25+ Midwest Memes for Nice Folks Who Say Ope (September 12, 2025)

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
Sep 12, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Midwesterners know how to get cozy just as much as we know how to party. Sure, when summer is in full swing, we love firing up the grill and inviting all our friends over for a bags tournament. We're extroverted as they come when the weather is nice. But when the world starts to cool and the leaves start to change, we're just as adept at curling up with a mug of tea and a good book and saying goodbye to the world for a while. It's a boom and bust system. We have to store up our energy for the summer months when we whisk ourselves off to the nearest lake (and there are many of them) and get busy on our jet skis. 

But we couldn't sustain that all year, even if the lake didn't freeze over. No, we need our time to rest and rejuvenate. So what do we do when that time comes? Memes are a huge part of the Midwestern summer recovery process. We've put down our barbecue tongs and picked up our phones, and we're scrolling through our favorite stuff. 

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  • And there's nothing we love more than memes about ourselves. Sure, that might sound a little self-absorbed, but who isn't? Who among us doesn't like to see ourselves reflected back to us in media, especially funny media? So if that sounds like you, and you're a Midwesterner taking some time to relax, these memes are just for you. 

  • 01
    MIDWEST OPE Midwest vs. Everybody EVERYBOD @midwestern_ope Never forget when Menards dropped the greatest shot glass of all time 899 MENARDS Dedicated to Service & Quality 890
    via midwestvseverybody
  • 02
    False fall Midwesterners Second Summer Fall
    via midwestvseverybody
  • 03
    Just noticed the bottom of Minnesota looks like it's kicking Wisconsin in the nuts and I'm here for it
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 04
    Ben Stevens @BenScottStevens X If Oregon doesn't bring the big floating Duck to Lake Michigan this week... We riot. 4 ORE 2-0 LATT FOX 9/13 NU 1-1 12:00 PM N
    via midwestvseverybody
  • 05
    You know where you are? You're in Minnesota, baby You're gonna fry.......... fish
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 06
    MIDWEST OPE BODY Midwest vs. Everybody ❤ EVERYON @midwestern_ope This week in the Midwest ON THE WAY TO WORK ON THE WAY HOME
    via midwestvseverybody
  • 07
    MIDWEST OPE Midwest vs. Everybody ❤ EVERYBODY @midwestern_ope The Midwest is the luckiest region to win the Powerball Indiana Powerball Jackpot Winners Missouri 3 31 3 10 11 Minnesota 39 Wisconsin 19 22
    via midwestvseverybody
  • 08
    Anytime a new restaurant is built in the suburbs Greatest 80's Rock we gotta install microwave ovens
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 09
    Missouri Kansas Kansas City
    via midwestvseverybody
  • 10
    Why don't they just make a bridge here? it would be so much quicker to go from Chicago to Detroit Madison Milwaukee Flint Grand Rapids 94 43 Detroit Kalamazoo 51 39 90 Chicago 94 80 South Bend Fort Wayne 2.5 BinØ⭑ @Stackzzzzzz That's like connecting Gotham city to another Gotham city Toledo
    via midwestvseverybody
  • 11
    People who turn off their 8 mpg SUV at a red light for seven seconds.
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 12
    Check out this fish I caught yesterday afternoon starting at 4:25pm. I can't wait to catch the Lions first game of the season next Sunday
    via pure_memeigan
  • 13
    New Balance dad summer is cancelled, we're doing socks & crocs now
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 14
    NASA has announced the Sun will burn out in 2 billion years Guess they're going to have to finish the I-696 rebuild project in the dark
    via pure_memeigan
  • 15
    Midwesterners switching to their summer clothes after a long winter Food waste recycling point
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 16
    You know it's Friday in Wisconsin when these two show up! @wi.yaknow Fish Fry Old Fashioneds
    via wi.yaknow
  • 17
    This thing still scares the sh out of me every time POP! Crescent Original
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 18
    GATE Packers fans showing up Week 1 for tailgating LAMBEAU FIELD @wi.yaknow
    via wi.yaknow
  • 19
    Losing virginity by region: to " your cherry" POP SODA SODA COKE
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 20
    When my drink runs out at a restaurant and I have to stop eating until they notice and give me a refill
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 21
    My face when I see that sloppy joes are back at White Castle All
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 22
    How people sitting in Target Drive Up look at people walking into the store
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 23
    MIDWEST OPE Midwest vs. Everybody @midwestern_ope A new state has been added to the Midwest LEO BIG INDINIA 331
    via midwestvseverybody
  • 24
    Mothman ate my entire a at a Denny's! KWIK TRIP Is my favorite place to TOURING
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 25
    What you look like when you "BBQ" nothing but hot dogs LOOK WHAT I CAN DO
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 26
    The Midwest: where the roads are seasoned better than the food
    via mnsquirrelbear
  • 27
    Hey Jesus, it's rapture time, where do you wanna start? lol ain't nobody from Wisconsin comin' up I dunno, Wisconsin?
    via mnsquirrelbear

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