Memes / Steven Universe

A collection of memes that have generated either from or around the show. Please remember, if you add a meme to the page, please include an explanation as to why it's a meme. Zero Context Examples are not allowed.

Due to the massive amount of memes relying on spoilers, all spoilers for all seasons, The Movie, and Future are unmarked. Read at your own risk.

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General

• WE. ^Explanation Simply saying the very first word of the theme song will invariably cause someone to chime in with the rest of the line, if not the rest of the song, though it's becoming more common to substitute other songs or speeches that also begin with that word.
• This video splicing a Nicki Minaj song to Garnet and Amethyst's fusion into Sugilite.
• The theory that Onion is either a Gem (possibly even Yellow Diamond) or Satan, which all started due to the fact that he has no ears.
  "ONION THEORY STILL REAL."
  "GOD DAMN IT."
• Ronaldo's explanation of, "Snake people or, sneople" being used as a template to snowclone other portmanteaus on that pattern. Crossed over a bit with a very similar meme known as snemes (snail memes) which developed independently on Tumblr. Keep Beach City Weird even had a post about their similarity.
• Long post chains over the internet of nothing but "MA-YOR DEW-EY, MA-YOR DEW-EY." Usually with images.
• "(Character)'S FUCKING PISSED."^ExplanationPhotoshopping Steven Universe characters, particularly Garnet, Ruby, or Sapphire, onto this image.◊
• Because of the variety of "X Mom" snowclones for nicknames for the Crystal Gems, people eventually started coming up with "(Something) Mom" names for other characters, even if they are male, a child, or Steven himself.
• "Stronger Than You" has reached memetic levels of popularity. "This is Garnet/Back together" is particularly the piece that's used for memes.
• Threads will often quote Garnet's line from "Keeping It Together" about the forced fusion experiments: "So this is what Homeworld thinks of fusion!" alongside pictures from other shows depicting bodies mashed together, usually monstrously or painfully.
  • Another variation quotes Lapis Lazuli from "Chille Tid" instead: "We're Malachite now."
• Jasper's claim that "Fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak Gems stronger" is often snowcloned with various other things being declared "just a cheap tactic to make" them like something else, like "Mega Evolution is just a cheap tactic to make weak Pokémon stronger!"
• Momswap^Explanation Fan art where Jasper, Peridot, and Lapis are Steven's guardians; often they're put in the same situations as the Crystal Gems were in some episodes (such as Steven Tag). Sometimes the !CGs show up as the bad guys, and the !HGs are a little less cranky, but Steven's generally his usual cheerful self. Now with a theme song!
• Quartzswap^Explanation After the advent of "Too Far", where we learn that Amethyst is shorter than she should be due to being overcooked, some like to switch Jasper and Amethyst's places in the story since they are both types of quartzes made on Earth, where Jasper is now the overcooked runt and Amethyst is the imposing Beta Kindergarten gem.
• The Crystal Jamies^Explanation Replacing Gems with Jamie in a cheap costume, after he played all the Crystal Gems (Garnet with a box colored like her afro on his head and a pair of sunglasses, Pearl with a party hat on his face to represent her nose, and Amethyst was a mop with a costume gem taped to its head) in "Historical Friction". It's usually done with the Crystal Gems, but sometimes Jamie cosplay is made up for other Gems, such as him dressing up as Lapis with a blue skirt and a water hose, Yellow Diamond with a hard hat, and Ruby and Sapphire with red and blue teddy bears.
• After seeing two different-looking Pearls in "The Answer" and "Message Received", many fans started to draw different Pearls and even make their own "Pearlsonas", which are much like Gemsonas, only with Pearls.
• Yellow Pearl's shit-eating grin◊ when Yellow Diamond is reprimanding Peridot. The resemblance to the Grinch has not gone unnoticed◊.
• Since season two, fans have been playfully mocking the series's notoriously erratic schedule.
  "#FEAST FAMINE FEAST FAMINE"
• What we really are...^ExplanationThe teaser for the show's season three premiere had this quote from Pearl ominously repeated throughout. Fans naturally began repeating it themselves. Over and over again.
• Sadie's butt singing ^ExplanationIn the season 2 episode "Sadie's Song" there are multiple shots from behind of Sadie as she sings, inadvertently including a couple on her butt, which looks like a face due to the rendering of the pockets and buttons on the backside of her pants, making it look like her butt is singing.
• The insane amount of leaks ^Leaks?Clips, screencaps, and whatever else that's been uploaded to the Cartoon Network Anything App, the UK website, or a certain French website almost thoughtlessly. leading up to the "In Too Deep" special event is gaining notoriety in the fandom.
  • Because of this: "I can't believe Cartoon Network leaked the entire X", followed by an entirely fake "leak". ^{Harsher In Hindsight}Unfortunately, this joke came true when Cartoon Network actually did leak the entire fifth StevenBomb.
• Steven Universe episode 1: Steven sings a song about his favorite ice cream. Steven Universe episode X: [insert whatever angst or Nightmare Fuel that happened in a later episode here] ^ExplanationThe show has indeed gotten darker, so fans have taken to putting descriptions of the lighthearted first episode next to one of the more depressing or horrifying later episodes to show just how jarring it is.
  Gem Glow: A young boy discovers he gets magical powers by eating ice cream.
  Off Colors: Lars fucking dies.
  • It's starting to be done in the reverse order as well, with the first episode put in a serious light while the most recent episode is put in a silly light, or using a silly moment from the episode that had little to no effect on the plot.
• RIP Jasper/Jasper's fucking dead.^Explanation She briefly reappeared as herself in "Super Watermelon Island" after defusing from Malachite... only to fall into a crack from the now broken Mask Island, causing fans to joke that she died.
  • Since she fell into the earth, fanarts of her waking up in the Underground have been going around too. That is, JASPER◊TALE
  • Photoshopping her falling in different places has also become popular.
  • Looks like Jasper is blasting off again! ^Explanation In "Alone at Sea", Jasper returns...only to be smacked into the distance by Lapis in a similar manner to Team Rocket.
  • After "Gem Hunt", Jasper showing up in random places to pointlessly harass "Rose" became popular for a while.
  • Even if I have to come back tomorrow! And the next day. And the next day! And the next day... And the next day!
• Since "Super Watermelon Island" saw the advent of an entire society of watermelon Stevens, Melonsonas^note based on the popular concept of gemsonas are starting to become a thing.
• Woolie gem.^Explanation The dreadlock-wearing Gem that punched Lapis looks suspiciously like Woolie from the Best Friends Zaibatsu. This led to a slew of jokes along the lines of 'I can't believe Woolie just punched Lapis.' Being fans of the show themselves, the Zaibatsu were quick to join in.
• Who's Connie? ^Explanation Connie's long absence following "Steven's Birthday" has spawned fan art of characters forgetting who she is or intentionally leaving her out of adventures.
• Referring to the Gems as "Gay/Lesbian Space Rocks".
• Pepe's Burgers. ^ExplanationA lot of people linked the Pepe's Burgers commercial from "Mr. Greg" to the Pepe the Frog meme.
• Photoshopping Centipeetle's drawing so it looks like something else instead.
• Baby Sour Cream is literally the ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)/Lenny Face.^Explanation Babies in SU usually have Black Bead Eyes. Combined with Baby Sour Cream's round face and that he had a small smile for the entirety of "Greg the Babysitter", it made his face look like the ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) emoticon.
• Anytime the show drops a Drama Bomb or Tear Jerker moment (especially if the episode was written by creator Rebecca Sugar), expect to see fans posting a reaction image of Catbug from Bravest Warriors shouting "REBECCAAA!"
  • Similarly (and for good reason), any upcoming episode with a seemingly innocent, slice-of-life description immediately garners predictions of important Character Development and Mood Whiplash, while any upcoming episode with a title that implies a darker, more serious episode will be an innocent Breather Episode.
  • Basically: If you think a title card is hinting to a serious or comical episode, expect the opposite tone.
• Meep-morp^Explanation In the late season 3 episode "Beta", Lapis and Peridot have redecorated their living space at the barn with several creations of their own, but neither is familiar with the word "art", so they have taken to referring to their own works as meep-morp, or simply morps. And people in the fandom are starting to follow their example.
• The Stevennuke. ^ExplanationA common Fan Nickname for the Summer of Steven/Steven's Summer Adventures due to it essentially being four StevenBombs in a row.
• Steven's Knife. ^ExplanationA certain Tumblr post poked fun at the fandom's tendency to jump onto character flaws and harshly criticize them by saying that everyone was ignoring how Steven kills people with his knife. Not helped when the episode sneak peek for "Gem Harvest" had Steven use a knife-like trowel to carve a pumpkin in front of a Pumpkin Dog he'd used his spit to create, with the entire scene played like the Pumpkin Dog witnessing a murder. And a later scene of him chopping vegetables with an actual knife provides some good potential screenshots that can be exploited in many ways.
• "Connie/Rebecca, I'm bald!" ^ExplanationA scene of Steven wearing a bald cap to prank Connie in "Mindful Education" is a common source of reaction images, using bald Steven in place of "wig snatched" memes. Directing it towards Rebecca Sugar is a common reaction to Shocking Moments on the show. Bald Steven's mild resemblance to Sans is also a source of memes.
