25+ Midwest Memes for Nice Folks Who Say Ope (October 17, 2025)

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
Oct 17, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

It's not always fun and sunshine being a Midwesterner. Emphasis on the sunshine. No, we're barreling straight toward some of the worst times of year to be a Midwesterner. We're doing cardio, so we don't have heart attacks while shoveling snow. We're enjoying the last drops of sunlight after we leave work, knowing that it soon will go away. We're relishing the time raking leaves and not chipping icicles off our roofs. We're preparing for the long, long winter. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves on the way down. Autumn is a beautiful time to be here. 

The leaves are changing colors, trips to the pumpkin patch lift our spirits, and we're nailing down our Halloween costumes. Let's be real, though, we just always throw on a Ditka jersey and call it a day. This time of year in the Midwest is all about enjoying what we've got, with the real sense that it might all go away in an instant. So it's best to enjoy the here and now. And memes are a huge part of that. 

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  • Memes make us remember what we're in it for. They remind us that it is indeed a good life we're living, and we should take some comfort in that. We all have more things in common than we do things that separate us. And we're all cold as heck. So scroll on to be reminded of that. 

  • 01
    Midwest Betrayal List CION 1. Not knowing what a beer chaser is 2. Saying cheese curds are "meh" 3. People thinking 60 degrees is cold UNIQUE 8 TNNOVATER 4. Skipping Friday fish fry because you're "on a diet" 5. Never stopping at Kwik Trip on a road trip 6. People who don't have an ice scraper in their trunk every day of the year... just in case 7. Not being Midwest nice 8. When people don't say "scuse me" 9. Refusing to help a neighbor move a couch 10. People who think we have bad weather... Th
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  • 02
    Chicago The rest of Illinois
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    Women 13 Midwest moms making their kids walk down the Payless Shoe aisle to see if their shoes fit
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    Marty @MartyMansions They don't want you to know about the Midwest Average IQ score (2025) The average intelligence level of residents of individual U.S. states 97.0 and above 103.0 and above 101.0 and above 95.0 and above 99.0 and above 93.0 and above WA 101.9 ME VT 103.8 103.4 MT 103.4 ND 103.8 OR 101.2 MN 103.7 -NH 104 ID 101.4 SD 102.8 WI 102.9 NY 100.7 MA 104 RI 99.5 WY 102.4 MI 100.5 NV 96.5 NE 102.3 IA 103.2 PA 101.5 CT 103.1 NJ 102.8 OH DE 100.4 CA UT 101.1 IL 99.9 IN 101.8 101.7 wv MD 9
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    VIDWEST Midwest vs. Everybody ❤ OPE EVERY @midwestern_ope "So you turned the heat on in the morning?” Yes because it was cold "And then turned the AC on in the afternoon?" Yes because fall has 4 seasons in one day "And at night you'll have the windows open?" That's correct. IRA ISEY SHOW
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    "And then the sun set before 7pm❞
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    Big Rapids Grand Rapids •Hypothetical location of Massive Rapids
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    MIDWEST Midwest vs. Everybody ❤ OPE EVERYON @midwestern_ope Coastal elites have no idea how scary the Midwest actually is BEWARE SHARK CROSSING
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    MIDWEST OPE EVERYBODY Midwest vs. Everybody ❤ @midwestern_ope Artists picking their tour dates ashington Montana North Dakota Minnesota Oregon Idaho South Dakota Wyoming Wisconsin Michigan California New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Main New York Iowa Pe sylvania Nebraska Nevada Ohio Utah Illinois Indiana Colorado Kansas Missouri Virginia entucky Rhode Island Connecticut New Jersey Delaware Maryland Washington, DC North Carolin Tennessee West Virginia Arizona New Mexico Arkansas South Carolin
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    Sean Oroni @seaa_oroni X.com Today I helped push a random girls car from an illegal spot 40' down to a legal spot to avoid a tow. The car worked fine. We had to push it bc none of the 8 people around us could blow a 0 and she had a dui device. It was truly the most Wisconsin form of midwestern hospitality.
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    THINGS WISCONSINITES LOVE... @wi.yaknow BURNING LEAVES
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    America: Drive 8 hours and you're still in Michigan
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    MIDWEST OPE Midwest vs. Everybody ❤ BE EVERYBODY @midwestern_ope Chicago and Milwaukee have made the Top 3 Best Big Cities in the US BEST BIG CITIES IN THE U.S. I. CHICAGO, IL 2. SAN FRANCISCO, CA 3. MILWAUKEE, WI 4. PORTLAND, OR 5. NEW ORLEANS, LA 6. WASHINGTON, D.C. 7. SAN DIEGO, CA 8. COLUMBUS, OH 9. NEW YORK CITY, NY 10. SEATTLE, WA according to: Condé Nast Traveler
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    Pure Memeigan pure memeigan Never forget what they took from us meijers meijers 24 hours NAPA AUTO PARTS
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    MIDWEST Midwest vs. Everybody OPE EVERYBODY @midwestern_ope It's nice to see Illinois beat Indiana in something Top pumpkin-producing states, 2024 O 2. Indiana 159.8m 1. Illinois 485.1m O All other states 158.8m 3. Pennsylvania 108.8m 11. North Carolina 45.1m OO 4. California 105.8m 5. Michigan 104.6m 6. Ohio 67.5m O 8. Virginia 54.1m 7. Washington 57.0m 10. New York 46.0m 9. Wisconsin 49.6m
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  • 16
    Interviewer: This says you went to school at Yale? Ivy League, very impressive Guy from Yale Michigan: Yes
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  • 17
    "And then he said he's from Ohio"
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  • 18
    Michigan's extreme left
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    Best part about Fall: Free A/C @wi.yaknow
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    The look of a guy that could use a beer or 12 ALS BENGALS 10 @wi.yaknow S
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    GOODNIGHT @wi.yaknow FIBS
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    Girls in Fall Guys in Fall törhe wiyaknow Pilsne
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    Telling your wife you're only having "one more" old fashioned 2 hours later: @wi.yaknow
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  • 24
    PURE 2 MEMEIGAN ||| Local man starting Go Fund Me to pay referees on behalf of Detroit teams Two penalties the referees ignored on behalf of the Chiefs
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  • 25
    My reaction when I saw Hot 'N Now burgers are $2.77 a piece now... $2.77 should buy 7 Hot 'N Now burgers HEY, THERE'S A BUBBLE
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  • 26
    Quick what do Michigan, Wisconsin, and Indiana have in common? Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps.2h Where it's legal to own a raccoon in the U.S. LEGAL ILLEGAL @terriblemaps
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