GagBase Logo Explore

Goth Girl 2019 to 2024 Glow Up Meme with Green Goblin Joke

This meme is a 3-panel collage showing the same woman at her birthday celebrations across three years: the 2019 panel shows her with an unpolished emo/goth aesthetic, messy hair covering her face, smudged dark lipstick, sitting next to a birthday cake with lit candles. The 2023 panel shows her with a refined goth look, neat dark makeup, styled dark hair, smiling next to a yellow fruit birthday cake. The 2024 panel shows her having abandoned the goth aesthetic entirely, wearing a light strapless white dress, grinning happily with her hands clasped in front of her, next to a cake with bright sparklers. Below the collage is a screenshot of a comment section, where the top comment from user MemCrem (with a Gengar Pokemon profile picture) jokes that the woman's former goth identity still talks to her the way the Green Goblin mask speaks to Norman Osborn in Spider-Man media.
Make
@MemCrem X.com (Twitter)

You think the goth side talks to her like the green goblin mask or smthn

Text content

2019, 2023, 2024, 52 comments

Overview

This meme is a 3-panel collage showing the same woman at her birthday celebrations across three years: the 2019 panel shows her with an unpolished emo/goth aesthetic, messy hair covering her face, smudged dark lipstick, sitting next to a birthday cake with lit candles. The 2023 panel shows her with a refined goth look, neat dark makeup, styled dark hair, smiling next to a yellow fruit birthday cake. The 2024 panel shows her having abandoned the goth aesthetic entirely, wearing a light strapless white dress, grinning happily with her hands clasped in front of her, next to a cake with bright sparklers. Below the collage is a screenshot of a comment section, where the top comment from user MemCrem (with a Gengar Pokemon profile picture) jokes that the woman's former goth identity still talks to her the way the Green Goblin mask speaks to Norman Osborn in Spider-Man media.

Origin notes

The meme is sourced from X.com (formerly Twitter), as specified in the provided additional metadata. It uses the popular yearly glow-up collage meme format, pairing a relatable personal transformation with a humorous pop culture reference to the Spider-Man franchise. This format and the associated joke have been widely reposted and adapted across social media meme communities on X, Reddit, and Instagram.

Similar memes

This meme utilizes the well-known 'Awkward Nervous Kid' template, which features a real young boy sitting at an outdoor picnic table with a visibly tense, uneasy expression, resting his head on one hand. The bold top text reads: **WHEN A GOTH GIRL FINALLY APPROACHES AND ASKS IF I'M DOWN TO GET RUINED**. The humor stems from the relatable feeling of social anxiety and discomfort when faced with an unexpected, bold romantic or social advance, contrasting the kid's awkward, nervous demeanor with the confident, forward question. It plays on the idea of feeling out of one's depth in an unplanned social situation.

When a Goth Girl Approaches and Asks If I'm Down to Get Ruined

This meme utilizes the well-k…

This is a two-panel humorous meme. The overlaid text at the top reads 'When dad organized a k-pop party but doesn't know which Korea'. The left panel shows a teen girl with a deadpan, unimpressed expression standing in front of a custom party poster: the poster features an edited photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wearing a party hat, surrounded by illustrated party balloons, with custom text below his photo. The right panel shows the girl's father standing next to the same poster, grinning proudly next to a small table holding a decorated party cake, while the girl stands off to the side still looking underwhelmed. The joke stems from the father's confusion between South Korea (the origin country of K-pop music) and North Korea, leading him to accidentally use a portrait of the North Korean leader as decoration for his child's K-pop themed party.

Dad organizes K-pop party but uses the wrong Korea reference

This is a two-panel humorous …

A two-panel meme. Left panel: Close-up of a modified UNO card with the text 'Not be out of touch and classist or hateful OR draw 25' in black font, mimicking UNO's rule format. Right panel: A real person sitting at a table, holding a fanned deck of UNO cards, with a soda can visible on the table; the top of this panel has the header 'Redditors:' in bold text. The meme uses UNO game mechanics to satirize the perception that Reddit users frequently exhibit out-of-touch, classist, or hateful behavior, implying they cannot avoid such behavior and thus must 'draw 25' cards as a penalty.

Redditors are sheltered and out of touch

A two-panel meme. Left panel:…

A meme featuring a top text that reads 'Me watching re-runs of the Simpsons to find out what we have to deal with next' above an image of a real man with an intense, focused expression. The man is holding a smartphone in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other, gazing intently at the phone, suggesting he is earnestly watching The Simpsons reruns to predict upcoming real-world events. This plays on the popular internet joke that The Simpsons has accurately predicted various future events.