• "Make it gayer". ^ExplanationGiven the sky-high amounts of Les Yay on the show concerning the Gems, every time an episode with prominent gay moments (usually involving Ruby and Sapphire or Pearl), fans are quick to comment on it. Comes mostly from these comics by doctorglasgowart
  • Similarly, we have "Sugar can't possibly make this gayer," followed by the gayness levels undergoing Serial Escalation per major episode.
• Greg fucked a rock/Greg's "Murder Cock".^Explanation A Black Comedy meme when one really considers that Greg had intercourse with a sentient space rock to bring Steven into the world, which promptly led to Rose giving up her physical form. The latter even extends to the possibility of killing more gems that way, leading to the Murdercock in question being the most powerful weapon in the universe or it being an actively malevolent entity that needs to be fed gems. The reveal that Rose was Pink Diamond, who'd been the subject of a murder mystery for a time, revived popularity of this meme; see the Diamonds folder below.
  • Murdercock 2.0 ^{Explanation (Movie spoilers)}Steven's fusion with Greg creates the extremely masculine Mr. Fanservice known as Steg, which refueled the meme and speculation that this is the sort of weapon that could take out even all three Diamonds
• Referring to Mystery Girl as Punk Diamond and Rose's replacement. The fact that Rose was actually Pink Diamond made the nickname all the more fitting.
• Using the outro of "Last One Out of Beach City" at embarrassing, awesome, and inappropriate moments with either the unlucky or lucky focus getting a funny nickname for their situation.
  • Alternatively, playing "Love Like You" at inappropriate times has also become quite popular. Especially when it makes it seem as if the episode in question ends on a (often really lame) cliffhanger.
• Official Twitter Accounts, which are roleplay blogs that cropped up after Peridot's actual real life twitter account was revealed to be a thing. See here for a taste of the shenanigans the community gets up to.
• Singing and Crying ^ExplanationIn "Too Far", Peridot say Pearl is always "singing, crying, ...singing while crying." Often used to describe the show (or Pearl) in a nutshell, due to the show containing lots of musical numbers and lots of crying.
• "They pulled the football away." ^Explanation"Storm in the Room" features a reference to the classic Peanuts gag where Rose pulls a football away right before Steven can kick it. This was quickly picked up as a perfect visual metaphor for the show's tendency to tease a major plot development or reveal of the Gems' backstory, only to pivot into a small character-focused story.
• Lars's heartbeat. ^Explanation In the episode "Lars' Head", Steven tries to prove Lars isn't a zombie after his resurrection by listening to his heartbeat (since zombies don't have those). In the original episode it beats only once every three seconds, causing Steven to remark that "that's pretty slow". Fans have started to replace the sound of Lars's heart with various other sound effects, preferably songs with a very prominent and fast-paced drum beat.
• BINGO BONGO ^Explanation Lars' random phrase in "The Good Lars" is quite popular among YouTubers.
• PARTY GUY ^Explanation Amethyst called a snake a "party guy" in "Gemcation", and it got popular on tumblr.
• Steven holding a sign. ^Explanation In the episode "Dewey Wins", Steven holds up a sign promoting Mayor Dewey. Fans quickly edited the sign to say various things.
• THE BARRIGAPOCALYPSE ^Explanation Following a promo for "Stranded" showing Lars with a cocky grin, a movement was started on tumblr where people would change their icon to Lars's cocky grin to celebrate "Stranded" airing. A lot of users participated, to the point where some actually got confused because a lot of people they followed suddenly had the same icon.
• Greg having a fetish for giant women. ^ExplanationIn season one, Steven sings a song about wanting to see a giant woman (i.e. Amethyst and Pearl fusion). People began joking that his obsession passed down from Greg based off a passing comment from Marty about him wanting "one huge women" as opposed to multiple smaller ones.
• Since "A Single Pale Rose" came out only 2 weeks after the equally dramatic and emotionally devastating Infinity War, there has been a lot of crossover of fans of both freaking out over them at the same time.
  • I AM SHOOK ^Explanation A common phrase people use after watching "A Single Pale Rose".
• EVERYTHING is foreshadowing. ^Explanation The reveal from "A Single Pale Rose" gave a new meaning to many lines from the show. Considering this reveal had been planned from very early on, most of these cases were probably intentional.
• "The Ol' Universe Charm." ^ExplanationIn "Reunited", when Greg sees Blue Diamond, he jokingly comments on how its time to use "The Ol' Universe Charm". People have taken this and run with it, drawing various fanart/comics of Greg using that charm on the Diamonds and succeeding as he did with Rose, returning with a pair of half-Diamond babies, to his joy and/or consternation.
  • Greg rolls to seduce. ^ExplanationA common joke in Dungeons and Dragons is characters abusing their charisma abilities to try and bang every single enemy. Combined with "The Ol' Universe Charm" meme, people joked that Greg would rather seduce the Diamonds than fight them.
• Steven is a Disney Princess!^ExplanationThe scene where Steven gets dressed in Pink Diamond's uniform while singing and being aided by the Pebbles in "Familiar" has been noted by fans to be very similar to Snow White being aided by forest animals in her film, as well as several other early Disney Princesses.
• The line said "Don't worry, I can fix it!" by Bismuth in the episode "Reunited" became popular on YouTube videos.
• "EVERYONE IS HERE!!!" ^ExplanationThe season five finale had a ton of characters and crew members come back after long absences. Comparisons to “Ultimate” and the way it brought back every character that had been in the series before were inevitable.
• Everyone, prepare yourselves emotionally... ^Explanation Said by Blue Pearl when introducing Blue Diamond. Used as a reaction image for new episode that fans predict will be very emotional. Sometimes people photoshop Rebecca Sugar's head onto Blue Pearl to accompany this line.
• Sunstone Sez ^ExplanationSunstone, Steven and Garnet’s fusion, acts like a Totally Radical 90’s mascot and constantly gives out cheesy public service announcements, leading to comparisons to the notorious “Sonic Sez” segments.
• Rainbow Quartz 2.0 is Taako… you know, from TV? ^Explanation Rainbow's sass, pizazz and goofiness, plus the fact that his weapon is an umbrella, immediately led them to be compared to Taako.
• "Who wants to go on a ROAD TRIP???" ^ExplanationAt the beginning of "Keystone Motel", Greg runs into the beach house to invite Steven on a trip to the titular motel, inadvertently interrupting a tense moment between Garnet and Pearl after the events of the previous episode. Fans have long since had a field day of inserting this moment as a comical Mood Whiplash into practically any tense moment in the series they can find or even come up with themselves.
• Steven After Not Surviving ^ExplanationTaken from a comic◊ theorizing that Sans the skeleton is an undead Steven due to their similar face shapes and body types.
• "There is a threat on Earth." ^ExplanationSteven, due to his disdain for violence, prefers to talk down his enemies. Some people have poked fun at this — mockingly or otherwise — by comparing Steven's pacifist tendencies with other protagonists who prefer to use more hands-on methods when dealing with their enemies. For example, comparing Steven to Luffy from One Piece or Sonic the Hedgehog.
• Steven forgiving Adolf Hitler. ^ExplanationSome fans and detractors consider the Diamonds to be "Space Nazis" and accuse Steven of forgiving the Diamonds. Suffice to say, an image of Steven forgiving Hitler existed, and then several years later another comic shows Steven trying to convince Hitler to change his mind and failing.
  • "I Think We're Gonna Have to Kill This Guy, Steven"^ExplanationA line from the above comic said by Garnet when Hitler refuses to accept Steven's request to change, with Steven accepting this outcome resignedly. Unlike the above meme, it was praised due it being far more accurate to the show's characterization of Steven. The panel was also redrawn with other characters from usually unrelated media.
• "You don't have to be the bad guy." ^ExplanationA Twitter meme beginning in late 2022 usually involving Steven begging a Card-Carrying Villain to change their ways only to be ignored, making fun of all the Heel Face Turns in the show. The meme really began spreading following the release of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish where focus shifted to its Big Bad Big Jack Horner, who takes pride in how Beyond Redemption he is.
• "Imagine an interaction between these two" ^ExplanationYet another Twitter meme making fun of the series' tendency to redeem its villainous characters, people began asking fans to envision scenarios where Steven interacts with some of fiction's most reprehensible villains, such as The Joker or, again, Big Jack Horner. It's not limited to villains either, as it can also extend to jerkass characters like Eric Cartman.
• Vriska Universe^ExplanationAn ironic AU casting Vriska as Steven, Dirk Strider as Garnet, Asuka as Amethyst, The Onceler as Pearl, Komaeda as Rose, and so on. It spawned from a tweet that had Komaeda reciting Rose's famous "Steven, we can't both exist…" quote, with Vriska in place of Steven.
• Gordo mamón^note Fat sucker in Spanish^ExplanationA meme made by the Spanish community comparing the crying Steven with someone powerful and/or lovable or something that's mature compared to him.
• Imagine writing a scene this sinister looking^ExplanationFrom Lily Orchard's rant video on the show, where she claims that Lapis putting her hand on Peridot's shoulder and saying that she won't let herself get caught up in another war is "sinister." Due to how benign the scene is, in and out of context, it was mocked and parodied with harmless scenes from other shows being treated as though they are sinister. It particularly went viral after Hiding in Private included it in a response video to Lily.

