You may have seen this meme pop up all across your timeline recently. What does it mean? Where did it come from? Why is this the feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow and why is the Grinch blue and why is he smirking? Do we have answers? Kinda.
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00:00Sometimes, a meme graces your timeline, and you just can't quite understand it.
00:07Maybe you quickly head to Google, you frantically search, hitting the wrong keys in a frenzied
00:10stupor.
00:11Google's AI pops up, it gets a math problem wrong, and you're left wondering, what the
00:14heck was that meme?
00:15Well, take a look at this one and try to figure it out.
00:17There's a blue Grinch, a Grinch after too many blue raspberry slushies, and the very
00:20basic but eloquent impact font text that reads,
00:23That feeling, when knee surgery is tomorrow.
00:25What does it mean?
00:26Is there some sort of inside joke?
00:27Is it as simple as it seems?
00:28Is the only application for this meme for when I'm 40 and my knees stop working?
00:31I'm gonna have to save this one for decades from now for when my, you know, knees explode.
00:35Now, let's break it down.
00:36Luckily for us, Know Your Meme has an entry and an explainer article breaking it down,
00:39and I'm gonna get us across the blue Grinch river right now.
00:42As is expected, this avant-garde abstract but tasteful meme comes from the threads of
00:46a very small corner of the internet, a fringe internet trend gone rogue.
00:50What began as probably an inside joke between two 16-year-olds in the back of trigonometry
00:53class has blown up on TikTok this year, and this smirking blue-tinted Grinch has been
00:56popping up in all digital and ethereal locales.
00:59Well, it turns out this isn't the original iteration of the meme.
01:02Yes, this is actually the original, with the same text, but a different image.
01:05This time of a squirrel screaming to the gods above.
01:08This nutty meme found its way on memecreator.org on April of 2021, which sounds like a made-up
01:13sentence.
01:14I wouldn't think anyone was using memecreator.org within the past 10 years, but this one was
01:17worth it, because before long, it started morphing.
01:19The squirrel became a deceased rapper, murdered by Kendrick this summer.
01:23That was just four months later, in August of 2021.
01:25And then in 2022, the dweebs caught wind of this silly text, a post-post-ironic tinge
01:29of humor that makes no sense in almost any situation.
01:32They threw Azumanga Daioh in there.
01:34But none of these compared to the spark of beauty that blessed the Instagram feed of
01:38user Blinchfeels, the coveted, legendary, blue-tinted Grinch.
01:41But the real question is, who would win in a fight, blue-tinted Grinch or Jonkler Cart?
01:45I'm sure this is a very nail-biting debate on Blacktop in recess this winter.
01:49Regardless, this meme de Azul started getting reposted very quickly on subreddits like r
01:53slash oddlyspecific, and even its own dedicated subreddit, the intellectual realm of r slash
01:57knee surgery memes.
01:58Might as well call that r slash lobotomy, which probably also exists.
02:01And these reposts were getting tens of thousands of likes, like 85,000 in fact, on this one.
02:06Now the meme has evolved.
02:07People photoshopped the Jim Carrey Grinch in there.
02:09He should make a Blue Grinch adaptation, by the way.
02:11People print it out in real life, put it in bar graphs.
02:13What gives people feelings of power?
02:14The Blue Grinch has surged, through memers across the interwebs, blasting past its competition.
02:19This year, in 2024, it's seen all over through its comeback on TikTok, with videos like this
02:23one getting hundreds of thousands of likes, like it's nothing.
02:25As if the meme couldn't wrap another layer of irony around its already existing irony,
02:30people plaster it in rows and columns.
02:32I accidentally saved 10,000 photos of that feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow.
02:36There might as well be a virus of this thing, just instead of your computer bluescreening,
02:39it Blue Grinches.
02:40A horrifying fate.
02:41But what is Blue Grinch doing there, anyway?
02:44Why is he so happy to have knee surgery tomorrow?
02:47Wouldn't you be nervous?
02:48Maybe the Blue Grinch's smirk represents a state of consciousness beyond the petty, nervous Nancy.
02:52Beyond the neurotic lies a confident you, one that walks through traumatic events such
02:56as knee surgery like it's nothing.
02:58But what if we're all this unphased Blue Grinch?
03:01We're all the Blue Grinch going back to Whoville to steal every present in town.
03:04This meme makes you feel invincible, like you've somehow escaped the normal, mortal
03:08memes of old.
03:09You're a step above.
03:10You are blue.
03:11You are the Grinch.
03:12And knee surgery is tomorrow.
03:14But what is tomorrow, anyway?
03:1610 out of 10.
03:17The meme of all time.
03:18A masterpiece.
03:19Until the surgeon messes something up.
03:20Then you're Red Grinch.
03:21And knee surgery is now.