Inject these 42 fish tube memes straight into my gills

Just let me ride the fish tube, please

4 months ago

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If you're into Twitter you might have seen everyone talking about this thing called a "fish tube", and fish tube memes have risen to the kind of ubiquity once enjoyed by 30-50 feral hogs. To understand the meme, watch the video below:

The Whooshh Fish Transport System, aka the salmon cannon, is designed to transport salmon upstream over a dam through a flexible pressurised tube. You might be wondering "why on earth is this a thing?" Well it's because salmon are migratory species and need to swim upstream to spawn. Jesus Christ were you even awake in GCSE Biology? Read a book.

Now the case has been made that the fish tube isn't really a new thing, since the salmon cannon has been in operation for several years now. Fish tube deniers have also been quick to point out our need for a fish tube only represents how badly we've messed up out planet.

But honestly none of that matters. What does matter is people are obsessed with the fish tube, and these are the fishiest tubiest memes swimming around right now:

1. Can I make fish tubes with my English degree?

we need more kids in STEM*!!!!

*salmon tube engineering/manufacturing

— carter (@carterhambley) August 13, 2019

2. Lady GaGa is 100 per cent a fish tube believer

Lady Gaga as a salmon going through the fish tube pic.twitter.com/04HCcB1vNX

— 𝚂𝚊𝚕 𝙼𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚜 Hangry Mode (@salmattos) August 13, 2019

3. Despite all the punctuation this tweet is chef's kiss

*coldplay “fix you” voice* let me ride………..the fish tube

— bb ghost (@emilywithcurls) August 12, 2019

4. I imagine this is totally accurate

the salmon going through the giant fish tube: pic.twitter.com/UtIC7EKuc6

— Paul McCallion (@OrangePaulp) August 11, 2019

5. NEVER refer to the fish tube as a 'silly straw'

I am CRYING laughing at this like imagine being a fish and minding your own business but humans fucked up the world so bad that their version of helping you is launching you through a giant silly straw https://t.co/7UppI0r3IM

— JuanPa (@jpbrammer) August 11, 2019

6. I love Alexandra Burke too

Well I heard there was a secret tube,
For fish to use, made by some dude,
But you don’t really care for salmon, do you?

It goes like this: you come to spawn,
This big tube helps you move along,
The baffled fish compose a hallelujah

— 🐝trix is on a break (@Trixie_Ren) August 12, 2019

7. Seriously if you want to pitch this DM me x

PITCH: Millennials are obsessed with the fish tube because it offers salmon the kind of purposeful direction and security that we as a generation have never known pic.twitter.com/6apxktGLXw

— Stephanie Soh (@steph_soh) August 12, 2019

8. I'm right over heeeere, over the dam, ohhhh

i'm in the fish tube, watching u kiss her, ohhhh

— Róisín Lanigan (@rosielanners) August 13, 2019

9. Wanting to ride the fish tube is a recurring theme, as you'll see

when you realize you'll never ride the fish tube pic.twitter.com/2nfYA2T1uM

— j.m. weast (@djrbtr) August 11, 2019

10. Relatable

when you’re a fish waiting for the fish tube guy to give you the green light to go through the fish tube pic.twitter.com/AOGewto00j

— Caitlin Joy Stout (@CaitlinJStout) August 12, 2019

11. Good to see this format still bangs

I don't see why you have to be a fish to ride the fish tube

12. It's okay you're going upstream to spawn

Before I get in the fish tube, anybody wanna admit they got a crush on me

— tiktok daddy dom (@hereiamja) August 11, 2019

13. You go up the fish tube you fool

The fish before it goes down the #fishtube pic.twitter.com/HSrqJ87SmF

— Nate Thompson (@flyprideair) August 12, 2019

14. What happens if you vomit in the fish tube

the fish when they ride the fish tube pic.twitter.com/ELrjh2d6gL

— san diego (@conorgrnt) August 12, 2019

15. Fish tube memes got real very quickly

fish tubes but for skipping stages of grief

— Alyssa Limperis (@alyssalimp) August 11, 2019

16. In this essay I will…

We are all just helpless fish zooming through this tube called life

— Jules (@Julian_Epp) August 12, 2019

17. 'The tube'? You mean The Fish Tube™

me waving goodbye to the fish being launched across the dam through the tube pic.twitter.com/ZnfgY8dn8s

— john (@Scarlet4UrMa) August 12, 2019

18. Not as good as the Coldplay one but fair play

*extreme katy perry voice*

do you ever feel like a fuckin fish in a plastic tube launching over a dam

— Admiral Snaccbar 🐙 (@SimplySnaccbar) August 12, 2019

19. Ah the crossover begineth

You either die as 30-50 feral hogs or live long enough to become a salmon shot through a fish tube

— 🌻Elle 🐈Gato🐈 Maruska 🌻 (@ellle_em) August 13, 2019

20. Thanks for the microwave political take no one wanted, Stephen!

BREAKING: Fish tube just qualified for the September debates.

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) August 13, 2019

21. Yes, quite

From the people who brought you fish tube: Elk Cannon. Want an elk? We’ll fire one into your fucking face

— Fred Delicious (@Fred_Delicious) August 12, 2019

22. Tbh we could replace the Eurostar with it, too

from now on when people talk about "technical solutions" for the Irish border, I will only be picturing the fish tube

— Esther Webber (@estwebber) August 12, 2019

23. More feral hog crossover ahoy

How are we gonna make THIS *gestures towards 30-50 feral hogs* fit into THIS *gestures towards fish tube*

— Allen Strickland Williams (@TotallyAllen) August 12, 2019

24. Like this tweet if you read literature

Despite all my rage I’m still just a fish in a tube

— Shenanigans (@Shenanigans_luv) August 12, 2019

25. But what is a Hot Girl Summer???

Well I guess it's a Hot Girl Summer but a Fish Tube Fall

— Rachel Wenitsky (@RachelWenitsky) August 12, 2019

26. Would watch, obv

a Pixar short about a child salmon working up the courage to do the fish tube

— Matt Buechele (@mattbooshell) August 11, 2019

27. Fish tube memes getting even bleaker

launch me through the fish tube so i can feel something.

— mark hoppus.🏳️‍🌈 (@markhoppus) August 11, 2019

28. You get a quid if you get the reference

I took the fish tube less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.

— Morgan Murphy (@morgan_murphy) August 12, 2019

29. WHY RACHEL

i assume someone has already stuck their dick in the fish tube

— tom schwartz’s transition lenses (@rachelmillman) August 11, 2019

30. Look at those full stops – that's over 14,000 likes right there

You. Don't. Speak. For. Me. Ariel. But. I. Agree

31. Okay you didn't have to shit in our cereal like that

everyone wants to get sucked up into the fish tube but none of you have the powerful dorsal muscles that allow the salmon to travel through it.
you would simply get stuck and die — understand this.

— Mona Lisa Overbite (@SoberedByBricks) August 11, 2019

32. Great game, Roller Coaster Tycoon

Edited the fish tube video with Space Mountain music to give the fish a bigger thrill pic.twitter.com/IUxaosPgd6

— Tom Zohar (@TomZohar) August 11, 2019