• This is Black Diamond, the most powerful diamond. ^ExplanationA copypasta that originated from a Brazilian TikTok that was later translated into English, featuring a picture of a gemsona named Black Diamond and a text-to-speech voice describing in detail how Pink Diamond loves having sex with her.
• Bubblegum gem/Sucrose. ^ExplanationAn AI-generated image of a fan character, the prompter of which tried to claim as their own art on the show's subreddit. Subsequently, many of the subreddit's community started actually drawing her, and creating their own names and personalities for, the most common of the former being Sucrose.

The Movie

• I can't believe Jenny Wakeman/Dee Dee/Pinkie Pie is the Movie's villain! ^ExplanationAfter the poster for The Movie was revealed, and the poster gave everyone a better look at the movie's villain, Spinel, the eponymous villain immediately gained many comparisons to Jenny Wakeman (or more fittingly, the Exo-Skin) from My Life as a Teenage Robot for their extremely similar face shapes and pigtails. Comparing her to Dee Dee is also quite common, because of her noodly limbs, and again because of the pigtails. She's also drawn comparisons to Pinkie Pie because they're both happy, bouncy, Fun Personified, childlike and Cheery Pink characters who make use of Toon Physics, only to become furious and upset when they feel they've been betrayed by a friend.
• NECK STEVEN ^Explanation The poster shows Steven having grown enough that his head and body no longer blend together without a visible neck. As "Steven's Birthday" already had Amethyst call attention to him growing a neck when he faked growing up, reactions were pretty unanimous. Occasionally crosses over with the Yellow Diamond giraffe meme below; apparently It Runs in the Family.
• "Just can it won'tcha?! You can't just make everything better by singing some STUPID SONG!!" ^Explanation Originally revealed during the trailers, fans of the show clung to this line said by Spinel, as it was a very obvious reference to/jab against the show's tendency to do this very thing. Became even more memetic since it came after "Change", Steven's "I Know You're In There Somewhere" Song, which had lyrics typical of the type of "Feel good" songs Steven tended to sing to make things better. Used in jokes in a similar fashion to Jasper's "STOP SINGING!!" quote.
• LET GREG SAY "SHIT". ^Explanation A sister meme, and allusion to, the LET PEARL SAY "FUCK" meme, originating from Greg's very close dropping of a Precision S-Strike when he sees all the Crystal Gems in their poofed state.
• Steg is Josuke ^Explanation Many people have been joking about how Steg looks like a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure character or Elvis Presley, especially with the way his hair looks. After the former began to spread, many more compared Steg to Josuke Higashikata from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, who also has a similarly memetic pompadour, is also associated with electric guitar music (via his leitmotif in the anime), and with his Stand, Crazy Diamond, also has healing and reparation powers.
• Steg is making everyone question their sexuality. ^Explanation During the "Independent Together" song scene, introduces the character of Steven and Greg's fusion: Steg, the first very masculine fusion. Many have made notice of his dulcet toned voice and attractive features bordering on Mr. Fanservice levels. Leading many to comment on how attractive he is, and make jokes or statements on the lines of "I'm (Incompatible sexuality), but Steg..." The scene having arguably provocative imagery, especially Steg's Elvis Presley like pelvic thrusts when strumming the guitar, and Pearl's "reawakening" moment◊ as he practically serenades her certainly didn't help such opinions from forming.
• Pink Diamond went out to get cigarettes. ^Explanation When Spinel's backstory was revealed, many jokes about Pink being a deadbeat parent ensued.
  • Anyone: (Forms an emotional attachment to Pink Diamond)
    Pink: IGHT IMMA HEAD OUT ^Explanation A sister meme to the above one, with Pink's abandoning of Spinel making many fans take notice of that fact that Pink has a very bad habit of abandoning the people who care about her throughout the series using a popular meme around the time the movie released.
  • I DON'T WANNA PLAY WITH YOU ANYMORE. ^Explanation Another sister meme to the above two, and the logical conclusion of the comparisons of Spinel to Jessie in Toy Story 2, with people comparing Spinel's situation with Woody's nightmare of Andy abandoning him while saying the above line. This one even got fan art
• "Let's go in the garden/You'll find something waiting/Right there where you left it/Lying upside down..." ^Explanation Fans of both Steven Universe and Adventure Time noticed a lot of coincidental similarities between Spinel's situation and her Villainous Lament "Drift Away", and another of Rebecca Sugar's songs, "Everything Stays" from Adventure Time, leading to the creation of multiple YouTube videos of Spinel's Start of Darkness that use the song as an ironic Sanity Slippage Song, and many more to wonder and theorize if the connection was on purpose, or if they came from the same inspiration Rebecca Sugar used to write both and it really is just a big coincidence. Rebecca Sugar would later say that both were directly inspired from a powerful memory of her childhood, when she left her favorite stuffed animal in her garden, only to rediscover it half a year later, right where she left it, but half of it permanently changed from being left outside for so long.
• She's still in the Garden. ^explanationPeople have mentioned doing rewatches of the series has become a bit awkward since they know that in every single episode, Spinel's still waiting in the garden.
• I can make a... TASTY DONUT! ^explanation Started from the linked tumblr post, which was shared around the SU Community to a dizzying extent, has since created a similar format of Last-Second Word Swap jokes with the phrase, or doing punny word humor with it, like so
• Cursed images of Spinel. ^explanationBecause Spinel is animated like an old 20s/30s cartoon character, she uses same Squash & Stretch, Smear, and Multiples animation techniques, which is primarily done to show that there's something very... wrong about her (especially combined with her Rubber Man powers). Fans noticed that if you pause at the right time on scenes with her, it can lead to rather bizarre images where she is completely smudged, her eyes look weird or she has multiple eyes and/or noses. This◊ one is probably one of the more well-known images, used in, for example, this◊ edit of the "Do you see this shit, Applejack?" image.
• "When we said we wanted an irredeemable villain, we didn't mean Pink Diamond, goddammit!" ^explanation Before the movie came out, some fans were hoping for a villain who wouldn't be redeemed, having gotten tired of nearly every single villain being defanged with The Power of Friendship. In the movie itself, it's revealed that Pink Diamond left Spinel alone in the garden for 6,000 years, an action that many fans consider a major Kick the Dog moment. Be Careful What You Wish For?
• "That's right, I've heard the story over and over again..."^Explanation The first line of "Other Friends" which quickly gained a use as to mock a cliche course of action, lampshade that a running joke is quickly growing stale, or make fun of the fact that a specific piece of media (or backlash from it) has been popping up everywhere.
  • "I've had [x] ON LOOP!" ^Explanation A line Spinel says in reference to Steven's message to the universe, often used to describe listening to or watching something constantly, often Steven Universe related (especially, well, "Other Friends").
  • "...and over and over and over and over and over and over..." ^ExplanationEditing this part of "Other Friends" so Spinel says this part, well, over and over again.
• It's common in fan art to depict Spinel's present and past forms as an older and younger sister, respectively.
• Spinel jumping off the injector edits ^Explanation During "Other Friends", Spinel jumps off her injector and lands on the floor. Fans have made it so she jumps too high and goes into different universes or galaxies, or takes Falling Damage when she lands.

Steven Universe Future

• Steven Universe: Shippuden ^ExplanationThe Crewniverse has confirmed that Steven Universe: Future is actually a sequel/epilogue series to the original Steven Universe and not Season 6 to it, as the original series ended with Season 5 and Steven Universe: The Movie. Many have compared this to Naruto: Shippuden being the Sequel Series to the original Naruto, namely by poking fun at how both series gained a follow-up by just adding an extra word to the title.

