Ides of March (meme)

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Meme
Synonyms: Beware Ides of March
Date Started: March 15, ongoing
Related: Julius Caesar
See Also:
Stabbing of Julius Caesar
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The Ides of March is an ongoing Tumblr and Twitter meme that commemorates the death of Julius Caesar. Every March 15th, memes related to Caesar's death by stabbing are published consisting of text or images.

Example Memes

2014

An example from 2014, of someone not being aware of the meme/relevant history. This was in response to a photo of a bottle of Caesar salad dressing stabbed through with a steak knife (original post by zero1infinity, Archived version:

[mamacastiel]
why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain
[diggly, Archived version]
no one tell him

This particular Ides of March Post has attracted great attention, accumulating over 1.5 million notes as of Arpil 2022. Users comment that they schedule this post to commemorate the "tumblr holiday". [1]

2015

today👏is👏the👏ides of march❗️❗️❗️📆😜 Julius Caesar 💬might💬 have gotten💘the knife😩 but I'm ❌NOT❌🙅 going to stab🔪🔪YOU in the back👌🙏 because you're my 👬HOMIE! send this to 1⃣5⃣ Rulers 👑of Rome that you 🚫won't🚫 stab in the back 🔪🔪 ET TU BROTE?? 🙊

amorpha on Tumblr, Archived version

2018

Posted on March 14th:

be sure to leave out milk and cookies for brutus tonight

shimmervee on Tumblr, Archived version

2021

A Miette style example by howdoistormspirit (March 15, 2021):

you STAB caesar? you stab his body like the enemy? oh! oh! jail for brutus! jail for brutus for One Thousand Years!!

you STAB caesar?, Archived version

On March 15, 2021, fioblah blogged:

among the tumblr holidays i think that the ides of march is for sure a favorite

tumblr holidays, Archived version

2022

Another Miette style tumblr post (March 15, 2022):

you STAB Caesar? you stab his body 23 times? oh! oh! Jail for senators! Jail for senators for One Thousand Years!!!

you STAB Caesar? by eggbabey, Archived version

Gallery

Related

See more information in Et tu Brute at Know Your Meme.

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