63 Toope memes in celebration of Stephen Toope’s 63rd birthday
We dug DEEP into the Camfess archives for this one
Charissa CheongTurns out Valentine’s day is the second most important occasion that takes place on 14th February because according to Wikipedia, it’s Stephen Toope’s 63rd birthday!
To think that a year ago today few of us would have even heard of Toope is honestly such a shock given the ENDLESS memes we’ve made about him over the course of the pandemic. Besides doing Camfess bingos (yep, that was a weird phase, wasn’t it?), making Toope memes was probably the only thing that kept us going over that woeful easter term when the legendary email updates began.
And the memes still haven’t stopped. There’s no better time to look back at the many faces of Toope than the day that he celebrates reaching another birthday, and we celebrate Valentine’s day knowing that our Vice-Chancellor is the only man who ever loved us right.
After all, these memes will almost certainly become cultural artifacts when this whole ugly coronavirus business is over.
1. Chipmunk Toope
2. Personal cheerleader Toope
3. Crimson Toope
4. Red with rage Toope
5. #Relatable Toope
6. Toope hot to handle
7. Buzz light-Toope
8. Feed me Toope
9. Shield me Toope
10. Jealous Toope
11. Toupee Toope
12. Toope gear
13. Hula Toope
14. Toope Trumps
15. Toope fast Toope furious
16. Super Tooper
17. Lights are gonna blind me
18. But I won’t feel Bublé
19. Bradley Tooper
20. Storm Tooper
21. Storm Tooper: The academic rigour strikes back
22. Storm Tooper: Return of the Virgo
23. Spaghetti Toopes
24. Be my boyfriend Toope
25. Free the school meals Toope
26. Spooky Toopy
27. Super Toope
28. Ariana Toope
29. Top of the charts Toope
30. Top of the tree Toope
31. Oop it’s Toope
32. The people’s Toope
33. Four guys named Toope
34. Bernie Toope
35. Too much Toope
36. Stephen Toon
37. Toope for Life
39. Under the Mistle-Toope
40. Daddy Toope (wholesome edition)
41. Tekken Toope
42. Cup a Toope
43. Super-visor Toope
44. Comfort food Toope
45. Movie star Toope
46. Even bigger movie star Toope
47. My movie career fell off a bit Toope
48. Toopy fruity
49. Eco-Toope
50. Toope on the rocks
51. The Toope that really cares
(Credit: Memebridge)
52. Toope starter pack
(Credit: @thecambridgetab on Instagram)
53. Toope under threat
(Credit: @thecambridgetab on Instagram)
54. Evil Toope
55. Toope shop
56. Ninten-Toope
57. Swab me Toope 
58. It’s Britney Toope 
59. Fluffy Toope
60. There’s a new Toope in town 
61. Toope-blocked
62. Back to the crimson memes Toope 
63. Grandaddy Toope > Daddy Toope 
That’s 63 memes all done! Big credits to Camfess for all the brilliant Toope content they’ve shared with us over the past year. All I can say is that I’m thoroughly impressed by the sheer volume and quality of these and hope that somewhere out there, our Vice-Chancellor sees how much we truly adore, admire and fetishise him.
Happy birthday, Toope!!!
All image credits to Camfess unless otherwise specified
Cover image credit: Michael Cox via Unsplash, screenshots from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons Licence
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