Auston Matthews is giving new life to Mitch Marner's status as a meme.

Matthews changed his Twitter avatar to a Photoshopped shot of Marner boarding a school bus with some younger students.

(Courtesy: Twitter/@AM34)

The Marner portion of Matthews' avi is real, and it's a flipped version of the one posted by Postmedia's Mike Zeisberger at the airport Monday.

#leafs F Mitch Marner arrives at Toronto's Pearson Airport after helping #CDA win silver at Worlds. #iihfworlds2017 pic.twitter.com/fevWFAUV3z — Mike Zeisberger (@Zeisberger) May 22, 2017

That shot turned Marner into a meme, as his facial expression was apparently too good for the internet to ignore.

tfw u lose gold and the title of 2nd best Leaf pic.twitter.com/ZkUzlHKwag — BOBBY ON FLEEK (@bobbycappucino) May 22, 2017

Wow just snapped this pic of Mitch Marner resuming offseason workouts back in Canada pic.twitter.com/SgnZe5oqcl — Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) May 22, 2017

@Steve_Dangle I think the Habs won the Subban-Weber trade pic.twitter.com/dHjM4pCzHs — Alex Cooper (@Alex_Cooper89) May 22, 2017

"Laine is better than Matthews."

ME: pic.twitter.com/hyVdYe0SfU — Steve Dangle Glynn (@Steve_Dangle) May 22, 2017

There were many others, but this one apparently struck a chord with Matthews.

Now that the Leafs' best player has embraced the meme, it's clearly not going away anytime soon, and based on Marner's new cover photo on his own Twitter profile, he's getting on board himself.

(Courtesy: Twitter/@Marner93)

- With h/t to Rebecca Potter