Time Zone War

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About

Time Zone War refers to a series of ironic memes in which various time zones, primarily in the US, are compared against each other, based on the premise that one time zone is superior to the others.

Origin

On October 27th, 2018, iFunny user Doxxyl posted a This Post Was Mady by X Gang meme about the US Central Time Zone being superior to the Eastern Time Zone,^[1] with the post receiving over 2,000 smiles in one year (shown below).

Spread

On January 1st, 2019, iFunny user StubbedYourPoe posted a similar meme pitching Eastern Time Zone inhabitants against those residing in the Pacific Time Zone.^[2] The post received over 1,500 smiles in one year (shown below).

The format saw no significant spread until on October 15th, 2019, Redditor Rtrif3 posted a meme following the format to /r/okbuddyretard subreddit,^[3] gaining over 3,400 upvotes in three days (shown below, left). On the same day, Redditor ZXR03 reposted Doxxyl's meme to the subreddit,^[4] gaining over 5,800 upvotes in two days. In the following days, more memes following the format were posted in the subreddit (examples shown below, center and right).^[5]^[6]

Following the resurgence of the format on Reddit, starting on October 16th, iFunny users bigmacwithcheese^[7] and others posted Time Zone War memes on the platform.