The Golden Yachties series is MassivelyOP’s annual set of fauxwards, named in honor of some guy who was convinced we are all making bank writing about MMORPGs and that it is so lucrative that we’re typing MMO blog posts from a gold-plated yacht. Did Poe’s Law apply? Nobody knows. We’re enjoying the view from the yacht’s deck, shown above, however.
Today, in our last entry in the 2025 series, we reveal our pick for MMO meme of the year. And the winner is…
Schlag’s Uno Card
In the midst of the Daybreak v. Takahashi et al. lawsuit, in which Daybreak was suing an EverQuest emulator for making hundreds of thousands of dollars off Daybreak’s IP, MOP’s Prince of Memes summed up the defense’s untenable position with pure genius:
A couple of others that we loved this year! Schlag in response to the Guild Wars 2 cookbook…
In the jank Daily Grind…
One from not-Schlag – in fact, we don’t know who said it first:
I toyed with making a sunset template.
Because we covered Bongo Cat multiplayer…
Fortnite x Simpsons, for some reason…
How do we unshittify the genre? Too late.
The absurdity of MMORPG lockboxes…
We love you, meme people! It was a rough year, and you make us smile.
Want to nominate another winner? Let us know in the comments, and don’t forget to check out our serious MMO awards while you’re at it, or skim through our past “winners”: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015. Thanks for laughing along with us this season!