{"slug":"change-my-mind","name":"Change My Mind","url":"/templates/change-my-mind.jpg","w":482,"h":361,"top":"HOT TAKE HERE","bottom":"","description":"Make your own Change My Mind meme. Write your hottest take on the sign and dare the internet to argue.","keywords":"change my mind meme, crowder meme, debate meme, hot take meme, prove me wrong","year":2018,"origin":"From Steven Crowder's \"Change My Mind\" YouTube segment where he sets up a folding table on a college campus with a controversial opinion written on a sign and invites passersby to debate. The format became the internet's favorite way to share opinions you're stubbornly confident about. For shutting down bad opinions instead, see Batman Slapping Robin.","sourceVideo":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7fXAYcMIhQ","format":"both","textBoxes":[{"label":"Sign Text","x":43,"y":59,"w":43,"h":24,"rotation":-7,"placeholder":"Your hot take","fontFamily":"Arial","fontColor":"#000000","strokeWidth":0,"isBold":true,"isItalic":false,"isAllCaps":false,"textAlign":"center","fontSize":28,"opacity":1}],"howToMake":["The Change My Mind template is loaded with a text field on the sign. Just type your hot take","Fill in the sign with your opinion or controversial statement that you're daring people to argue with","Your hot take appears on the sign at the table's angle. Crowder sits next to it, coffee in hand, ready for challengers","Black Arial on the sign mimics a real poster board, or toggle Classic mode for bold top/bottom Impact text instead","Plant your flag: Download the meme as a PNG, or Share it and dare the internet to prove you wrong"],"exampleCaptions":["Cereal is just cold breakfast soup"],"exampleAltText":"Change My Mind meme claiming cereal is just cold breakfast soup","exampleRefreshDate":"2026-02-22","seo":{"aliases":["Prove Me Wrong Meme","Crowder Table Meme","Change My Mind Sign","Hot Take Meme","Debate Table Meme","CMM Meme"],"description":"A photo of a man sitting at a small folding table outdoors with a large sign that reads \"[opinion], change my mind.\" He sits with a coffee mug, legs crossed, looking confident and relaxed — completely prepared to defend his take against all challengers. He looks so confident in his opinion that he dares anyone to prove him wrong, whether the take is reasonable or completely unhinged.","definition":"Here's how it works: you write your most confident opinion on the sign, and the meme dares anyone to disagree. Steven Crowder sits at a folding table looking completely unbothered, ready for all challengers.","useCases":[{"category":"Food Hot Takes","examples":["A hot dog is a taco, change my mind","Water is the best drink and it's not even close, change my mind","Breakfast for dinner is better than breakfast for breakfast, change my mind","Ketchup on eggs is perfectly acceptable, change my mind","Cereal is a soup, change my mind","The heel of the bread is the best slice, change my mind"]},{"category":"Technology & Internet","examples":["Incognito mode doesn't actually hide anything, change my mind","Every app is just a website pretending to be something else, change my mind","Dark mode is objectively superior, change my mind","Printers were sent from the future to test our patience, change my mind","The best feature of any phone is the flashlight, change my mind","WiFi going out for 5 minutes is a bigger emergency than most actual emergencies, change my mind"]},{"category":"Work & Office","examples":["Most meetings should be emails, change my mind","The person who brings donuts is the most valuable employee, change my mind","Nobody actually reads the full email chain before replying, change my mind","Friday afternoon meetings should be illegal, change my mind","'Per my last email' is the professional way of saying 'I already told you this', change my mind"]},{"category":"School & Education","examples":["Homework is just unpaid overtime for students, change my mind","Group projects only teach you that you can't rely on anyone, change my mind","The real test is staying awake during a 3-hour lecture, change my mind","Wikipedia is a perfectly valid source and teachers are wrong, change my mind","The syllabus is the most important document you'll get and nobody reads it, change my mind"]},{"category":"Relationships & Social","examples":["Canceling plans is the greatest feeling known to humanity, change my mind","The best relationships are the ones where you can sit in silence comfortably, change my mind","Responding to a text immediately makes you look too available, change my mind","'We should hang out sometime' means 'I have no intention of ever making plans', change my mind","The friend who always says 'I'm on my way' is never on their way, change my mind"]},{"category":"Entertainment & Culture","examples":["The movie is never as good as the book, change my mind","Sequels are almost always worse than the original, change my mind","The best songs are the ones you discover by accident, change my mind","Watching a show with subtitles on is the superior experience, change my mind","The theme song is the best part of most TV shows, change my mind"]},{"category":"Life & Philosophy","examples":["Naps should be mandatory for adults, change my mind","The snooze button has ruined more mornings than it's saved, change my mind","Sleeping in socks is unhinged behavior, change my mind","Sunday is actually the worst day of the week because of the Monday dread, change my mind","The people who back into parking spots have their life together, change my mind","Doing laundry is fine — folding and putting it away is the real problem, change my mind"]}]}}