On Sunday night, the highly anticipated Game of Thrones: Season 8 series premiere aired on HBO. The long-awaited episode garnered a record-breaking 17.4 million viewers across all platforms (linear, HBO Go, and HBO Now), a season-opening high for the popular show. HBO Now also posted its biggest streaming night ever, the channel said Monday. Check out our episode 1 recap!
The premiere may have broken television records, but it also caused quite a stir online, with an abundance of memes that resulted from the popular TV series. Whether you were among the small percent of people who didn't watch the show, or the majority side of people who did watch the premiere, the memes that followed were hilarious. We compiled a montage of hilarious GoT memes and GIFs from the premiere episode to get you through the week. ~Emily Chavez
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This dragon was looking at them kiss like "Jon Snow that's your aunt, boy you wild" #JonSnow #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/5VU2Qv2Pu7
— Chief🦅Rocka (@11BEddieV) April 15, 2019
Drogon after he sees Jon kiss Daenerys #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/pMn7y72KQf
— Domenic Z (@DomZenga) April 15, 2019
Just imagine a staring contest between these two... #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/D9aMV3hgJY
— Lucas Freire (@FriarrTuck) April 15, 2019
#GameofThrones
Everyone: Minding their own business.
Bran: pic.twitter.com/bLg0zKUkuq— DanOfTheNorth🐺 (@DanWithAPlan1) April 15, 2019
bran observing any and all mess in the seven kingdoms pic.twitter.com/M3sg4Vwu1S
— Bim Adewunmi (@bimadew) April 15, 2019
Bran just wheeling around Winterfell doing this GIF to everyone pic.twitter.com/gFKLBgEKlI
— Joe Caporoso (@JCaporoso) April 15, 2019
Jaime is about to go round 2 with Bran like:#gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/Ve26MN81II
— Ned Stark's BASTAD (@gratethecheese) April 15, 2019
Me when Arya and Jon reunited vs. Me when Arya and The Hound reunited #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/iyOeyYT5nr
— Garner of House Montgomery (@garner_mont) April 15, 2019
Anyone who doesn’t live in America avoiding Game of Thrones spoilers on a Monday pic.twitter.com/2CJa31kdQu
— Phil Lester (@AmazingPhil) April 15, 2019
Nobody:
Bran to everyone: pic.twitter.com/mXj8GM0nxw— jake (@jjjjake) April 15, 2019
Jon Snow everytime he gets rid of one title and they give him a higher one #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/DneHnXAcVt
— Bla Khodjo 🇬🇭 (@Kojo8baah8299) April 15, 2019
Sam: Well at least I have my brotherJorah: pic.twitter.com/vIbNw69HXV
— Teddy (@_yoTeddy) April 15, 2019
What Dany was rly thinking when she told Sansa the North was beautiful #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/FW4mU81LkG
— bolu babalola (@BeeBabs) April 15, 2019
Cersei when she heard there weren’t any elephants #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/Mo5PpmsyWa
— rimsha (@rimshutup) April 15, 2019
Game of Thrones is so good!!!!! Love Jon and Dany! pic.twitter.com/BTHBtrnJTl
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) April 15, 2019
Jon: I don’t care about titles
Sam: You’re the true king of the 7 KingdomsJon:#GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/7xQyp4Jc9T
— Chris Essman (@EMANcipated95) April 15, 2019
How this scene really felt
Jamie meeting Bran
😂#GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/V2BcaVAre8
— Chuks Dozie (@DozieCN) April 15, 2019
This is soooo funnny! LOL