On December 20th, YouTuber posted a variation of the video meme in which a small skeleton with a trumpet scares Neo. The post received more than 9,500 views in less than one year (shown below, right).

Similar memes continued in 2024, evolving into the phrase + skeleton emoji format “Those Who Know 💀,” and gaining a new ironic use.

Sea stars have no backbones at all, while snakes are almost all spine. A stingray’s skeleton is made entirely of cartilage. Anteaters and pangolins, which slurp down insects with their long ...

Skelly, the nickname given to the famous oversized skeleton Halloween decoration, has haunted neighborhoods since its debut at Home Depot in 2020. And Skelly's popularity has only grown since.

Skeletons, it seems, have gone soft. No longer content to loom over you from a height of 12 feet, the latest en vogue Halloween collectibles are skewing more farcical than fearsome. A skeleton ...

On Saturday our Video Producer Kyle Calise explores the origins and history of the most iconic memes online in his “Meme History” column. If you want to read columns like this a day before ...

In 1938, a medieval well in the ruins of Sverresborg castle was partly drained and a skeleton was found beneath rubble and boulders at the bottom. While it was widely believed that the skeleton ...

Thank you so much for validating my exclamations of delight when I see skeletons cavorting across neighborhood lawns (“Why are skeletons so funny?” Ideas, Oct. 20). I love seeing skeletons ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...

Giant skeletons, scarecrows and spooky decor of intimidating sizes are a growing trend. Take Home Depot’s Giant animated Jack Skellington: The 13-foot-tall skeleton also comes at a whopping ...

But is this true, and could he really impose authoritarian rule in the U.S.? The fascist meme is all over the place, an upgrade from President Biden’s description of the MAGA movement in 2022 as ...

Why Trust Us? A research team from the University of Tokyo analyzed DNA from a Yayoi-period skeleton to determine the ancestral makeup of the modern Japanese population. The unique DNA makeup ...