Who doesn’t love a good meme?
Everything mass media and pop culture these days has had some component of it turned into
a meme.
Whether its spawned from a fandom or the product of a more main stream slip up, the internet
churning out memes is practically common place.
So today, we’re taking a look at a certain brand of meme; Fortnite memes!
Ah yes, the game that’s taking the world by storm.
And the game whose storm you don’t want to be caught in.
So much storm.
Not that storm though.
Anywho, we’re counting down the top 10 funniest fortnite memes.
There’s a lot of memes.
So clearly we’ve chosen a handful of ones that appealed to us.
We could really do like 7 parts of this list, to be honest.
So with that being said, LET’S GET DANK B*TCHES.
10 Original versus Un-tumblrized Oh this one is a joy.
This meme is a side by side of Tank Penny from Fortnite, with how she looks in the game,
juxtaposed with a version of her that’s skinny, whiter, and a little bit sexualized.
Original versus un-tumblrized refers to a series of exploitable photoshopped comparison
charts in which we see one side featured a character and the opposing side featuring
the same character but ‘un-tumblrized’ that’s basically a sexier version of that
character, with the term implying that the original character was designed to appeal
to those on tumblr.
Tumblr, if you’re unaware, has a reputation of demanding proper representation.
Tank Penny represents a woman who doesn’t fit into the regular beauty norms, minus,
you know, big boobs and blonde hair.
Hence the meme.
9 IT Last year’s first installment of the IT
series was a major success.
A reboot of the previous adaptation starring Tim Curry, it proved itself to be a worthy
addition in the horror genre, and had a whole lot of bite, leaving audiences stoked for
the upcoming part two.
So naturally, after it came out, plenty of memes were spawned featuring Pennywise in
that famous scene where he coaxes Georgie into the sewer, with the meme playing on coaxing
Geogrie into coming down into the sewer for something desirable.
Free V Bucks here makes perfect sense; what people wouldn’t do for some free V bucks.
Considering all of the scams that even Epic Games has been trying to tackle concerning
Fortnite and V Buck giveaways, this meme makes perfect sense.
8 Keanu Heals Up Having fun listening to me explain all of
the memes yet?
So much fun you guys!
You clicked on this video, so you much enjoy having jokes explained to you.
Silliness aside, here’s our next meme.
It’s Keanu Reeves, doing stuff!
But the stuff he’s doing has now been photoshopped into him drinking a Chug Jug, which in the
game is a legendary item, and completely heals and shields you.
7 We’re Almost All Alike This meme plays on the whole ‘everyone is
equal’ concept that often gets turned into inspiration quotes online.
Very accurate and important message, but like so many others of its kind, it’l eventually
end up as a damn Instagram post that all of your basic friends feel inclined to post on
their feed every couples of months or so.
And if this is you, for the love of god, create your own content.
People will like you more for that.
Anywho, rant aside, as you can see from this image, white black Asian gay straight are
all the same skull.
But team mates in 50v50 are straight up Neanderthals as far as smarts go.
Your team mates do stupid sh*t that defies logic.
Insult appreciated.
6 Sliding Here we have a meme of a child slipping down
a slide with his face gradually engrossed in more panic with each panel.
And the caption?
When you slide down a large mountain and you already know you going to take fall damage.
Self-explanatory my friends.
Moving on.
5 Spider-Man Another fairly self-explanatory meme here
for you!
When you see that your mate is still alive.
Ah ha!
This is actually a riff of the Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme, which was a still
pulled from the 60’s spider-man cartoon, specifically an episode in which two different
people in the Spider-Man costume cross paths and then point at each other.
The episode, first released in 1967 was titled Double Identity, and features a villain trying
to impersonate our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man.
The meme first came to be back in 2011 but didn’t spread until it hit the website funny
junk back in 2012.
4 Building Walls Perhaps one of the funniest, most popular
memes on this list (at least as far as our office is concerned), this one features the
current American president, Donald Trump.
It reads, when you get shot at in Fortnite, and features an image of Trump and a hand
coming down on a button that reads ‘Wall’.
Trumps antics about building a ludicrous wall have been something his government has been
on about since Trump promised it during his campaign in 2016, in which he claimed that
Mexico would pay for said wall.
Yeah, that seems to be coming along, doesn’t it.
3 The Storm Here we have an image of Patrick Starr paired
with a purple overlay and the words, when the squad leaves you to die in the storm.
So yeah, Patrick’s face basically represents our feelings of betrayal and disappointment,
while his body pretty much syncs up with what your character looks like, crawling through
the storm in their last moments alive in the match.
Tough luck.
2 Sad, sad Valentines Day This meme depicts an image of part of the
Fortnite map.
Specifically, Lonely Lodge.
And the text above it?
Where I’ll be Spending Valentine’s Day.
Ah yes.
Sad, lonely, and on Fortnite in the loneliest place in the game.
Sadness ensues.
Get off your damn computer you fools.
1 Ligma And last but definitely not least, here we
have one of the most popular jokes to make the rounds in the Fortnite fandom, Ligma!
So what’s Ligma?
You may have heard that word thrown around online a bit.
So Ligma is actually a fictional disease, one that’s associated with a popular death
hoax online that originated with an Instagram user named ninja_hater who claimed that our
lord and savior the ultimate Fortnite streamer Tyler Ninja Blevins had died of Ligma.
The whole schtick was to get people to ask what’s ligma?
So that others could respond with ‘ligma balls’, which sounds like lick my balls.
Creative.
Anywho, the news of Ninja’s alleged death thanks to Ligma went viral, with multiple
news sources reporting on it, and eventually Ninja himself debunked it.
But it led to moderators in Ninja’s stream chat to ban users mentioning the word.
But now you can get merch that says Ligma on it so that’s swell!
There we have it friends!
Which of these memes was your favourite?
Which other ones do you love that we didn’t include on our list?
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