Top 10 Most Tragic Memes Because of What We Know Now

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[@thelithuanianassassin6540]

What about the "Angry German Kid" who's life was nearly ruined after becoming an Internet meme

[@EmanuelAdenuga]

@AndyHouse-v1m I DONT GIVE A SHIT 💥🗣📢

[@stevorobo692]

Doge being adopted into a loving family and turning into a meme is tragic? There are some other things on this list that are a stretch. It's almost as if you are trying to manufacture shit and twist it in order for it to be viable in order to make a list for content.

[@kurtisschilk1218]

Why do you u have to use " hate and racism" while flashing the American Flag?? The Flag nor President Trump stand for or represent these lies!! This why your side is being flushed out and your news Liberal media are being laid to waste and FINALLY being forced to pay (literally) for your lies

[@Rapamaru]

That Garfield one was a stretch

[@illiboi8072]

Most of these were… they’re saying because something bad happened years later unrelated to the meme it makes the meme itself tragic?

[@chrisblake2629]

Most of these are. "The meme is from a movie about revenge" isn't exactly tragic.

[@knightmare5097]

Some of these I haven’t even heard of.

[@CatKun-2000]

The decoy Garfield is even in the app Garfield service of the fattest

[@sneakykamon]

It really was lol

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

Luckily the Star Wars kid had the last laugh as an adult. He's become a lawyer and public speaker on cyber bullying, willing to bet his bullies aren't doing as well...

[@rbchill]

You're prob right, but they will live the rest of their lives knowing they're responsible for bringing laughs to millions of ppl.

[@oh_flock]

@@rbchill And arrested development

[@NativeSkeleton]

⁠@@oh_flockTony Hawk’s Underground 2 as well in the Boston skating level.

[@pikaverse2497]

That Karma those Bullies

[@sophiepomerleau708]

He’s one of the first case of online bullying …

[@kamsismith]

The lady from Real Housewives screaming at a cat. It was revealed that she was in abusive marriage.

[@StellarAvenger]

Yeah, she was on the Buzzfeed series "I was a meme"

[@meahdahlgren6537]

Right

[@JaySweetZ]

So? What about that had to do with her yelling at the cat? The cat & her romantic relationship are 2 separate issues.

[@thyristo]

Why did she abuse her husband?

[@MoonLoonie69]

@@thyristoshe was abused by her husband

[@savagegardenrox]

Star Wars Kid looked like he was having so much unbridled fun in that video. I hate that bullies ruined it for him.

[@Animeguy300]

The crying scene from Intervention was emotional

[@Tom_bradys_unretirement]

As someone who’s relationship with their father isn’t great, it was always sad to me

[@ORLYWTF]

I never got the humor of that clip. All these years later and I can still hear the visceral pain in his cry as poignant as ever.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Yea

[@SheilaisOffensive]

I never did understand why the Starwars Kid got so much hate. He was just doing his thing, minding his business and having his fun.

[@AlxDayken]

How was the garfield a tragic meme worthy of this list 😂

[@darkdragonmedeus705]

Speaking of Star Wars kid, I think the controversy might have been referenced in the 2014 movie Tusk. Kill Bill Kid seemed to be doing something similar to that Star Wars Kid minus the leg cut off effect. But a plot point was the kid became a victim of suicide so quickly, and that his funeral was such a small gathering of people. But long story short, Cyberbullying is never okay. And those who engage in it should be legally punished harshly.

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

What are talking about? He's still alive and doing quite well.for himself. Last I heard he was studying to get his law degree and does public speaking about cyber bullying

[@darkdragonmedeus705]

@@TheOneManWhoBeatYou I never said Star Wars Kid was dead, I said the movie character Kill Bill Kid dies in the 2014 movie Tusk. And highlights are that there used to be rumors of a suicide. Which he is alive thankfully but may have struggled in the past. Kill Bill dies in Tusk as executed to show how mean spirited the main character was. And a classic horror movie cliche as using karma to justify torture plots. It is not a one to one reference, but there are some uncanny similarities none of the less.

[@tylergoodman3560]

The grumpy cat will always be a personal favorite of mine. 🎉

[@CandiceVidito32]

Grumpy Cat aka Tartar is a living legend! R.I.P Tartar

[@PAZO2FAN]

and lil' Bub

[@sdivine13]

I mean, not much of a living legend innit

[@SummitHill79]

The real tragedy is the 13 minutes the people who watched this video are never getting back.

[@r2kmoon2]

It's not that deep. Lol

[@comin-for-yo-muffins3400]

When grumpy cat/tarter sauce died me and mom were devastated I grew up watching tarter sauce/grumpy cat she will always live in my heart

[@duanow75]

The frog one is ridiculously stupid

[@Emily-cw7tj]

Most of them are

[@bauuhmasquerade459]

While not entirely a meme I would say Alex from Target as the teen ended up becoming a victim of harassment and death threats as well as stalkers after he went viral

[@bigjalapeno7061]

What the hell

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

Pepe the Frog’s backstory feels anything but good.

