The Middle East Through the Years

Text on the meme

The Middle East in 1946 The Middle East in 1956 The Middle East in 1978 The Middle East in 1988 The Middle East in 2001 The Middle East in 2010 The Middle East in 2016 The Middle East in 2025

What it means

A fast-cut Angry Birds video shows increasingly chaotic explosions and destruction labeled with different years in the Middle East, ending with a grinning green pig amid massive flames in 2025. The joke is a dark, exaggerated geopolitical timeline that reduces decades of conflict and instability to escalating cartoon mayhem. The clip uses Ilmari Hakkola’s “Bad Piggies Theme,” whose playful, mischievous video-game music makes the destruction feel absurdly comedic and heightens the punchline.

Sound

♪ Ilmari Hakkola — Bad Piggies Theme

music / музыка

Who

Red (Angry Birds)Bomb (Angry Birds)Chuck (Angry Birds)Leonard (Angry Birds)

Objects

Angry Birds characters / персонажи Angry Birds red bird / красная птица black bird / чёрная птица yellow bird / жёлтая птица green pig / зелёная свинья cartoon animals / мультяшные животные explosions / взрывы fire / огонь smoke / дым flames / пламя dark battlefield / тёмное поле боя debris / обломки bright lights / яркие огни year captions / подписи с годами video frame / кадр видео