The World War 3 memes are here—and they're dark (2025)
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Concern over a theoretical World War 3 is high, and people are expressing their anxiety through memes.
Following a drone strike carried out by the United States that killed two prominent Iranian officials, many Americans are concerned. People took to Twitter to share their thoughts on the matter and quickly turned to memes to communicate their feelings. Unsurprisingly, the waves of WWIII memes now sweeping the web are not sitting well with everyone.
Most of the memes poked fun at fear of getting drafted. Many draft-aged users are expressing their fear of the draft through funny, but ominous, posts. “Me after I fake my death to avoid getting drafted,” one user captioned a video.
Other memes centered around millennials and Gen-Z joking about their general lack of preparedness for war.
As the World War 3 memes picked up speed online, they were met by a swift and fierce backlash. Disapproving users chided memers for their nonchalance, and for using memes as a “coping” mechanism. “Stop saying ur making memes about war as a ‘coping’ method,” one user wrote. “Every single one of u will be fine the people of iraq and iran will continue to suffer u people have nothing to be fucking coping for.”
so funny that americans think they CAN cope over this with jokes … what the fuck are you coping? you’re not going to die and your homeland will not be destabilized. you are not in a position to cope by any means.
“War is not a fucking joke,” another user wrote. “It is a destructive and selfish act. 4,424 U.S. soldiers and an estimated 600K Iraqi civilians died in the Iraq war over WMDs that did not exist. So please stop with these #WWIII memes and instead call your Congress members and tell them #NoWarWithIran.”
War is not a fucking joke. It is a destructive and selfish act. 4,424 U.S. soldiers and an estimated 600K Iraqi civilians died in the Iraq war over WMDs that did not exist. So please stop with these #WWIII memes and instead call your Congress members and tell them #NoWarWithIran.
americans joking about commiting more imperialism and genocide in another country and saying 'it's a coping mechanism' is peak 2020 and we're literally only two days into this year https://t.co/Lf0XgkUtnD
Accusations that Black users, in particular, were at the center of the influx of memes suddenly shifted the focus for critics. Some started going after Twitter users of color, heaping criticism on their tweets for not taking the situation seriously. “Honestly, I’m not believing a lot of you right now when you say that war is not funny,” one user shot back at critics. “Twitter is such a performative space, I find it likely that many of you are declaring how unfunny Black Twitter is just for some retweets. All of it is pretty disgusting at this point.”
A lot of Black liberals are so used to playing the oppression olympics that they now want to equate Black folks experience here with that of folks in the global south, living under the bullseye of the worlds most lethal military. Pls don’t do this.
Black Twitter, meanwhile, remained entirely unfazed by the criticism. “All of black twitter chillin in jail when we refuse to go to war,” one user wrote.
Albert Einstein is often quoted as having said: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones".
Read on below for the full list to see where you would be safest in the event of another World War. ...
Antarctica. View of an iceberg at the Gerlache Strait, which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, in Antarctica on January 16, 2024. ...
It is widely assumed that such a war would involve all of the great powers, like its predecessors, as well as the use of nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, thus surpassing prior conflicts in geographic scope, devastation, and loss of life.
If World War 3 were to start, it would likely involve large-scale use of advanced military technologies, including nuclear weapons. This could result in massive casualties, widespread destruction, and significant geopolitical shifts.
One of Winston Churchill's most famous speeches, which he delivered to the House of Commons on June 4, 1940. An interesting fact about the speech was that from the beginning “We shall fight on the beaches...” and ending “… we shall never surrender”, consists of words derived from Old English (Anglo-Saxon).
for other armies to attack, North Dakota is still one of the safest states to be in. if a war broke out. due to its location. being far away from main international conflict areas.
New Zealand, with its stable democracy and a history free from war conflicts, stands as another hidden away and developed nation. With fertile soil, clean water, and a capability to produce its own food, New Zealand's mountainous terrains offer natural shelters in the face of potential invasion.
If the war were to be China and their allies facing Western nations and their allies, 48% of Americans think the Western nations would win. If both China and Russia — and their allies — were fighting Western nations and their allies in a world war, 45% of Americans say the Western nations would win.
What's left in a bank (governments might not find every last penny) is usually depreciated and a successor government will come up with a new currency. They may offer an exchange of the old currency for the new, but at horrendous rates. Being in a country totally destroyed by war has few upsides.
New Zealand and Australia could be among the safest places on the planet in the event of World War III. They are surrounded by water on all sides, have a temperate climate, and, most importantly, no deepwater ports that could be used by enemy landing forces for attack and logistical purposes.
We think the chance of a nuclear war in the next 100 years is something like 20–50%. Estimates of the existential risk from nuclear war within the next 100 years range from 0.005–1%. We think the existential risk from nuclear war is around 0.01%.
The Third World War has not yet occurred, but it is a hypothetical future conflict that has been the subject of various novels, films, and video games.
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own.” “This isn't a war… It never was a war, any more than there's war between men and ants.” “They seemed amazingly busy.
Colonel Hal Moore: I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together.
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