Funkyonchain Meme Radar: A Guide to 12 Memes Behind the Market

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📡 Funkyonchain Meme Radar
DEX Memecoin Compass — Reading This Week’s Trends Through Memes (September 2025 Beta)
A quick guide for busy readers

🔥 Top 12 Memes to Watch This Week
This week’s markets and culture

1. Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Engagement Memes
Immediately after their August 26 engagement announcement, memes combining fandom and popular culture spread widely. They included edited wedding images and parodies of an NFL stadium turned into a wedding venue.
Sources:
www.reddit.comanyone_else_fi…
www.thedailybeast.comthe-funniest-m…

2. “Trump is dead” Rumor Memes
During the September 2–3 Labor Day holiday, speculation about Trump’s health morphed into rumors of his death. Edited funeral videos and jokes that he had been replaced by AI spread, taking the story from rumor to meme to media coverage in a day.
Sources:
apnews.com1541184240d909…
www.vanityfair.comdonald-trump-d…
www.axios.comtrump-death-il…

3. Mornin’ Girl (Strawberries & Cream Calzone)
A video featuring a “Mornin’” greeting and a calzone order became a meme format. Parodies such as “Mornin’… one nuclear war” followed on TikTok.
Sources:
www.tiktok.com75428783577765…
www.tiktok.com75421072943314…
thetab.comwhy-tiktok-is-…

4. 32 Pizzas Mom
A video of a woman clearing out 32 pizzas and cheese at a supermarket became a consumer-satire meme, with captions such as “payday grocery shopping” and “birthday party vs. reality.”
Sources:
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www.facebook.com11435100609826…

5. SCP-67 Kid (Mason 67)
This TikTok meme combines analog horror edits with parodies of SCP documents and conspiracy theories about the number 67.
Sources:
www.indiatimes.comwho-is-scp-67-…
www.hindustantimes.comwho-is-scp-67-…

6. Rating Wallets
People rate wallets before revealing the twist: “My real wallet is a person or partner.” The TikTok format could extend into brand and relationship memes.
Sources:
www.tiktok.comranking-wallet…
newengen.comseptember-2025…

7. 6-7 Meme
A segment of the hip-hop track “Doot Doot (6-7)” has been used in sports videos and number jokes. It has remained a staple of edits since summer.
Sources:
people.comwhat-does-six-…
www.reddit.comwhat_is_the_si…

8. Cracker Barrel Logo Backlash Memes
The US restaurant chain changed its logo, faced criticism that it had lost its identity and reverted on August 26. The episode then became the subject of memes across political lines.
Sources:
www.crackerbarrel.comallthemore
www.theguardian.comcracker-barrel…
www.reddit.comcracker_barrel…
www.reddit.comnew_logo_idea_…

9. Italian Brainrot
Bizarre AI-generated creatures paired with Italian-accented voiceovers have become a surreal meme aesthetic.
Source:
en.wikipedia.orgItalian_brainr…

10. Skibidi Toilet
An iconic Gen Alpha meme: a series featuring characters dancing inside toilets, with new remixes continually appearing.
Source:
en.wikipedia.orgSkibidi_Toilet

11. Chickawagga!
A comedic meme built around the shouted sound “Chickawagga!” is being layered over everyday scenes and trending again.
Sources:
www.tiktok.comchickawagga-me…
www.tiktok.comchicka-wagga-o…

12. IRL Brain Rot / Labubu
The online “brain rot” aesthetic has taken physical form in Labubu figures. It attracted renewed attention after an August 20 New Yorker column.
Sources:
www.newyorker.comirl-brain-rot-…
www.reddit.comirl_brain_rot_…

📖 References
Sources: Reddit, Google Trends, TikTok Trends and major media reports, including AP, Guardian, Vanity Fair and Daily Beast.

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