The Best "Bowling Alley Screen" Memes

No topic is too niche for a good meme, but "Bowling Alley Screen When You Get a Strike" may be one of the oddest niche topics yet to reach memedom. Sure, the topic was ripe for the picking: the surreal animations that still pepper American bowling alleys share aesthetic simmilarity to the gonzo 3D hellposts that have found a solid audience in the weird part of YouTube for the last few years. Still, the memeing of that minuscule piece of suburban ephemera has been fascinating--and hilarious--to watch. It's as though memers everywhere collectively went, "Oh yeah, remember that? That was really weird." The resulting deluge of memes about the humble bowling alley have been a joy to watch, as cursed images and hellish animations have flooded the memescape of May 2019. Here are some of our favorites.

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