The popularity of the crucified Minion videos echoes that of the AI-generated “shrimp Jesus” meme, an unsettling amalgam of Jesus Christ and a crustacean that briefly went viral on Facebook ...

Minion memes are common, but showing a minion crucified is new. The widespread meme shows a minion dying on the cross with a thorn crown on its head.

The first known instance of this meme can be traced back to TikTok pastor @pastorjoshpan, who posted a video in May featuring the crucified Minion along with a message about Jesus Christ.

We’re off to a rough start. “Like if you love minions” is one of Facebook’s more populous Minion meme fan pages, and, as such, faces the challenges of any 300,000-plus online community.

Minion memes are common, but showing a minion crucified is new. The widespread meme shows a minion dying on the cross with a thorn crown on its head. The Minion memes have apparently been strewn ...