Great Lakes Go Viral as Lake Michigan Electrified Fence Spotted Guarding Against Invasive ‘Meme Carp’
In a bizarre twist that has the internet howling, the Great Lakes are trending after a viral TikTok showed a makeshift “electric fence” made of pool noodles and tinfoil supposedly installed on a Lake Michigan shoreline to protect against “meme carp”—a fake invasive species that only exists in Twitter jokes. Meme historians are having a field day, noting the irony lies in how the Great Lakes, already battling real invasive species like lampreys and zebra mussels, have now become the battleground for the most absurd, fictional ecological crisis in internet history. The original poster claims the fence “zaps any fish that tries to post cringe,” while the top comment simply reads, “Great Lakes: the only place where the government is more afraid of opinions than actual algae blooms.”