Watching Simpsons to Predict the Future

A meme featuring a top text t…

This is a two-part reaction meme. The top text presents a recent news point: that over 20,000 public comments submitted to oppose clean air regulations were fraudulently generated by AI using stolen real people's identities, with no official investigation launched into the incident. The lower section features a widely used reaction image of singer Sabrina Carpenter with a confused, disgusted grimace in front of a glittery gold microphone, with overlaid text reading 'Is that your culture? i don't like it.' The meme communicates disbelief, disapproval, and frustration at the lack of action taken against this large-scale AI-powered identity fraud aimed at derailing environmental protections.

20,000 AI generated fake public comments opposing clean air rules get no investigation meme

This is a two-part reaction m…

This image is a screenshot of a viral Reddit thread from the r/AskReddit community, marked NSFW due to its adult-themed topic. The original post asks, "Redditors who had a porn addiction, how did you quit it?" A top-voted comment (17.6k upvotes) provides an absurd, humorous answer: "I watched it all. There is simply no more left." The joke leans into extreme exaggeration, framing the impossible feat of consuming all existing pornographic content as a method to overcome addiction—since there's nothing left to watch, the addiction resolves itself. The background features a stoic, serious-looking man, which amplifies the deadpan humor of the comment, making the outlandish claim feel unexpectedly earnest. For those seeking a genuine answer to the question, evidence-based methods include seeking professional therapy, joining support groups, using accountability software to limit access, focusing on alternative hobbies and activities, and building a strong support system of trusted friends or family.

Extreme Way to Quit Porn Addiction (Reddit Meme)

This image is a screenshot of…

This is a single-panel reaction meme featuring the animated villain Skeletor from the 1980s *He-Man and the Masters of the Universe* series. The top overlaid text reads 'WHEN PEOPLE INSULT YOU BY SAYING YOU'LL NEVER HAVE SEX.' Skeletor is depicted grinning widely and pointing mockingly forward. The bottom overlaid text reads 'YOU FOOL! I'M ASEXUAL!' The core joke is that the insult intended to upset the target is completely ineffective, as the target is asexual and does not desire sexual activity, so the supposed insult is entirely irrelevant to them.

Joke's on you, I'm not into that shit!

This is a single-panel reacti…

This is a two-panel cartoon meme. In the first panel, a young boy with spiky brown hair wearing a red shirt points mockingly at a young, plain-looking goth girl with short black hair and a black dress, laughing and calling her a freak while the girl looks unimpressed. The second panel is labeled 'Years later...': the same boy looks shocked and embarrassed, still pointing, while the goth girl has grown into a very attractive, curvy adult with long black hair wearing a revealing black outfit, leaving the boy clearly regretting his earlier mockery. The joke plays on the common trope of people mocking peers as children only to find them very attractive as adults.

Haha Freak Years Later Glow Up Meme

This is a two-panel cartoon m…

This meme features a real woman sitting in a casual bedroom setting, with a small cat visible near the bed in the background. The core joke is conveyed via overlaid text: *'me thinking that i fixed my life just because i cleaned my room'*. It humorously captures the relatable, exaggerated feeling of achieving 'peak productivity' by completing a small, manageable task (cleaning one's room) and falsely equating that minor win with solving all of life's problems. The woman's amused, knowing expression reinforces the self-deprecating, relatable tone of the meme.

Peak Productivity: Thinking Cleaning Your Room Fixes Your Life

This meme features a real wom…

An image of a person with alternative fashion style, including black lipstick, multiple facial piercings, dark eye makeup, and a choker necklace, lying on a pink and purple plaid blanket with a fluffy pink pillow. The image includes a social media interface overlay showing 11 comments and 103 likes, with a visible comment from user 'Fafajily' that says 'I'd let her kiss me with black lip stick till I'm black face'. There is also a profile picture of a cat with glasses in the corner.

Alternative Fashion Look with Bold Makeup

An image of a person with alt…

The image is split into two parts: the upper section shows a partial view of a blonde woman's face with heavy makeup and a stud earring in the background, overlaid with white text that modifies negative words to isolate 'he' or 'men' in parentheses, implying men are the root cause of these negative states: (He)adache, (Men)ace, C(he)ater, (Men)tally Ill, Inhu(man)e. The lower section is a screenshot of a social media comment section with 1,193 total comments. The top visible comment from user user4078464316342 flips the original wordplay format to target women, reading 'Sl(she)ut who(her)re' with 260 likes. A reply to this comment from user Mia reads 'Good lord' paired with an alien emoji, earning 1,642 likes as a reaction to the blunt, equal-opposite clapback.

Gendered wordplay meme gets perfect reverse clapback comment

The image is split into two p…

An animated meme image featuring two characters in a forest setting. In the foreground, a smiling character sits on a log with the text 'MY DUOLINGO 810 DAY STREAK' above them, personifying the user's long Duolingo streak. Behind them, another character labeled 'ME' stands pointing a gun at the seated character, humorously exaggerating the user's protectiveness over their Duolingo streak. The background includes trees and a blue sky, creating a whimsical outdoor scene.

Me Threatening My 810-Day Duolingo Streak

An animated meme image featur…