The Walking Dead Season 7 Premiere: Best Meme Reactions

Kofi Outlaw

10/25/2016 12:09 pm EDT

The Walking Dead season 7 is still making big waves across the pop-culture landscape - and with good reason! The show probably set a new standard for brutal and disturbing violence, while generally being a mind-screw of tension that some critics are comparing to "torture-porn."

Well, whenever something makes THIS big of a wave, you can count on the Interwebs to Interweb, and come with some great ways to put the zeitgeist topic du jour into a humorous frame.

We present The Best Meme Reactions to The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere.

Before and After

This Meme pretty much encapsulates how most viewers felt about The Walking Dead season 7 premiere experience.

Extra points for the meta humor involved with having Daryl be the character depicted in the "After" photo. He did get his homeboy Glenn killed, after all...

Bad Day

The most common Meme reaction we've come across is some variation on the 'really bad day' theme.

Whether it's Mondays, or hangovers, or just trying to get into the office after watching The Walking Dead season 7 premiere... we have a feeling that this "Rick and hatchet on the RV" image is going to be the most enduring meme to come out of all this.

Spoiler Retaliation

We at Comicbook.com know first-hand how touchy Walking Dead fans are about SPOILERS.

It's arguable when it qualifies as "okay" to start discussing SPOILERS on social media (when the show first airs? When it's aired in all markets? NEVER?); however, it wouldn't be a big, pop-culture debate without an official moral mandate from Game of Thrones' Ned Stark.

Coping

Some of the best Walking Dead season 7 reaction tweets have focused on the idea of trying to cope with the brutal events witnessed onscreen. Fans have applied some clever .gifs and screenshots to the matter, making for many a good laugh.

We found this particular meme on the subject to be particularly witty - with extra points for some clever stylistic presentation.

Goonies Style

Because why not, right? You had to know from the front-page image that someone on the Internet would be making fun of Glenn's busted up face. And this one is just... perfect.

Chunk from Goonies... So inappropriate nowadays, yet still so classic.

New Day

This one is for the WWE fans out there. Everyone else: you can probably proceed to the next slide.

Heaven

...Oh you thought we were making it out of this without a Harambe joke? Clearly you don't know these times we live in!

#WalkingDead #Season7 #BrainsOutForHarambe

More Walking Dead Season 7 Material

Alternate Negan Kill VIDEO / BEST Twitter Reactions to Negan's Kill / Record HIGH Ratings / Why Negan Didn't Kill Rick / What's Next for Maggie? / What do DEATH 1 & DEATH 2 mean for the show? / Kingdom Preview Released / Negan's Kill Reveal / Season 7 Premiere Recap (SPOILERS) / Who Is King Ezekiel / Where's Daryl Now? / Negan's Comic Book History / Was the Premiere Too Violent?

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