• Eyeball and Aquamarine bonded over hating Steven.^ExplanationVarious promotional material has shown off what looks like a fusion between Eyeball Ruby and Aquamarine as one of the villains, leading many to joke that the two of them fused because they both hate Steven. As it turns out, this was entirely correct when we see the fusion’s debut in “Bluebird”.
• #PinkDiamondIsOverParty ^ExplanationA Twitter trend about 'cancelling' Pink Diamond for her horrible actions, such as causing the crack in Volleyball's eye.
• "Pink Pearl has two hands" ^ExplanationMany people have made jokes about how they used to love Spinearl but now are shipping our Pearl and Pink Pearl, causing multishippers to reference another popular meme.
• Steven Universe Fear ^Explanation After the trailer for SU Future was released, YouTuber MKatwood released an edit of the new opening titled Steven Universe Fear. Said edit replaces every instance of "future" with "FEAR" along with a static-y, shaking screen, amongst other edits. It went viral and is commonly used as a joke when someone expresses concern over future/possible events in the series.
  • "Here we are in FEAR, and it's AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
  • "I can't! I can't! I can't, I CAN'T."
  • FFEEEAAARAAGUGAHAHOO
• "Aren't you tired of being nice? Don't you just wanna go apeshit?" ^ExplanationThe whole plotline of Steven losing control of his emotions and powers has caused many to reference this pre-existing meme, suggesting that Steven has just gotten fed up with being nice.
• The biggest plot twist is Greg cutting his hair ^ExplanationIn "Bluebird", while Eyeball and Aquamarine are holding Greg hostage by the hair, he takes Eyeball's knife and cuts his hair off, freeing himself. This came off as a shocking moment to the fandom simply because they believed Greg would always have his long locks.
• I can't believe Steven is fucking dead ^Explanation"A Very Special Episode" ends with Steven collapsing after overexerting himself to be both Rainbow Quartz for Onion and Sunstone for Garnet's group, coupled with Garnet yelling "Nooooo!"...before it changes to a PSA that Sunstone is giving.
• Screaming Steven ^Explanation In "Snow Day", Steven is playing "Steven Tag" with the gems against his will. Once the Gems fuse into "Steven Alexandrite", Steven screams at the top of his lungs, with the animation looking particularly weird in that frame◊. The fans had a field day photoshopping the frame to literally put anything into Steven's mouth, like Baby Steven, or Amethyst eating a burrito in similar fashion
• Steven needs therapy/a therapist^ExplanationWhile the meme was present somewhat during the initial run of the show, Future's heavy focus on Steven's poor mental health clued the rest of the fandom in on just what he was dealing with, causing "give this boy a therapist" to become a sort of fandom catchphrase. This is Hilarious in Hindsight (or maybe Harsher in Hindsight) given this is essentially the plot of "Growing Pains", and even more so with the finale, "The Future", where Steven mentions being able to videochat with his therapist
• Why Connie doesn't appear much in SU Future^explanationBranching off of the "Steven needs therapy" meme, some fans have jokingly speculated that the reason for Connie's absence in Future is because she'd immediately realize Steven's having problems and tell/convince/force him to go to a therapist otherwise. Sure enough, she makes him see her mom, a doctor, in "Growing Pains" to talk about his trauma.
• "I AM DEAD ROSE QUARTZ!"^ExplanationBased on a hilariously Innocently Insensitive thing Super Fan Rose Quartz says to Steven when he suggests they have a slumber party.
• Blip! Gone. ^ExplanationSaid by Volleyball while she's explaining her time as White's puppet to Steven. Some videos edit this line into scenes and have characters or objects in the scenes disappear.
• Replacing Steven's painful memories as Dr. Maheswaran explains the concept of trauma in "Growing Pains" with something else upsetting to the fandom, such as Rule 34.
• The Alaskan Bull Worm being the Fan Nickname of the dragon worm that appears in the opening sequence who happens to be big, scary and pink.
• Chad Steven ^ExplanationSteven's temporary redesign in "Fragments" is nicknamed Chad Steven due to the fact that he looks and acts like a Jerk Jock. Some people have also called this form, "King Diamond."
• The initial reaction to Steven about to shatter Jasper from "Fragments" is to scream a Big "NO!" over and over and over again.
  • Alternatively, having an image of Pink Steven with the scene from "Say Uncle" when Pearl shouts, "THAT'S NOT MY BABY!"
• "Everything is not fine" ^note  After the synopses of "Everything's Fine" and "I Am My Monster" were revealed to be "Steven insists that everything is fine" and "Everything is not fine" respectively, tons of people made jokes about how simplistic they are. Others understandably compared them to the famous "This is fine" comic by KC Green
• Worm Theory ^note Since only a day or so after the opening was released for Future, people have been theorizing that the monster in the intro and Steven were one in the same, due to Tumblr user Novantinuum making a few in depth posts about why it might happen. Of course, people latched on to this theory, and it being true in "I Am My Monster" certainly made people happy.
• Wormy Boi ^note A nickname people have given to Steven because of his monster form. As of the finale, this is no longer accurate because it turns out that he actually looks like Godzilla.
• I don't think it's him. I think he'll just straight up die by the end of the show. I think it'll end with it cutting to his grave next to Greg's with one of the gems shadows over it, maybe even Rose's ^note A theory posted on Twitter, made into a copypasta because of its bizarre and morbid nature.
• BRING OUT THE TIGER ^note  The original premiere of "Everything's Fine" transitioned from the ending, where Steven transforms into a giant monster, to a horribly timed Frosted Flakes ad that begins with a kid singing that tagline. The fandom began quoting it in relation to the ending to the point where the phrase briefly trended on Twitter.
• Since Nephrite was inexplicably absent, some fans have decided to simply crudely photoshop her into the background of several scenes.
• Stupid fork ^{Explanation (spoilers!)}The episode "Fragments", widely considered one of the best episodes in whole series, was nominated for the Outstanding Short Form Animated Program award at the 2020 Emmys, but lost to Forky Asks a Question. It didn't take long for angry fans make edits of the screencap of Steven holding Jasper's shattered remains with a broken Forky as a Take That!.

