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Skeleton Burned Out At Work On Wednesday Meme

This is a hand-drawn dark humor relatable meme. It depicts a skeleton wearing a striped hoodie slumped face-down over a desk in front of a vintage orange CRT monitor. Plants are growing out of the skeleton's skull, the keyboard, and around the monitor, implying the skeleton has been dead at his workstation for a very long time. A speech bubble coming from the monitor reads "WHAT A WEEK, HUH?". In the background, a small frog peeks out of a broken old monitor and replies with a speech bubble that says "IT'S WEDNESDAY". The joke plays on the common relatable feeling of extreme exhaustion and burnout from work or school that makes people feel like they have already survived an entire full week even though it is only Wednesday, the middle of the standard work week.
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WHAT A WEEK, HUH?
IT'S WEDNESDAY

Overview

This is a hand-drawn dark humor relatable meme. It depicts a skeleton wearing a striped hoodie slumped face-down over a desk in front of a vintage orange CRT monitor. Plants are growing out of the skeleton's skull, the keyboard, and around the monitor, implying the skeleton has been dead at his workstation for a very long time. A speech bubble coming from the monitor reads "WHAT A WEEK, HUH?". In the background, a small frog peeks out of a broken old monitor and replies with a speech bubble that says "IT'S WEDNESDAY". The joke plays on the common relatable feeling of extreme exhaustion and burnout from work or school that makes people feel like they have already survived an entire full week even though it is only Wednesday, the middle of the standard work week.

Origin notes

This meme is sourced from the RSS feed of X (formerly Twitter) account meme.jpg, a popular account that shares viral meme content. The illustration gained widespread popularity across social media platforms including X, Reddit, and TikTok in 2023 as a relatable reaction to midweek work fatigue, often shared by users to express how draining the work week feels even before it is halfway over.

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