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Bad Instagram Poetry, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
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've got bad two-line poems, reactions to the "Orange Peel Theory" and yet another Taylor Swift meme.
3. Orange Peel Theory
The Meme
Right now, people on TikTok, X and other platforms are talking about the "Orange Peel Theory," a trend in which people ask their romantic partners to peel an orange for them. We've written a handy explainer of the whole thing here, but, put simply: whether or not your partner will peel an orange for you is an indicator of how loving and supportive they are — according to the theory, anyway. As with most viral trends, this one has become meme fodder for the masses.
Examples
— mike (@nawalafunk) January 16, 2024
oOohhhhhhhhh https://t.co/lKKDWVuw1U pic.twitter.com/q8NYYHwzaX
— Zach Zimmerman (@zzdoublezz) January 16, 2024
— President-Elect Toguro (@PresidentToguro) January 17, 2024
when a beautiful woman asks me for an orange this is what i do. it’s that simple pic.twitter.com/tvTDYuaTnz
— h*zzie@$#! turned into a roach (@gatozandart) January 16, 2024
— Michael🇵🇸 (@SelfishMichael) January 16, 2024
POV: you just said you won’t peel an orange for her pic.twitter.com/Q0AQTSacHK
— Sopranos World (@SopranosWorld) January 16, 2024
He ain’t willing to peel an orange, dump him babe pic.twitter.com/u5YvQfdhqF
— jeremy depoyster (@jdepoyster) January 17, 2024
my gf: can you please peel this orange for me
— hershey (@wanqiqis_) January 17, 2024
me: pic.twitter.com/gfm1rWvCUS
fuck the orange i will peel a cinder block if you wanted one
— michael (@FilledwithUrine) January 17, 2024
Darcy Jimenez
2. Taylor Swift behind frosted glass
The Meme
Another week, another Taylor Swift meme! The most famous pop star in the world is continuing her world domination tour, and while 2023 was the year of Taylor Alison (according to TIME), it seems she's picking 2024 up right where she left off. Her trips to Kansas City Chiefs games to root for her boyfriend Travis Kelce have been picked up by TV cameras and fans in the stands everywhere.
The most recent game was Saturday night, where the temperature in Kansas City was in the negatives, and that meant the usual booth she watches the game from had frost all over the glass. Instant meme material.
Examples
Watching the pizza rolls in the microwave pic.twitter.com/X3K52zaLMd
— Zito (@_Zeets) January 14, 2024
🎵 My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all
— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) January 14, 2024
The morning rain clouds up my window
And I can't see at all
And even if I could, it'd all be gray
But your picture on my wall
It reminds me that it's not so bad
It's not so bad🎵 pic.twitter.com/pIezJ3l4JT
what the 30 packs of keystone light see when i’m at the gas station https://t.co/Z7cbuP754F
— kpg (@notoriouskpg) January 14, 2024
pov you’re the expired leafy greens in my fridge watching me come back for another beer pic.twitter.com/1I7FnhoKDD
— Chris (@citehchris) January 14, 2024
Waiting for my ubereats driver to deliver my slop in dangerous road conditions pic.twitter.com/x0lAc3SCEY
— dillard (@dillythebish) January 14, 2024
I'm glad they're friends. pic.twitter.com/EiK8Wmcy3B
— Keaton Patti (@KeatonPatti) January 14, 2024
She’s a big city ad exec home in Gingerbread Falls for the holidays trying to find herself. He’s a clumsy lumberjack who volunteers at her grandma’s nursing home who can help. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce star in the Hallmark classic, Meet You Under the Mistletoe. pic.twitter.com/SMnAxIdfdB
— Matt Lindner (@mattlindner) January 14, 2024
Jared Russo
1. Instagram poetry
The Meme
Almost a year ago, X user @sonyashea3 posted a screenshot of a lousy poem they'd seen on Instagram. "He didn't like drama, and I was fucking Shakespeare," it reads.
For some reason, that post is doing the rounds on the app once again — and this time, people are quoting it with their own silly, two-line poems.
Examples
he didn’t like the movie Cars
— optimusprime (@earth_to_annaa) January 15, 2024
and my life was a f*cking highway https://t.co/Hiy2dc3i5K
he didn’t like evil
— rui ★ (@starishsky) January 14, 2024
and I was the fucking resident https://t.co/6gsKxbpbnn
he didn't like philadelphia
— girl dennis reynolds (@paddysroyco) January 15, 2024
and i was always fucking sunny https://t.co/wlZBKubXTD
he didn’t like vacations
— ece 🥬 #DL3 (@lipadelrey) January 15, 2024
and I was dua lipa https://t.co/vs9nrwUKIX
he didnt like hunger
— emmanem🕊🐍 (@konosadmaru) January 15, 2024
and i was the fucking game https://t.co/BEODa8SMTD
He didn’t like corn
— Charlie (@insidetheslime) January 15, 2024
and I was the fucking Colonel. https://t.co/0qt910d8u0
he didn’t like medical malpractice
— gregory house apologist 🇵🇸 (@transcowboy) January 15, 2024
and i was fucking dr. house https://t.co/68m1PRgxYI
he didnt like buying things
— zach silberberg (@zachsilberberg) January 15, 2024
and i was a fucking zoo https://t.co/b1TTv85SnG
Darcy Jimenez
And if you're hungry for more memes, here's the last edition of "The Week's Best Memes,", where we were gatekeeping popular films, lip-reading Selena and Taylor's chat, sharing the streets of our childhoods and reacting to trendy celebrities in the most unhinged way possible.