Looks Like WW3 Memes Are Back On The Menu

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Know Your Meme Team
June 23, 2025

This week, Ace's glance at Amaya became a meme, dudes took monitoring the situation to a whole new level and a public freakout on a plane went viral.

The 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict refers to a military conflict between the Middle Eastern countries of Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran, which started in mid-June 2025. The attacks began when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Mossad targeted key nuclear sites, top military leaders and military installations, including locations in Tehran, under the codename Operation Rising Lion. Iran then answered with strikes in Tel Aviv and other places. According to Israel, the goal of the operation was to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The conflict sparked widespread media coverage, internet discourse and memes, ranging from users celebrating the strikes on Tel Aviv to others praising the attacks against Iran and other specific events. Many on social media also expressed shock over the strikes in Tel Aviv due to the misconstrued perception that Israel's "Iron Dome" defense against missile attacks was supposed to be impenetrable. Similar to other events such as the Hamas-Israel Conflict and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, others expressed fear over an impending World War III if other nations like the U.S. were to get involved.

White Shampoo is a TikTok trend in which users post videos of men ejaculating, their penises either out of frame or the tip only visible, under the hashtag "#WhiteShampoo," with the videos often referring to the ejaculate as white shampoo. The trend was purportedly started by TikToker @okkkkokot in mid-June 2025 and inspired reactions online, with many wondering how the content was allowed on the app and comparing it to similar TikTok incidents, like the December 22nd incident and the Foopahh trend.

What Sin Do You Relish the Most is an exploitable meme format based on a SpongeBob SquarePants meme in which Squidward asks a fish ordering food from the Krusty Krab, "What sin do you relish the most?" and the fish tells him "Vanity," followed by Squidward telling him that his "death will be met with a tidal wave of total indifference." The original meme was posted by Facebook page Hello welcome to purgatory 2 in April 2025. It was reposted across social media numerous times over the following months, inspiring edits that alter the captions. The same scene was popularized as the "Daring Today, Aren't We" meme in 2018.

A three-alarm fire made her run for her life, but her retelling of the tale made her a legend. Here's a look into what Kimberly 'Sweet Brown' Wilkins has been up to since her viral fame.

Upcoming Meme-a-versaries

Here are this week's birthday memes celebrating their anniversaries from the storied halls of meme and internet history:

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How World War III Memes Took Over the Internet Again

In June 2025, as tensions rose between Israel and Iran, the internet reacted the only way it knows how...with memes. A single ominous tweet from the account @IRIran_Military kicked off a viral cascade, from “Everyone will feel it” replies and Druski reactions to the sudden revival of the “Monitoring the Situation” meme. But things took an even weirder turn when users began comparing Iran’s tweet style to the late drill rapper King Von, spawning mashups, TikToks, and flag edits that merged geopolitical fear with fan edit absurdity.

Sinking Town Animation Trend Turns TikTok Into A Paper Puppet Show

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The 'Bohahaha' Laughing Sound / 'How I Laugh' Trend Inspired By Bleach

The distinctive laughs of several characters from the anime Bleach have been incorporated into a sick beat and edit, the sound of which is now being used across TikTok, with many exclaiming these different laughs are how they laugh in different situations.