Jim from The Office holds a '0 Days Since Our Last Nonsense' chalkboard sign next to a stoic Dwight.

Days Since Our Last Nonsense

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Published October 21, 2026

Days Since Our Last Nonsense comes from a May 2013 episode of The Office in which Jim holds up a chalkboard counting nonsense-free days before Dwight erases the 5 and writes a 6. Fans began screencapping the scene within days, and by 2015 artists were redrawing it with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure characters. By June 2021, The Office's official Instagram account was captioning the same frame for mental-breakdown jokes.

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Overview

Posts in this format usually swap Jim's chalkboard caption for a specific group, situation, or year while keeping the day count stuck at five or six. The screencap from Season 9 Episode 22 works on its own as a reaction1, and the exploitable version lets users rewrite the board entirely with Photoshop or templates5.

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Dry workplace humor drives the joke. If an office can only hit five or six nonsense-free days, the implication is that nonsense is the baseline state. An image of Mr. Krabs beside a 'Days Without Nonsense' sign from a 2020 SpongeBob SquarePants episode gets slotted into the same framework3, and edits range from fandom redraws to political image macros to burnout captions posted by official brand accounts6.

Origin & Background

Platform
The Office (TV) / Tumblr (earliest upload)
Date
2013

The scene aired on May 9, 2013 in 'A.A.R.M.,' Season 9 Episode 22 of The Office1. Dwight has been promoted to regional manager, Jim is now his assistant, and the two unveil a 'no nonsense' policy for the Scranton branch. In one shot, Jim holds up a chalkboard reading '5 days since our last nonsense,' and Dwight silently erases the 5 and writes a 6. Tumblr user newfluffytown posted the earliest known upload of the clip, a series of WebP files, on May 10, 20134.

How It Spread

On March 22, 2014, a Redditor posted a still from the scene to r/funny with a caption about a girlfriend complaining to her roommates, and the post gathered over 2,400 upvotes2. Know Your Meme user Cykron uploaded a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure redraw of the frame on June 2, 20153. Later that same month, on June 25, 2015, Tumblr user ggukist used the GIF to joke about every member of 5 Seconds of Summer swapping their Twitter profile picture for Doge images during a fandom bit9, a trend documented by Capital FM10.

Template use picked up again in 2020. Redditor El_Notabot posted a cleaned 'invest guys' exploitable to r/MemeEconomy on March 13, 2020, where Dwight resets the board to zero5. The Office's official Instagram account captioned the frame 'When you make it a full six days without having a mental breakdown' on June 26, 2021, drawing over 162,000 likes6. Young American's Foundation ran a political version on Facebook on May 6, 2021 that pulled roughly 3,900 reactions7. On March 14, 2022, Instagram page office_memes_daily_ posted an image macro reading 'Earth since the start of the 2020's,' which collected over 43,000 likes8.

Timeline

2013-05-09

Season 9 Episode 22 of The Office, 'A.A.R.M.,' airs with the chalkboard scene[1].

2013-05-10

Tumblr user newfluffytown uploads the earliest known clip of the scene as WebP files[4].

2014-03-22

A Redditor posts a screenshot to r/funny, drawing over 2,400 upvotes[2].

2015-06-02

Know Your Meme user Cykron publishes a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure redraw of the frame[3].

2015-06-25

Tumblr user ggukist uses the GIF to riff on 5 Seconds of Summer's Doge profile-picture swap[9].

2020-03-13

Redditor El_Notabot uploads a photoshopped '0 days' template to r/MemeEconomy[5].

2021-06-26

The Office's official Instagram posts a mental-breakdown version, which clears 162,000 likes[6].

2022-03-14

Office_memes_daily_ posts an 'Earth since the start of the 2020's' edit that gathers over 43,000 likes[8].

How to Use This Meme

A typical edit keeps Jim and the chalkboard in place and rewrites only the sign's caption, often setting the count to zero, five, or six to imply that nonsense is routine. Common conventions include labeling the office as a specific fandom, country, or year, or redrawing the two characters as figures from another show. The exploitable template circulated on r/MemeEconomy in 2020 made this swap easy5.

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