13 Orcas Get Trapped In The Ice In Japan With Officials Unable To Rescue Them, The Internet Makes It Into A Meme (Don’t Worry, The Whales Are Okay)

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Feb 11, 2024 11:00 AM EST

No matter what people say about social media, undoubtedly one of the most beautiful things about it is that whenever anything even slightly interesting happens… we get so many memes about it. We have seen everything from the internet meme-ing the heck out of a 101-year-old woman who yeeted a lobster into the ocean to the internet meme-ing an hour-long police chase after a runaway pig, all the way to owners offering 3000$ for their parrot that went missing, and the internet making that into a meme.

The memes are worth staying for, and the memes never disappoint. And that's definitely true for this case. You'd think… a situation where 13 killer whales got stuck in the ice in Japan would not be an occasion for memes, but you would be wrong. The memes are indeed good. And they're made even better by the fact that – thankfully – all the whales are just fine.

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The first time we came across this story, we have to be honest, we did not think it was funny whatsoever. We scrolled past, hoping to forget about these helpless whales that we can't do anything to help. But scrolling past it the second time, and seeing that they survived because the ice simply… loosened up around them… well, we get the memes now.
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Listen, it's not every day that something like this happens, and although we didn't feel like laughing at first, now that we know they're okay, we think we're allowed to laugh. Sometimes, things just work out, and we think it's good to remember and celebrate that.
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