Crystal Gems

• Referring to their positions as maternal authority figures in Steven's life, each of the Gems has a different "Mom" nickname:
  • Garnet is most commonly "Square Mom". Following "Jail Break", she's also "Mom Squared".
  • Pearl is Bird Mom, mostly due to her pointy nose being her most easily-noticed feature.
  • Amethyst, being the one most likely to go along with whatever Steven is doing, will be either Fun Mom or occasionally Sister Mom. "Grape Mom" is another one of her more common nicknames, due to her being purple, plump, and an occasional source of whine.
• Rose Quartz being portrayed as a goofy magnet for awkwardness, in a Like Mother Like Son relation with Steven.
• Amethyst's line of "Who wants to watch a cartoon about people crying?" coupled with images of SU characters crying quickly grew popular after "Reformed". It's also sometimes used to playfully mock Tearjerkers.
• People just love drawing their One True Pairing's in the style of a particular scene of Ruby and Sapphire sitting together in a booth at The Best Diner In The World (originally with Ruby ranting angrily and Sapphire sitting quietly, they are often replaced with couples from other shows).
• "I'M AN ETERNAL FLAME, BABY!" ^Explanation A wonderfully hammy line of Ruby's that became incredibly popular
  • Subsequently, some refer to Ruby as an Eternal Flame-Baby.
• "Ruby the Hedgehog", after Ruby was inexplicably drawn with Conjoined Eyes in the short "Fusion".
  • I guess you could call her Ruby Rose.
• Steven's weird face in "Together Breakfast", mostly used to denote the use of a bad pun. Also, shopping it over Rose's face after Pearl said that Steven looked like her.
  • And by extension, drawing Rose with some of Steven's other exaggerated expressions.
  • Steven's melty face as he eats bread in "An Indirect Kiss" became quite memetic years after that episode aired, wth people photoshopping his weird face onto other characters or other characters onto the bread.
• "If you defuse Garnet, the Crystal Gems are just Pearl standing over a bunch of child-sized munchkins." ^ExplanationCompared to Steven, Amethyst, Ruby, and Sapphire, Pearl is definitely the odd one out as she's way taller and skinnier than any of them. This got even more play later, after Peridot turns out to be just as small as Steven, and starts living in the bathroom at his house.
• Referring to Ruby as "The Red Macaroon". Also, her blank facial expression seen here hasn't gone unnoticed.
• Referring to Ruby as Sports Crab.
• In "Historical Friction", Jamie dresses up in a variety of Cheap Costumes to play the Crystal Gems (except for Amethyst, who was a gem stuck on a mop end). This inspired a lot of redrawing or Photoshopping of scenes to replacing the Crystal Gems (or even other characters) with Jamie dressed as them.
• The short "What are Gems?" showed Garnet as a head with what appeared to be little feet coming out of her afro. Fans immediately jumped on this.◊
• "Sorry, I panicked."^ExplanationGarnet's completely deadpan explanation for why, when she was supposed to be telling Connie's mom that she was OK, she said her and Steven were playing with swords and killed each other in "Fusion Cuisine".
• The motivations for fighting Homeworld that Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst sang about in the extended opening tend to be loosely summarized as such:
  Garnet: I will fight for the freedom to be gay.
  Pearl: I will fight for the one I was 1000% gay for.
  Amethyst: I live here.
• The exchange:^ExplanationSteven points out that the Gems look exhausted, followed by a Gross-Up Close-Up of their tired faces and Garnet stubbornly saying otherwise. Tends to be applied to someone who doesn't want to sleep for some reason.
  Steven: You look exhausted.
  Garnet: We [Gems] look awesome.
• Cotton Candy Garnet. ^ExplanationWhen Ruby and Sapphire first fused into Garnet, the pastel mish-mash coloring made Garnet's hair look like bright cotton candy.
• TERRIFYING RENEGADE PEARL.^ExplanationThe dissonance between Garnet's description and, well, Pearl, is too good not to pick up on.
• Hopal for Opal. ^ExplanationThe reaction of fans who waited for Opal's return.
• Holding Baby Steven. ^ExplanationAfter people found out that Cartoon Network's picture of Rose holding baby Steven from their "Steven Sundays" promo was an edit of Rose from "We Need to Talk", people have started editing baby Steven into the hands of other characters.
• Grumpy Garnet AU, inspired by this post. Similar edits to other Gems have also been made.
• Amethyst swallowing things.^ExplanationAmethyst swallowing an entire chips-and-burrito-filled pizza while watching TV with the other gems in the episode "Bismuth" led to many edits of her swallowing various things
• In "Bismuth", there is a frame where Bismuth's pants are mistakenly colored like her body just as Pearl is lunging toward her. This has not escaped the notice of fans.
• In the same vein of jokes that makes Peridot a Dorito, and Jasper a cheese puff, Bismuth's rainbow hair has gotten some people to associate her with the multi-colored Skittles candy.^Explanation One of the slogans for Skittles is "Taste the rainbow".
• HOW STRONG IS GARNET ^Explanation In "Kindergarten Kid", it's stated that Peridot is "tougher than she looks", and is shown to survive Wile E. Coyote-level of physical abuse without poofing. Naturally, fans went wild over how Garnet could poof her with a simple squeeze back when she was still an antagonist.
  • Stronger than Stevonnie, but not as strong as Opal.^ExplanationThe following episode, "Know Your Fusion", has a segment where Sardonyx compares Smoky Quartz's strength to that of Sugilite. On the strength gauge, Garnet is ranked higher than Stevonnie and lower than Opal, providing a partial answer.
• Rose "hate wont end hate uwu" Quartz^Explanation... Let's say that "Bismuth"'s ambiguity brought one hell of a Broken Base. The title Gem being left bubbled at the end, seemingly (again: ambiguity) for wanting the Diamonds shattered to free Gemkind, didn't sit well with some people.
  • Someone owes Bismuth an apology.^ExplanationBack with a vengeance when "Back to the Moon" revealed that Rose shattered Pink Diamond, causing some to see her treatment of Bismuth as hypocritical. Mostly discredited due to the reveal that Rose was Pink Diamond and faked her own shattering. However, this has been replaced with...
    • SOMEONE owes Bismuth an apology... again. ^ExplanationSteven shattering Jasper in Fragments has lead to this coming back.
• The penny farthing.^ExplanationIn "Buddy's Book", Steven and Connie picture an old-timey Garnet and Pearl riding out of the strawberry battlefield on a penny farthing. It's as hilarious as it is ridiculous, since Steven and the audience know full well that there's a warp pad in the field not far away.
• "Last One Out of Beach City" is essentially a Scott Pilgrim vs. The World plot for the fandom.
• "Why don't we all marry each other?" ^ExplanationIn the Gems' attempts to get Andy to warm up to them, Pearl says this, seemingly misunderstanding Andy's earlier frustration at Greg not being married.
  • Following on this, "Every ship is canon now".
• "I KNOW WHAT HURT IS!" ^Explanation In "The Zoo", Steven offers to explain the concept of pain to the Zoomans using this line. It's used by the fandom to lampshade exactly how much emotional trauma Steven's been through.
• "Let Steven have his distinguished khakis!" ^Explanation At the beginning of "Are You My Dad?", Steven was waiting for a package from "The Distinguished Boy" containing a pair of khakis he purchased, claiming to be a "distinguished boy" who "deserves distinguished khakis". The fact that the package never came was indication that Jamie the Mailman had gone missing and the package was simply dropped in the forest without anyone paying attention, but fans continue to question whether or not Steven got his "distinguished khakis".
• Sapphi
  re ^Explanation When Ruby leaves a note for Sapphire at the end of "Now We're Only Falling Apart", she started writing too close to the edge, meaning she had to put the last bit of Sapphire's name on the next line. Fans immediately started drawing parallels to "T Hanos".
• "Amethyst is the most mature Crystal Gem." ^ExplanationSteven refers to Amethyst as this in "What's Your Problem?" Since the episode's airing, images have been popping up of Amethyst with that caption doing... less than mature things.
• Ruby's letter to Sapphire has been the victim of many photoshops.
• Lapis' non-reaction towards Blue Diamond's Emotion Bomb in "Reunited" led to a wave of memes on how Lapis weaponized her horribly traumatic backstory, as seen here.
• Happy Lappy.^ExplanationEver since the promo for "Same Old World" came out and showed Lapis smiling again and having more fun with Steven, fans rejoiced.
• La-pissed Lazuli.^ExplanationThe reaction after several clips revealed a rescued Lapis reacting with nothing other than a cold, wordless anger to Peridot and the Roaming Eye.
• When people saw this Lapis-lookalike from this old anime called Golden Bat, well... let's just say the servers blew up.
• Detractors and self-aware fans will often snark about Steven using Talk no Jutsu to reference how he has solved all his problems without fighting.
• "She's GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!!!" ^explanationIn "Change Your Mind", White Diamond removes Steven's gem in an effort to bring Pink Diamond back, only for it to conjure a pink version of Steven himself. When an outraged White asks where Pink is, the pink Steven yells this in a tone powerful enough to blow her back.
  • "You won, and she chose you, and she loved you and she's GOOOOOOOOOONE!" ^ExplanationOne of the most common forms of memeing Pink Steven's unsettling Jump Scare of a scream is to splice it to Pearl poignantly singing "It's Over, Isn't It?"

Pearl

• Pearl's nose/Bird Mom/Pointy Mom.^ExplanationPearl's nose looks like a triangle/bird's beak, which leads to jokes like these.
• Bad Pearl^Explanation Fan-art showing Pearl as a chain-smoking, leather-wearing badass with a tough demeanor. This mostly started with a drawing one of the show's staff posted.
  • Sometimes this version has the mannerisms of Rick from Rick and Morty, with Connie as the Morty of the duo.
  • May double as Hilarious in Hindsight, as Pearl wore that exact same skinny jeans/leather jacket combo in "Last One Out of Beach City".
• A Pearl/Rick fusion referred to as "Prick", stemming from this expression.
• Leg Pearl◊.
• Pearl: Mr. Steal-Yo-Girl. ^ExplanationAfter Pearl fused with Rose to make Greg jealous, it became popular to make videos of her with this song playing.
• "Pearl is so thirsty/Pearl is so salty." ^Explanation As in Pearl is thirsty for Rose and Pearl is salty that Greg got Rose.
• LET PEARL SAY "FUCK". ^ExplanationA joking movement originated by one tumblr post, claiming she should be allowed to do so if the show is really as progressive as people claim. Someone even made an online petition for the "cause".
• Pikipek and Pearl. ^ExplanationWhile comparing Pearl to birds is nothing new, people have found that the Generation VII bird Pokemon Pikipek has a similar head shape to Pearl's, creating a lot of fan art of Bird Mom and the bird 'mon.
• "Pearl's Secret Rap Career"^ExplanationAfter it was discovered that Pearl's VA Deedee Magno-Hall had previously been in the pop group The Party, several users decided to sync up a montage of Pearl to one of Magno-Hall's rap verses from their song "LA."
  • The latest edition of the meme had a compilation of many characters reacting to Magno's verse, featured a mashup of the verse from LA with a verse from Estelle's "American Boy", and ended with Deedee Magno-Hall herself reacting to the video along with the members of her new music group, The Mama Bares.
  • Becomes an Ascended Meme in "The Future", because the Crystal Gems rap the "Cookie Cat" song, and Pearl is given the most exposure.
• Every time Pearl says [Character's name].^ExplanationA series of videos which are Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Fans have an inexplicable obsession with the way Pearl says certain names.
• Pearl in a tux.^ExplanationWhen Pearl was shown in a preview for "Steven's Summer Adventures" wearing a tuxedo, well... to put it one way, fans have joked that she has "reached the ultimate gay".
  • Pearl is Tuxedo Mask. ^ExplanationPearl dramatically posing on a balcony with a rose while wearing a tux lead to a lot of comparisons.
  • Pearl looks good in everything. ^Explanation Between the tux in "Mr. Greg", the waiter outfit in "Restaurant Wars", and the leather jacket/skinny jeans combo in "Last One Out of Beach City" — note that these are all male-orientated outfits — the fans have decided that Pearl can pull off anything. Further affirmed with her post-"Change Your Mind" design, which is basically a reworked version of the "jacket and jeans" look.
• Pearl Points and the Pearl Prize Pouch.^ExplanationThese were introduced in "Steven vs. Amethyst". Pearl Points are particularly popular on the show's subreddit as a replacement for upvotes and downvotes.
• Pearl has a type ^Explanation In "Last One Out of Beach City", Pearl meets Mystery Girl and starts crushing on her, hard. Said girl looks a lot like Rose Quartz; tall, thick and with wild pink hair. Just imagine a more human-sized (but still tall) Rose if she were a biker chick. This has led to the joke that Pearl has a type, and that type is large women with long, pink hair.
  • PINK HAIR THICK ASS GIVE EM WHIPLASH ^Explanation A Nicki Minaj line often used to describe said type.
• Pearl and Pearl. ^ExplanationWhen a major character was introduced for Splatoon 2 that shared the name Pearl, fans of both series were quick to make comparisons. Adding fuel to the fire, this Pearl also ties into the "Pearl's secret rap career" and "let Pearl say 'fuck'" memes that were already prevalent, being the rapper of her musical duo as well as the only Splatoon character to have canonically sworn.
• Pearl and Hilda Berg. ^ExplanationBoth Pearl and Hilda are skinny, round-headed, and have long pointed noses, causing people to compare them.
• "Pearl Hates The Irish" ^ExplanationOne Tumblr user feigned outrage at a fictional episode where Pearl goes on a racist diatribe against the Irish◊. After the initial confusion, other Tumblr users helped maintain the charade by Photoshopping the Wikipedia episode list and even creating fake title cards.
• "MASSIVE BALLS" ^ExplanationIn "Familiar", Pearl is talking how Pink Diamond used to throw "massive balls", and a juggler joke is used, but Pearl specifies that she was talking about balls as in the formal type of party. However, far filthier-minded fans couldn't help but crack jokes about thinking she was talking about a completely different kind of "balls". Pearl's emphasis on the titular words certainly doesn't help either.
• Pearl sings the Family Guy theme.^note Somebody paid Deedee Magno Hall on Cameo to sing the song in Pearl's voice, and the fandom ran with it.

