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Fans tend to react ecstatically, like theyve just seen a new color.
Were all trying to find out why the guys who did this do this.
Lives by Jersey Shore.
Has lived in Brooklyn for nine years.
Raised in the Midwest.
Nick and Ryan (I Think You Should Meme onInstagram)28 and 48, respectively.
Bartending colleagues who both hail from Chicago.
James (ITYSL_memes onTwitterandInstagram)36, works as an actuary based in Atlanta.
Also co-hosts theI Think You Should LeavepodcastThats a Chunky.
Ryan Perry (@nbaleavea.k.a.
These are my two favorite things, so I tried to jam them together as much as I could.
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Ryan (@i_think_you_should_meme):Nick and I actually started with the showBig Mouth.
Wework together as bartenders, and we would just quote it back and forth all night.
Then we sawITYSLand became obsessed with it.
It was just how we communicated.
We banked 50 posts and figured wed see what happens.
Once I started getting positive feedback for it, it was like,I have to do this forever.
I used to just make memes on my personal account, interacting with Ryan [Perry].
I was like Let me just do this.
James:Im constantly struck by how many styles of humor the show contains.
Everybodys preferences line up with it somewhere.
Ive seen a couple posts today asking Whats your favorite new sketch?
and people name every single sketch.
Its folly totry ranking every sketch, because theyre all somebodys favorite.
Its very primal all id and I think we all can relate to that in a way.
Like, if he yells, Im not worried about it!
I didnt fucking rig shit!
You already have a leg up.
Youre funny because Tim Robinsons funny.
Its just humans interacting in heightened and weird ways.
The shows meme appeal does seem to be timeless.
Thats whenITYSLmemes trickled down to normies.Ryan Perry:Real ones were in before Hot Dog Guy.
Tyler:Anything funeral-related:Coffin Flopjokes.
Ryan Perry:Do you guys get DMs from people delivering joke ideas that are just layups?
Ryan P:How many times can there be a recall becausesteering wheels are flying off cars?
James:One I have to ignore now is the Captcha thats like Which of these aremotorcycles?
I cant think of them, though.
Ryan:Cherry chuck saladwas tough.
Tyler:People hateHerbie Hancock.
The one with the award show and the dog?
There are so many good jokes to make about that one, but people just dont connect with it.
You watch it and its all good, but maybe this one sketch doesnt hit for me.
Then you watch it again, and that ones the funniest sketch of the season.
Like,Oh, people really love Coffin Flop.
Also, we pretty much doubled in followers right after it came out.
Nick:The community just got so much bigger with season two.
So that informed my initial season-three viewing.
I didnt watch it right away.
Im gonna watch it like 500 times, but you only watch it for the first time once.
But then on the first rewatch, it was already a million times better.
How many times have you seen the third season already?James:Twice.
Nick and Ryan:Twice.
Tyler:Thats it?
Ive done it four times.
Nick:We have a lot to process.
By the time we were finished, I couldnt remember a single sketch.
Tyler:Does anyone else think the Jason Schwartzman one is a commentary on meme accounts?
James:Yeah, I immediately thought of it as a metaphor.
I dont want it to be dancing.
What other memes are emerging already?Nearly everyone:Nude egg.
Ryan:We jumped on nude egg right away.
I was like,Im makingan OnlyFans pagefor the nude egg.
I hope this post gets taken down by Instagram.
People are sharing that a lot.
I dont think its gonna have a lot of longevity, though.
Ryan Perry:Youre gonna start seeing those decals on cars.
55 fries!Im sure Ill end up using that clip but in a different way.
Anything Sam [Richardson] does, Im into.
Theres some that just dont hit, though.
Tyler:I didnt expectTablesto be the thing it became.
And I dont really know where it came from.
Maybe its the way he yells Tables!
and the big reveal of what the tables are for.
Ryan [Perry] and I messaged once or twice before also.
Ryan Perry:Tyler and I met in person for the first time this past weekend.
Tyler:It was beautiful.
We rode a ferry, ate meatballs.
I dont know how we first got together.
Ryan Perry:I saw on your profile you were a graphic designer, yeah.
Tyler:And look at us now!
Whats up with the big account that hasthe @ITYSL handle?
Then he posted about it, saying some harsh things about my account.
His account has had me blocked for over a year now.
I dont know what the deal is, but apparently hes not a fan of mine.
Ryan:Did any of you ever go to anITYSLconvention?
Nearly everyone:No.
Ryan:We went to onein Peoria, Illinois, and had the best time.
You all should come to the next one.
The work that goes into it feels less like a fun thing to do than a time-consuming hobby.
Ryan Perry:To contrast that, I do zero work.
I just watch basketball and hope some synapses fire, and thats about it.
James:I would say Im midway between those two.
I venture to always have some ideas saved into drafts.
That took fucking forever.
And then I did anOops!
All Chunky,and that took a long time too.
But I did the OnlyFans meme of the nude egg yesterday and realized Im getting better at this.
How many times have you seen each season?Ryan:I couldnt possibly tell you.
Nick:Combined, its over a hundred.
Ryan:More than that for me.
Tyler:Ive watched it all the way through tens of times, maybe 50.
How far into watching the new season did you feel, like,They did it again.
Were eating?Ryan Perry:I felt pretty good from the second Barley took out his phone.
Ryan:It wasthe zipline onefor me.
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Nick:The water-bottle thing, where hes splashing the fake water.
I was like,This is it.
Maybe the real memes are the friends we made along the way.
