I hate the "this person has passed" meme

[u/magicdog2013]

Not only is this meme really old and overdone. It makes it so when a famous person actually does die, you HAVE to doubt it because it might just be one of these

Look, I get the Internet, I've grown up on it for better (and mostly for worse). I know people love pulling these kinds of gotcha things, and i understand the concept of engagement bai, i fully understand why people make these.

What I don't understand is how so many people upvote and support these kinds of posts. Again, especially now, with how old and overdone it is. Every influential person has had a dozen of these kinds of memes made of them.

[u/Montevideo_comics]

In like 40 years, people are gonna make Youtube shorts about this image with the caption 'this didn´t age well´

[u/FrenchToast-Fanatic → u/Montevideo_comics]

The internet will outlive the people it keeps pretending are dead.

[u/hoi4420 → u/FrenchToast-Fanatic]

if the ai agents don't swarm it first and it make it unusable.

[u/Bakingguy → u/Montevideo_comics]

Bold of you to assume people will be making things and not bots

[u/Montevideo_comics → u/Bakingguy]

yehh... that´s true

[u/Much-Menu6030]

[u/bigmonkeybiggermoney → u/Much-Menu6030]

I like this version of the joke, because it never explicitly has an end date. I feel like it’s only funny if it’s misleading and not just lying

[u/GodButCursed → u/bigmonkeybiggermoney]

The picture isnt even black and white. Its just a picture of the guy

[u/ZubatCountry → u/bigmonkeybiggermoney]

Yeah maybe the first 100 times you see it

Otherwise it's just the same non-joke, delivered the same exact way everytime

Legitimately one of the lowest-effort posts you can make and they should be banned just for it, I don't even care about the misleading angle

It's just a "I also choose this guys dead wife" level of beaten into the ground reddit joke

[u/Better_Syrup_2579 → u/ZubatCountry]

[u/MrMcGibbus → u/ZubatCountry]

I agree but at least for this, it doesn't give the same shock as getting tricked into thinking someone died

Plus you're most likely scroll after it rather than getting your time wasted and emotions played

You'll most likely stay on the trick posts longer to make sure you understood what you were seeing

[u/Inevitable_Drag_7711 → u/Much-Menu6030]

heavy gilf vibes

[u/RegularlyClueless → u/Much-Menu6030]

Hey I moderate that subreddit lmao

[u/Key_Addition_4038 → u/RegularlyClueless]

you were just throwing out a fun fact and they're crucifying you

[u/RegularlyClueless → u/Key_Addition_4038]

I mean reddit mods definitely deserve all the flack they get. Generally I try to be as permissive as possible, not gonna ban someone for the word print, or for criticizing a certain comic artist

[u/bigmonkeybiggermoney → u/RegularlyClueless]

Based self awareness

[u/Fair-Bunch4827 → u/RegularlyClueless]

Reddit mod (derogatory)

[u/Vast-Comment8360 → u/RegularlyClueless]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3HnBZbCWuc8HS

[u/RegularlyClueless → u/Vast-Comment8360]

I may be fat, but I do actually take good care of my beard and i don't have a neckbeard. Also my head is too big for most hats lmao

[u/Vast-Comment8360 → u/RegularlyClueless]

Felow giant skull, obnoxious when adjustable hats don't fit on the largest setting.

Good news is more room for the brain.

[u/RealAssWhiteWigga100 → u/RegularlyClueless]

Loser

[u/RegularlyClueless → u/RealAssWhiteWigga100]

:(

[u/Starwars-Battledroid → u/RegularlyClueless]

https://giphy.com/gifs/bmLlSndzhqWgWb3vXW

[u/Quiet_Lawfulness_362 → u/Much-Menu6030]

The joke's on you if you believe this one, for Gaben is immortal.

[u/ahmetonel → u/Much-Menu6030]

all jokes aside he looks awful lol

[u/meredithmonia]

[u/satirelion → u/meredithmonia]

Why did you change reddit to that image

[u/feferidan → u/satirelion]

wait, my Reddit icon has been like this for months and I never changed it myself 😭 wtf

[u/meredithmonia → u/satirelion]

sorry satire lion🥺

[u/satirelion → u/meredithmonia]

Go roar yourself

[u/Bobthatlovesjob → u/satirelion]

Lion how would you feel if there was an unsatire tiger 

[u/satirelion → u/Bobthatlovesjob]

Theyre litarally my wife????

[u/Bobthatlovesjob → u/satirelion]

no way man really explain more lore 

[u/satirelion → u/Bobthatlovesjob]

How would you feel if you saw A Barbara That Hates Job

[u/Bobthatlovesjob → u/satirelion]

isn’t that just a DC reference man?

