As someone who spends the majority of my vacant time on social media apps like TikTok and Instagram, I can say that I have seen many different memes circulate on those platforms that people “fein” over. Ludicrous videos get posted everyday and if they match the criteria of a mix of randomness and silliness, it will become an inside joke that users of these apps will constantly abuse. Read on for my ranking of worst to best memes circulating the internet right now!

1. Fein concert
Filming a concert while you are singing along can be rather risky, because rest assured you will be able to hear yourself better than the actual concert itself. Then one day a boy went to a Travis Scott concert, where Travis Scott played the song Fein. Everyone was screaming Fein during the concert but one boy who filmed this song sounded extremely off from what he was supposed to sound like. From the actual absurdity of how bad this boy was singing it, people decided this was the new trend and that everyone should recreate it. Now, before people attend a concert they say “I hope they play Fein!” This trend was funny for the first few times I saw it, but then it just started to get extremely repetitive. I do not believe that anyone genuinely watches these videos and starts to laugh out loud from how the concert will not be playing Fein.

2. Mama a girl behind you [purple heart emoji]
As seen in the viral Snapchat video, there is a little boy who is filming his mom’s outfit; yet to everyone’s surprise there is a filter on the video, causing there to be a bitmoji “dancing” behind his mom. Since her son doesn’t understand that there is a filter, he says “mama a girl behind you” warning his mom about the bitmoji dancing behind her. At first said as something cute and innocent, the internet could not get enough of “mama a girl behind you.” The video is funny, yet when I scroll through TikTok comments I am bombarded with purple hearts and people trying to recreate this meme for any type of video.

Another popular trend on TikTok is “hopecore videos,” which convey hope, optimism, and love in an edit. Then somehow people now created “mama a girl behind you” hopecore videos, so that “mama a girl in front of you” implies that looking into the future is beneficial. Honestly, the fact people started to comment “mama a girl behind you” was already painfully unfunny, but at this point it’s gotten exhausting to even open the comment section, when I can predict what everyone will be saying. Then when people say the meme in real life, it is genuinely unfathomable to even continue talking to them – how are you so chronically online?

3. Can I go to Ellie and Mason house?
In a chain of text messages a little girl texted her (as assumed) mother, where she sent her mom a picture of her crying then said “Please can I go to Ellie and Mason house.” Very quickly people turned the picture of this girl crying into a meme, like putting makeup on her. In perspective this was funny and people were extremely creative with the way they would change the meme up, but soon people started to text their parents “Can I go to Ellie and Mason house?” Now here is when the meme gets unfunny, and everyone thinks it’s top tier comedy to ask their parents if they can go to Ellie and Mason house. I’m not trying to sound very negative and boring, but literally everyone’s parents were just confused, and it was honestly sad to see how lost everyone’s parents were.

4. What I do?
At a Walmart a man came up to a random woman, and started to do a prank on her. He told her “he knows what she did” when she didn’t actually do anything. She started to get defensive and then she said “what I do,” which quickly became an iconic moment. The actual video itself was almost close to perfect because the video quality was grainy, the video was taken in a Walmart, and the woman was fairly sassy. Yet of course everyone had to quote this meme like their life depended on it, for videos that were not even closely related to this reference.