Even if you don’t have a Twitter account, you need to run to the social networking site and get a good ol’ dose of #MemeHistory.
The hilarious hashtag got started after @TylerIAm saw a picture of a student presentation that included a meme and wondered if you could teach history using popular images.
I'm going to help my nephew with a powerpoint and put crying jordan in every slide and hes going to ask me who this sobbing old man is
— Trill Withers (@TylerIAm) March 10, 2016
Almost immediately, other Twitter users chimed in to use memes–or funny viral images–to illustrate historical events.
@TylerIAm "The Irish Potato Famine left over a million dead and led to the emigration of thousands more" pic.twitter.com/hwZaTUkuj9
— Trevor (@AmadeusGoatzart) March 10, 2016
@TylerIAm April 30th 1945, Hitler committed suicide. pic.twitter.com/En9AZA1EXT
— mceachin (@koalabrew) March 10, 2016
The headline said Dewey defeats Truman and Truman was like pic.twitter.com/ojtklEOoJx
— Trill Withers (@TylerIAm) March 10, 2016
And soon, #MemeHistory was born.
#MemeHistory https://t.co/mcOTga45TZ
— Trill Withers (@TylerIAm) March 10, 2016
Of course…Twitter went AWF in the most hilarious way, and no subject was off-limits.
Religious History
When Jesus rose Lazarus from the dead… #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/gQkTuNZTUH
— joel heauxlsteen⚜ (@SheSeauxSaditty) March 11, 2016
When you at the banquet function and all of a sudden Jesus turns water into wine #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/PTW5iLpyoI
— best of both worlds. (@MichellCClark) March 11, 2016
Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses on the door of the Catholic church. #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/1HCJuEJQoV
— Ma$on's Day = Easter (@FirstGentleman) March 11, 2016
Jesus taking the five loaves and two fishes and giving it to the disciples. #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/BQvyXsGI7J
— Jozen C. (@jozenc) March 11, 2016
? RT @OG_triple_OGe: When Joseph found out Mary was pregnant by another man but it was God #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/doUEAjpgHq
— pixie godsister. ✨ (@mminthecity) March 11, 2016
The 16th century Catholic Church when Copernicus said Earth rotates around the sun #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/uIafCyvQIW
— wikipedia brown (@eveewing) March 11, 2016
Satan: "If You are really the Son of God, throw yourself down off this cliff.” #MemeHistory
Jesus: pic.twitter.com/PE9cIQwvw4
— Yukio Strachan (@boldandworthy) March 11, 2016
Jesus after being risen from the dead. #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/OCRvjEl6LC
— Elsa. (@naturallyelsa) March 11, 2016
World History
When the Greeks arrived at Troy #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/cxURTmhmBH
— LizzLocker (@Lizzs_Lockeroom) March 11, 2016
@TylerIAm "then the Trojans brought the Trojan horse, which was filled with Greeks, into their city." #memehistory pic.twitter.com/uzT3AxO6qM
— yaya tommy (@t_voltron) March 10, 2016
When Europeans were asked why they needed slavery #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/h1KxMWrZ09
— Decolonial Scientist (@They_berian) March 11, 2016
#MemeHistory
France during the French Revolution: "America you're gonna honor that alliance treaty right?"
America: pic.twitter.com/XpIwRT2gCh— no. (@soykawai) March 10, 2016
How the French-Canadian War ended #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/pMGXrl66hi
— T'Challa The King (@Brandale2221) March 10, 2016
1929, women in Nigeria realized the men wouldn't get them free from colonization so they burned it all #memehistory pic.twitter.com/S0KG4vkMkC
— Chisaraokwu (@theAfroLegalise) March 11, 2016
Europeans after the Moors taught them how to bathe #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/nnS4W5rkrt
— SocialJusticeFlower (@anthoknees) March 11, 2016
#MemeHistory Young people: "The rainbow nation is a myth!"
Tutu: pic.twitter.com/2mkD44IeeA— Gugulethu Mhlungu (@GugsM) March 11, 2016
#memehistory
Trotsky: what you hiding?
Stalin: pic.twitter.com/uFDufNhNVs— Maxamed (@MoFanon) March 11, 2016
Ethiopia while the rest of the continent was colonized #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/8bFdH5VsIv
— vimto mami (@lunarnomad) March 11, 2016
When Napoleon tried to re-instate slavery & Haitians rose up like.. #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/LMN5LFHaRR
— crystal fleming (@alwaystheself) March 11, 2016
American History
The Native Americans when Columbus showed up and told them they were Indians. #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/stWl5RgPQM
— Ol' QWERTY Bastard (@TheDiLLon1) March 11, 2016
"We didn't enslave them. We rescued them. Made em Christians. This is all fine. " #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/097MscVG1D
— best of both worlds. (@MichellCClark) March 11, 2016
the "founding fathers" when black people asked about those basic inalienable rights #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/qgkfIyMNgB
— Lauren Chanel Allen (@MichelleHux) March 11, 2016
When Paul Revere saw the British coming #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/LenHU1wEcd
— best of both worlds. (@MichellCClark) March 11, 2016
"When John Wilkes Booth knew that the South had lost the war, he took matters into his own hands." #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/ts5vk3pU0v
— Melech E. M. Thomas (@MelechThomas) March 10, 2016
Slaves: "Are you serious? You want us to run away with you?
Harriet Tubman:#MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/j1KmxOzNyx
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 11, 2016
When Jesse Owens washes all the white runners at the Berlin Olympics in front of Hitler #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/sI3R5lzUYE
— Leo Tweetstoy (@_Symonds_) March 10, 2016
Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR. DOWN. THIS. WALL. #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/mQhX4XUaWO
— Brienne of Snarth (@femme_esq) March 10, 2016
Pepsi when they accidentally burned Michael Jackson #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/ksHuatXH2L
— The Almighty Xilla (@BlogXilla) March 11, 2016
And the driver told Rosa Parks to "get to the back or get off" #memehistory pic.twitter.com/WV7yPfglwf
— Dre Davis (@tweets_by_dre) March 10, 2016
When restaurants were first integrated and Blacks had White folk's potato salad for the first time #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/8NQWmBlTxe
— Melech E. M. Thomas (@MelechThomas) March 11, 2016
When there were no weapons of mass destruction. #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/suLaXRMXE3
— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) March 11, 2016
George Bush when he found out about Hurricane Katrina. #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/OEsezNfBck
— Ol' QWERTY Bastard (@TheDiLLon1) March 11, 2016
Inexplicably, John McCain "suspended" his campaign in 2008. When asked for a reply, Sen. Obama said… #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/us2RVViOjY
— April (@ReignOfApril) March 11, 2016
The 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/2poPygGGBy
— John Steed (@CatoTheEldest) March 11, 2016
Johnnie Cochran (thinking): "Look at him….he just LOOKS guilty. Still gon' get him off tho." #MemeHistory pic.twitter.com/TI0UURynqp
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 11, 2016
Man…I love Twitter!