The Kool Kid Klan meme features a vintage black-and-white photograph of three young children wearing white sheets with pointed hoods, resembling ghosts. The image gained notoriety on the internet due to the unintentional visual similarity to a specific historical group, leading to the ironic and phonetically similar name. It is frequently used in internet culture to highlight awkward or poorly thought-out costume choices, or to represent a group of friends attempting to look 'cool' but failing hilariously. While the original context was almost certainly a harmless Halloween photo, it has become a staple of ironic internet humor and visual puns regarding unfortunate coincidences.