Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

“Le Meme Dad,” my youngest child asks, “can you tell us about the before time? For the lulz?” “CHALLENGE ACCEPTED,” I reply. “Well, we used to haz poetry, art, social interactions where you didn’t even have to-” my reminiscence is broken by the cold glare of a Meme PaTrololol sentry on the opposite sidewalk. I’m stricken by sheer panic over my absent minded error. He narrows his eyes and his lips silently form a notorious death omen in our republic: “Epic fail.” Seconds later as I meet my death at the teeth and talons of OVER 9000 LOLcats, the young officer casts a callous look over my child’s shoulder into the distance and smiles politely. Sighing, and then speaking in an authoritative, yet utterly neutral, detached tone, he says, “U MAD?”

It is a cautionary tale.