"Makin' memes on a Friday night, yeah!"
Memes from Friday Night Funkin'.
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- The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[[/labelnote]] ExplanationLike this.
- Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
- Fans ran with the idea that Girlfriend's favorite drink is Dr. Pepper Cherry, and it shows up in a lot of fanart as a result.
- *Raps in Animal Crossing*Explanation The noises the characters make are often compared with the "Simlish" found in the Animal Crossing series due to the similar pitches and voice tones.
- When the Week 6 update came out, many people took to editing Senpai and Boyfriend's dialogue boxes to make them say silly things, or translating Boyfriend's beeps and boops as hilariously obscene insults.
- Boyfriend's short chibi stature has fans calling him a manlet or a midget.
- Boyfriend's "big Hulk hands" compared to Girlfriend's is also a source of memes, with some joking about masturbation.
- SENPAI IS REAL!ExplanationFans discovered that one of the accused in an episode of Judge Judy looks and dresses in a similar way to Senpai
, even acting like a Sore Loser, mirroring Senpai's own actions in the game. People were quick to make edits and memes about the uncanny resemblance as a result. - "Big ol' bunny"ExplanationA common mishearing of Boyfriend's first few lyrics of "Philly Nice". There's a lot of jokes and videos about it.
- Pico's lyrics are also misheard as "demolishing the mannequin".
- In "Pico", the beginning verse is often misheard as "Go, Pico! Yeah! Yeah! Go, Pico! Oh!"
- Papico tabetai ExplanationJapanese for "I want to eat Papico.” Papico being ice cream sealed in flexible plastic bottles, and another common mishearing of the lyrics of "Pico." It is common to see fanworks of Boyfriend eating Papico in the Japanese fanbase.
- Daddy Dearest is often compared to Dracula from Hotel Transylvania.
- Likewise, Spirit is often compared to Giygas from EarthBound (1994).
- "Or maybe turn her into bruh" ExplanationAnother mishearing of the Monster's lyrics in, well, "Monster". (The line is supposed to be "broth"). It caught plenty attention and jokes for the absurdity of it.
- Mr. Krabs in Friday Night Funkin'. ExplanationFans have found similarities between a scene where Mr. Krabs hums to an electronic song composed of beeping noises with the noises the Friday Night Funkin' cast makes. Several edits where Mr. Krabs is edited into singing the songs such as Dadbattle ensued.
- Cheese ManExplanationA recurring Joke Character among the community, first drawn by Phantom Arcade in one of his twitch streams◊ and later became a semi-recurring character in following drawing streams, to the point that some people have actually expressed interest in seeing the Cheese Man become an actual opponent.
- Lemon Demon wants to kill himself for not having an iPhone.ExplanationBassettfilms, voice of the Monster, "teased" a future week by releasing a short remix of "I ain't got no iPhone" by Parry Gripp from a Youtube video in a tweet from his Twitter account, with the voice of the Monster singing the lyrics while the Boyfriend follows suit. This led to fans making loads of jokes about the Monster's desire to kill himself just because he didn't have an iPhone, many fan animations for this short song, and even a mod for the actual game.
- NO! NO!!! YOU WILL NOT EAT MY GIRRRRLFRIEEEEEND!!ExplanationYouTuber CoryxKenshin's playthrough featured this gem where during "Monster" he screams this line in-tune to BF's verse and it has become subject to several animations and parodies.
- Ritz vs. TankmanExplanationDuring the time that leaks and rumors were floating around about Week 7 before its' release, there was much debate on who the opponent would be and everyone's eyes were on two candidates in particular: Ritz the Rat, the protagonist of Ninjamuffin's previous platformer game before FNF titled Ritz, and Tankman, the mascot of Newgrounds and star of JohnnyUtah's Tankmen series, where the character's real name is Sergeant John Captain. Many fans divided themselves into two sides, Team Ritz vs. Team Tankman, and many memes spawned of the two doing battle and being bitter rivals. Finally, after many weeks, the crew finally broke the silence and revealed the first song of the week, "Ugh", which featured JohnnyUtah's vocals, and flat-out confirmed that Captain would be the Week 7 opponent. Ninjamuffin confirmed shortly after the song's release that Ritz will indeed still show up at a different point in the future. Furthermore, with multiple playable characters confirmed for the full version of the game, it's possible that Ritz vs. Tankman can become an official in-game reality.