[u/satirelion → u/Bobthatlovesjob]

HOLY A REFERENCE MAN REFERENCE‽‽‽‽‽‽‽

[u/meredithmonia → u/satirelion]

cries and runs away

[u/Human-Law1085 → u/meredithmonia]

You now inadvertently made me have to look up if David Attenborough was still alive or it was a joke like I assumed (he is alive)

[u/quaxoid → u/Human-Law1085]

good, now I won't look him up and I will just take your word for it, random stranger on the internet

[u/potato_meatpies → u/Human-Law1085]

same..

[u/Icy-Humor2907]

[u/magicdog2013 → u/Icy-Humor2907]

NOOOOOO

[u/Nathmikt → u/magicdog2013]

You was the best of us.

[u/Neither-Attitude3515 → u/magicdog2013]

What's it like being in Heaven? Is it full or empty?

[u/nwg_here → u/Neither-Attitude3515]

I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure Hell is full. So many bad people in this world.

[u/Rockety521 → u/nwg_here]

Next you're gonna tell me blood is fuel?

[u/Icy_Whereas_238 → u/Rockety521]

There's no way you also tell me that Mankind is dead.

[u/blockMath_2048 → u/magicdog2013]

hey dude calm down

[u/Krysus1234 → u/blockMath_2048]

I fucking failed her

[u/PunishedVenomSnake52 → u/magicdog2013]

Your no more more

[u/BandicootNext4456 → u/Icy-Humor2907]

fly high​ 🕊

[u/Mediocre-Doubt-7439 → u/Icy-Humor2907]

You’re fucking hilarious for taking the time to make this LMFAO

[u/Indieriots → u/Icy-Humor2907]

Username checks out

[u/Low-Abies-4526]

Yeah I really don't get the bit either. Like "Oh no you startled me into being empathetic and sad for a second because I thought someone nice died". Where is the funny in that?

[u/Red8937 → u/[deleted]]

same and then when he actually passed last week I didn’t believe it till I saw the actual news on tv

[u/Red8937 → u/[deleted]]

People are demented

[u/EntireFriendship517 → u/Red8937]

You're the one who tried to trick someone into briefly thinking their favorite celebrity was dead. And you're calling them demented? my guy

[u/Red8937 → u/EntireFriendship517]

I mean I thought it was pretty obvious I was joking, I wasn’t trying particularly hard to get them to believe it

But yea I would call having an alarm set for when someone you don’t know dies is a bit demented, probably so they can get writing their “eulogy” post for social media before anyone else

[u/Low-Abies-4526 → u/Red8937]

Man, you have to be the most cynical person I have seen in a minute.

[u/Red8937 → u/[deleted]]

Yea a lot of us grew up with him. It’s not “incredibly upsetting” though, we don’t know him, let’s not do another Diana and become hysterical when he dies

It’s disrespectful to his memory and his loved ones not to mention transparent and embarrassing

[u/KeyMyBike → u/Red8937]

Ur mum

[u/MrMcGibbus → u/Low-Abies-4526]

Some assholes think that making people shock is funny but in reality it's kinda on the same term as harming people as "harmless pranks"

[u/9yr_old_lake]

Yea this is really dumb and annoying. It was kinda funny the first couple times, but it got old FAST and now people post them constantly.

[u/MegaMGstudios]

It was less bad when the joke was revealed in the image itself, but this image is a straight up obituary, you gotta read into the description (if you're lucky) to get the " joke"

[u/Practical_Entrance43 → u/MegaMGstudios]

THIS. I originally saw the image whilst scrolling and just went to search if it was legit or not. Like mf made a straight up memorial image and no punchline.

[u/Individual-Sweet3400]

coaxed into passing gas peacefully in your home

[u/TheLagnarok]

That shit genuinely scared me when i saw it😭

[u/BrandyTheGorgs]

It was fine when it was just a black and white image with no additional text, and simply a caption. Now the whole birth year->2026, with the word "passed" or "unfortunately" or whatever else is just stupid.

[u/SolidBeyondBelief]

[u/MrPersonmancreature → u/SolidBeyondBelief]

Simpson man with a Simpsons joke? How jovial

[u/Scolmann]

I saw that post the other day, and ironically this post gave me another mini heart attack

[u/Mean_Fig_7666]

Those David Attenborough ones really fuck me up, cause I know that man is not long for this world any more :( he turned 100 this year

[u/L0rdM3k]

Fuck you, you scared me for a second

[u/Neat-Engineering-696]

Everytime I see these kinds of images, it makes my heart sink for a brief moment until I realize they didn't die

[u/Fearless_MF]

True story, For some time I legit thought that jynxie genuinely died because of all the videos and edits on my insta fyp and all the comments saying rip under every jynxie clip. I even saw a fake news report about the passing of jynxie SOMEONE MADE A FUCKING FAKE NEWS REPORT saying jynxie died lol.

