**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — MEME ARCHIVE 8675309**

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — MEME ARCHIVE #8675309

BROOKLYN, NY — In what historians are calling “The Great Caffeine Panic of 2024,” the internet has collectively lost its mind over a single, dusty 20-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew White Out found behind a 7-Eleven Slurpee machine in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

The bottle, which expired in 2019, is now being traded on eBay for the price of a used Honda Civic.

Why is this funny? Because White Out wasn’t even that good. It was the “Diet Coke at a diner” of the Dew family—a solid B-tier citrus blast that you only bought when Code Red was out of stock. But now, after PepsiCo discontinued it in 2021 to make room for “Mountain Dew Flamin’ Hot,” it has achieved a mythical status usually reserved for the Loch Ness Monster or a functioning 401(k).

The irony is palpable. For a decade, White Out sat unloved on gas station shelves, the forgotten middle child between Voltage and Baja Blast. Now, zoomers are paying $200 a bottle for a flavor they used to describe as “basically just Sprite with a grudge.” The hunt has become so desperate that one TikTok user was hospitalized after attempting to extract residual syrup from a discarded fast-food soda fountain hose.

The Meme Verdict: White Out isn’t trending because it was great. It’s trending because we only value things once they’re gone—and because the internet would rather pay $200 for expired corn syrup than admit that “Mountain Dew Sweet Lightning” (the KFC exclusive) is the real hero we ignored.

Meme Historian Rating: 10/10 on the “Nostalgia is a Hell of a Drug” scale.