- Neil Cicierega and Monster are the same person.ExplanationDue to the similarities between the Monster and the Lemon Demon band, it's not uncommon to see people make jokes about the band's sole member secretly being the Monster himself.
- Character gets mad and transforms/"obligatory last song transformation"/The Whitty Syndrome ExplanationA concept specific to modding. Following the success of VS Whitty, mods where the final song undergoes a steep Difficulty Spike, dramatically raises the stakes and has the opponent change into a more powerful form or unleash a Superpowered Evil Side became very common. This became so prevalent that many people in the fandom have grown tired of it, and "Whitty Syndrome" became a pejorative term, despite Whitty himself doing it back when the idea was fresh; the concept wasn't even started by him, but rather Senpai and Spirit, who are official characters. Later mods, such as the aforementioned VS Sky — where the Girlfriend is thoroughly unimpressed by her would-be romantic rival's edgy metamorphosis — will often subvert, avert, or lampshade the idea, with mods like literally every fnf mod ever even parodying the concept.
- The second half of "Guns" ExplanationWeek 7's second song "Guns" features an infamous part throughout the second half where Tankman goes on a fairly complicated pattern for 32 beats in total, repeated 3 times, each time slightly different from the last, making it That One Attack of the week. Thus, memes ran rampant about the sheer length of the section, usually featuring someone getting surprised (or bored, if the song has been played before) as it just goes on and on.
- "Ugh" covers/"Ugh" except [x] sings it.ExplanationIt's become fairly popular to mod other characters covering "Ugh", the first song of Week 7, as well as swapping in Tankman's "ugh" with a sound unique to the character (e.g. Sky's frustrated grunt, a low timpani hit for Ruv, or The Boyfriend's "yeah" he utters during "Spookeez").
- [x] song but [y] character sings it. ExplanationThe popularity of creating "Ugh" covers eventually expanded into having every song, in-game and fan-created alike, getting covered by every other character. It especially exploded after Youtuber Blantados figured out how to replicate every single "note" font used to create all the different "singing" voices, which he puts to good use with his "(chosen song) but every turn a different character sings" series, with numerous other Youtubers and even modders being inspired to recreate the singing styles of non-Boyfriend characters and have them sing other characters' songs.
- Can he beat Whitty tho?ExplanationGiven just how popular he is, it became common for Whitty covering the song, sometimes replacing Boyfriend as the one battling the original singer
- Fuck Daddy Dearest, all my homies hate himExplanationA popular Fanon idea is that Daddy Dearest is a monster who has relentlessly screwed over countless people, and they either resent him or plan to seek vengeance. One of the canon characters, Spirit, is a victim of his, and several popular mods run with the idea, like Whitty, Garcello, A.G.O.T.I., and Tabi, to name a few. The HD version even says he learned how to rap with Tupac and Biggie... before killing them both.
- Louka SéguinExplanationAs with any fandom, the Friday Night Funkin' community (despite the game being incredibly adult) has a number of children that like to make TikToks about it. While most are simply seen as just kids having fun doing cringey things they'll grow out of, one kid named Louka Séguin has gained particular notoriety for doing surprisingly good imitations of mod character animations, such as Tricky, Tabi, and Bob. Many of his videos are posted on the community's subreddit, and the comments sections are almost always filled with praise for his acting quality and breaking of the old stereotype. While his TikTok has since been taken down due to being under 13, his videos (the Friday Night Funkin' ones among them) have also been posted to his YouTube channel right here.
- Monster is a pedophile.ExplanationWhile he wants to eat Boyfriend and Girlfriend (and while both of them are canonically 19), many consider Monster's unhealthy obsession for them more sexual than... gastronomic.
