Dany Kind Of Forgot About The Iron Fleet is a catchphrase pulled from a Game of Thrones commentary segment in which co-creator David Benioff casually says Daenerys Targaryen "kind of forgot" about the Greyjoy ships right before they blindside her dragons4. The wording landed badly with viewers already frustrated by the show's final season, and the sentence was clipped, screenshotted, and turned into a running joke about lazy plotting2.

The meme usually appears as a screenshot of the quote, often in the Mocking SpongeBob format with alternating caps, or as a supercut of earlier scenes where characters explicitly warn Daenerys about the same fleet she supposedly forgot3. Fans treat it as an on-record admission that the writers wrote themselves out of their own setup.

The format is typically used to mock a writer or storyteller who waves off an obvious plot hole. A common convention is to pair the phrase "kind of forgot about" with whatever object, character, or setup a story ignored, often as a Mocking SpongeBob screenshot in the style FireFissting popularized on r/freefolk2.