Two Paths

A path splits into two. You label the left fork one way and the right fork another, and the gag is the choice between them: the boring safe option versus the unhinged one, the responsible future versus the fun one, what you should do versus what you're going to do. The image itself does nothing — it's a literal fork in the road — so every bit of the joke lives in the two labels.

That's both why it works and why it's forgettable. It's the lowest-effort possible "two options" setup, which makes it endlessly flexible: any A-vs-B you can think of drops right in. But it has no built-in attitude. Two Buttons has the sweating guy panicking, Drake has the disgusted face — this one is just signage. Half the time people use it earnestly, like a vision-board "which path will you choose", which drains the comedy out of it entirely.

Still in circulation, mostly on Twitter and Instagram for relatable life-choice posts, but it never had a real peak and it's never going to. It's a utility format — the meme equivalent of a blank fill-in form. You reach for it when you want the structure and don't care about the picture.