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Do you remember Pepe the King Prawn from your childhood? Just recently, it has become a viral meme. People on TikTok have been combining the shocked Muppets character with captions describing their most wild, embarrassing, and traumatic experiences. If thatâs not enough, the memes are accompanied by a slowed-down version of Like a Prayer by Madonna. This Internet trend is finishing off this year with a bang, encouraging people to let go of their traumas and enter the new year without extra baggage.Â
Bored Panda rounded up the best Pepe the King Prawn trend stories in the list below. Scroll down to find them, and donât forget to upvote the ones that you canât believe are real. If youâre feeling daring, you can also share some of your most embarrassing or traumatic stories below. Letâs all welcome the new year fresher and lighter!
Take a look at Pepe the King Prawn meme as it takes the Internet by storm

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This is like the time at work where I stated I was so hungry I could eat my arm off, meanwhile my coworker had only one arm. He stated “that’s what I did” keep in mind this is my first day there [laugh out loud].
I met a boy during the first week of university and fell in love instantly. We dated for 2 months… then broke up. I was heartbroken. But we stayed friends. And 2.5 years later, we got back together. I was ecstatic.
A week later we went to one of his friend’s 21st birthday parties. It was my first time seeing his friend group in 2.5 years, and I was nervous. I drank. A lot. I don’t remember how I got home.
Next morning, I’m in his bed. I look over smiling and go in for a cuddle. He, just staring at me, asks, “Do you remember what you did last night?” “No?” “You peed on my carpet” “Ha, no I didn’t” “Yes, you did. Go smell the rug.” I laughed, thinking he was joking.
Then I peeked over the bed… and saw a wet rug and a pile of towels. He tells me I had woken up at 3am, walked to the end of the bed, squatted down, and peed on the carpet. While he watched in shock yelling my name. He proceeds to tell me I had shook, climbed back into bed, and fallen back asleep. All while he sat there in disbelief and proceeded to clean up my mess for 40 minutes.
I sit in shock, hearing his mom upstairs making breakfast, and wonder… how is he going to explain the [urinate]-scented rug to his family? This boy is going to dump me. AGAIN. I need to get out of this house. I get in my car, break down in tears. I can’t call anyone because I’d have to admit what I did. Hours later, no word from him. I am absolutely distraught.
Then he calls… He blamed it on the dog. I’m in the clear. His family thinks I’m normal. We got married 2 months ago, 8 years after the incident. I haven’t peed anywhere other than a toilet since that night.
One day, I was at church and service had ended so everyone was standing around talking. I heard something speaking in a robotic voice behind me. I was in a silly goofy mood and I yelled “what is this, an alien invasion?!”
It was in fact, not an alien invasion. it was a 90-year-old man with throat cancer. He had a voice box.
Please make it stop. I think of this literally every night before I go to bed, and sometimes on my lunch break at work. I cannot escape it. God forgive me.
Pepe the King Prawn (full name Pepino Rodrigo Serrano Gonzales) first appeared in the Muppets in 1996, winning fanâs hearts with his snarky wit and heavy Spanish accent. Every time he would be called a shrimp, he would take offense and respond, “I am not a shrimp! I am a king prawn, okay?
His expressive face and blank stare, similar to a thousand-yard stare, made him a perfect candidate for a relatable meme format.
When I noticed a little kid lying on the ground and moving his limbs like he was having a tantrum so I said “aww, looks like someone needs a nap” and his dad said “Nope, Cerebral Palsy”. That will haunt me til the day I die.
I told a patient in a wheelchair to take a seat and he looked down at his wheelchair and said, âDone.â
When someone came up to me on the subway and asked if I liked the book I was reading and I told them “No, it’s the most self-indulgent, overwritten drivel I’ve read in a while. The main character is so unlikable I keep praying a meteor falls on her or something just so this book can end”. When the person asking was in fact the author and had based the character on herself.
All that was missing for it to go viral was a person who would bring peopleâs attention to it. That person was TikToker caitycline21, who kicked off the trend on November 30 by posting a series of memes with Pepe and his blank, shocked stare. Her first post was captioned, âSometimes Iâm late because Iâm spending too much time like this.âÂ
This TikTok currently has 174k views and is known as the original Pepe the King Prawn meme. But it was her third post with the caption âThe face I make when Iâm trying to maintain great customer service while getting screamed atâ that went viral, garnering 4 million views in 10 days. Others promptly joined in, making it, as some claim, the best internet trend of the year.
My third day of college, I decide to bring my longboard to campus and skate from class to class so that I can get around quickly. I stop at the dining hall and get mac and cheese and broccoli to go. I get on my longboard and start cruising through the main quad.
It is Seattle. it is always raining. The giant brick square I have to cross is getting slippery. but surely I can make it! I attempt to push off and immediately slip and fall, kicking my longboard at least 100 feet away. My tote bag falls off my shoulder. All of my school supplies are dirty and wet. I smash the back of my head on the ground and throw my container of food 10-15 feet into the air as I fall. The cardboard container opens midair and rains mac and cheese and broccoli all over me.
It is passing period and there are 40,000 students at my school. Hundreds of my fellow scholars have witnessed this. People are asking me if I’m okay. A really hot boy is chasing down my longboard. I’m not badly hurt but I’m so embarrassed. I start laughing hysterically until I can’t breathe. As I hyperventilate, the sky above me darkens…a [end] OF CROWS DESCENDS UPON ME AND BEGINS EATING THE MAC AND CHEESE AND BROCCOLI. One lands on my HEAD.
