The popularity of a meme fluctuates over time. A meme could be super popular one day and irrelevant the next. One surefire way to destroy a meme, though, is by ruining it with a bad caption. Memes are made to be shared but adding a terrible caption to a meme just makes it cringeworthy. People add reaction images that are so unnecessary, emojis that take over, and caps-locked expressions that no one is actually relating to.

Some of these memes could have been funny without all of the added flair. Or maybe the meme was bad to begin with, but there is no use in kicking it while it's already down. Either way, ruining a meme with all of these added elements is just criminal. Reddit's /r/comedyhomicide is the subreddit that shares all of these ruined memes and mourns or mocks them for what they are. Here are just 25 of them that are criminal cases of meme neglect.