The Best Meme-Inspired Costumes Absolutely Winning Halloween 2019
With internet culture moving faster than ever before, it can seem like there are constantly new memes going viral. Luckily, that means that if you’ve kept your finger on the pulse of the world wide web, you should have plenty of fodder for an epic Halloween costume.
From the Area 51 raid to Spongebob’s continued online dominance, this year has provided more than enough memes to go around for Halloween 2019 inspiration. And with Oct. 31 still days away, people are already delivering on some hilarious meme-influenced costumes.
For each meme included in this piece, we’ve provided an example explaining its origin along with costumes that parodied it. Here are TIME’s picks for the best meme-inspired costumes of Halloween 2019.
Area 51
The alien I stole from Area 51 showing up in my room at 3am to tell me he threw up pic.twitter.com/SnzXmozc1i
— yeet (@irritatingshit1) July 12, 2019
After a Facebook event pledging to storm Area 51 to “see them aliens” went massively viral in July, people couldn’t help but turn the possibility of actually finding extraterrestrials at the highly-classified military base into a series of memes.
When you work in Marketing, your Halloween theme is a meme #Area51 pic.twitter.com/m5YGnLQTWM
— Chelsea Downey (@chelsea_maree88) October 25, 2019
they needed Coop at the Area 51 Raid pic.twitter.com/AmKhO2BHpX
— TmarTn (@TmarTn) October 20, 2019
Real Housewives meets confused cat
These photos together is making me lose it pic.twitter.com/kJi9d8MpbG
— birthday november 4th (@MISSINGEGIRL) May 1, 2019
This combination of the iconic Real Housewives of Beverly Hills scene in which Taylor Armstrong points and screams at fellow cast member Camille Grammer and the popular confused cat at dinner meme basically had no chance of not going viral when it was originally shared on Twitter in May. These costumes are just the cherry on top of an already perfect creation.
so about my costume last night pic.twitter.com/TN3HE1PT4B
— cødy (@CodyPalm) October 26, 2019
SAME HAHA pic.twitter.com/t2deGUqcDi
— kid ham (@StickersSpencer) October 27, 2019
Kylie Jenner singing “rise and shine”
A vocalist pic.twitter.com/BWJopbE0VF
— Owen Russell (@0wenRussell) October 14, 2019
When Kylie Jenner posted a video of herself walking into a room to wake up her baby daughter Stormi — who happened to already be sitting up in her crib — with a musical rendition of the phrase “rise and shine,” the internet immediately ran with it.
We may have just won Halloween y’all. 😂 RISEEE AND SHIINNE ☀️☀️☀️ @KylieJenner #RiseAndShine pic.twitter.com/t9xMWGcs3j
— Stephanie Kuzmanic (@Coach_Kuzmanic) October 20, 2019
𝒽𝓇𝓇𝓇𝒾𝓈𝑒 𝓃 𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑒 ☀️ did i win halloween? #riseandshine pic.twitter.com/GCeuCIMtJJ
— Kate (@shakenbake15) October 27, 2019
A-rise and shine! #KylieJenner #riseandshine #Halloween pic.twitter.com/QP9kwJGLgR
— Chelle Soto (@yoitschellesoto) October 27, 2019
“Ight Imma head out”
money 20 min after entering my bank account on payday pic.twitter.com/hKsogtiQcb
— Ayo Mide (@tchalla12) September 2, 2019
Following in the footsteps of Mocking SpongeBob and Traveling SpongeBob, “Ight Imma head out” SpongBob was born when someone photoshopped the phrase onto a screen grab of SpongeBob getting up from a chair in the episode “The Smoking Peanut.” People began frequently using the image to joke about situations that they or someone else would be eager to get out of.
Lol my buddy was the “Aight Imma Head Out” Spongebob meme for a Halloween Party 😂 best costume of the night! 🔥 #AightImmaHeadOut #SpongebobMeme pic.twitter.com/PrWS4LvAJQ
— Jesus Martinez (@jesusthegenius) October 26, 2019
Baby Lakynn
if she was your mom, how would your name be spelled? pic.twitter.com/0SNvXvXCZd
— SEAN YUN (@vib_ola) August 14, 2019
Earlier this year, a photo of one mom-to-be’s chalkboard of potential baby names gave rise to a torrent of people joking about how their names would have been spelled if their moms had favored similar spelling arrangements. This duo took it to the next level.
This one goes out to Lakynn pic.twitter.com/ye1JjDBMLJ
— Michael Benjamin (@mfbenji) October 26, 2019
Sunglasses kid dancing in the club
An oldie but a goodie. This 1997 video of a kid in sunglasses unabashedly breaking it down at the club continues to feed the meme machine more than 20 years later.
this is by far the best meme costume 😂😂 https://t.co/wF26ixKjgJ
— miguel (@MontesinosMig) October 26, 2019