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The Lemonade That Can Kill You, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
The Lemonade That Can Kill You, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
Including a pink, AI-generated utopia ruled by Nicki Minaj.
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Here at Digg, we try our best to cover the most important and confounding memes that come across the timeline. But the web is littered with tons of great memes that never quite hit the mainstream and instead just bounce around the weird corners of Twitter or Reddit. Enter our recurring feature, Memes, Ranked.

This week, we're imagining two characters we'd like to see in a room together, visiting Gag City and fearing Panera's Charged Lemonade.


3. Two characters in a room

The Meme

There are few things more delightful than imagining two characters from different universes interacting with each other. X user @simplytomh posed this classic question to the internet, and boy-howdy did the internet respond. Honestly, some writers should just file off the serial numbers and make some bootleg buddy comedies here.

Truth be told, the idea of Yoda from "Empire Strikes Back" paired with Dr. Frank-N-Furter from "Rocky Horror" really tickles our fancy.

Examples


Grant Brunner



2. Gag City

The Meme

In the days before Nicki Minaj released her latest album, "Pink Friday 2," fuchsia-toned, futuristic-looking skylines and city scenes began cropping up all over X. The place these images depict is Gag City, an AI-generated utopia seemingly inspired by the cover art Minaj teased earlier in the year.

It's unclear whether the trend was started innocently by fans or is a clever promotional ploy, but either way, it's taken off. From Peppa Pig arriving in the city to Jennifer Lopez being turned away, X users and even brands got in on the Gag City joke.

Examples


Darcy Jimenez



1. Panera's Charged Lemonade

The Meme

Panera Bread's Charged Lemonade contains a ludicrous amount of caffeine — 260mg in a 20-ounce serving, and 390mg in a 30-oz serving, to be exact. Now, the energy drink is being called the "lemonade that kills you" online, after two separate lawsuits blamed it for the deaths of two people. Panera added a new warning label to its Charged Lemonade following the first tragic death, and at the time of writing, the drink is still available to customers.

Over on X, people have been reacting to the fact that a drink made by a bakery company appears to be lethal.

Examples


Darcy Jimenez



And if you're hungry for more memes, here's the last edition of "The Week's Best Memes,", where we were listing difficult tasks, sharing notes app screenshots, saying farewell to George Santos and reacting to the death of a notorious human rights abuser.

Comments

  1. Pexelar 2 months ago

    wow

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