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The Week in Memes: May 31st, 2019
Over the course of the week, the staff here at Know Your Meme document numerous memes and internet phenomenon, but much of what proliferates across the web is a mere flash in the pan. Only a handful seem to have any lasting cultural relevancy in the online memescape, so we've taken it upon ourselves to sift through all this internet junk to give you a weekly digest of the web's best offerings.
This week, some found a young woman's alleged attempted murder of a love interest to be reminiscent of yandere stories, a creepypasta about an unsettling monochromic room gained popularity, ramen noodles became a repair tool, Steve Rogers kept the Avengers memes flowing and a dramatic YouTuber's wife fell off a cliff.
Yandere Stabbing
After a 21-year-old Japanese woman was arrested for allegedly stabbing her love interest, some compared her behavior to "yandere," a Japanese term for those who become disturbingly infatuated with their crushes. After fan arts dedicated to the suspected criminal began circulating online, many were quick to point out that attempted murder is no laughing matter.
Fixing Things With Ramen
After videos showcasing various broken objects being repaired with glued ramen noodles began circulating online, memers created photoshops using the same technique to fix a variety of other "broken" things.
The Backrooms
This bizarre creepypasta story born on 4chan's infamous /x/ board, about an "unsettling" room with nothing but yellow walls and fluorescent lights, made its way over to Reddit, Twitter and YouTube, where it managed to inspire spawning images macros, photoshops and even custom video game maps.
Steve Rogers Going Through History
In the seemingly endless supply of Avengers-related memes, jokes about all the things Captain America got up to while traveling through time saw spread like wildfire online. Many of the memes centered around how the Marvel superhero would react having to relive many of the great tragedies of the past, including the death of Harambe the gorilla.
Cliff Wife
After YouTuber Shonduras filmed his wife slipping off a trail while hiking, he made a ridiculously dramatic video about the whole ordeal referring to her accident as "falling off a cliff". Needless to say, the internet wasted no time mercilessly roasting him with parody lyrics and hilarious commentary.
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