The Diamonds

• Saying some random character is [blank] Diamond, mainly based on the early fandom theory that Rose was Pink Diamond, which eventually lost traction. Although it became kind of ironic when it was revealed Rose actually was Pink Diamond.
• Before Yellow Diamond showed up in person, she was visible in silhouette, and the prominent shoulderpads on her outfit made people conclude she was a 1980s businesswoman. Turns out it's more or less canon, based on her demeanor, the look of her headquarters, and her Pearl's role as "secretary".
• When Peridot makes a Heel–Face Turn in "Message Received", she does so by insulting Yellow Diamond who has a hilarious and completely Off-Model face◊, which went viral in mere minutes.
  Yellow: What do you know about the Earth?
  Peridot: Apparently more than you, you CLOD!
• Yellow Diamond is a giraffe. ^ExplanationShe's yellow and drawn with a very long neck.
  • Alternatively, Yellow Diamond is Lesser Dog. Or Alolan Exeggutor.
  • Becomes an Ascended Meme in "Together Alone", which opens with a dream where Yellow's neck stretches from screen to screen.
• Blue Diamond is a Dark Souls boss. ^Explanation When she appeared in "Steven's Dream", many people compared her to a Dark Souls boss due to her aesthetic (tall, lanky woman in a hooded cloak speaking softly and mournfully).
• Who killed Pink Diamond?^ExplanationWith "The Trial" casting the story of Pink Diamond's murder into doubt, the fandom began creating theories and making Clue jokes.
• Within hours of "Jungle Moon" airing, an episode that revealed Pink Diamond to be quite the Spoiled Brat, the following exchange (based on a Vine) between Yellow and Pink became popular.
  Pink: Can we stop at McDonald's?
  Yellow: Pink, I'm making dinner at home.
  Pink: ... [teary] I hate this fucking family...
• Greg killed Pink Diamond!^ExplanationThe episode "A Single Pale Rose" concluded Season 5’s Pink Diamond’s murder mystery with the reveal that Rose Quartz was really Pink Diamond and staged her own shattering. Following this, some fans humorously realized that, in a sense, Greg was the culprit of the murder mystery as Pink only "died" later on from her conception of Steven. This is often referred back to Greg’s "murdercock" meme above.
• Similar to drawing Rose on Steven's expressions, since the revelation in season five that Rose is Pink Diamond, people have been replacing Rose with Pink Diamond in screenshots.
• "No, I am your Diamond!"^ExplanationJasper is presumably going to go through a very Darth Vader-esque reveal that Steven didn't shatter her Diamond, he is her Diamond.
• Also on the big Season 5 twist, Rose is Pink Diamond's gemsona.
  • And as the fandom picked up on in "Now We're Only Falling Apart", Pearl created Pink's OC.
• Rick Sanchez is White Diamond. DIAMOND RICK!!!^ExplanationDue to their somewhat similar Spiky Hair, this became a popular joke theory in the fandom, to the point that Rebecca Sugar even deconfirmed it in a drawing stream.
• Taylor Swift is the voice of White Diamond.^ExplanationAnnounced on an April Fools' Day post on a fake Crewniverse Tumblr blog, it nonetheless fooled some people, while many played along to make fun of these people.
• The Diamonds doing fun things. ^ExplanationYellow Diamond's dramatic running pose in "Reunited" spawned many photoshops.
• T-posing to assert dominance. ^ExplanationWhite Diamond's introduction had her still in an eerie crucifixion-style pose, adding to her uncanniness. However, T-posing (which is essentially the same pose, the default for any 3D model and something that tends to show up in video games when someone didn't do their debugging) had become an ironic meme around the time, which lead to memetic merging.
• White Diamond is GLaDOS. ^Explanation Similarities between these two snarky, emotionally unstable characters who run a facility while confined to a single room and who both have white as their main color has not gone unnoticed, with many video edits of GLaDOS's voice over footage of White Diamond popping up on Youtube.
• White Diamond is Ragyo Kiryuin. ^Explanation Similarities between White Diamond and Ragyo's all white outfits, the dramatic lighting radiating from their hair, and the unsettling implications about White Diamond being an Abusive Parent compared to Ragyo's horrible mothering. Video edits splicing in Ragyo's theme song "Blumenkranz" with White Diamond's introduction have already begun to appear on tumblr.
• Green Diamond is Marge Simpson. ^Explanation The hypothetical Fusion between Yellow and Blue Diamond, Green Diamond, is seen as Marge Simpson basically, presumably stemming from the shot in "Reunited" where Yellow charges at Steven and briefly assumes a similar position to Marge in the "I'll krump with you sweetie" meme.
• Stop it Blue. Stop using your powers on me. ^Explanation Said by Yellow Diamond in "Change Your Mind", this quote is used when something very sad happens (whether it be in the show or in a fanwork), as Blue's aura causes people to cry.
• All the Diamonds collectively share three brain cells (Steven has one, White has one, and Yellow and Blue share one). ^ExplanationAs of the Movie, the fandom have taken notice of the Diamonds'... lack of understanding/self-awareness of how their actions annoy Steven and impact the other Gems, and thus this meme is born. Another version of the meme identifies Steven as the Diamonds' sole brain cell.
• "Era 3 & Me", The pamphlet with that title shows the Diamonds with ridiculously cartoonish faces. It's common to photoshop said faces onto screenshots of the Diamonds, with hilarious results.
• Blue Diamond is a stoner. ^ExplanationAfter ”Homeworld Bound”, Blue’s new power- clouds that make people happy- was immediately compared by the fandom to drugs, most commonly weed.
• "I WANT ONE! I WANT MY OWN ARMY! I WANT MY OWN PLANET! I DESERVE IT!"^ExplanationStevonnie-as-Pink-Diamond's tantrum in "Jungle Moon" is a popular sound often used for TikToks featuring something, usually plushies, multiplying in quantity

