Puddle of the Funniest 90s and 2000s Rock Memes for Everyone Lying They Don’t Love Nickelback and Their Divorced Dads

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Jul 16, 2026 8:30 AM EDT

Call it post-grunge, call it dad rock, or divorced dad rock, the fact is there are two types of people in the world: people who love these bands and this genre, and people who lie about loving it, and I'm no liar.

So come with me on a short Drive 3 Doors Down memory lane to the good ol' Three Days Grace. Nickelback, when men with bottled-up feelings and long neck, cold bottles were screaming into microphones (and megaphones for some reason), over heavy guitar riffs, catchy basslines and intense drums. YES PLEASE! Sign me up!

These bands altered, and still Alter Bridge my brain, so on this day, I see clearly, every meme has come to life.

Weathered you're like me and actively listen to these all the time, or if It's Been Awhile since you could listen to them, the Silver lining Side Up is: this is How I Remind you of what you really are. Which seems to be working because all of these bands are the most popular they've been in years.

And if someone tries to interrupt this scroll, tell them: I'm on the Outside looking at memes. Tell them you're six memes from the edge and you're thinking maybe six memes ain't so far down.

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  • 38 It's Not Over Daughtry Far Away Nickelback Here Without You 3 Doors Down I Hate Everything About You Three Days Grace
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  • Good. He finally stopped thinking about his ex. Play Lips Of An Angel by Hinder.
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  • Anyway, the critics had a field day with these bands. Never Again did so many people agree on hating something so loudly while so many other people were quietly buying 8 million copies of it. That's not failure. That's a Photograph of exactly how wrong everyone on the internet can be.

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  • What an album, huh? This is only the first track. BREAK THE Open Your Eyes Staind
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  • Look, nobody was pretending this was Higher art jazz or progressive metal. These were songs about being Broken, being Far Away, or Here Without You, being the guy in the parking lot at 11pm who just needs one more chorus before he goes inside. And that guy was all of us. Every single one of us was that guy at some point, and Creed held the door open for him With Arms Wide Open, no questions asked.

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  • Good. He's parked outside Applebee's listening to Nickelback's Silver Side Up front to back. Send one text from his ex.
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  • What this genre understood, better than anything that got five stars in Rolling Stone that year, is that sometimes you don't want odd time signatures and polyrhythms. You want Scott Stapp screaming at the sky on your behalf. You want Chad Kroeger to let you know he understands why you hide your love from someone some days. You want Brad Arnold (may he rest in peace) to hold you when you’re scared and love you when you’re gone. You want Aaron Lewis to deliver an Epiphany over your car speakers at 2 AM.

    These songs are a doctor's note for every bad decision you made since 2002. And they’re my Kryptonite, my Remedy.

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  • Puddle of Mudd made feeling like a puddle of mud the greatest feeling in the world, Hinder somehow made cheating on your partner sound like the most romantic thing that ever happened, and Daughtry got voted off American Idol, went Home, and outsold everyone in America for two years in a row. The critics were not consulted on any of this.

  • Why you so quiet? What's on your mind? 25 FUEL SOMETHING LIKE HUMAN SPECIAL EXPANDED EDITION Hemorrhage (In My Hands) Fuel
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  • I STAND · ALONE @grunchrules
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  • I love you Silverchair frogstome I'm literally just an album
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  • RIED Higher Creed
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  • me when it's been a while WEIGHTONY
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  • Mudshovel Staind
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  • Good. He's trying to act normal after 9 beers. Put on One Last Breath by Creed.
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  • "rockstar" by nickelback "'*'ll have the quesadilla❞ @grunchrules philosophers agreeing on the me at taco bell
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  • Why you so quiet? What's on your mind? 25 BREAK THE CYCLE Fade Staind
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  • th Blat this and some NICKELBACK @grunchrules
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  • And unlike the critics, these bands and I don’t just see you. We are you.

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