Have you seen the phrase The Waffle House has found its new host popping up on your social media lately? If you’re confused by the phrase, you’ll be happy to know that it’s not because you’re out of the loop on the latest meme. In fact, it’s arguable whether the phrase is really a meme at all. The reason you’re unaware of the meaning is because the phrase is deliberately confusing and pointless.
Of course, this answer sparks even more questions. Where did this copypasta come from, what’s the point of making it viral, and why has it been so successful? Here is the waffle house has found its new host meme explained in all its strange and surprisingly thought-provoking details.
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What Is The Waffle House New Host Meme?
To start off with the basics, if you haven’t encountered the meme on your own, it is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Users spam the phrase ‘the waffle house has found its new host’ on every imaginable channel. It started off mainly in YouTube comment sections, but quickly spread across the rest of the Internet.
YouTuber Jonny RaZeR claims to have started the trend. In his explanation video, he describes the campaign as a ‘bad psy op idea.’
The goal was to come up with a phrase which he would recruit his followers to spread across the Internet as much as possible. The mission was to repost the text as widely and as often as possible, and if anyone asked what it meant, to not explain anything unless the poster was going to try to recruit the person. However, even the creator of the trend didn’t have full control over it. His initial plan to roll it out from January 31 didn’t work, as users has already begun posting it.
Waffle House New Host Meme Trends Big
The trend has snowballed, to the point where the phrase is ubiquitous on the Internet and has begun to trend in a major way. You can find it on TikTok and pretty much every social media site that has comment sections.
While posters of the phrase enjoy watching it spread, others view it as more of an annoyance. Jonny RaZeR has acknowledged this effect, and has requested his followers to stop reposting by January 31, the day the trend was initially supposed to start.
If that’s the case, this trend could disappear almost as quickly as it began to hit everyone’s social feeds. If January 31 is the cutoff – and let’s wait to see if people stick to that – we have another 15 days or so where this confusing phrase is seemingly everywhere.
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