--- title: Funniest Winter Olympics Valentines Day Memes description: One man expertly combined the Winter Olympics into the most hilarious Valentine's Day meme series. canonical: https://time.com/5157609/winter-olympics-valentines-day-memes/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-14T15:22:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:37.962Z og:title: These Memes Expertly Combine the Olympics and Valentine's Day og:description: "The group chat workshopping your reply" og:url: https://time.com/5157609/winter-olympics-valentines-day-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28891e822080b902/69892734096a945b4f6a1754/alex-maia-shibutani.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4703 og:image:height: 2645 og:image:alt: Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Memes Expertly Combine the Olympics and Valentine's Day twitter:description: "The group chat workshopping your reply" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28891e822080b902/69892734096a945b4f6a1754/alex-maia-shibutani.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # One Man Expertly Combined the Winter Olympics and Valentine's Day Into the Most Hilarious Memes > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Feb 14, 2018 3:22 PM UTC  Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani of USA compete in the Ice Dance Free Dance during the Figure Skating Team Event on day three of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 12, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images) Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani of USA compete in the Ice Dance Free Dance during the Figure Skating Team Event on day three of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 12, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images) Jean Catuffe—Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Feb 14, 2018 3:22 PM UTC One man just got very meta about [Valentine’s Day](http://time.com/5157469/lindsey-vonn-single-valentines-day-olympics-tweet/) and Winter Olympics with a perfectly executed series of [memes](http://time.com/5145999/winter-olympics-2018-alex-kang-chan-kam-meme/). There are probably few days when the world’s attention is split between something as captivating as the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games and as polarizing Valentine’s day. Both events touch us all, and one Press Association reporter, Edd Dracott, discovered that the action-packed photos from the Winter Olympics say everything we can’t about the range of emotions one experiences during Valentine’s Day. “#ValentinesDay and #Pyeonchang2018 only crossover once, so it would inexcusably rude not to take some of the finest Winter Olympics @PAImages and trivialise them into ham-fisted memes. Let’s do this,” he wrote Wednesday. Some [meme makers](http://time.com/5141448/olympics-2018-us-curler-super-mario-meme/) just caption one picture, but blessedly, this savvy guy really went the distance. Clearly these pictures were made to communicate what it means to be seeking a Valentine. Keep your songs about love’s mysteries. All we need is a photo from the 2018 Winter Olympics to say everything we can’t. See the series of memes below. There’s a meme for when you feel left out because everyone on Facebook seems to be partnered up. > [](https://twitter.com/EddDracott/status/963711725370576896) A meme for racing to get back to someone’s direct messages. > [](https://twitter.com/EddDracott/status/963710760865161217) A meme for getting all of the brain power on what you should text someone back. > [](https://twitter.com/EddDracott/status/963712305140764673) The Shib Sibs were invoked. > [](https://twitter.com/EddDracott/status/963713213312438277) And a meme for when the world speed races on without you despite your single status. > [](https://twitter.com/EddDracott/status/963716149765726208) A meme for the emotional journey that is the film _The Notebook_. > [](https://twitter.com/EddDracott/status/963714324811436032) To read on, head over to this [_Independent_ article](https://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/12-very-romantic-winter-olympics-memes-just-for-valentines-day-36602337.html). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5157609/winter-olympics-valentines-day-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5157609/winter-olympics-valentines-day-memes/"},"headline":"One Man Expertly Combined the Winter Olympics and Valentine's Day Into the Most Hilarious Memes","datePublished":"2018-02-14T15:22:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:37.962Z","description":"One man expertly combined the Winter Olympics into the most hilarious Valentine's Day meme series.","url":"https://time.com/5157609/winter-olympics-valentines-day-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","onetime","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28891e822080b902/69892734096a945b4f6a1754/alex-maia-shibutani.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28891e822080b902/69892734096a945b4f6a1754/alex-maia-shibutani.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 3","caption":"Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 3","creditText":"Jean Catuffe—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5157609/winter-olympics-valentines-day-memes/","name":"One Man Expertly Combined the Winter Olympics and Valentine's Day Into the Most Hilarious Memes"}}]}] ```