--- title: Tim Cook's Drawing of AirPods Is the Ultimate Meme Muse description: Fresh off the waterfall of jokes that arose from President Trump calling him Tim Apple, Tim Cook has inspired a whole new wave of memes. canonical: https://time.com/5555129/tim-cook-airpods/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-20T18:58:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:13.863Z og:title: Tim Cook Is Such a Meme Muse With This Drawing of AirPods og:description: The jokes write themselves og:url: https://time.com/5555129/tim-cook-airpods/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9008738266b54b32/698946fc97cdffb0966b784f/tim-cook-airpods.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tim-Cook-AirPods og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tim Cook Is Such a Meme Muse With This Drawing of AirPods twitter:description: The jokes write themselves twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9008738266b54b32/698946fc97cdffb0966b784f/tim-cook-airpods.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tim Cook Is the Ultimate Meme Muse With This Drawing of AirPods  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 20, 2019 6:58 PM UTC  Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, laughs during a launch event unveiling new products at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, N.Y., on October 30, 2018. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, laughs during a launch event unveiling new products at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, N.Y., on October 30, 2018.Stephanie Keith—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 20, 2019 6:58 PM UTC Fresh off the [waterfall of jokes](http://time.com/5547527/tim-cook-trolls-donald-trump/) that arose from [President Donald Trump calling him Tim Apple](http://time.com/5549015/trump-calls-tim-cook-tim-apple/), Tim Cook has inspired a whole new wave of memes. After the Apple CEO tweeted out a picture of himself using an Apple Pencil to draw a picture of [Apple’s new second-generation AirPods](http://time.com/5554885/apple-new-airpods/) on its updated iPad Mini, the Internet went to work photoshopping the image to feature a variety of different messages and pictures on the iPad Mini’s screen. While some took advantage of the opportunity to suggest other new products they were hoping to see from Apple, such as black AirPods and the AirPower wireless charging mat, others, of course, went a more humorous route. > [](https://twitter.com/%5Falecoconnor/status/1108354489491161088) > [](https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1108355801243140096) However, by the time the doctored photos started making the online rounds, there were people out there who were already tired of them. One Twitter user even photoshopped the iPad Mini screen to say, “Stop using this meme.” > [](https://twitter.com/crazyman12606/status/1108351467469996040) See some of the best AirPods memes below. > [](https://twitter.com/Dimensioner/status/1107622495983726592) > [](https://twitter.com/MrAlCaponeJR/status/1108350107450265601) > [](https://twitter.com/jackiegarbe/status/1108425295269449731) > [](https://twitter.com/SuperSaf/status/1108359992808218629) > [](https://twitter.com/ericmadnest/status/1108357598066049024) > [](https://twitter.com/Ri6er1um/status/1108353512004599809) > [](https://twitter.com/thekitze/status/1107622297513410561) > [](https://twitter.com/alonshvartsman/status/1108348739989766144) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5555129/tim-cook-airpods/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5555129/tim-cook-airpods/"},"headline":"Tim Cook Is the Ultimate Meme Muse With This Drawing of AirPods","datePublished":"2019-03-20T18:58:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:13.863Z","description":"The jokes write themselves","url":"https://time.com/5555129/tim-cook-airpods/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Apple","viral","Tim cook","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9008738266b54b32/698946fc97cdffb0966b784f/tim-cook-airpods.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9008738266b54b32/698946fc97cdffb0966b784f/tim-cook-airpods.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tim-Cook-AirPods","caption":"Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, laughs during a launch event unveiling new products at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, N.Y., on October 30, 2018.","creditText":"Stephanie Keith—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/5555129/tim-cook-airpods/","name":"Tim Cook Is the Ultimate Meme Muse With This Drawing of AirPods"}}]}] ```