Ancient Aliens Meme Template

Giorgio Tsoukalos gestures as if he has the answer. Put an unexplained event above him and blame aliens below, skipping straight past every ordinary explanation.

The joke is the confidence of the answer despite the lack of evidence. A missing sock gets the same explanation as an ancient mystery.

You can replace aliens with another implausible culprit, but keep the leap in reasoning obvious. The caption should read as a joke about explaining everything with one favorite theory.

The still shows Giorgio A. Tsoukalos on HISTORY’s Ancient Aliens. The program discusses claims that extraterrestrial visitors influenced the human past; the meme exaggerates the habit of reaching for an alien explanation. [2]

Know Your Meme records image captions circulating on 4chan by November 2010 and spreading further in 2011. The captioned claims are internet jokes, rather than a transcript of what Tsoukalos says in this frame. [2]

Use the top line for the mystery and the bottom line for the proposed explanation. Leave the face clear so the confident expression can do its part.

A familiar missing object or unexplained technical hiccup needs very little setup. The final answer should be much less plausible than whatever probably happened.

The unexplained event

Across the top, above the face.

The explanation

At the bottom left, away from the channel logo.

• Make the mystery concrete.
• Keep the answer short.
• Use the image’s confidence as the punchline.
• Keep the HISTORY logo and face visible.