Like all good memes, the recent Elf on the Shelf rhyming competition-turned-joke started with video games.

The Elf on the Shelf joke is pretty simple: the idea is to take a real life person or character and photoshop them onto an object. For example, “You’ve seen Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for Kirby on a Furby.”

The popularity of the Elf on a Shelf joke can be traced back to a post from Aug. 27 uploaded by Tumblr user dankmemeuniversity. The photo, which featured Pokémon’s Ash Ketchum lying discarded on a pile of garbage in a trash can, included the caption, “You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for,” hinting at the “Ash in the Trash” rhyme.

This photo was reblogged more than 180,000 times, but it wasn’t until Tumblr user Kawaii Rain uploaded the “Ash in the Trash” photo coupled with a new photo featuring “Link in the Sink” that the joke began to take off.

In the month since the first jokes started circulating around Tumblr, more examples have come to light. Pokémon parodies of Elf on the Shelf are still rampant on Tumblr, making for some of the most reblogged and best versions of the joke. “Mew on a Pew,” “Raticate on a BB-8” and “Drifloon on a Spoon” are some of the more popular Pokémon to undergo the meme transformation. Credit where credit is due, Drifloon on a Spoon is a pretty remarkable rhyme.

You've heard of Elf on the Shelf. Now get ready for… pic.twitter.com/gu9qxZFJFu — ArmoredFrog (@nsarmoredfrog) September 17, 2017

It’s not just Pokémon or Zelda that have been subjected to the meme treatment. Since the competition of sorts has migrated from Tumblr to Twitter and Reddit, more fandoms have started to try their hand at coming up with the best joke. Rick and Morty, Shrek, Spongebob Squarepants and even Bob Ross have received their own memes. Even innocent Donkey Kong has been gifted a bad joke, proving that once a meme reaches the mainstream, it’s just about ready to die.

It’s only fitting that after being in the mainstream spotlight for just under a week, people are ready for the joke to die. The Elf on the Shelf joke is the amalgamation of bad dad jokes and solid puns. It’s everything the internet-at-large likes to make fun of while also indulging in it. There’s not much that separates Tumblr’s Elf on the Shelf meme from Chris Hardwick’s nightly request for Twitter users come up with a food pun for a movie title, proceeding to read the best-of-the-worst jokes during his late night show, @midnight.

god jesus please stop with the elf on a shelf memes it died with like the 5th one — rurfp (@Rurfs) September 17, 2017

Please stop with the:

"You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for..." posts

It's not funny.

It's not a thing.

It's not funny. — Simon Pegg (@Simon_Pegg) September 18, 2017

Despite exhausted cries from pained Twitter and Tumblr users distraught with having to see Elf on the Shelf three months before Christmas, there aren’t any signs of the meme slowing down soon. Companies like Sirius XM have gotten in on the joke. At one time, this would signify that the best of internet joke creators would pack up and move on. Now this just means your Aunt Martha will post a very bad version of the joke on your Facebook wall, poking you until you acknowledge it with a half-hearted like.