The Halloween season is here, and so is the latest viral sensation: the Dumb Ahh Pumpkin meme. This trend that has gone viral on TikTok implies that pumpkins look deliberately ridiculous in the Dumb Ahh taking its cues from the Goofy Ahh meme.
It’s an anthem of silly jokes, witty wordplay and outrageous pumpkin characters which are gracing everybody’s timelines.
Origins of the Dumb Ahh Pumpkin
The Dumb Ahh Pumpkin meme is an extension of the Goofy Ahh meme which we can describe as a form of the lip-flap meme that changes phrases to use letter and syllable substitutions and render comedically mispronounced words.
On October 12, 2023, TikTok user @CEHUH14 uploaded a picture of the pumpkin with tiny square eyes and oversized front teeth – a pumpkin face that implies I’m here for a good time, not a long time! This simple and in fact quite silly face created a trend of pumpkin mischief.
Soon other users followed the same path. The pumpkin face which looks silly when paired with the words Dumb Ahh Pumpkin was the next viral thing. Ahh replaces a** for a far less vulgar but just as ridiculous spin on dumba**, giving Halloween vibe all mashed up with that classic TikTok silliness.
What makes a pumpkin a Dumb Ahh Pumpkin?
The hallmarks of the Dumb Ahh Pumpkin are clear: big buck-toothed smiles, and spaced-out, confused eyes. Carving techniques? Minimalistic. Every pumpkin is, in essence, just one step away from the stereotypical Smiling Buck Tooth Emoji.
Some users introduce an audio element into captions using text-to-speech apps, referencing relevant songs such as the theme from the Coolmath Games’ Papa’s Pizzeria game. This audio, when combined with pictures of pumpkins, feels like a different spin on the meme, bringing Dumb Ahh characters to life.
Creative spins
As TikTok embraced Dumb Ahh Pumpkin, the concept became different: Individuals took it to the next level and placed pumpkins in weird scenarios.
Take, for example, @notgradymathison’s pumpkin misfortune series, where he films pumpkins suffering slapstick fates: falling off heights, rolling down steps, or dying upon contact.
Some threw their pumpkins around, others lit them on fire or flung them on the ground because what’s more ridiculous than a ridiculous pumpkin? Shattered silly pumpkin, right?
This willingness to play with—and sometimes destroy—the pumpkins captures the very spirit of Halloween on TikTok: jamming up the best things in life, making them extremely fun but just a little bit crazy.
Spooky cultural impact
Some wonder why the widespread Dumb Ahh Pumpkin as a phenomenon was so overwhelming. Well, not only is this a broken humour, but it also mocks social media’s drug-like obsession with weird, offbeat and over-the-top content.
It is the pumpkin’s silly facial expression that people can relate to, especially in combination with that Dumb Ahh pronunciation which probably means I am doing my best.
As the trend progressed, some users started to extend the versatility of the pumpkin and carve funny faces on just about anything that might take a carving knife. No fruit or vegetable was spared from the Dumb Ahh treatment be it watermelons, peppers, and even cantaloupes.
Memes beyond pumpkins
But there was still more humour in this scene. Some creators started to just extend the subject matter by juxtaposing a pumpkin to a certain person or an object in a given scene.
Trending
In one TikTok, a man who did not know a woman in an orange tight-fitting leg outfit in the supermarket said to her jokingly, That’s the biggest pumpkin I’ve ever seen!
So if you’re looking to have a chuckle this Halloween, type in Dumb Ahh Pumpkins on TikTok. And it’s all about that stupid happiness that dull pumpkins can screw around in the same mind-boggling manner as we do.
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