Doki Doki Literature Club Funny Memes

As one of the most memorable games of the late 2010s, Doki Doki Literature Club! naturally has a large number of associated memetic mutations.

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Please add entries in the following format if possible:

• The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[[/labelnote]] ^Explanation Like this.
  • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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• "[Character] is best girl" ^Explanation While variants of this phrase are nothing new in the anime communities, this template only became more popular in reference to Monika due to her being such a yandere that she sabotages the game so that not only does she have a route, but her route is the only route. Many would also genuinely say she is, as detailed in Draco in Leather Pants on the YMMV page.
• It's common in reviews for this game to play up the cute aspects while only vaguely alluding to the Surprise Creepy, such as making puns about Sayori's and Yuri's deaths, or talking about how wonderful Monika is.
• Just Monika. ^Explanation She has a tendency to railroad options to her favor, turning the phrase into eerie Arc Words across Act Two. There's even a sequence where the player is forced to sit through the phrase six times in a row, including a fake-out cut back to the title screen.
  • Just Mônica. ^Explanation From the Brazilian side of the fandom, this variant of the "Ata" meme posted on Tumblr has Monica (with a "c") from the Brazilian comic series Monica's Gang edited to have Monika's hair and sitting in front of the computer with the words "Just Monika" on the screen. Considering how Monica herself is one of the most popular characters in Brazil, this isn't surprising.
• It's not over until the credits roll. ^Explanation The most common response to people who try to quit after Sayori's suicide, or to a lesser extent those who don't realize that there is more to the story after Act 3.
• Hang in there! ^Explanation What many people refer to Sayori's suicide as. It's also used to refer to the event where posters in the back of the clubroom are replaced with the image of Sayori's corpse.
  • No bulli the Sayori! ^Explanation Often said by Sayori fans in response to the large wave of these types of memes.
  • Bulli ^Explanation The next step of mutation, with the term now being used to refer to any remark made at any girl's and MC's expense.
• monikaS ^Explanation monkaS is a Twitch emote to convey fear and/or anxiety. It didn't take long for users to mutate the term, and it becomes doubly relevant once Monika's role in the story is understood.
• "Buffsuki" ◊ or "Swolesuki", an outlandishly muscular version of Natsuki based off of a fanart ◊ of Riku from the Kingdom Hearts series. Uses of this Natsuki variant often involve comparisons with her considerably smaller regular counterpart as well as her using her newfound strength to retaliate against other characters, particularly her father and Monika.
  • She is often depicted saying "Square up, thot" that has become one of the most memetic sentences associated with the game.
• Monika Number Five ^Explanation Editing Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5" to replace all the girl names so that only Moni(k)a remains has become popular, too. If you go to just about any video of the song at this time you'll find comments relating to it.
• Appending ".chr" to one's username. ^Explanation The format of the character files in this game, implying that those users are just characters in a simulated world.
• "Doki Doki is not Oki Doki." ^Explanation Used when humorously discussing the game's Surprise Creepy nature, apparently started by MagikarpUsedFly.
• A lot of people like to make Flex Tape jokes in relation to Yuri's death after JonTron popularized the product in a video released around the same time. It doesn't help that the "extreme bucket demo" featured in said JonTron video involved Phil Swift stabbing a bucket with a large knife.
• fucking monikammmmmmm ^Explanation One of the pieces of Natsuki's altered dialogue in the screwed up act 2. Being one of the very few instances of explicit language in the game makes it incredibly memorable, and it's often cited as a response to a glitchy scene or Monika in general.
• Doki Doki Eldritch Horror ^Explanation Many people like combining the girls together (or humorously, like Monika's thighs and Natsuki's fang) or all four to make a "perfect" member of the club. One person brought it to exaggerate all of these, including Buffsuki, and make some eldritch horror that is both hilarious and terrifying to look at.
• Manga is literature! ^Explanation Natsuki's insistence that manga be included in the Literature Club's itinerary. The quote is often paired with Yuri's Deadpan Snarking or her father abusing her for bringing it up.
• Fans often use "posture", especially "bad posture" as a synonym for big breasts. ^Explanation In the game, Yuri says that she suffers from back pain and starts to attribute it to a reason. She stops herself short, but it's implied from the look on her face that she was about to say that her large rack was the cause. The protagonist, either innocently or knowingly, suggests that "bad posture" was the the reason for her back pain, to which Yuri hastily agrees.
• The East German song Monika is now associated with Monika from the game. Take a look at the comment section which one user notes has turned into a fusion of Doki Doki Literature Club and the Volksarmee.
  • The same thing with the Swedish song Hej Monika, after PewDiePie sang it and associated it with Monika.
• On the matter of communists, a lot of art ◊ depicts the Dokis in Soviet-style uniforms with Monika being some Stalin-like figure, with the joke being that the game is a Whole Plot Reference to Stalin's party purges. ◊
• I gently open the door. ^{Explanation (spoilers)} Many people like to edit Sayori's death in various humorous ways. The most common is to pull a Bait-and-Switch by having the scene play out the way it does in the game, only for the reveal to be something Faux Horrific.
• 2029 ^Explanation There was a prediction that in 2029, the brain could directly enter virtual reality with sensory functions intact. This has spawned a ton of memes in regards to the attraction of the girls, specifically Monika, involving people waiting for 2029 to roll around and make Monika's dream come true.
• This image of Monika T-Posing over Sans. ^Explanation A fan art made by sansurichin, the image is used to depict dominance from one side, Monika, and the other side cowering in fear, Sans. As Sans had already become a rather memetic character by this time due to his own meta-awareness and use of said meta-awareness, this meme is essentially Monika declaring her dominance as a new memetic character from a Surprise Creepy game of the 2010s.
• Rated M For Monika ^Explanation The Updated Re-release, DDLC Plus, is rated Mature by the ESRB for "violence, blood, suggestive themes, and strong language". Naturally, getting an M rating for what is ostensibly a cutesy anime dating-sim caused many to joke about how Monika changed the rating, or perhaps is the reason the game was rated M in the first place.
• Cool Sayori ^Explanation A piece of fanart depicting Sayori giving finger guns while wearing aviator shades; originally based on the preexisting "that's where you're wrong kiddo" meme, the artwork became popular to use among DDLC fans as a variant of Drakeposting.
  • Egg Sayori ^Explanation The game has a sizable trans following that particularly latched onto Sayori; because the game came out around the time when the concept of "eggs" (trans people who don't yet realize that they're trans) started entering mainstream visibility, an offshoot of the "Cool Sayori" meme themed around the idea emerged, becoming popular enough to give the original fanartist a noticeable Colbert Bump.
• "Monika: Friendship is awesome!" "Main Character: Hello." "Monika: These bitches are going down." ^Explanation Plus is a prequel to the main game that shows how all four girls met, and put a lot of focus on how they became friends, with many heartwarming moments. Which can come off as jarring given how in the main game the girls will begin to bicker and fight among each other for the Main Character's attention, and that's before getting to everything Monika ends up doing.

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