This well-known meme has a curious origin you'd never expect. Let's explain Elmo's fiery rise to memedom as a reaction image and GIF online.

Also known as “Hellmo” or “Elmo Rise,” the Elmo on fire meme originated from an Elmo-themed birthday cake. For a child’s first birthday, a cake with a strange, possessed-looking Elmo was baked—and ...

We are all Elmo. Or maybe not. Last week, in a viral event that will surely seem as though it happened six years ago by this December, a clip of Elmo getting mad began to circulate on Twitter. In the ...

When Elmo decided to check the emotional pulse of the internet on Monday and ask, “How is everybody doing?” the fiery-colored Muppet couldn’t have anticipated the seismic response he’d receive. Elmo’s ...

Weeks into the new year, social media users have moved on to new viral memes, ranging from jabbing dark HBO dramas to laughing at long-running jokes on “Sesame Street.” In 2022, people are picking out ...

Share on Facebook Share on X (formerly Twitter) Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest Share on Bluesky and Elmo Shrugging—all with their own use cases. But more than a decade after the original postings ...