[@riqodinero]

0:55 will forever be funny idc 😂😂 RIP Rocky

[@thomasmoreel9661]

Well... Not all stories are "tragic". The grumpy cat died like every animals on Earth... Diagnosed with dwarfism, but it is not a tragedy.... Same goes with the DOGE meme... Sure, it's always sad when an animal die, especially when it's from a disease... But come on ! It's not "tragic".

[@j189512]

No peanut butter jelly time? His brother in law Snoop Dogg came to try get him to give himself up after an 11 hour standoff that ended with him dying

[@martijnstuart95]

I had no idea South Park was making fun of the Kony 2012 guy with the jacking it in San Diego song

[@mickeyrube6623]

I loved South Park for that. They could have just made fun of that guy, and talked shit about his film and movement like everybody else. Instead, they actually acknowledged that Stan, like the Kony 2012 guy, was doing it for the right reasons. They both just lost their minds trying so hard to genuinely help. The criticism of that movie/campaign was fucking stupid. They were literally gatekeeping CHARITY like fucking hipster assholes. Like "oh you hate Kony, huh? Name three of his mascacres!"

[@Lisa_TheChannel]

The fact that the Garfield one is a spot higher than a real life disgraced and deceased man is honestly hilarious

[@Vince-tt1uj]

99% people using Pepe on the internet use it as laughable character, calling it a hate symbol because few people trying to make their own filthy memes with him is idiotic.

[@Emily-cw7tj]

Agreed

[@MichaelPallada]

The nodding guy is Robert Redford? I seriously never recognized him...

[@geoffreylamberts]

Same

[@j.m.9047]

I’m not gonna lie, I instantly recognized the actor/character when I first saw this meme. I grew up watching that movie as a kid and it was good movie. It’s also why I love playing Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2, I am reminded of films like Jeremiah Johnson when playing them.

[@justindenney-hall5875]

I've seen "Jeremiah Johnson" (1972) but didn't know until now part of it was used for a meme.

[@MysticFalcon]

The dark truth of this internet meme, animal that has short lifespan, passes away at old age. SHOCKING!

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Yea it's sad but not exactly a dark truth

[@ShinRyojin]

Pepe the Frog basically became the new Calvin and Hobbes.

[@Mamarudegyal]

that man killed his own wife then pretended it was the crow people so he could massacre them, youll never convince me otherwise

[@Mike__B]

Wait a minute, what was so tragic about the Garfield meme? It's quite obvious that yeah Jon was upset that he thought his cat was deflated... and the "what we know now" bit is? Nah it's just another trick by Garfield so he can eat food. I feel like this is calling what happened to Wile E Coyote is "tragic" because of what the road runner tricked him into doing... "the road runner is portrayed as a psychopath murderer by having the coyote fall off a cliff... but in reality the coyote was trying to eat the road runner..." it's a cartoon, it's meant to be entertaining, not to be over analyzed.

[@dereknielsen7889]

What about the Nuna Numa kid? Heard he went off like the Star Wars kid

[@iaincampbell6959]

Pepe the frog is not the only victim… …remember Moon Man? He was once a McDonalds mascot called Mac Tonight

[@Emily-cw7tj]

I agree with you and I remember that too

[@CrimsonNineTail]

The Garfield bit actually made me laugh as a kid.

[@DreTheCoolest]

Im sorry but "deez nuts" is such a classic it never gets old and i been hearing it since the early 90s

[@robotorch]

Calling Robert Redford the bearded nodding guy is insane

[@wmca3smith983]

I’m surprised y’all didn’t use the guy in the courtroom one. Where he says “If y’all think I came to play with y’all…” he has some I think free form dreadlocks and is representing himself. People use the clip a lot for humorous reasons but what that guy did in real life is so horrible and demented that I struggle every time I see it. I know majority of people have no idea what he did. I just so happened to stumble across that case before it was a meme.

[@cdunlap0008]

Havent even seen the Garfield one until this video. And gotta say its a stretch

[@pauljrlagunas]

Didn't the star wars kid became president of a successful business

[@mickeyrube6623]

They made fun of him. But that hardship gave him the strength to slowly become something great. And that kid grew up to be none other than George Lucas. And now you know the rest of the story...

[@DarttheLegend]

“What is a punchline on social media” was ALSO very much a punchline in Garfield, a comedy comic strip…

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Damn

[@mickeyrube6623]

Mojo be like: "remember that meme of the super drunk homeless looking guy who did a horrible 'Arnold Schwarzenegger if he was super gay and racist' impression and then did a back flip into a mosh pit for a Limp Bizkit cover band, breaking his foot?... Well little did we know...his life wasn't doing so well..." Yeah, no shit Mojo.

