The panic began on March 10, when user @goofangel posted a video titled “TikTok Great Depression March 2025.” He says, “Nine days into March and we haven’t had a single original meme ...

The Great Meme Depression soon became a meme itself, as TikTokers flooded the platform with meta-commentary. “How the Great March Meme Drought will be described in history books,” one user ...

The spread of the ‘Deal With It’ meme In the following year, it was more a theme than a cohesive meme, but by June of 2010, GIFs featuring the sunglasses were posted to dump.fm by the site’s ...