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Ronnie Coleman's potatoes get a Lessons in Meme Culture investigation

Six new explainers range from bodybuilding food debates to Star Wars names and an unsettling SpongeBob meme.

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Lessons in Meme Culture Story of October 18, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Everybody Thought Ronnie Coleman Was Eating French Fries

Lessons in Meme Culture has found a surprisingly productive question: when is a potato not a french fry? Its most-watched new upload, "Everybody Thought Ronnie Coleman Was Eating French Fries," has reached roughly 750,000 views, turning a bodybuilding clip into a lesson in internet semantics.

The clips-and-explainers channel puts Coleman's potato distinction at the center of the meme. Beneath it, viewers are extending the logic to other everyday situations, inventing elaborate alternative names for familiar foods. Others argue that baking rather than frying makes the distinction perfectly reasonable. One commenter even applies the format to LIMC itself: explaining a trend rather than merely covering a meme. The lesson has become another place to practice the joke.

Food wasn't the whole syllabus. "Turn On The Loser Core Playlist" and "Biddy Blas Is The New Glup Shitto" each drew substantial audiences, the latter taking the channel into Star Wars character-name humor. SpongeBob and a question about "Tip Toeing In My Jordans" supplied the stranger corners of the week's six uploads.

The freshest momentum belongs to "Nintendo Is Epic, PC Sucks!", an explainer about a Nintendo-and-PC animation. It is currently drawing views more than twice as quickly as either the playlist or Coleman upload.

Across the channel, daily viewing is close to its usual level, while subscribers were unchanged over seven days. Nearby clips channel Mindova had a much larger growth week; LIMC's own week was steadier, adding about seven million views through its particular habit of treating internet absurdity as something worth explaining.

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What viewers say

everybody thought LIMC was covering a meme: what he ACTUALLY did was explain a trend, sharing its origins and examining its use in internet culture
@aaron10931See it on YouTube
He was eating Bakes not fries
@elperronimoSee it on YouTube
Schrodinger french fry or something
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I’m listening to this lesson outside while I watch the sunrise, it’s a beautiful morning.
@Mario-SunshineGalaxy64See it on YouTube
Crazy seeing gym insider jokes going mainstream
@alekseythevampSee it on YouTube
Everybody thought I was eating chips but I was actually eating highly baked thin potato slices.
@md.jarifahsan1003See it on YouTube
I am just eating heat-oiled elongated potato blocks.
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