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Cake memes are going viral thanks to a video of cakes that look like real objects
13 July 2020, 14:44
Maybe this article is a cake and we'll never know.
Meme Twitter has been busier than ever over the past four months, thanks to the disappearance of Chanel the African Grey parrot, Tiger King, the Sue Sylvester renaissance and Animal Crossing New Horizons.
Now, thanks to a viral compilation video about cakes, we have entered a new phase of the 2020 meme cycle. The completely ridiculous, existential crisis phase of the meme cycle, if you will. Friends, please welcome to the stage... Cake memes.
Where did the 'Made of Cake' meme come from?
It all started when BuzzFeed's Tasty shared a video compilation of a series of cakes (made by @redrosecake_tubageckil) that all look like genuine household objects. Crocs, plant pots, toilet paper, a soap dispenser... you name it. But once cut into, they reveal themselves to be actual, edible cakes.
These Are All Cakes pic.twitter.com/ejArkJHaid
— Tasty (@tasty) July 8, 2020
The video soon went viral, with people replying underneath with other various compilations of absolutely wild realistic cake designs, as well as attempting to cut into various objects, like a box of tissues, to see if they are in fact cakes...
From there, Twitter then descended into chaos. If these random objects are actually cakes in disguise, then what else could be a cake in disguise?
Cue the trust issues in 3, 2, 1...
i have chained my roommate to the kitchen table. i will be cutting him open to see if he’s a cake. he says he isn’t, but that’s exactly something a cake would say https://t.co/DdBFYGmHVg
— royse (@Roysenotes) July 10, 2020
Are we... Are we all just cakes in disguise?
We’re actually living in a world where the person sitting beside you could be a cake https://t.co/ZlR1K8yVts
— kany (@kanyinsola111) July 11, 2020
I'm a cake. You're a cake. WE'RE ALL CAKES.
don't trust anyone, not even yourself pic.twitter.com/YRqGZhpt9l
— james🌋 (@fueiho_boogie_) July 12, 2020
You think you really know someone and then suddenly... they're a cake.
Laughing with my friends after testing to see it they’re actually a cake pic.twitter.com/BLTXIqFvtt
— Curtis Kimberlin Jr (@ckimberlinjr) July 11, 2020
Not being funny but this blows every other Great British Bake Off Showstopper out of the water.
unbelievable cake pic.twitter.com/R2IkHmcYmA
— maureen monahan (@momonahan) July 9, 2020
Imagine falling in love and then it turns out they're a cake.
Are you a cake? https://t.co/GYBAjTgpLd
— sukyahmudah (@chebbzzz) July 11, 2020
Am I a cake? Am EYE a cake? (Yes, yes I am.)
“R u cake yes or no” pic.twitter.com/CrEcyRznUF
— TZE THEE CHUN (@thetzechun) July 12, 2020
Even Lil Nas X is in on the great cake conspiracy of 2020.
me at a funeral after saying we should cut the person open to see if they’re cake pic.twitter.com/m0R2Fa3dRU
— nope (@LilNasX) July 12, 2020
Just getting confirmation from NASA that Mars has just been classified as a cake planet.
I’m appalled pic.twitter.com/GW0NHOAvpY
— SINFINITI 👨🏾🍳🎲🎹 (@rajonfrontos) July 11, 2020
I'm never going to be able to open my fridge in peace ever again.
guys i’m genuinely distressed i can’t take this shit anymore pic.twitter.com/vUl54Ro444
— iz (@evillanelles) July 11, 2020
This has to be a crime, surely?
Enough is enough https://t.co/KyEXa8ewuv
— Alv (@Alvmainee) July 12, 2020
I've never been so disappointed to see this much money in my life. Was looking forward to a multicoloured layer pig-shaped cake.
i'm so paranoid i thought it was gonna be a cake https://t.co/B3BimEPVkk
— 𝙘 🍓✨🧨💫 (@peachcait_) July 12, 2020
Bong Joon-ho was ahead of his time when he made Parasite.
he was trying to find out of she was made of cake pic.twitter.com/aQarMjcLlt
— mio (@miovies) July 11, 2020
The rest of the Avengers were still in 2018 while Thor was in 3018.
Thor was just checking if Thanos was made of cake 🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/TeQPQn0JCF
— jaden🇨🇦➃ (@JadenMovies) July 12, 2020
But what if the knife is also a cake? A cake that also cuts cakes?
thinnest cake i ever seen https://t.co/72xleL3c2Z
— skoog (@Skoog) July 12, 2020
Sounds like the kind of thing a cake would say...
Soon, 2020. pic.twitter.com/NnS17SMUPj
— Yúns (@AsapChow) July 12, 2020
HELP.
are we human? or are we fondant?
— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) July 12, 2020
And so, in conclusion...
taking a knife with me everywhere i go now. not for protection, but in case i need to cake-test things
— Eleanor Neale (@ELEANORXNEALE) July 12, 2020
(P.S. Don't do this.)