Homeworld Gems

• Calling Jasper:
  • An angry Cheeto. She's the "Big Buff Cheeto Puff".
  • A bara character (referred to as Bara Gem, Bara Mom, Bara Waifu, etc.).
  • Her enormous build, arrogant personality, and fighting style have lead to comparisons to any of number of professional wrestlers.
• Editing (read: vandalizing) the Steven Universe Wiki for it to call Peridot a Dorito, or in the case of Jasper, a "Big Buff Cheeto Puff", among others.
• "STOP SINGING!!" ^Explanation A pretty popular quote said by Jasper during "Jail Break" when she wanted Sapphire to stop singing her song. It's popularity comes from the quote's ironic placement, not just in that Steven Universe is a show with heavy emphasis on singing, but also because it was said in the episode containing the show's most popular song "Stronger than You". It's a popular punchline in Steven Universe themed YouTube Poops, and is usually jokingly parroted by fans of the show when talking about songs/singers they don't like, and fans who aren't big fans of all the singing that's in the show.
• Give Eyeball a girlfriend. ^ExplanationIn "Back to the Moon", Eyeball the Ruby is revealed as a Hero-Worshipper for Jasper, and at one point cries because Amethyst-as-Jasper paid more attention to Doc than to her. Fans started feeling sorry for her and began saying this.
  • NO NOT LIKE THAT ^ExplanationIn the very next episode, Eyeball fantasized about being given her own Pearl with a distinctly lustful expression, causing some fans to feel very awkward about the above.
• "Fucking Amethysts" ^ExplanationIn "Gem Heist" and "That Will Be All", any abnormalities that any reasonable person would assume were caused by the Crystal Gems are lost on Holly Blue Agate, who wholeheartedly trusts them, especially Sapphire, but is quick to blame her Amethyst guards instead. The fandom has exaggerated this to the point where Sapphire could literally walk up to Holly Blue and stab her and she would blame the Amethysts, saying the listed phrase.
• WAAAATCH OOOUT MYY DIIIAAAMOOOND! ^Explanation Defense Zircon's over the top recalling of how Pink Diamond's Pearl should have acted.
• Navy Redemption Arc? "Sorry for your loss". ^Explanation Garnet comes in at the end of "Room for Ruby" holding a balloon that says this.
• Colin Howard's concept art◊ for Jasper◊ is so strange and radically different than her final design that people have taken to redrawing Jasper's scenes with it, usually with every other character being incredibly freaked out.
• DO I LOOK LIKE– ^ExplanationWith an episode title like "Are You My Dad?" and Aquamarine walking around asking people the titular question, shitposts with audio from the popular Vine were inevitable.
• "Who is this sassy lost child?" ^ExplanationAquamarine's small size and attitude has people using the One-Punch Man bit where Saitama asks who Tatsumaki is (calling her a sassy lost child).
• Aquamarine and Topaz are Darla Dimple and Max. ^ExplanationAquamarine's diminutive size and Bitch in Sheep's Clothing personality alongside Topaz' large, silent servile nature has many people comparing the two duos.
• Blue Zircon: Ace/Space Attorney ^ExplanationBlue Zircon acts as Steven's defense attorney in "The Trial" and, much like Phoenix Wright from the Ace Attorney series, manages to turn the case completely on its head (after spending the first few minutes barely treading water — also like Phoenix Wright).
  • In the same vein, there's "Better Call Zircon."
• Padparadscha is Internet Explorer. ^ExplanationDue to her defect causing her to only predict events that have already happened, resulting in a Delayed Reaction, people are comparing the Padparadscha Sapphire to the infamously slow Internet Explorer.
  • Alternatively, she is Princess Daisy.
  • Or a Slowpoke.
  • I predict (thing that already happened)! ^ExplanationUpon her reveal, people began making "predictions" in this manner, often accompanied by images of Padparadscha and/or the phrase "What a mystery!"
  • Her overly complicated name has also caused many people to refer to her as Parappa Sapphire, Pepperoni Sapphire, and other such variations.
• Blue Pearl is an artist. ^ExplanationIn "The Trial", Blue Pearl acts as the court artist in the titular trial. This lead to fans alluding to internet artist things (such as Patreon and art tags), and calling her a talented artist/praising her art. This was quite prescient, as she later reveals she really does draw as a hobby as well.
• The Ruby Face. ^ExplanationAt the end of "Room for Ruby", Navy makes a very distinctive grin with upturned eyes. Fans were quick to point out that we've also seen CG Ruby and Eyeball make this exact face, all three of them when thinking about something they desire (Revenge, her true love, and a Pearl).
• Topaz being referred to as "Big Thicc Lego Brick". ^Explanation Riffing on Jasper's "Big Buff Cheeto Puff" Fan Nickname, combined with Topaz's gems resembling the studs on a Lego piece.
• Jasper the Sears Employee/"You need this refrigerator." ^ExplanationAt Beach City Con, Kimberly Brooks revealed she got the inspiration for Jasper's voice from a Sears employee named Betty. A follow-up question asks if Kimberly can see Jasper selling refrigerators, and she does see the possibility. Fanart of Jasper as a Sears employee telling people that they "need this refrigerator", some of which had her with a "Betty" name tag, started popping up quickly.
• Pink Lasagna^ExplanationIn "Familiar", Yellow Pearl is willing to call Steven any name he asks, which leads to her to calling him "Pink Lasagna". The fandom took to treating "Pink Lasagna" as an actual character, often accompanied by other version of characters as living pastas and related food. Fans also noticed the similarity to PewDiePie's Bitch Lasagna.

Peridot

When Peridot makes an appearance, she usually seems to bring a new meme with her.

