check your kids' candy
Gay Halloween Parties, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
Here at Digg, we try our best to cover the most important and confounding memes that come across the timeline. But the web is littered with tons of great memes that never quite hit the mainstream and instead just bounce around the weird corners of Twitter or Reddit. Enter our recurring feature, Memes, Ranked.
This week, we've got some wild (and not real) sketches from SBF's trial, this year's kids' candy warnings and some infuriatingly good Halloween costumes.
3. Sam Bankman-Fried courtroom sketch
The Meme
Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial, accused of fraud during his time running the now-extinct FTX cryptocurrency exchange. Folks online took this opportunity to be a little silly with the court sketches — making him seem like some sort of chiseled god with anime hair. It doesn’t matter if the sketch is real; it’s hilarious regardless.
Examples
the courtroom sketch artist was definitely paid off by SBF pic.twitter.com/OTzfOy05f8
— litquidity (@litcapital) October 30, 2023
net income adjusted ebitda pic.twitter.com/ttkMzv1UNs
— sophie (@netcapgirl) October 30, 2023
That’s a big GAAP.
— Steve Hou (“CONSUME LESS!”) (@stevehouf) October 30, 2023
Absolutely no one:
— Alan Carroll (@alancarroII) October 31, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried court sketches: pic.twitter.com/dft7jcd8jC
Will Chat GPT AI ever out sketch the Sam Bankman Fried courtroom sketch artists?#RIPMathewPerry pic.twitter.com/7oqm0DVO4s
— Winston Alexander ⚡️🇺🇲 (@_BitcoinCapital) October 31, 2023
Grant Brunner
2. Halloween candy
The Meme
In a week just like this one, a year ago, this exact meme trended on Twitter. The extremely frightening, "hey parents, please be careful what is inside of your kids' candy" joke has come back to haunt us yet again, but this time it's only half as funny as it was in 2022. Eek!
The '80s, '90s and '00s had plenty of paranoid and gullible adults believing razor blades and drugs were being shoved into food and distributed to children during the holiday season. News reports would run with clips of candy going through x-ray machines, even though no one ever actually found proof this was a real thing that happened. Just like how D&D never turned kids into satanists.
Example
Parents, please check your kids’ candy because people think it’s “funny” to put Joe Pesci’s character from Goodfellas shooting into the camera, which is in and of itself a reference to The Great Train Robbery, into candy bars.
— c (@food_enjoyer) October 31, 2023
Stay vigilant. pic.twitter.com/FJE1vU7ypq
Be careful out there with your kids’ Halloween candy today.
— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) October 31, 2023
You never know what awful things could be inside.
My nephew bit into a Rolo and found the water level from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES. pic.twitter.com/1XKCsQHU7C
PARENTS, please check your kids' candy this Halloween. I just found Luke’s Crouching Medium Punch in my son's chocolate bar. He could've been hit by that into a 75% damage drive rush combo and died despite most of the cast having similar stuff. Some real sick people out there. pic.twitter.com/VKjGRrBivy
— DanC (@DCravate) October 31, 2023
Parents... please check your children's candy tonight. I just went through Salomé Athena's haul and I found a copy of the Jorge Luis Burges short story collection "The Garden of Forking Paths". This metatextual exploration may be too advanced for young readers. pic.twitter.com/H31GJe833h
— Josh Saint (@jesawyer) October 31, 2023
Make sure to check your kid’s halloween candy. I just found balls in my Reese’s… pic.twitter.com/0gIh47iiHJ
— Bill Cardella (@BillCardella) November 1, 2023
Jared Russo
1. Gay Halloween
The Meme
In case you didn't know, it was Halloween on Tuesday — and while there were a lot of great costumes on show, no one will ever outdo one particular group of dressers-up. One of the most popular memes this week revolved around "gay Halloween," celebrating — with faux snideness — the incredibly dedicated, mind-bogglingly niche costumes that gay people make each year.
Examples
I hate gay Halloween parties what do you mean you’re big miss steak pic.twitter.com/mbrWyjDMMR
— Mark Glasgow Illustration (@MGlasgowGoods) October 29, 2023
Hate going to gay Halloween parties, what do you mean you’re the telephone pole from Hereditary
— Foreskin Princess (@EmilioEmm) October 28, 2023
i hate gay halloween parties it’s like what do you mean you’re the fast car lesbian from tiktok pic.twitter.com/aQ39Upg5R7
— julia carmel (beefy baby) (@julcarm) October 29, 2023
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re RuPaul from the 1999 cult classic But I’m a Cheerleader pic.twitter.com/pjuHd6a3IE
— becky (@beckywtheokhair) October 30, 2023
I hate gay Halloween parties. What do you mean you’re Lady Gaga in the NURTEC ODT migraine medication commercial? pic.twitter.com/p5Myojq5IK
— Jeff D (@jeffdingy) October 29, 2023
i hate gay halloween parties it’s like what do you mean you’re the last gasp challenge from survivor pic.twitter.com/6ebvU6Q6ig
— gabe bergado (@gabebergado) October 27, 2023
hate going to gay halloween parties like what do you mean you’re jennifer lawrence crying on hot ones, what do you— WHAT DO YOU MEAN?? pic.twitter.com/jmX96QUwVE
— Jill Gutowitz (@jillboard) October 29, 2023
I hate gay people at Halloween because what the do you mean you're going as…….. a swan(?) wearing a björk dress(?) who is also wearing a swan dress? idek… pic.twitter.com/fGh2hhsFKU
— mateo🫀 (@melofknblonde) October 29, 2023
I hate gay Halloween. What do you mean you’re girl wearing a skirt as a top from Hilary Duff’s 2008 anti bullying PSA
— empanada daddy (@empanadadaddy23) October 28, 2023
Darcy Jimenez
And if you're hungry for more memes, here's the last edition of "The Week's Best Memes," where we had a guy who's tried 100 things, a guy who's tried 1,000 things, Golden Retriever boyfriends and Britney Spears' dirt on JT.