The 'Sad Kermit' meme will crush your hopes and dreams forever

Welp, this is the way 2016 had to end -- with a very, very sad meme.

Twitter user Jonny Sun started a meme challenge on Twitter that turned pretty dark pretty quickly.

Sun started by tweeting his own version of the meme, now lovingly referred to as "Sad Kermit."

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Leading by example, Sun challenged his followers to imitate his efforts to create a "wholesome" meme using the picture of Kermit.

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Never missing a chance for a challenge, Twitter users immediately stepped up to the plate with their takes on "Sad Kermit" memes -- and what started as a wholesome challenge quickly took a dark, weird, existential turn.

The memes started innocently:

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And then got a little bit darker:

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And then they really went off the deep end:

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Looks like everyone's favorite meme star Kermit ended 2016 the same way as the rest of us did.