Domino Effect Meme Generator
Drag text anywhere on the Domino Effect template, style every box its own way, drop in your own images, then download, copy, or share it.
Click a text box to edit it. Drag to move, corners resize, top handle rotates.
What is the Domino Effect meme?
Domino Effect shows a man in a light blue shirt crouching on a black mat and nudging the tiniest tile in a line of dominoes, each one noticeably bigger than the last, until the final slab towers far above his head. The picture explains the joke on its own: one little push is enough to bring down something enormous. In meme form the small domino is labelled with a harmless-looking action and the giant one with the huge consequence it eventually caused, often years later and in a way nobody could have predicted.
Origin: The photo comes from a 2009 physics demonstration video by University of Toronto professor Stephen Morris, in which a chain of dominoes grows in size with every tile. Redditors started labelling the first and last pieces to show absurd chains of cause and effect.
Also known as: Small Domino Big Domino, Slippery Slope, Chain Reaction Meme.
How to use the Domino Effect meme
The first box goes on the tiny domino the man is touching: a small, innocent cause such as a single decision, purchase or comment. The second box goes on the biggest domino: the massive outcome it set off.
The bigger the gap between the two, the better. A one-word cause next to a world-changing result is funnier than two medium-sized events. Personal histories (one YouTube video that became a career), history jokes and tech disasters (one missing semicolon that took down production) all fit naturally.
Domino Effect meme ideas
- one quick game before bed / seeing the sunrise
- "just a tiny config change" / the entire site going down
- watched one cooking video / owns six cast iron pans
- said "you too" when the waiter said enjoy your meal / lying awake at 3am
- skipped one leg day / chicken legs for life
- clicked "remind me later" on the update / losing a week of work
About the Domino Effect meme template
The Domino Effect template (domino) supports 2 lines of text. A classic example reads “learned to code / spent years fixing bugs”. Read about its origin on knowyourmeme.com.
Use it from the API
This meme is also just a URL. Replace the text in the path to generate your own image:
https://memegenscript.com/images/domino/learned_to_code/spent_years_fixing_bugs.png