[@j_bird27]

#10 shouldve been at the very least the top 3

[@mistermadmachine6311]

😢not the deez nuts guy

[@illiboi8072]

This is one of the worst lists I’ve seen… I thought it would be something that made the meme tragic not that something happened to the person or animal years down the road that had nothing to do with the meme

[@Tom_bradys_unretirement]

Gotta be AI generated at this point

[@mysteryandintrigue]

😂😂😂

[@knightmare5097]

I mean, the crying meme was kind of like that.

[@AlexasCorner18]

The first one was LITERALLY linked to the ACTUAL meme thou!

[@illiboi8072]

@@AlexasCorner18yeah the first one, it started off right but after that it was downhill. Plus the crying meme was sad but we all knew it was sad to begin with it’s not like this was new information. He died 6 years after the meme. It’s tragic because he was crying? Well no shit you can infer that. The rest are just dumb

[@driesman101]

John Arbuckle looks a helluva lot like Jerry Smith 😂

[@starscreamthecruel8026]

All hail Grumpy Cat!

[@XtreMeDeVi1]

Damn. I'm conflicted AF. Crazy, yet informative.

[@kjgfdsa3577]

It's pretty insane to me that a real black man's pain is number 10 but a Garfield comic and a Robert Redford movie rank higher.

[@onionbubs386]

Literally!!

[@minilea144]

You're taking it in context from least to best. Mojo just makes top whatever number and the numbers really have no significance. It's just content farming. Because they'll have the same stories in different order on other top whatever.

[@jarlwhiterun7478]

A man* Black is irrelevant, you racist.

[@marioperez9394]

This is still funny to me I have a messed up sense of humor not saying the stories are funny but the way they become memes is hilarious

[@The_Brett_Dove]

Rest in peace grumpy cat. You will forever be in our hearts ❤❤❤

[@enigWHYmatic]

4:23 I’ve not once in my life heard of anyone thinking that was Galifianakis

[@CaseyWinehouse]

Grumpy Cat was 2012? Man I was obsessed with I Can Haz Cheezburger as a junior in HS in 2010 and I could have sworn Grumpy Cat was part of that.

[@OokyAnimations]

The Garfield one is proof that Watchmojo is running out of ideas.

[@The_Brett_Dove]

To anyone struggling with addiction or mental health issues. Please do not be afraid to seek help. You have people who love you. ❤❤❤

[@ThePwig]

The voice over volume level is too quiet compared to the video clips

[@ThaBotmon]

Agreed

[@netto6681]

Can’t believe some sick bastards thought it was ok to joke about Garfield.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

I feel the same about Geshlan Raza. The latter was just some harmless make-believe. I, too, enjoy _Star Wars,_ but come on. The poor kid’s life was ruined!

[@jotaferreira4848]

That Garfield one was just for comments, right?

[@Stonerose17]

The Garfield one was a waste of

[@rockyjmoon3]

NOO! I didn’t know they were from Intervention! I’m so sorry!

[@MrHoly2fight]

2:43 I was wondering where the origins of the South Park San Diego song came from.

[@WOLFYLOBITO666]

It was San Diego, and ive been wondering the damn origins of that song for a long time too

[@MoonLoonie69]

I always thought the nodding guy was Mark Hamil

[@pheonixfire9517]

THIS is why you need to look up stuff before making memes and crap about them... Internet! Also, the internet putting stuff online, after altering images of the person, like the ''deez nutz guy'' WTF is wrong with people...

[@Emily-cw7tj]

Agreed

[@Denis-89]

So because something tragic happened years later that has nothing to do with the meme. we should not be enjoying these memes? That is a stretch..

[@MuhammadAbubakar-zl7xy]

I’m I the only one to think that Wentworth Miller resembles Jace Norman aka Henry Hart aka Kid Danger?

[@COMPFUNK2]

The grumpy cat meme is the only meme from the entire list that I have ever heard of.

[@The_Brett_Dove]

I promise last comment. I have a kitten with dwarfism and she's my whole world. Her name is Jazzy. Daddy loves you Jazzy

[@onionbubs386]

The Garfield one doesn't belong on this list. Garfield is fictional. Nobody died.

[@kris242]

I totally get that Doge and Grumpy Cat are sad stories when you think about how they’re both no longer with us now… but come the fuck on… how are they on this list?? 🤣 it’s been YEARS since they emerged as memes and everyone knows pets have short lifespans.

[@dsxa918]

I've seen both those memes relatively recently, so knowing more about them is interesting!

