Thoughts On Lanterns Meme
Two Green Lanterns walk down a road. Then they're SpongeBob and Patrick.
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The Thoughts On Lanterns meme is an image format where people crudely redraw a promo photo from HBO's Green Lantern series Lanterns, showing Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) walking down a road, as another famous duo and caption it "Thoughts on [that franchise]?" The original post went up on X on September 4, 2026, and the trend took off on September 8 after a deliberately bad edit went viral. Versions turned the pair into SpongeBob and Patrick, Walt and Jesse, and Cuphead and Mugman.
What does Thoughts On Lanterns Meme mean?
It's a fake earnest question with a joke picture: the walking pose redrawn as a different pair, captioned as if asking for honest opinions on that show. "Thoughts on SpongeBob?" over two figures scribbled into a sponge and a starfish is the whole bit. The worse the drawing, the better.
Why did Thoughts On Lanterns Meme take off?
The walking pose is generic enough to fit almost any duo, and the MS Paint-quality edits are part of the joke. It also landed while Lanterns was airing weekly on HBO, so the image was already in people's feeds.
Where did Thoughts On Lanterns Meme come from?
- Lanterns premieres on HBO and HBO Max, with eight weekly episodes running to an October 4 finale.
- An X user posts the promo still asking "Thoughts on Lanterns 2026?" It gets about 35 likes.
- An edit with crudely drawn-on clothes passes 53,000 likes and starts the trend. A Cuphead version follows the same day.
- SpongeBob and Breaking Bad versions each pass 34,000 likes in a day.
- It places seventh in Know Your Meme's September Meme of the Month poll.
How to post Thoughts On Lanterns Meme on TikTok
- Take the walking image and redraw the two figures as another famous pair, the rougher the better.
- Caption it "Thoughts on [Franchise] (year)?"
- Post it on X like a sincere question.
Questions about Thoughts On Lanterns Meme
What does Thoughts On Lanterns mean?
It's a duo-swap joke. People redraw the two walking Green Lanterns as another famous pair and ask for "thoughts" on that franchise, as if it were a real new show.
Where did the Thoughts On Lanterns meme come from?
From an X post on September 4, 2026 that shared a Lanterns promo still and asked "Thoughts on Lanterns 2026?" It went viral on September 8, when an edit with crudely drawn-on clothes passed 53,000 likes.
Who is in the original Lanterns photo?
Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart, in a promotional still for Lanterns, HBO's Green Lantern series that premiered on August 16, 2026.
Why are the Thoughts On Lanterns drawings so bad?
On purpose. The trend took off with an edit of badly drawn-on clothes, and the low effort is the joke.
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What changed on this page
Updated Oct 13, 2026
- Page published with dated sources.
- Title and description matched to the name people search for.
- Added the original picture, as it went round online.
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