The Digital Age has provided us with fresh ways to work, communicate, bet, and entertain each other. Memes, in particular, have slowly become a part of our culture which seems to be morphing away from Mother Nature and the real world and into Cyberspace.
Creators of memes range from the casual to the serious, with the commercial use in memes in advertising now becoming more common. Many individuals recognized as gamblers and Movies are the fodder for many of the creative memes we have seen.
Movies like the James Bond classic Casino Royale (2006), Hangover (2009), Uncut Gems (2019) are all also popular cinematic breeding grounds for many memes on gambling, and we can only expect more down the line, Let’s take a look at 10 memes on gambling that bring a chuckle and explain their source and meaning if necessary.
The Top 10 Gambling Memes
10. I Don’t Go Gambling
This meme pictures a theoretically sophisticated, well-dressed man who presses that he doesn’t “…go gambling,” but that he goes “winning,” revealing the often over-confident but often necessary mindset of the gambler, be it in Sports, Casino or Table Games or Online.
9. Poker Dog
Dogs playing poker have been part of popular culture since an 1894 oil painting and now that screens are The Digital Age canvas and words are the paint, we see the Poker Dog all over saying funny gambling meme line “The game’s not over if you still have a shirt.”
8. Fred Flintstone Degenerate Gambler
A classic YouTube cut and perfect for all gambling culture comes from the animated TV show “The Flintstones,” and an episode from Season 2 called “
Our lovable caveman Fred makes an innocent bet with the local delivery boy and it suddenly triggers the “Betting Freddie” part of his childhood, setting up the premise for this great episode (#45) which first aired way back on January 5, 1962.
When Fred first met Wilma, he was a compulsive gambler, he would wager on the Dinosaur Races and ended up pawing off his furniture and possessions as collateral. And in this classic episode, we see a flashback of that younger “betting Freddie” Flintstone.
In this episode, when anyone would ever say the word “bet,” Fred would go into a trance-like state and repeat “bet, bet, bet, bet, bet..” over and over like clucking chicken with his eyes glazed over as he heard bells and whistles going off in his head.
7. Gambling Twitter
Gambling Twitter is hilarious for many reasons, and gambling memes have become a big part of that unique Social Media culture and offers users to drop their own means or retweet others as entertainment.
Gambling does rule. pic.twitter.com/UEU79MNGMQ
— meme bastard charles khan (@mask_bastard) September 19, 2022
This one employing members of The Sopranos surrounding a Poker table proclaimed that “90% of Gambling addicts quit right before they’re about to hit it big.”
i love pro gambling memes pic.twitter.com/C5dHjqHa9B
— ana :3c ❣ (@angycat_ana) August 26, 2022
6. Futurama’s Luna Park Casino
The robot Bender in the hit animated TV show Futurama has a penchant for Blackjack and after getting the boot from his favorite casino which is located on the Moon, Luna Park, he gets irritated and proclaims he is going to build his own theme park.
“I’m going to build my own theme park…with Blackjack and Hookers,” Bender says after getting kicked out of the this lunar casino.
5. Funny Memes
A gambling meme can be created from many places and delivered in many places, and simple puns are often the source of many of the best laughs on Social Media. Here we see a Gorilla contemplating “Why is there no Gambling in Africa?”
And the pun, “Too many Cheetahs,” is the clever pun creator’s answer and many other great gambling memes we see these days and laugh at are simple employment of puns.
4. When It’s 6 a.m. …
Like Twitter, Instagram and other popular Social Media, Facebook is often the source of many entertaining gambling memes, and in this one we see a Cat sitting at his morning breakfast table scouring a Newspaper and looking at the morning lines and planning.
What do Cats bet on? This meme “When it’s 6 am and you start looking for your daily matches to bet on,” uses the word “matches, so this feline obviously is a Soccer or a Tennis bettor besides a snappy dresser who drinks his Coffee from a mug bigger than his head.
3. Michael Jordan Gambling Memes
We talked about Chicago Bulls legend Air Jordan’s love for betting and many gambling memes, as well as other memes, have evolved from MJ’s “The Last Dance” admission.
The media: "Michael, your gambling is impacting your game!"
Jordan: pic.twitter.com/yr6HFmACiX
— RingerNBA (@ringernba) May 4, 2020
This one below answers a rhetorical “media” question, “Michael, your gambling is impacting your game!” with the meme-creator using a response from the gambling movie Uncut Gems and Diamond dealer Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) saying, “I disagree. I disagree.”
2. Not a Problem
One of the most popular gambling memes comes from the TV sitcom How I Met Your Mother and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and the classic, meme-inspiring response he gives when one of his best friends suggest that he might have a problem with gambling.
Without blinking an eye, Barney retorts. That it can’t be a problem if you are awesome at it. Barney plays the complicated casino game Xing Hai Shi Bu Xing and said playing this game during his days in Atlantic City ended up costing him his entire life savings.
1. James Bond (Casino Royale)
A classic gambling meme comes from the James Bond movie Casino Royale (2006) and 007 (Daniel Craig) after encountering a poison attempt by villain Le Chiffre who is incredibly surprised to see James Bond still live after trying to help him meet his maker.
But like the Road Runner and Batman and Robin, James Bond 007 never dies and classically responds at the poker table, “Oh, I am sorry. That last hand nearly killed me.”
Conclusion
If you are a gambler, you have no doubt seen Gambling change through the years, and now that gambling memes have become a part of the culture, they will continue to get better and it’s nice to know there is a modern art form that incorporates humor we can all create.
