The #RIPTwitter trend exploded in late 2022 following the high-profile acquisition of the platform by Elon Musk. As users anticipated the site's imminent collapse due to technical changes and mass layoffs, they flooded the timeline with funeral-themed memes and 'last words.' The hashtag became a recurring cultural phenomenon, reappearing during major outages and the eventual rebranding of Twitter to X. It typically utilizes imagery of gravestones, the Titanic, or people posing next to graves to satirize the collective panic and the irony of users tweeting about the death of the very app they are currently using.