About

Millions of Dead Posers is a Weird Facebook page devoted to mocking critically-acclaimed punk, metal, and indie-rock acts and their fans via image macros that employ Word Art-like fonts popular among Weird Facebook sites.

Origin

Millions of Dead Posers^[1] launched on October 27th, 2016. Their first post mocked metal band The Sword by depicting a fan getting dunked in a toilet by a group of bullies (shown below).

Spread

The page was instantly successful. On November 8th, blog toilettovhell^[2] published a post about the success of the page, which had racked up 17,000 followers in its first week of existence. On December 9th, blog electronicbeats^[3] called the site one of the ten best music memes of the year.

While the page is known for hitting popular targets in music for their jokes, it also maintains a strong ironic fandom for groups like 311 and Los Lonely Boys. As of April 7th, 2017, the page has over 97,000 likes.

Various Examples

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