The 'Forty Keks' meme is a linguistic spin on the 'Lex Luthor Stole Forty Cakes' illustration from the 1978 DC Comics educational book 'The Super Dictionary.' In the original text, Luthor is shown carting away forty cakes, with the narration hilariously noting that forty is 'as many as four tens' and 'that's terrible.' Internet culture, specifically within 4chan, swapped 'cakes' for 'keks'—the slang for 'LOL'—to create a meta-commentary on petty behavior and niche digital humor. The meme is typically used to mock someone for committing a minor transgression as if it were a grand, villainous scheme, or simply to acknowledge a high volume of laughter in a thread.