The Grinch knee surgery meme is kind of a meta joke. It's the spiritual successor to the Instagram meme culture of 2018 that birthed The World Record Egg and same post every day accounts.

"It was the Grinch on a sled stealing Christmas. A sled full of gifts and Christmas tree and he had his dog Max in the front. And it was pretty tall. That thing stood like 12 feet tall," Sanchez said.