[u/possiblymatt0]

weird al has passed gas this morning

[u/SingleGeologist2815]

Yeah it's pretty lame. There are way better ways to pander for likes, this is just tacky and unfunny.

[u/Double_Ad_8911]

The only one I like is sonic has passed

[u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120]

we need to talk

[u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 → u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120]

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[u/FiveFreddys12]

https://giphy.com/gifs/qXhstT3cvt5HFBajuy

[u/No-Lettuce-6619 → u/FiveFreddys12]

woah don't post a pic of op like that

[u/check8rs → u/FiveFreddys12]

Whole point of the subreddit, get outta here

[u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 → u/check8rs]

not really

[u/Ok_Future_3227 → u/FiveFreddys12]

This is the whole fucking point of the subreddit

[u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 → u/Ok_Future_3227]

not really

[u/Physical-Program3079 → u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120]

fym not really

[u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 → u/Physical-Program3079]

it's for hating things, not necessarily hating fun so much

[u/Prior-Ad-5852]

I can completely understand not liking them, the same way that I can understand being annoyed by a rickroll.

But just like getting rickrolled, I find these memes absolutely hilarious still. They’re the kind that make me smile, sigh, and shake my head

[u/TheZubaz]

Rip Joe Rogan

[u/NerwanderR]

Reddit spent far too much time recommending posts from r/IsAttenboroughAlive to me. Gave me a mini heart attack each time until I noticed which subreddit it was from. Pisses me off beyond belief…

[u/thirstygiant_]

Damn! I actually thought he died!! That actually makes me mad.

[u/Capybarinya_nya]

it's tasteless, yeah

[u/manzenik_23]

BITC I WANTED TO MAKE THIS EXACT SAME POST BUT SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE JEB THING

see, normally i like it cuz you immideatly figure out its fake. it plays on the fact we never really see b&w pictures of celebs unless something bad happened, and usually its just that along side something like "x celeb has reportedly drank coffee this morning: "i liked it", they say"

this is different because it makes it practically UNOTICABLE that its fake. the post name, the date (which makes no sence), the small immposible-to-read text

this is really bad

[u/KiraSophi]

Honestly, the meme was funny at first, but now people use it so much that it barely feels original anymore. The internet really knows how to run a joke into the ground.

[u/Traditional-Tap6572]

I agree. It's even worse than the 67 meme. And I didn't even know that was possible.

[u/Choice_Decision_2533]

There's a whole sub dedicated to churning out David Attenborough death fakeouts.

[u/-IndyCar]

I've saw posts do birthdays like this for engagement

[u/Troed_road]

it's not a meme it's just misinformation

[u/LemonThrower386]

My friend apparently fell for this image

[u/Nepalman230]

OK, I also hate this because it’s not a meme. It’s just like hateful misinformation, but where I thought this was going was you not liking memes about people dying.

Which I get that. I remember I made a meme about when Dame Maggie Smith died and people told me that that was how they found out even though I waited two days, but they said that the fact that it was a meme softened the blow.

🫡

[u/mrbobcyndaquil]

I like it when the person's been dead for at least a decade. It becomes a Slowpoke meme then

[u/funnimonkemomento]

especially with how 2026 has been going it makes me really nervous

[u/MrManGuyDude22]

bruhs last name burger

[u/skyetheweirdidiot]

Similarly I hate it when I go to look something up on tiktok and one of the trending searches is "insert person I know of passed". Scared the shit out of me so many times cause of how many famous people have died in this year alone

[u/NordicNjorn → u/skyetheweirdidiot]

Well, your first problem is expecting accurate information from tiktok….

[u/skyetheweirdidiot → u/NordicNjorn]

Who said I'm expecting anything out of it? I was just making a point that with how many people have died this year, seeing even a mention of another person possibly having died does worry me for a second

[u/MediumRapport]

i want a tiny blue dot to silently judge me every time i tap my phone screen ngl

[u/No_Eye_5863]

I find them funny when I see them especially since you only think it’s real for a few seconds but I understand why others dont

[u/Ike19292818]

You:

[u/Free_Parsnip_3553 → u/Ike19292818]

Think that might be you considering almost everyone is agreeing with OP

[u/watarod]

Whatever

[u/iamdabrick]

it's lowkey hilarious ngl

[u/Healthy-Way-8285]

The man who hated fun

[u/spaideishere → u/Healthy-Way-8285]

How would you feel if you thought you're favorite celebrity died through one of these posts? How would you feel if that celebrity was someone you were close with? It isn't fun to trick people into thinking someone died.

[u/magicdog2013 → u/[deleted]]

Are we supposed to give hot takes here, I just hate this and want to express as such