[@hunterpratt5899]

Swing and a miss about Jeremiah Johnson. There is a far deeper meaning behind that nod. You've clearly not actually seen the movie.

[@ATK10155]

And star wars kid is a case study on how rejecting people making a joke about you can ruin your life way easier than you accepting it.

[@laurence6]

He said in an interview that he has no regrets about his reaction. He studied law afterwards and other people were actually more respectful to him in person than on the internet.

[@dfrom103]

Why are pets on this when you KNOW they dont live that long to begin with?

[@Jacquoribraddock]

Y’all need to better structure these top 10s cause the 10 should’ve been 1 cause the man actually died. And 1 should’ve been 10 for obvious reasons the dude rose up and overcame in the end. And the ones in the middle overall were real misses. Like wtf WM how many times must we do this!? 🙄

[@chesterdhenfriasilano1074]

Tardar Sauce 🐱and Kabo-Chan (Kabosu) 🐶, you may rest in peace... 😔💐🐾⚰✝

[@ATK10155]

“Pepe was never for something so sinister” my guy there has not been a single use of pepe since 2008 that has been anything short of chaotic and sinister 💀

[@AdamZimmerman-c6i]

I always thought the nodding guy was Dennis Leary

[@Emily-cw7tj]

Me too actually

[@illiboi8072]

Kinda lame. You guys are saying things are tragic but they really weren’t lol.. the dog died of cancer years later?

[@daydsly]

The Star Wars kid lokey made it big he was immortalized in Tony hawk’s underground 2

[@dondebukowski7674]

In what world do people mistake Robert Redford for Zach Galifianakis?😅

[@mfrholdings]

2:41, bro, it's a cartoon, relax.

[@PsychoThirteen]

Whoever thinks Robert Redford from "Jeremiah Johnson" is Zach Galifianakis needs to get their eyes checked - twice - before they ever drive again.

[@Sheenifier]

Nah bro you need to your eyes checked bc that looks a lot like Zach Galifianakis. Only from this one angle the meme is used for, everything else it's Robert Redford

[@PsychoThirteen]

@@Sheenifier See your doctor.

[@Sheenifier]

@@PsychoThirteen my words to you

[@Cruz0881]

Evidence that the internet is a cesspool

[@aydantheyoutubeking]

Damn, you never knew or expected these things to happen or these storie

[@randolphvictorconstantine7765]

Star wars kid is still funny today and I'm not going to stop laughing just because he had some problems when his stupid video leaked out... We all have problems and laughing at him makes my problems go away for a while.

[@briandale8842]

Leave it mojo to be biased

[@b4n3c4t]

How about the “feeling Glonky” guy? He ended up stabbing his own mother in the head and killed her. That’s a tragic meme

[@Cabuyaopyro]

The wrestler meme the "do it just do it" meme

[@brendanlee8844]

Too bad none of these “back stories” ruined any of these memes for me:😂🤣

[@OverbossZero]

It really bugs me how meme culture can ruin lives like this. Or people don't do their history before taking something like Pepe and turning it into something that's just plain disgusting. It's due to this culture how I always associated Pepe with negativity, as I don't know the media and don't engage with most online cultures. To think that this frog was turned into a form of hate speech is sad. And people are doing this with MINIONS too?!

[@arhamsayeed319]

R.I.P ROCKY THE BEST CRY EVER !

[@BoomerCosmo]

Top Mojo Debbie downer videos lol

[@RiVer-Parish]

The internet is a very powerful drug people.

[@jodykyzer4484]

As a man now, that "Star Wars kid" should take it easy on himself. Move on. As The Joker said: "Why so serious"?

[@minilea144]

He did move on. He's A very successful lawyer.

[@stevorobo692]

Doge being adopted into a loving family and turning into a meme is tragic? There are some other things on this list that are a stretch. It's almost as if you are trying to manufacture shit and twist it in order for it to be viable in order to make a list for content.

[@shanikaayanna9767]

Can anyone tell me what the meme was for #8? I went back 3 times…

[@Whatevercomestomind23]

I wanna know about the Electric Chair lady and the you ever had a dream kid

[@FleetwoodCaddy59]

Fine figure of a man. Yes Jeremiah Johnson is a fantastic movie

[@JerryListener]

I was named after Mr Johnson.

[@THETexxStarr]

I thought Pepe was racist before Trump.

[@ToriCake95]

Please do not show Elon Musk without a jumpscare warning next time,. 🤢🤢🤢

[@CobartDouglas]

Hey y'all 😮

[@AverageWhiteGuy101]

Why is the narrator ALWAYS so quiet and the clips ALWAYS SO LOUD? 🤦🏻‍♂️🙄

[@TheGuyGuyde]

You all have to stop stereotyping Republicans as racist.

[@thyristo]

What about angry German video kid?