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Obama Medal meme template

Obama Medal is a meme format on WhatiMeme. This template jokes about congratulating yourself. It is used when someone treats a tiny, ordinary, or undeserved achievement like a formal honor, or when a person, company, or institution praises itself. The solemn award ceremony clashes with how small the actual accomplishment is.

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Two identical men in dark suits stand close together in front of gold curtains, with part of an American flag visible at the right. The man on the left smiles broadly while wearing a medal on a blue ribbon with white edges. The man on the right has his eyes closed and is using one hand to place that ribbon around the other man's neck. No text is printed on the image.

How to write this meme

Make the top line a tiny or shaky thing someone actually did, and make the bottom line a medal-level title for it. The laugh comes from that mismatch, not from explaining who is in the picture. Keep both lines short enough to read in one glance.

Caption zones

  • Top text — The small thing they did. Sits on the curtain above the left head and left of the right head so both faces stay visible.
  • Bottom text — The award they gave themselves. Sits on the left shoulder so the medal and both faces stay visible.

Example captions

  • Top text: Unloaded the dishwasher
  • Bottom text: Employee of the month

A routine chore is treated like a formal workplace honor, which matches the solemn self-award in the photo.

  • Top text: Did 10% of the group project
  • Bottom text: Put my name first

The medal becomes undeserved credit, a situation students recognize immediately.

  • Top text: Walked to the mailbox
  • Bottom text: Olympic conditioning

The gap between a few steps and an Olympic honor makes the self-praise absurd.

  • Top text: Replied "sounds good" in the thread
  • Bottom text: Executive leadership award

A meaningless work message is promoted to executive glory, which office workers find familiar.

  • Top text: Cited myself in the footnotes
  • Bottom text: Field-defining scholarship

The joke depends on knowing that citing your own paper is a petty academic move dressed up as importance.

Common mistakes

  • Describing the photo instead of telling a self-award joke
  • Putting the same idea in both lines
  • Writing a long rant that will not fit on the image
  • Making the top line the punchline and the bottom line the setup
  • Using a joke only the poster understands
  • Dropping the irony and playing the award as sincere

Also known as

Obama Giving Himself a Medal · Obama Awards Himself a Medal

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