There was a tweet going around about a guy that was almost crucified by his babe for messing up her non-stick pots.
Rookie mistake. There are many things that a woman’s love conquers, but using these six things? Just start looking for another partner.
Her Food
Even if she offers to feed you, say no. Have some bloody self-control.
2. Her Wig
If you’re considering using her ₦350k human hair to practice your TikTok and Instagram skits, drop it now. Drop it immediately.
3. The T-shirt/Sweatshirt she stole
What is she supposed to use to sleep at night or for quick errands? Adieu Papa t-shirt? Give her her shirt back.
4. Skincare Products
It’s the men that use it with no regard for me. Squeezing the tube like toothpaste. We support a man supporting his skin. But please, stick to Irish Spring if you don’t want to buy your own.
5. Hair Conditioner
Please when did men realise the power of conditioners and who told them?! Especially the beard gang group. Please and please, stick to your oils and Afro combs.
6. Jewelry
Men with piercings are the hottest, until the studs a babe ordered from Zara disappears. Then it’s wartime on these love streets.
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If things weren’t so expensive, no one would work, everyone deserves a partner that will distract them from the choke hold of capitalism with memes. Here are 10 memes you can send to your partner to distract them from work.
1. The “I’m checking up on you” meme
This meme is bound to make your partner laugh amid their stressful day and if they don’t laugh, they have no joy.
2. The “Maslow’s theory of need” meme
The meme explains itself. All work and no play makes Jack one horny person, they should do with that information what they must.
3. The “that went south fast” meme
Especially when you guys have argued earlier in the day, they will either get turned on or you’ll become a shareholder on the streets soon.
4. The “Why are you focusing on something that isn’t me?” meme
E reach to ask because why are they working when they could be with you? Do they not love you? It’s the audacity for us.
5. The “that ass is disrespectful” meme
It doesn’t matter if they have a fat ass or not, the point is to distract them from work and focus on you since you want to be an evil spirit so bad.
6. The “I’m not a poet but I dey write die” meme
When you send this meme to your partner make sure to add that they shouldn’t take the “have your babies” part literally. The earth is already overpopulated, please.
7. The “This will keep you on your toes” meme
Every relationship needs a little extra spice now and then, you could be helping them live out some weird kink or this might make them confess to all the cheating you are already aware of.
8. The “Break me like your iPhone screen” meme
No sane person will see this meme and keep working, especially if they work from home. You get what you want, they get distracted from work for a few minutes. No harm done.
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Memes come in very handy when you are tired of using words to threaten your onigbese. You need to let them be able to visualize how you really feel about their actions and help them feel some shame. Here are some memes you can send to your shameless debtor.
1. Rendered speechless.
Because you are in utter disgust and disbelief that they can continue living life and enjoying themselves while owing you money. They clearly have no shame, they are still going around shining teeth. This meme will help them know you are truly speechless that an onigbese can continue enjoying life.
2. ‘I’ll be your nightmare’.
This meme is definitely going to scare that onigbese, they need to know they’ll soon start seeing you in their dreams if they don’t pay soon enough.
3. Laughing mysteriously.
Any debtor that doesn’t tremble at the sight of this meme is a superior debtor and should be treated like a criminal. A woman holding a gun and laughing doesn’t seem like a woman that should be messed with.
Again, you need them to know that you are confused and irritated by their guts. The fact that they continue to live like they are not owing you a lot of money is displeasing you and your homegirls.
5. ‘Perceives disrespect’.
Send this meme to them every day. Let them know that owing you money is the highest height of disrespect and you can no longer tolerate such.
You don’t need to add any commentary when you send this meme. Send it to them and put it on your WhatsApp status, or any of your stories that they can view. There’s no onigbese that won’t be afraid of this meme.
7. ‘Building irritation’
This meme perfectly sums up how you feel about being owed money for a long time. A shameless onigbese is an irritating person and should be well aware of it.
8. ‘Trouble has arisen’
You were kuku on your own when they brought their two left legs to borrow money from you. Now it’s time to pay up they are doing shakara for you. You need to send them this meme so they can know that trouble has really arisen.
