Memes / The Lorax (2012)

• The songs "Let it Grow" and "How Bad Can I Be?" became memes in the "X but every time they say X/X happens, it gets faster" sense.
• "Nah, ha-ha, I say let it DIE! Let it die, let it die, let it shrivel up and—come on, who's with me, huh?"^note  This Ignored Epiphany moment in "Let it Grow" when O'Hare refuses to embrace trees alongside the town gets a lot of attention for how blunt it is, and is often referenced as a Take That! if someone likewise wants something to go away.
  • ''No one."
  • "YOU GREEDY DIRTBAG!"
• "Whatever you do, don't Google Granny Norma!"^ExplanationMany viewers misheard Grammy Norma's name as "Granny Norma." That also happens to be the stage name of an elderly pornographic actress who still appears in films. Needless to say, quite a few people were squicked out when attempting to search for the character. This warning often appears in the comments sections of clips from the movie featuring Grammy Norma.
• "I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees... and the trees say _______." ^note  Comes from a two-panel comic ending with "... and the trees say shut the fuck up". Edits are popular as either shitposts or a mouthpiece for the poster's opinions on a certain subject, while the original is commonly used as a reaction image to particularly cringeworthy pictures. Sometimes "Lorax" and "trees" are replaced with other nouns.
  • "... and the trees speak Vietnamese." ^note Crossing this meme with memes about guerilla warfare in The Vietnam War.
• "I'm Frankenstein's head ON A SPIDER'S BODY!"
• The Once-Ler fandom itself has become one. Tumblr tends to talks about it like a war or some other atrocity; a dark period in the site's history that can never be escaped, only learned from. The Once-Ler fandom seemingly embodied everything strange, embarrassing, and immature about Tumblr in the early 2010s: skinny white guy in a suit, baffling alternate-universe interpretations, fans who seemed convinced he was much more attractive than he was, all wrapped around a mediocre kid's flick, and that was before the infamous "Oncest" kicked into gear. Some even lump him together with similar characters from the era, like Human Bill Cipher, to the extent that Wikipedia has an article dedicated to "Tumblr sexymen".
• By extension, quotes and paraphernalia from the film tend to be treated like a Brown Note, with lines like "How bad can I be?" (often modified as "how bad me be") being particularly popular.
• The Lorax Leaving ^explanationA recent meme that first appeared in TikTok in which where the Lorax sends the region's native animals away and then floats into the sky in response to the Once-Ler destroying the forest. The videos are often set to the song "Christmas Kids" by ROAR.
• A joke on TikTok where someone (labelled "Thneed Girl") will interrupt a video of someone else repurposing a clothing item into a different one with the opening riff to "How Bad Can I Be?".
• In 2023, it became common on YouTube to use AI to make different characters from other media sing "How Bad Can I Be?" and "Biggering".
• TikTok took notice of a kid dancing a particularly funny way during the "Let It Grow" sequence—copycats were numerous.