I am now wet, crying, hysterical, covered in food, and being attacked by dozens of crows. People are audibly gasping. I cut my losses and pick up my tote bag and literally run away. Someone gives me my longboard back and I sprint back to my dorm, while recording a voice memo to send to my new group chat of college friends. My friends find this hilarious and refer to the incident as “crow gate”.
For my birthday, they put the voice memo over a trap beat and blast it in the car. A few times I meet mutual friends and they already know about me because they’ve heard the voice memo.
My dad walked backwards into who he thought was my mom at target and [passed gas] on her, except that it wasnât my mom at all, it was some poor random lady.
Some examples are on the more tame side, like âWhen someone starts explaining the rules to a card game Iâve never played beforeâ and âMy face when I daze out during a meeting and someone says my name,â while others are more intense, like âThe girl was in the year for a year and when she got out, she said she is going to come after me,â and âMy face when I pull the sock of diabetic patient and their pinky toe goes flying across the room.â
The time I went to the zoo with my mum and we were looking at the alpacas and they were making a funny noise that we started to repeat back to it quite loudly. Turning around to see a disabled man in his wheelchair making the noise and his carer standing next to him looking at us.
One time I really really didn’t wanna go to school. So I told my mom I was hurting REALLY bad so she would let me stay home. She asks about my symptoms and I make something up on the spot. She proceeds to tell me to get in the car and that we were going to the hospital because she 100% sure appendix burst.
Knowing I lied I was freaking out in the car and was scared I was gonna get in trouble for lying. After getting tests done in the hospital I decided to tell my mom I lied about not feeling good she was so upset at me that she said “u better HOPE something’s wrong with u”. The doctor comes in and tells my mom “you might wanna sit down”. He tells my mom that I have a tumor. He says it has teeth, hair, and can have EYEBALLS. Hospital trip well spent.
Once I started seeing a therapist and spent the first several sessions ranting about my terrible manager. On the 4th session I noticed a photo behind her desk, my manager was her daughter.
The trend doesnât seem to be stopping anytime soon, as users continue to share their embarrassing stories and rack up millions of views. At the time of writing, the hashtag #pepethekingprawn has 22.1K posts, with one of the most popular remaining to be the original authorâs.Â
Dude I worked as a cashier and this guy said he was buying groceries for his son and I said “wow and whatâs he doing while you’re here”. He said âdying of cancerâ. I can never forget that experience.
I once meant to ask a patient at my EYE CLINIC to take off their glasses but I was looking at their shirt when I said it so instead I said âtake off your SHIRTâ.
I said congratulations to a couple cause the doctor said the ultrasound looked good. They were there to make sure the miscarriage didn’t cause any permanent damage.
Looking at this popular trend, there seems to be no limit to what people share online. This is especially true for young people. âIn the past, we used to think about our online lives and our offline lives as being two separate things. Whereas for young people, itâs just their life,â says mental health expert Dr. Louise La Sala to VICE.
One time a customer was talking to me and I didnât hear what he said so I just laughed it off, and he repeated that his dog died of cancer.
I was a house cleaner and was hired by a woman to clean her place (which was gorgeous) when I walked in I said âIâd give my right arm to live hereâ her husband had one armâŠ. His left arm.
When my stepdad’s dad died we all went to his parents’ house after the funeral. I heard this really weird noise and said LOUDLY âwas that a dog!??â It was not a dog it was his mom upstairs wailing.
Young people might feel enticed to share traumatic experiences online because it can validate the experiences they have. âFrom that perspective, posting on social media can be a very helpful part of a young personâs mental health journey,â says Sala.
However, they are treading thin ice, as any information can be misconstrued or minimized. âI think if you see something thatâs unsafe, or you see something that might be potentially distressing to others, when you like, or share, that content youâre teaching the algorithms that other young people might want to see more content like that.â
I asked my neighbor if she had enjoyed her blue slushie & then watched as her bf got arrested for DV the next day, realizing those were bruises by her mouth, not slushie. 8yrs later & still guilty [very].
Went with my friend to visit her dad in the hospital after he had a heart attack. A bird hit the window and startled us. I said âWhew that almost gave me a heart attack!â
One time a little girl fell asleep on her dadâs shoulder at the table I was serving. I said âtired thing huh?â And dad goes âno epilepsyâ.
I still think about that time in college when I coughed a little too hard and some kid ran up behind me and performed the heimlich on me. When he set me down everyone started clapping so I couldn’t tell him I wasn’t really choking so I thanked him and shook his hand instead.
Thatâs why itâs better to think through what the person is sharing online rather than freely spill their beans to strangers online. âIf youâre going to include something that other people might find distressing, use a content warning and give people a heads up, let them know that this content is going to include information about XYZ,â Sala advises.
My face when I was taking a chest xray of a patient with long lungs so I told him I needed to take two due to the length and he asked what that means and I said he has lungs of steel and could run a marathon. Both of his legs had been amputated.
Please help I think about this often. It’s been a couple years now, I have literally never said that to anyone prior and it makes no sense anyway…we both just stared at each other.
I helped a homeless man and bought him 2 days of food and drinks and he said âtysm!â And I said out of habit âget home safe!â And he said âI donât have a homeâ and I felt like a monster.
In a previous interview for Bored Panda, clinical psychologist Dr. Nakieta Lankster additionally recommended turning to offline connections and nurturing them. Being creative can also help. âMake art, garden, sing a song (even if you couldn’t carry a note in a bucket), take what’s inside of you and put it in this world. There are so many ways to release emotion, to lay your soul bare on your own terms and safely.â
Said to my coworker âsomeoneâs sad today!â Their dad just died.
I did the groceries for a homeless person and after I asked if he needed help carrying the bags home.
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