Laundry Room Viking Meme Generator
Drag text anywhere on the Laundry Room Viking 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 Laundry Room Viking meme?
Laundry Room Viking is a photo of a young man in glasses, a blue T-shirt and a horned Viking helmet, sitting in a plastic tub and paddling with a broom handle through a basement laundry room flooded with brown water up to the washer and dryer. His gritted-teeth expression sells it: he is treating a miserable chore like a seafaring raid. The meme borrows the sarcastic "they said" pattern, quoting someone's cheerful promise about a task and then letting the drowned basement show how it actually went.
Origin: The photo was taken after Hurricane Irene flooded parts of the US East Coast in late August 2011. It circulated first as a Facebook profile picture, and the sarcastic "do the laundry" captions spread on Reddit within weeks.
Also known as: Do the Laundry They Said, Flooded Basement Viking.
How to use the Laundry Room Viking meme
Both boxes usually follow the "they said" structure. The top line quotes the advice or promise ("buy a house they said"), and the bottom line adds the second rosy claim ("it'll be relaxing they said"). The picture underneath is the rebuttal, so you don't need to spell out the disaster.
It works best for tasks that sounded easy or glamorous and turned into a slog: home ownership, group projects, adopting a puppy, moving apartments, a "quick" software update. Keep both lines parallel in rhythm so the repetition reads like a sigh.
Laundry Room Viking meme ideas
- buy a house they said / it will build equity they said
- take the group project they said / it'll be easy marks they said
- update your drivers they said / it takes two minutes they said
- get a puppy they said / it'll be relaxing they said
- go to the beach on a holiday they said / there'll be parking they said
- pick a starter Pokemon they said / it doesn't matter they said
About the Laundry Room Viking meme template
The Laundry Room Viking template (lrv) supports 2 lines of text. A classic example reads “do the laundry they said / it will be fun they said”. 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/lrv/do_the_laundry_they_said/it_will_be_fun_they_said.png