9. ‘Are you not tired of owing me money?’
This meme is really humble. Only send it when you are genuinely confused and shocked that they have still not paid you your money. This is the meme you send to an employer that has refused to pay you after many months of working with them.
10. ‘How could I do such a mistake’
Only send this meme to your shameless debtor when you need them to know how disappointed you are in them.
For Creators Spotlight, we spoke to Bahati Imaan Beauvais, the name behind YungNollywood. She is a young Nigerian living in Toronto and Lagos, who is very passionate about the old and new Nollywood scene. With 51.9k followers on Instagram and 35.8k followers on Twitter, Imman has created content that has proven to be timeless and relatable. We spoke to her about her creative process, her love of old Nollywood aesthetics, and how she keeps coming up with these memes we can’t stop sharing around.
Can you tell me a bit about the creation of Yungnollywood?
It was created in February 2018. I was into Nollywood before anyone thought it was cool, maybe because they kind of look like me and I liked that.
I had been watching and collecting content for years but the idea of posting everything on one page didn’t come to mind until I saw Nollybabes. My best friends sent it to me and asked me to join because I already had so much content but they were going in a different direction so I decided to start my page. I decided to call it Yung Nollywood because it’s kind of like ‘young money’. After all, I’m a big Barb. So, it’s old Nollywood but when they were young, that tied up nicely.
(For the 30+, young money was an imprint of cash records founded by Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj was managed by them. A Barb is a huge Nicki Minaj Stan/fan)
I get that. Zikoko has a whole new/old Nollywood section on our memes page. Before the interview, you mentioned something about being a sagittarius moon and that’s why you have no structure, so how do you organize your daily posts?
I don’t, none of my posts are structured. I wake up in the morning and I’m like, how do I feel today? Collecting content is something I do for fun. It’s work, but I’m always relaxed. I collect random things that I find interesting from movies I’d seen before, or I’ll wake up in the morning, go through what I already have, and post. It’s just instinct I guess.
Why is it important for you to document memes?
I have a whole lot of reasons why creating these memes are important. For one, I’ve always been one of those TV children — I didn’t go out a lot. I also have a lot of random knowledge about the media. I am Nigerian and I find Nollywood interesting, but Nigerians don’t talk about it or promote it enough, even though it’s the second-largest industry. We make fun of it and criticize it harshly. I want people to accept that this is our style of film and it’s cool.
I guess it’s important for me to push my culture to the world. I am a big believer in the fact that everyone should be Nigerian.
Hmm, that’s interesting…
How do you come up with captions for each meme?
It is inspired by movies I watch, some captions are based on how I feel at the time or what’s happening in the world or actual lines from the movies, sometimes I change one word from their lines to make it look better. I am an English major so I am good at description.For example, “homosexual defiance.” I just like words.
Can you give me an estimate amount of memes you’ve created?
I have no idea about the amount. I see memes shared sometimes on the timeline and I’m like “I don’t remember making that” but it’s a lot, I produce a lot but I could check someday.
You say “Me” a lot, so I’m going to assume there is no team?
No, not right now. For content production there is no team, I produce all the content. This year though, I plan to invite people if they want, but it’s just me for now.
What aspect of meme creation do you enjoy the most?
I like it when I do the astrology memes because I have to think and because it’s like a puzzle. I enjoy those a lot.
How did you decide on your brands voice?
It’s all mine. it wasn’t deliberate at all but it works.
How sustainable is your line of work? Do you plan on monetizing it?
I never think about the future. I want to have a yungnollywood festival because I am a big kid, it’ll be fun, with candy floss and bouncing castles, it’ll be a festival that travels.
The first one, of course, would be in Lagos and then my next biggest market is London.Then a bodega, but besides that, I’d like to do something with the actresses. I don’t know what yet.
I have a movie coming out soon and I’m going to do a lot of personal content on yungnollywood’s page this year. I also have a short film on my website.
A bodega?
Yeah, just a random shop with an old local tv screen showing Nollywood shows.
Is Zikoko invited to any of these things?
Of course.
Did you try reaching out to any of the actresses though?
