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In The End It Doesn't Even Matter Pun Meme

This collage meme is a layered visual pun referencing iconic lyrics from Linkin Park's hit song *In The End*. The top of the meme displays the partial lyric: 'I tried so hard and got so far but in the end...'. Below this text, the left side shows a screenshot of Pennywise the Clown (the eponymous monster from the *It* horror franchise, representing the word 'it' from the full lyric) next to a carton of 12 whole brown eggs. The next row features the even number sequence '2, 4, 6, 8...' (representing the word 'even' from the lyric) to the left of an educational graphic showing the three states of matter: solid, liquid, gas (representing the word 'matter' from the lyric). The complete implied lyric line is 'it doesn't even matter', which forms the punchline of the pun.
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I tried so hard and got so far but in the end...
2, 4, 6, 8...

Overview

This collage meme is a layered visual pun referencing iconic lyrics from Linkin Park's hit song In The End. The top of the meme displays the partial lyric: 'I tried so hard and got so far but in the end...'. Below this text, the left side shows a screenshot of Pennywise the Clown (the eponymous monster from the It horror franchise, representing the word 'it' from the full lyric) next to a carton of 12 whole brown eggs. The next row features the even number sequence '2, 4, 6, 8...' (representing the word 'even' from the lyric) to the left of an educational graphic showing the three states of matter: solid, liquid, gas (representing the word 'matter' from the lyric). The complete implied lyric line is 'it doesn't even matter', which forms the punchline of the pun.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the X (formerly Twitter) account @WholesomeMeme. It is a user-created meme that combines multiple existing pop culture and educational assets: a screenshot from the 2017 It film, lyrics from Linkin Park's 2000 song In The End, a standard educational graphic of states of matter, and a stock photo of an egg carton, to create a novel humorous pun.

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