- Upper text: Opening the group chat after six hours offline
A routine phone check is framed like a season finale, so the arrow implies chaos is waiting.
To Be Continued meme template
To Be Continued is a meme format on WhatiMeme. Freezes a moment like an anime season finale, implying the story stops right before the payoff. People use it to over-dramatize a small, awkward, or unfinished situation, or to cut a story off the second it gets interesting.
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How to write this meme
Write the moment that would make someone ask what happened next, then stop. Keep it specific and small. The arrow already says the story is unfinished, so do not explain the ending or repeat that phrase.
Caption zones
- Upper text — Names the unfinished situation being frozen as a cliffhanger
Example captions
- Upper text: So, about your performance review...
It cuts off at the exact second workplace anxiety spikes, and the card supplies the dread.
- Upper text: The friend who borrowed your charger in 2019
A tiny unresolved grudge is treated as a saga that still has episodes left.
- Upper text: Me, one sentence into explaining the dream
Everyone knows the listener has already checked out; the card admits the story will never land.
- Upper text: The recipe says "season to taste"
A vague cooking step becomes a doomed cliffhanger about whatever happens next in the pan.
Common mistakes
- Repeating "to be continued" in the caption
- Resolving the story instead of freezing it
- Writing a paragraph that fills the black space
- Choosing a moment with no implied next beat
- Explaining why it is funny instead of stating the situation
Also known as
JoJo To Be Continued · Roundabout Arrow · To Be Continued Arrow
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