I have not, I’ve gotten feedback from a few icons but nothing on business. Not till I figure out what I want to do, but in due time.
Did you ever feel the need to stop creating at any point?
Yeah, right now.
I am taking an indefinite break. I went through a major loss in my friend group so I’ve been a bit low.
I have never taken a break, I am very sensitive mentally, so I get exhausted sometimes. For now, I am taking the time to figure out what I want to do with my brand.
So sorry for your loss. You mentioned the festival and the bodega but what’s next for Yungnollywood?
Probably a film. Something for the actual young actors, not just the people we see on our screens all the time.
To find out more about the work Yungnollywood is doing, check out their website.
9 in every 10 Zikoko article has a ridiculously hilarious meme, curated from Nollywood movies, comedy skits and your favorite politician’s bad behaviour.
Memes mean a lot to us, but I’m pretty sure they mean a lot to anyone who uses the internet for anything at all.
Imagine a world where all the most hilarious Nigerian and African memes on the internet can be found? Movies and social media have given us some of the most hilarious memes and gifs back-to-back. From fainting governors to Sola Sobowale’s deadly expressions on King of Boys. What if you could find these hilarious African memes in one place?
The devil works hard but the Zikoko team works harder. We went to work with some brilliant people and created memes.zikoko.com
Here’s how it started:
It started ironically or not so ironically on April 1 with a tweet, this tweet.
Zikoko should open up their meme library for us 🙏🏾 imagine being able to go and search "aki and pawpaw knife" and the correct image comes up. *chef's kiss*
Since it was Kachi’s tweet that really ignited the project into process, I asked him what the whole idea for it was and here was what he said:
I’ve seen different people talk about how they save memes. Some people add them to bookmarks, some have special albums on their phones where they keep them. I just thought it’d be cool if we had one central place where all the memes were
– Kachi
If you do a Google image search for a Nigerian meme, most of the results you’ll find will be connected to a Zikoko article.
In other words, you’re welcome.
So with a couple of wonderful, hardworking tech bros (Kachi, OJ and Timi) and the amazing Zikoko tech team, we got to work and built this wonderful bank, library, resource — whatever you want to call it.
Here’s how it works:
Whether it’s for gbas gbos on Twitter, for responding to your Mother’s WhatsApp BCs or for shooting your shot, you can now find and download all your favourite Nigerian memes on memes.zikoko.com at absolutely no cost at all.
The best part
You know the best part? You can also upload your favourite memes on the site, so we can help each other, rest and save ourselves from memes that are not an accurate representation of the Nigerian and African experience.
When your period is a month late, and you are beginning to remember the child of whom you are. Father, let it not be what we think.
And when the period finally comes, the pain makes you want to kill yourself.
5) Self love
When you are feeling down and you need to remind yourself that you are the baddest to ever do it, remember that you are magic
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Being Nigerian is a lot of things, both good and bad, at the same time. It is about feeling pride in the Nigerian people, culture, music and cuisine but being ashamed of the Nigerian government and other bad things about the country. We brought you the memes that perfectly describes how it feels to be Nigerian at various points in time.
1. When you lie to your parents about your results
2. When the Nigerian police “invite” you to the station
3. The Nigerian government every three minutes:
4. When your student department association asks how you spent the money for social night
5. When PHCN takes the light while you were ironing cloth for your interview
6. What your Nigerian parents think will happen if you travel to the village for Christmas
7. When the Nigerian government sees a successful startup
8. When your fiance who has a blue passport is mad at you
9. When the government announces another bad policy.
10. But last last,
If you liked these memes then you’ll love Zikoko Memes. Stay sharp because it’s coming real soon. Follow Zikoko Memes on Twitter.
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Meme culture is an important part of social interactions. Can we guess your age based on the memes you choose?
If you love memes, follow @ZikokoMemes on twitter and Instagram.
Hear ye! On the 23rd of November 2020, Zikoko will launch a meme site. It’s going to be a one-stop-shop for every Nigerian meme you could possibly want. Now that you’ve excitedly marked the date in your calendar (we hope), take this quiz about Nollywood memes.
