A new meme just waltzed into town: the 'Leopards Eating People’s Faces' meme. However, users on the quieter side of the internet may be confused as to just what this is. For the unversed, the meme refers to when people vote for inhumane and selfish policies. However, when these backfire on them, they're shocked.
According to Know Your Meme, this particular genre of memes is typically used to target Brexit and Trump supporters who are remorseful of casting their votes incorrectly. They then take to social media to grumble about the same, and their posts then go viral for misfiring horribly.
Here's all we know about the 'Leopards Eating People’s Faces' meme
According to Wikipedia, the official definition for the 'Leopards Eating People’s Faces' meme is:
"A notional political party supported by people who believe its cruel, unjust, or extreme policies and rhetoric will only harm other people, and are then shocked or displeased when these policies and rhetoric have adverse consequences to themselves."
The meme can be traced back to October 16, 2015, when a user on X called @cavalorn, real name Adrian Bott, tweeted:
“‘I never thought leopards would eat my face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.”
The meme was a massive hit online, generating over 700 comments, 66,000 retweets, 142,000 likes, and 10,000 saves. It even went on to launch a subreddit in 2017, r/LeopardsAteMyFace. By November 2024, the subreddit had well over 1 million followers and several hundred posts. People chipped in with anecdotes from all over the world about how voting for the wrong person backfired horribly.
Here's what one user posted:
My friend, who voted for Trump, was crying because his grandmother may get deported back to Colombia. All I could say was, you can visit her."
Here's another good example posted by a commenter on the same subreddit:
"A Republican "friend" just called me in a panic. She just read about the plan to cut funding for veteran's health benefits. 3 months ago, I told her that was the plan. She didn't believe the govt would turn on vetetans. I said to her: " He calls them "suckers and losers". What made you think he gives a damn about veterans?" Her husband has numerous health issues and relies solely on the VA. I told her she'd better prepare herself for what's coming for her."
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According to Know Your meme, the subreddit went viral in May 2020, at the peak of COVID-19, for disabling users' posts. The posts were about people ridiculing the impact of the pandemic at the time and later passing away from the same.
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