Recover From Your Post Holiday Blues With Some Memes

Chopped Chin or I've Been Running Into You In My Head is a series of memes based on a viral video of former WNBA player Renee Montgomery dancing courtside with high schooler Angel Wiley (said to be her cousin) referred to as "chopped chin" for the appearance of his chin, at an Atlanta Dream basketball game. The video was originally uploaded to the Atlanta Dream Instagram page in August 2023. It became the subject of memes in December 2024 when Instagram user halal_man_2 began consistently posting motivational and emotional quotes over the video, inspiring ironic memes set to the song "Bring Me Back (Enox Mantano Remix)" by Miles Away, which refer to Montgomery's cousin as "chopped chin." In this case, "chopped" is being used as slang meaning "ugly." "Chopped Chin" is also used to refer to halal_man_2's account. The videos sparked a slew of brainrot, lobotomy videos in the Hood Irony community in January 2025, which spliced Chopped Chin with other trendy memes like I Bought a Property in Egypt, Eye of Rah and Luke Belmar's "Johnnie Walker in the War Room With Tristan Tate," among others. The meme also spread to TikTok that month.

I've Played These Games Before!, also known as I Have Played These Games Before! or Seong Gi-hun Shouting, refers to a scene in season 2 of the Netflix show Squid Game in which the protagonist Seong Gi-hun (played by South Korean actor Lee Jung-jae) shouts, "I've played these games before!" to a crowd of other players. The English dub of the scene was most commonly used in memes on TikTok and elsewhere. It became the subject of memes in late 2024 and January 2025, mostly used by gamers to joke about having veteran experience and expertise. Others joked about how "Bro is not 456" and showed recreations of the red light, green light game in which one person shouts, "I've played these games before!" The screencap of Seong Gi-hun yelling became an exploitable as well, resulting in ironic memes and increasingly absurd re-edits.

Eye of Rah, also known as Eye of Ra, refers to an image of a Black man with red hair photoshopped to have one eye like a cyclops, which became popularized across a series of Hood Lobotomy videos on TikTok and Instagram Reels. The man's real name is Rashad Bowens who posts on TikTok at @lilbotheme and on Instagram at @bothemess. He's known for his reaction stitches and iconic red dreads that sometimes stick straight upward. Instagram user and TikToker Jeremiah Springfield created the original edit that gave Bowens one eye, akin to the Hood Cryptids trend. Viewers dubbed the meme the "Eye of Rah," likely riffing on the precursor Curse of Ra. As it trended in early January 2025, Eye of Rah memes were often combined with other then-trending memes like Chopped Chin and I Bought a Property in Egypt, forming a series of brainrot and sludge content videos.

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

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