The Brief: WWIII video game memes make fun of the way players of different video games might act on the battlefield if war was to break out between the United States and Iran.

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WWIII video game memes are the next installment of memes making light of escalating tensions between the United States and Iran after the Trump administration killed Iranian Major General Qassim Suleiman.
WWIII memes have blown up on Reddit and Twitter since news of Suleiman’s assassination broke last week, and this new wave of memes predicts how players of various video games will react when their skills are put to the test on the battlefield.
Iran won’t be laughing when somebody rolls up in a John Deere T660 Combine Harvester from dankmemes
Just wait… I’m gonna have a diamond armor in no time from dankmemes
Gamers unite! from dankmemes
WW3 roles
Fortnite players: Base construction
Siege Players: Bomb defusal squad
Apex Players: Recon team
CoD players: Special Forces, Designation CQB
Battlefield players: Vehicle support
Minecraft players: survival experts (Long distance missions)
GTA players: weapons experts— Fighting Faki (@itsyaboi_imaad) January 5, 2020
Call of Duty has trained generations of hardened soldiers:
Boys on the battlefield after they got drafted for WW3 and realize it’s nothing like COD
pic.twitter.com/IIU0tRjaI1— nnnnnnn (@nshinh_) January 3, 2020
When your KD comes back to haunt you:
The army looking at my K/D and rank on COD to draft for WW3 pic.twitter.com/gReohRt2Wv
— Hoodville (@Hoodville_) January 3, 2020
Get ’em sis:
all that ignoring me to play cod, nows your time to shine for ww3
— lala ❄️ (@daddydanie12) January 3, 2020
cod mfs after they die in ww3 and dont respawn pic.twitter.com/d7tTd1iCuh
— zorb (@zorblol) January 3, 2020
COD developers realizing with WW3 starting now they got a whole new storyline for their next game pic.twitter.com/vUouYu22Sb
— Benjamin (@FaceWentz) January 3, 2020
I just wanted a new cod not WW3…
— SoaR ARCN♕ (@Arcnv) January 3, 2020
Fortnite has done wonders for the youth platoon:
how #WW3 gonna look w 13 year old fortnite players getting drafted pic.twitter.com/TULoiGjhUL
— ❤️ (@happycarmy) January 6, 2020
Fortnite mfs trying to get high ground in WW3 pic.twitter.com/4haFfC3W7p
— Tahmid Ahmed (@Tahmid_Ahmed4) January 3, 2020
No building here bud:
fortnite players when they get drafted for ww3 pic.twitter.com/lLVsaQoanP
— joshh (@sevenjoshh) January 5, 2020
Nobody:
fortnite players when they get drafted to the army for #WW3 pic.twitter.com/CRMYGehSpz
— Dying Meme (@DyingMeme_) January 3, 2020
We will need some Mario Kart players manning the tanks:
Luigi lovers will man the vacuums:
More WWIII video game memes:
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Speedrunning is an art:
*stops rolling* from dankmemes
Some on Reddit and Twitter weren’t amused by the endless WWIII video game memes:
Haha I’m so quirky with my WW3 memes I am masking my fear of total nuclear annihilation with gifs of people doing fortnite dances
— Lil Revive 🎃 (@LilRevive) January 3, 2020