- [x] got me like (Where X is the name of a song)ExplanationOriginating from a video made by user Foekoe where the song "Ballistic" from the mod VS Whitty is sung by a repeated gif of an angry Asiatic yelling at the cat from the "cat go aah" meme. It resulted in montage videos where both vanilla and mod songs are layered with random gifs and clips of people or characters dancing or angrily speaking at the beat of the music. Examples are these two montages for Guns and Stress
- "omg is that [x] from friday night funkin?!?!?!?" / "I swear if I hear people saying [x] character is from FNF" (where X is a Game Mod or Crossover character) ExplanationA way to bastardize the children fanbase of the game and those unaware of 2000's internet media, it began with young people commenting in the Spooky Month videos believing that Skid and Pump were original to Friday Night Funkin', then it passed on to Tricky from Madness Combat after The Tricky Mod was released, with people commenting on Madness Combat 11: Expurgation that his form present in the episode came from the mod's "Expurgation" song. Whenever a mod based on a much less popular and already-existing character is released (such Alien Hominid or Fancy Pants), you will see people saying these two phrases, the former sometimes unironically.
- [x] song but funni ExplanationA video fad started by Youtuber Tailys, where a song is edited to be humorous. Common song edits include rearranging or repeating the notes, adding too many notes at once, and inserting dialogue in the songs, usually other memes or things related to Among Us.
- On platforms like TikTok, a common soundbite used features Boyfriend singing a faster version of "Blammed" with many notes, after which Monster utters a confused "What?"
- [x] sounds familiar... (where X is the name of a song or Game Mod) ExplanationA video type that is used to point out similarities in songs from mods or the game proper, including Suspiciously Similar Songs and songs that intentionally reuse a motif from another song.
- Wanna work on my FNF Mod? ExplanationA line used to mock younger individuals who request mod creators to develop their own alleged mod for no effort on their part. Gets featured in Friday Night Funkin' Lullaby as one of the many possible lines that has to be typed out in "Monochrome".
- It's not overcharted, you're just bad ExplanationA phrase often used in videos making fun of people defending mods with lots of notes in the form of videos with arrow spam taken up to eleven.
- The PaRappa paradox.ExplanationDue to Friday Night Funkin' taking major inspiration from the PaRappa series' call-and-response format to its music and gameplay, it's a popular idea among fans of both series that if Boyfriend and PaRappa were to get into a battle, neither would be able to do anything as they would endlessly wait for the other to start. With the release of the erect remixes, where Boyfriend freestyles rather than copying his opponent, there is also a growing group of people who believe that Boyfriend would be the one to start it.
- fnf fans when the worst fucking song you've ever heard in your fucking life comes onExplanationAn offshoot from general "fandom generalizations/[media] fans when" memes, in which a dancing gif (usually Sesame Street characters having a big party) is set to the worst available examples of Sturgeon's Law among fanmade FNF songs and encounters. Thanks to the fandom's size, enthusiasm and general youth and lack of experience with music theory, said examples are usually astoundingly bad.
- Fake Saster thumbnails ExplanationSaster, a notable member of the community due to the number of high quality tracks he composes, has a very distinct, slightly strange style of thumbnails, leading to people creating thumbnails in his style, usually of hypothetical covers of preexisting songs or something absurd.
- The Car Crash Script ExplanationA video made by an animator was turned into a joke mod for the Psych Engine that causes the Opponent to go careening in the direction of the note they press, and emit the sound of a car being smashed into when they hit the boundary of the playfield. The ease of installation, compatibility with other mods and ability to edit it to make a subversion of the punchline meant it caught on pretty fast.
- "chud" ExplanationA Mondegreen of one of Darnell's vocal samples, in which it sounds like he's saying "Chud". PhantomArcade would acknowledge this meme during a livestream of him reacting to fanart, even taking to calling him "Chud", which added more fuel to the fire for this meme.
- WE ARE GETTING THIS GAME ExplanationAfter the game seemingly being in Development Hell with radio silence from the developers, a sampler for the game's various "Erect" remixes went live on Twitter on March 20, 2024, showing that the game was in fact not dead. Naturally the fandom exploded in joy in response, with "WE ARE GETTING THIS GAME" being a highly trending response.