• Peridot is:
  • A lime-flavored (or alternatively, guacamole-flavored) Dorito. ^note  This seems to be a trend with triangular characters these days, since the Gravity Falls fandom is in on it as well. And in a variation of the previous, relating her with Mountain Dew (color scheme), an Xbox (vague color scheme; X on her chest), and combining all the previous, portray her as a stereotypical neckbeard or gamer girl. Memetic mutation indeed.
    • D.Va wants to devour Peridot. ^note  When Steven Universe memes cross over with Overwatch memes, Gremlin D.Va, a diminutive form of regular D.Va who is portrayed as a Mountain Dew chugging, Dorito munching gamer, is seen either playing games with Peridot, due to the overlaps in their associations with Mountain Dew, games and Doritos, or is just plain trying to eat Peridot (or her hair) Because of the Dorito shape.
  • A rapper. ^note  When she yelled "DON'T TOUCH THAT" over Garnet's song totally on the beat, apparently more than one viewer expected her to drop some sick rhymes. Now in audio form!
  • Canadian. ^note Her Escape Pod in "Jailbreak" is seen flying just slightly northeast of Lake Ontario estimated to have landed in western New York or, more popularly, Canada, leading to fanart of her in stereotypical Canadian situations. A few weeks later, "Joy Ride" showed her pod actually landed a few miles from Beach City, pretty quickly putting the meme to an end. It got a revival when Peridot turned into a fangirl of the Camp Pining Hearts soap opera.
  • A Worm. ^note After she's tied up by Amethyst's whip, she wriggles her way to an escape pod. This moment, as well as a shot of her with a dazed expression on her face when the ship starts falling out of orbit hasn't gone unnoticed by the fandom.
  • A helicopter/"Pericopter". ^note She reappears in "Keeping it Together" and evades the Crystal Gems by waving her fingers around like a helicopter and flying off. Pearl's comment about this - "Her fingers were too fast for us!" - also qualifies as a meme.
    • And from this spawned the trend to hang pictures of Peridot on ceiling fans.
  • Inspector Gadget. ^note For the same reason as above.
    • Inspector Peridota. ^note  Her feud with the Crystal Gems is reminiscent to Zenigata's feud with Lupin and the gang.
  • A cactus. ^note While Steven and Amethyst plan on catching her off guard fixing the hub in "Cry For Help," Steven spotted a Peridot-shaped cactus.
  • Invader Zim. ^note For being an alien invader who's an absolutely ridiculous villain as well as being green and revealed to be very small in "Catch and Release". Her redemption arc is also similar to what often happens to Zim in fanfic. The fact that Rebecca Sugar herself is an Invader Zim fan and has written fanfiction about it just adds fuel to the fire.
  • A pirate/"Piratedot". ^note After detaching her foot in order to escape the Crystal Gems in "Friend Ship", it's become a joke within the fandom to draw her with a peg leg. Some fans take it a notch further.
  • Smol Peridot/Smol Dorito/Tinydot. ^note In "Catch and Release", it's revealed Peridot was wearing "limb enhancers" and without them, she is roughly Steven's height.
  • An angry little slice of pie. ^note Steven calls her this when he finds out how short she really is.
  • A cat. ^note Jokes were made about her being the Gem's new housecat since she's small, tsundere, and has a cat-like grin. She even hisses at Steven like an angry cat in "Log Date 7 15 2".
  • The author of the journals. ^note There's a scene in "Catch and Release" where her reflection has six fingers, leading to jokes from the Gravity Falls fandom.
  • A Troper/Shipper. ^note In "Log Date 7-15-2", Steven introduces Peridot to one of the shows he watches. While at first she dismisses it, she quickly becomes addicted to it and comes up with a list of reasons why the characters on it would be better paired up with other characters after days and days of rewatching and over-analyzing a single episode. Needless to say, the obvious joke ensued.
  • Karkat Vantas or Nepeta Leijon. ^note Karkat and Peridot are both angry, seemingly low-power aliens with shipping charts. In addition, when Peridot rips up one of her charts, her face is identical to one made by Karkat when enraged. Nepeta and Peridot are less commonly compared, but they're both shippers too, and Nepeta is also green and cat-themed.
  • The Great Papyrus.^note With her Un-Evil Laugh sounding like "Nyeh heh heh" and calling herself "the great and lovable Peridot", there have been a few comparisons.
  • A traitor! A rebel! A Crystal Gemmmmmmmmmmmm. ^note Something Peridot said during her breakdown in "Log Date 7 15 2". It went viral.
  • The leader of the Crystal Gems. ^note Peridot made this claim in "Hit the Diamond" and later used it as part of her Twitter profile in "Too Short to Ride". Only Pearl reacted, and then only with a confused "What?"
  • A Metalbender/a Force User/Magneto. ^note  After Peridot learned in "Too Short to Ride" that she had the power to move metal, the fandom immediately came to the conclusion that she was a Metal Bender or a Force User, with some even comparing her to Toph or Magneto.
  • Wile E. Coyote ^note  "Kindergarten Kid" is a quite obvious parody of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, featuring Peridot as Coyote and a corrupted Gem as the Roadrunner
  • A frog ^note  Still in "Kindergarten Kid", Peridot tries to approach the corrupted Gem by imitating her tongue-flapping snarls by making audible "bleah" noises as she stretches her tongue out and hops.
  • The 11th Doctor. ^note  In the episode 'Beta,' Peridot is shown wearing the bowtie from her alien doll. As every Whovian knows, bowties are cool.
• When the crewniverse released Peridot's model sheet, they included in the corner a reference of her smiling brightly... except that the uncolored lines used to denote her neck were quickly mistaken for legs, leading to the creation of a small runabout Peridot head sometimes known as "Legidot."
  • This is usually done in tandem with Leg Pearl and Garnet Head◊.
• Combined with the theme song meme above: replacing the "gems" in "We are the Crystal Gems" with "clods," while photoshopping Peridot's face into the intro.
  • The general use of "clod" as an insult is very prominent in the fandom now that it has pretty much become Peridot's Character Catchphrase.
• "...Is that a weapon?" ^note  Being a Fish out of Water when it comes to Earth items, she initially assumes everything in the Gem's house is a weapon of sorts. This included stuff like a toothbrush to a toilet plunger.
  • Obviously, she is also often interacting with Patrick for asking this to begin with.
• Ignoring the information about the Cluster and Earth's potential destruction revealed in "Catch and Release" because TINY PERIDOT IS SMOL.
• Flushing Peridot down the toilet. ^note Peridot attempted this to escape from the Gems in "Catch and Release". Predictably, it didn't work. Amethyst already tried that before.
• "Goodnight, ominous triangle at the foot of my bed." ^note Steven wishes just such a goodnight to what turns out to be Peridot in "Catch and Release". It rapidly took off due to the fanbase's considerable overlap with that of Gravity Falls, which has its own ominous triangle in the form of Bill Cipher.
• Peridot adapting primitive Steven...I mean, human◊ technology to reconstitute her limb extensions. This managed to be amazing prescient, as she ended up doing exactly this in "Log Date 7 15 2" which was written long before such a meme would arise.
• Peridot getting punched in the face. ^note After Peridot tells Pearl that she is "just a Pearl", Pearl gives her one hell of a right hook. Fans had a field day with this.
• The two episodes following "Catch and Release" focused on Peridot and Steven, Pearl and Amethyst, respectively, in which something important was revealed about either their past or the overall plot. So naturally, it didn't take long for people to make Garnet complaining about her being the only one who so far doesn't get "a field trip with Peridot".
  • ...Though she got one soon enough, in "Log Date 7 15 2".
• Various love songs being played over Peridot's audio log from Log Date 7 11 2/"Too Far."^note  After the events of "Too Far", Peridot records a fairly long, heartfelt apology and plays it to Amethyst. Due to the large amounts of ship tease between the two, fans immediately began replacing the audio from the recording with songs like Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", and so on. Song choice ranges from passionate to sexual to just plain noise.
• No!~^note During "Log Date 7 15 2", Steven asks Peridot whether or not she will be OK after basically telling off her old boss and becoming a traitor to her Homeworld. This is her response, complete with a hilarious expression that has also become memetic.
• I can't believe Peridot killed Greg.^note  When testing to see if all Earth animals can fly, Peridot shoves Greg off the barn roof, though he's saved by Garnet. This lead to all the usual, such as Dear Sister parodies, and once again reinforced that Peridot is a cat. On top of all this, Greg had already spoken to her, so she could have just asked.
• IT'S SUBTEXT, STEVEN.^note Peridot started off her long rant with this when Steven asked how she built a full shipping chart with just one episode. It didn't help that the fast-forwarding in the episode has at least two hidden Peridot lines.
• Peridot wearing shorts.^note During "Log Date 7 15 2", Peridot finds a pair of Goofy Print Underwear and puts them on while "Ooohing" and snickering to herself. Fans have taken to drawing her wearing those shorts.
• At her blackboard.^note During "Super Watermelon island", Peridot demonstrates her Cluster diagram. Fans have fun replacing her pictures with random, hilarious, and "important" crap.
• Peridot FM. ^note  During "Gem Drill," when Steven notes he wishes he'd brought music for the two-hour trip to the Cluster, Peridot turns on some irritatingly generic elevator music as they hurtle towards the center of the earth, fighting off cluster zombies and reminiscing about Homeworld. The track is commonly replaced with anything else, from memetic songs like "What's New Pussycat" and Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" to fart noises.
• Hair-idot. ^note  In "Same Old World", Peridot's hair was disproportionately Off-Model, so fans naturally exaggerated her hair's size to absurd lengths here.
  • The storyboarder for the episode, Lamar Abrams, responded to this meme by apologizing and drawing a picture of Lapis and Peridot with even bigger hair.
• "Why was this documented?" ^note In "Too Short to Ride", this is Peridot's reaction upon seeing a cat video. Fans usually replace the cat video with something else to ridicule.
• Peridot and her Alien Doll. ^note Also in "Too Short To Ride", Peridot falls in love with a large stuffed alien at the Funland bottle toss, which fans have taken to drawing her with. Though the show killed it a bit when it's revealed several episodes later that she ripped off its bow tie to wear herself, and it's now ignominiously floating around in the barn's new aquarium.
• "EW, THAT'S DISGUSTING!" ^note  Peridot expressing her immediate and rather frank reaction to Jasper's corruption slowly spreading up her arm.
• Remember when Peridot was intimidating?/The Evolution of Peridot◊^note Peridot's character arc involves her personality completely flipping around from a merciless robot to an exuberant Jerk with a Heart of Gold. More than a few jokes are made about the contrast.
• Peridot, I choose you! ^note  The positions Peridot and the Corrupted Gem take in "Kindergarten Kid" resemble the positions Pokemon take during Pokemon battles, and their bobbing up and down resembles the Hyperactive Sprites of the later games.
• Lesbian Farmers ^note When Gem Harvest was revealed to be about Peridot and Lapis starting a farm, fans dredged up Rush Limbaugh's assertion from a few months back that lesbian farmers were a threat. The assertion was seemingly shouted-out to by Andy (whose occasional rants make him sound a bit like a stereotypical American conservative) during the episode, when he mentions how he heard on AM radio about "hippies" taking over farms.
• CLOGS! ^note Her wedding outfit in "Reunited" includes clogs, in what's likely already a deliberate nod to her love of calling people clods. The fans ran with her shouting about the shoes as well.
• Peridot collects girlfriends. ^note Peridot has experienced Ship Tease with so many Gems (Lapis, Amethyst, Pearl, Garnet, Bismuth) that jokes have been made about how many "girlfriends" she has.
• “My drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens!”^note Peridot’s new form in “Change Your Mind” includes a pair of Kamina-style glasses to replace her original visor. The fact she already used a giant drill back in season two just makes it funnier. There have also been quite a few fan Fusions of Lapis and Peridot that incorporate Lapis' pants and a cape made of water to further the Kamina look.
  • Alternatively: "I can't believe Peridot is a filthy Homestuck!"^note If you interpret the glasses as Bro/Dirk Strider glasses instead.
• Steven Universe Future~^ExplanationAt the end of the Future opening, Peridot sings that line in a squeaky voice. And throughout the whole intro, she's got a cat smile. Within hours of the intro being revealed, fans commented on how cute Peridot is.
• "FFEEEAAARAAGUGAHAHOO" ^ExplanationTaken from a parody of the Steven Universe Future intro, where Peridot's "Steven Universe Future" is replaced with loud Angrish. Fans started using this quote whenever they feel it fits

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