The characters have long been the stuff of memes and corny T-shirts (you probably recognize Little Miss Sunshine), but around mid-July the characters started to pick up traction on social media again.

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The life of a meme can often transcend platforms; as it wanes on one, it can gain a new audience on another. For the Little Miss meme, which riffs on designs from decades-old children’s books ...

Now Gen Z has leveraged the characters to create the newest meme to share anything from mental and physical health struggles to questionable red flags, like Mr. Receding Hairline and Little Miss ...

The Little Miss meme takes one of English author Roger Hargreaves' Little Miss characters and then adds a modern adjective or life scenario after it. Traditionally, these books were to teach ...

Characters from a popular 1970s book series are being turned into memes on TikTok and Instagram by Gen Z as a form of therapy, using “Little Miss” and “Mr. Men” to highlight personality ...

If you’ve been online in the last week, chances are you’ve seen them: Little multicolored blobs with smiling faces doing some kind of gesture, with the text “Little Miss” or “Little Mr ...

This version showed “Little Miss Smokes Too Much Weed”. However, the meme was popularised on Instagram by the account @littlemissnotesapp, which has amassed 1.7 million followers. The created ...