About
Cornn Flaek refers to an image macro of SCP-096 eating a bowl of corn flakes, intentionally misspelled “cornn flaek.” The image became a popular deep fried memes and surreal meme on Reddit.
Origin
On June 19th, 2018, Redditor bowscop3r posted a Why Is Millennial Humor So Weird meme using an image of SCP-096 approaching a bowl of corn flakes, with the caption intentionally misspelled as “cornn flaek,” gaining over 38,000 points in /r/DeepFriedMemes (shown below).
Spread
Over the following months, the image began spreading across various subreddits. On July 3rd, 2018, Reddit user Latricc posted a less deep-fried image to /r/dankmemes, gaining 130 points (shown below, left). On October 25th, 2018, user skinnynipps posted a Mom Can You Give Me Money? edit to /r/dankmemesfromsite19 with the image, gaining over 280 points (shown below, right).
On March 25th, 2019, Urban Dictionary user jeesus_himself posted a definition to the site, defining it as “a meme that didnt really get that big but was very deep fried” (shown below).
Various Examples
Search Interest
Know Your Meme Store
External References
Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cornn-flaek