{"slug":"stonks","name":"Stonks","alternateFormats":[{"slug":"stonks-blank","label":"Blank Template"}],"url":"/templates/stonks.jpg","w":825,"h":619,"top":"QUESTIONABLE DECISION","bottom":"STONKS","description":"Stonks meme maker. Meme Man stands before a rising stock chart, celebrating financial decisions that are objectively terrible. Generate your own for any dubious win.","keywords":"stonks meme, meme man stonks, stock market meme, financial decision meme, stonks guy meme, surreal meme man","year":2017,"origin":"Meme Man, the featureless 3D-rendered head, first appeared in surreal meme circles around 2014. The \"Stonks\" variant paired him with a stock market chart showing green arrows going up, captioned with the misspelled \"stonks.\" The joke: someone makes a clearly bad financial or life decision but frames it as a win. The deliberate misspelling and low-quality 3D render add to the absurdity. It exploded across Reddit and Twitter around 2017. For the inverse, see Not Stonks (when the chart goes the wrong direction). For similarly questionable logic, see Roll Safe (bad ideas presented as genius).","format":"classic","howToMake":["Stonks is loaded. The chart is already going up for no good reason","Top text describes the questionable decision or action. Bottom text is usually \"STONKS\" or your own spin on why this was secretly a great move","The humor depends on the gap between what you did and how confident you are about it. The worse the decision, the funnier the \"stonks\" declaration becomes","Bold white text with black outline matches the deliberately low-quality aesthetic. The 3D render and stock chart do the visual comedy; your text just needs to name the bad decision","Financial genius confirmed. Hit Download for the PNG, or Copy it into any group chat to announce your latest terrible but somehow profitable life choice"],"exampleCaptions":["BOUGHT 47 ITEMS AT THE DOLLAR STORE","SAVED MONEY"],"exampleAltText":"Stonks meme about buying 47 items at the dollar store and calling it saving money","exampleRefreshDate":"2026-03-05","seo":{"aliases":["Meme Man Stonks","Stock Market Meme","Stonks Guy","Stonks Rising","Financial Meme Man"],"description":"A bald, textureless 3D head in a suit stands before a stock chart with a single green arrow pointing aggressively upward. Everything about the image looks wrong on purpose: the render quality, the proportions, the misspelling of \"stocks.\" Yet Meme Man stands there with the posture of someone who just closed a billion-dollar deal. The chart agrees. The logic does not.","definition":"Meme Man, a deliberately crude 3D-rendered figure in a business suit, posed in front of a rising stock chart. The misspelled \"Stonks\" caption pairs with any decision that is objectively bad but somehow framed as a financial or strategic victory.","useCases":[{"category":"Dubious Financial Wins","examples":["Spending $20 on gas to drive across town for a $2 discount / Stonks","Using a buy-one-get-one coupon on something you never planned to buy / Stonks","Selling your old textbooks for $3.50 total after spending $400 on them / Stonks","Getting a $5 birthday coupon from a store and spending $80 to use it / Stonks","Canceling one streaming service and signing up for two others / Stonks"]},{"category":"Career & Hustle Logic","examples":["Working overtime for free because \"it looks good\" / Stonks","Quitting your job to pursue a career that doesn't exist yet / Stonks","Spending $500 on a course about making money that teaches you to sell courses about making money / Stonks","Getting a raise that's less than the inflation rate / Stonks","Starting a side hustle that costs more to run than it earns / Stonks"]},{"category":"Food & Shopping Math","examples":["Ordering the combo because it's \"only $2 more\" than you wanted to spend / Stonks","Buying the bulk size of something perishable because the per-unit cost is lower / Stonks","Using a rewards card that required $300 in purchases to earn a $10 gift card / Stonks","Free shipping on orders over $50, so you bought $30 worth of stuff you didn't need / Stonks","Meal prepping Sunday, throwing it away Wednesday, ordering delivery Thursday / Stonks"]},{"category":"Gaming & Digital Economies","examples":["Grinding for 6 hours to earn in-game currency worth $0.03 / Stonks","Buying a skin that was on \"sale\" for the price of an actual meal / Stonks","Trading a rare item for three common items because \"three is more than one\" / Stonks","Paying full price for a game you play once and never open again / Stonks","Spending real money to skip a 2-minute timer in a free game / Stonks"]},{"category":"Time Management Mastery","examples":["Staying up until 3am to save time by not setting an alarm / Stonks","Spending 4 hours automating a task that takes 5 minutes / Stonks","Driving 15 minutes out of the way to avoid 3 minutes of traffic / Stonks","Reorganizing your to-do list instead of doing anything on it / Stonks"]},{"category":"Health & Fitness Economics","examples":["Paying for a gym membership and only using the free water / Stonks","Buying expensive running shoes to walk to the fridge more comfortably / Stonks","Ordering a diet soda with a triple cheeseburger / Stonks","Spending $60 on vitamins because you refuse to eat a single vegetable / Stonks","Taking the stairs once and considering the gym membership paid for / Stonks"]}]}}