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Young Thug memes have the peculiar ability to blend well with various moods. Young Thug is a personification of whatever the mind wishes to conjure up (and that’s a compliment). The “Digits” rapper is not exactly in his best season, albeit talent is always a different subject. His ongoing legal troubles provoke intellectual topics, soaring above the little corners societies have flung rap into. Attention begets memes, and Thugger’s pre-trial drama confirms this theory. The zoom call incident reproduced itself at warp speed. Memes and GIFs of the controversial video (showing a naked man dancing) stormed the global community. The #freethugger trend also veered into frolicsome dimensions as the fans await news of the rapper’s legal fate. It can be inferred, therefore, that when people play around with Thugger memes, they tactfully redefine “real life.”

The versatility of Young Thug’s career functions as an incentive for memes—even the ones validated by forefront fans. Jerrika Karlae, Thugger’s ex-lover, customized an analogy with a detail of their then-routine, as it were. She reminded fans of the visual similarity between Slime Season 3 cover art and Netflix’s Bird Box. Predominantly, both works featured the gesture of blindfolding, one as aesthetics and one as a life jacket. The crux, in brief, was that the mixtape cover had translated into a movie meme overnight. To top it all, she seized the opportunity to advertise their love life. Who are we to complain? Thugger memes are always in the spotlight for fated reasons…

Young Thug A Paintings

Ingenious things come in unexpected packages, and that’s what we adore about @youngthugaspaintings. Created in the Netherlands, the aforementioned is an IG gallery of Young Thug pictures juxtaposed with classical paintings. The originator had been assigned a photographic project in school, and the nature of submission had been highly liberal. For Hajar Benjida, it wasn’t more about recognizing an opportunity than going with the flow. She extended the project to Instagram in a refusal to cage it in the subjective boxes of her teachers. The decision paid off, as the meme account worked its way to the Miami Art Week as an exhibit. Viral memes needn’t be humorous, and Hajar Benjida has categorically proven that point.

Thugger Releases “Harambe”

Another case study is Harambe: while people turn songs into memes, Young Thug turns memes into songs. The purpose of the title is debatable; however, its connection to the 2016 gorilla incident is clearly perceivable. All we’re certain of is that Thugger projected a deliberate nuance of fury in the lyrics. That said, we’re not all on the same page regarding the actual titular message. Be that as it may, it stands tall among the greatest memes—and songs—of all time. Need we state that it checked these two boxes in a single year?! Despite not technically being a Thugger meme, “Harambe” thrives. It even went on to further deify the Georgian rapper.

No, My Name Is Jeffery

Young Thug’s rhythm genius is a truism. All the more, he exceeds the phonology of rap by being rhythmic about his flamboyance as well! His name change to “No, My Name is Jeffery” was not his only joker card. That year, he shared his name with his mixtape, the cover of which bred a literal meme-making business. He was attired in an artfully epicene manner to either defy gender policing or provoke a buzz. The goal behind the style was immaterial, as fans wasted no time crafting the memes, regardless.

One rib-tickling fan transformed the cover to Beyoncé’s Lemonade by adapting a line in “Hold Up.” The modified line read: “What a wicked way to treat the Thug that loves you.” The meme even altered the actual image by making Young Thug hold the exact baseball bat Beyoncé held. Yes, “exact” also implies the bat bore the same label as Beyoncé’s. Many more Jeffery memes of similar quality emerged that year, and each was indeed a scream.

Young Thug Meme: Cloak-And-Dagger

“Young Thug and Lil Durk Troubleshooting” is not a category but a single meme. It’s a picture of Young Thug creasing his forehead and Lil Durk dilating his eyes. It boasts three contradictory goss phases, with the 2021 reveal coming across as the most reliable. First, Alex Tumay based believable conjectures on Thugger’s Pro Tools Engineering skills. Next, a post “resurrected” the meme, collocating it with a “Laugh Now Cry Later” freeze-frame of Durk. Durk played along with the Twitter hint by declaring Thugger had shown him $20M. Finally, in 2021, Thugger got candid with us, but within limits! His coaxed promise to Durk was to conceal the meme’s “definitely non-ProTools” story. Whoops—not even this interview could make him that guy. Young Thug is good at keeping secrets, but his memes do not follow suit!