Osama Meme Generator
The offer arrives in the group chat at 11pm: "special deal, tonight only". Read the small print and it's a terrible deal. The seller is delighted with it anyway and has already sent it to everyone twice.
Someone posts a comment far too spicy for a Tuesday, gets a hundred furious replies, and responds with "that wasn't me, someone's using my account". The comment history disagrees. So does the screenshot your cousin took.
At dinner a mate tells a joke that goes one line too far. Forks stop. He looks round for backup, finds none, and says "tough crowd" to a room that has become furniture.
A forum argument is eleven hours old, nobody has changed their mind, and both sides are now just trying to leave with the last word. Every reply opens with a different mock-wise greeting, as if the thread were a council of elders.
Why it caught on: the picture is a bearded man in a white turban over a yellow and brown sunburst, the colour-burst look of the early advice-animal templates, and meme generator sites filled up with captions on it. Most leaned on the lazy stereotype of the Muslim man as a terrorist, with crude jokes about bombs, pork and virgins, and later ones swapped in the Turkish president's name as the punchline. It spread because the format made a deliberately provocative one-liner effortless, and shock was the whole appeal.
Best Osama posts
- Yo! What you say, / a bomb a day can keep the doctor away?
- make europe / great again
- I like to eat / p o r k
- i like pigs / you pig, i like you
- today offer 69 virgins / (second-hand virgins)
- google.com /fuckingerdogan / :)
- satan is not osama / erdogan is satan. phahaha! :)))
- allah! what the hell, where is my virgins...?! / wtf?! fuck u alah!
- my new name is / erdogan.
- god is big! alahu at bar. / moloh n-are habar!
- if you are what you eat... / you eat pig?
- i like to eat pork. / allah n-are habar.
- Allahu / Snackbar
- omfg! it's football season? / ok! allahh ackhh barbar! phahaha!
- i like to play football. / in air. :-)
- harem / not Harlem
- One does simple. / Be pig. oops! Eat pigs.
- alah at bar / -|-
- O same / Be in Laden
- Happy New Yeaaar! / At bar! At bar!! At baaar!!!