Firepods

About

Firepods refers to jokes about various products named "Firepods" which spread on Reddit in January of 2020. In January of 2019, Redditor FreeVegetable noticed that in January of 2018, Tide Pods were a popular meme and that in January of 2019, Air Pods were a popular meme. This led the Redditor to suggest that in January of 2020, "Firepods" would be a popular meme and "Earthpods" would be a popular meme in January of 2021, thus completing the elemental set of Water, Air, Fire, and Earth pod-based memes. In reference to that post, Redditors began creating memes using a portable pizza oven called a "Firepod" and an audio interface called a "Firepod" in January of 2020.

Origin

On January 25th, 2019, Redditor FreeVegetable posted in /r/dankmemes^[1] an observation that Tide Pods and Air Pods had been popular memes in the previous two Januaries, leading them to suggest "Firepods" would be a meme in January of 2020 and "Earthpods" would be a meme in January of 2021. The post gained over 136,000 points (shown below).

Spread

Following that post, Redditors began making posts about "Firepods" with This Meme Is From The Future captions. For example, Redditor Waybe posted such a meme in /r/me_irl^[2] on January 25th, 2019, gaining over 8,400 points (shown below, left). User jan_boro made a similar post in /r/dankmemes^[3] that day as well (shown below, right).

In January of 2020, Redditors began to post Firepods meme in reference to the original post. On January 1st, 2020, Redditor Greg05 posted a meme using Firepod ovens in /r/dankmemes,^[4] gaining over 12,000 points (shown below, left), as did Redditor ForTheDamagedRotten,^[5] who gained over 240 points (shown below, right).

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