Funeral Food Be So Good

Submission 1,164

About

Funeral Food Be So Good, continued, I Be Forgetting Who TF Died, refers to a viral video and reaction clip of a man putting food on his plate at a funeral with text reading the aforementioned catchphrase. The video has frequently been used online to show indifference to (and even celebration for) the deaths of celebrities and influencers, predominantly on Twitter / X. The original video was posted in 2023 as an Instagram Reel by user Renegadeshow. He also posted the video to TikTok. Renegadeshow is notably the same man from the I Bring a Sort Of X Vibe to the Y meme.

Origin

Jokes about funeral food being good date back to 2013 on X.^[1]^[2] The first-known viral post to use the phrase was tweeted by X^[3] user @Kinggston1 on January 23rd, 2019, gaining over 21,000 likes in five years (shown below).

On August 11th, 2023, Instagram^[4] user @renegadeshow posted a Reel of himself seemingly at a funeral, putting food on his plate on a dancefloor. The text on the video read, "Funeral food be so good 😋 / I be forgetting who TF died 😫." Over six months, the video received roughly 1 million likes (shown below).

Spread

On August 25th, 2023, X^[5] user @messedupfoods posted a screenshot of the Reel with no caption, gaining over 142,000 likes in six months (shown below, left). Similar reposts went viral on Instagram^[6] in late August 2023.

On September 3rd, Instagram user @renegadeshow crossposted his video to TikTok,^[7] gaining over 5.6 million plays and 772,100 likes in five months. Then, on October 23rd, X^[8] user @spen______ posted a screenshot of the TikTok in a quote referencing the Houston Astros' "downfall," receiving over 610 likes in four months (shown below, right).

On November 9th, 2023, X^[9] user @repertoirememe posted the video as a "reaction video" to be used by others. On the next day, November 10th, X^[10] user @sjayy24s used the video to joke about injuries on the Tottenham Spurs' roster, gaining over 3,500 likes in three months (shown below).

Viral usage persisted en masse after the X^[11] account @allreactionvids posted the video on November 29th, 2023, gaining over 4,300 likes in three months. Many used the video, like X^[12] user @fatimartian on December 24th. The quote referenced Noah Schnapp's 'Zionism Is Sexy' Controversy and a false claim that the actor had been hospitalized, earning over 7,500 likes in two months (shown below).

Viral usage of the video persisted on X in early 2024, like one X^[13] post that referenced King Charles' Cancer Diagnosis and another viral X^[14] post that referenced Twomad's Death, both in February 2024.

Also, a small redraw trend with the image surfaced on Tumblr, evident in a post shared by Tumblr^[15] user gr00vifying on December 10th, 2023, who added König from Call of Duty to the image, earning over 90 notes in two months (shown below).