Sometimes it’s the simplest things that make the best internet memes. At the moment, this can be achieved by creating a negative photograph (i.e. an image where the darker parts are light and the brightest parts are dark) of a celebrity and passing them off as “Evil”, apparently.
According to Know your Same website, the ‘Evil X Be Like’ meme format was born on Facebook in September before later spreading to other platforms such as Twitter.
“[It] refers to a macro trend of images that uses the tagline and phrase pattern “Evil X Be Lke”. The meme makers mainly insert a well-known musician or other pop culture icon into the template and then, they change the bottom caption of the image macro to a well-known quote from that pop culture icon, which makes her “evil”. explains the site.
Maybe it’s best if we show you a few examples, so here are ten of the best ‘bad to be like’ memes online right now.
1. Evil Pitbull
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The beloved “On The Floor” rapper, known for making Kodak rhyme with Kodak, has been downgraded slightly from his usual nickname of Mr Worldwide:
2. Evil Adele
Shortly after making a much-anticipated return to the music world with “Easy On Me,” it looks like Adele might go missing once again:
3. An evil direction
X factor The One Direction finalists have been on “indefinite hiatus” for quite some time now – not least because the five members have gone on to have their own solo careers with varying levels of success – but if that’s how Evil One Direction tells us, so we don’t want the band to reform anytime soon:
4. The villainous Carl Fredricksen
Well, this is our ruined childhood.
5. Evil Carly Rae Jepsen
We always thought the “Cut To The Feeling” singer was going a bit forward by offering her phone number to someone she had just met, so to be honest we’re not too pissed off about that. -this :
6. Evil Taylor Swift
We knew Taylor was having issues when she walked in, but we didn’t know she was this Wrong:
7. The villainous Porter Robinson
When the successful American DJ finally returned this year with his second album To feed, one of the biggest singles on the record was the positive and uplifting track, “Look At The Sky”.
Well, it was really nice while it lasted:
8. The Evil Beatles
Ah yes, real words to live:
9. Evil Lord
The last statement of the interpreter of “Solar Power” on sustainable energy is rather worrying:
10. The Evil Pharrell
This one’s just an eternal mood, to be honest.
We love it when our favorite pop culture stars are corrupted into memes for our consumption – and just in time for Halloween, too.
