The meme spread because it's easy to do, and it's funny, but it's partly based on a photo taken of the boots of John Edward Jones, who wriggled into a tiny crack in Nutty Putty Cave in 2009 and ...

But if you need a further explanation of the cave diver meme, there are tons of TikTok videos out there that have the same general format and sound.They all point to the unreasonably small spaces ...

The memes started en masse last week when a TikToker named @bigmoneyjaytee posted a video called, "Cave divers for no reason," showing himself examining the crack between his fridge and floor.