What Year Is It? Meme Generator
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What is the What Year Is It? meme?
What Year Is It? shows Robin Williams as Alan Parrish in Jumanji (1995), just after he has escaped from the jungle inside the board game. He has wild long hair, a scraggly beard and a leaf-and-hide outfit, and he is staring at the camera with confused, startled eyes. In the film he has been trapped for 26 years, so his first question on returning is what year it is. Online the frame stands for anyone who has been cut off from the world for a while, whether that is waking from a long nap, finishing exams or coming back from a camping trip with no signal.
Origin: Jumanji came out in December 1995 with Robin Williams as Alan, who is pulled into the game as a boy and released decades later as a grown man. The confused "what year is it?" reaction was used widely in rage comics and reaction-image threads.
Also known as: What Year Is It, Jumanji What Year Is It, Robin Williams What Year Is It.
How to use the What Year Is It? meme
The top box is usually the situation that cut you off: a three-hour nap, finals week, a long flight, a binge of a 10-season show. Often it is left empty. The bottom box is the question itself, "what year is it?", or a related panicked question.
It works best when the absence was shorter than it feels. A nap that was meant to be 20 minutes, a weekend offline, returning to a game after one patch, or opening a group chat with 900 unread messages are all perfect. Keep the top line short so Alan's bewildered face carries the joke.
What Year Is It? meme ideas
- (blank) / what year is it?
- waking up from a 20 minute nap at 9 pm / what year is it?
- me after finals week / what year is it?
- opening the group chat after a weekend off / what did i miss?
- logging back into the game after one patch / what year is it?
- leaving the office after crunch / is it still summer?
About the What Year Is It? meme template
The What Year Is It? template (whatyear) supports 2 lines of text. A classic example reads “what year is it?”. 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/whatyear/_/what_year_is_it~q.png
