny slices of pizza being served at a school pizza party is unknown, but the concept appeared online as early as 2020.

On March 29th, 2014, X^[1] user @karinacocoo posted a photo of a very thinly cut slice of pizza, writing, "THIS IS THE SMALLEST SLICE OF PIZZA EVER LIKE IS THIS EVEN CONSIDERED PIZZA?!?!" garnering around two likes in 11 years.

On August 23rd, 2020, X^[2] user @buxtonszn then reposted the photo, writing, "Teacher hypes up class party all year The Party:" garnering over 267,000 likes and 47,000 reposts in five years.

Spread

Memes about thin pizza slices at school pizza parties continued to go viral on social media over the following years.

On November 4th, 2020, Redditor u/BagelBummm posted a screenshot of a response by X user @Deorro to a now-deleted copycat tweet of @karinacocoo's tweet, the user writing, "god bless our amazing teachers for doing what all they could," garnering over 31,000 upvotes on the /r/gatesopencomeonin^[3] subreddit in five years.

On November 18th, X^[4] user @BirdExecutive posted a meme referencing small slices at class parties, garnering over 1,200 likes in five years. It was reposted to the FuckJerry Facebook^[5] page on December 10th, garnering over 2,800 reactions and 400 shares in the same span of time.

On February 23rd, 2021, eBaum's World^[6] included a version of the meme in a list of "53 Funny Memes Brimming With Dank."

On September 2nd, 2022, TikToker^[7] @jesusnalgas posted a comedy video about elementary school pizza parties, which uses the joke about thinly sliced pizza, garnering over 21 million views in three years.

On June 6th, 2025, Redditor u/lucki_17 posted a Patrick Bateman image macro to the /r/memes^[8] subreddit, reading, "How it feels to realize why class pizza party slices were so small," garnering over 11,000 upvotes in three days.

On June 7th, the meme was reposted to the /r/ExplainTheJoke^[9] subreddit, garnering over 45,000 upvotes in two days. The top explanation by Redditor u/Ecstatic_Hope6902, with over 15,000 upvotes in two days, reads:

So the reason pizza party slices were so small was because the teachers bought the pizza with their own money and that's an effort made for the students by them.

Various Examples

@krankinkatey Small pizza #pizza #thelastpizzaparty #nfl #superbowl #pizzalover ♬ son original – Cat’slife – chubby_s_life

@pieguys #pizza #pizzalover #meme #funny #school #schoollife #newengland #newhampshire #smallbusiness #trend #diet ♬ oh my god bruh oh hell na man

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