It's Time to Stop — Filthy Frank holding a large wall clock against a green screen background while wearing sunglasses.

It's Time to Stop

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Published September 2, 2026

It's Time to Stop is a green screen video and catchphrase from YouTube comedian Filthy Frank, who uploaded the original clip on December 24, 2015. In the shot, Frank shakes an oversized clock and yells the title phrase, a snippet fans quickly ripped into remixes, reaction edits, and image macros throughout early 2016.

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Overview

The clip works because Filthy Frank gives editors exactly what they need on the source tape: a subject on a plain green background yelling a short, cuttable line1. Remixers drop the clock-shaking shot over cursed images, awkward moments, or obscure fandom clips, letting Frank deliver the verdict for them2. The audio alone also works as a standalone punchline in short YouTube compilations and TikTok edits.

The still frame of Frank gripping the clock spread as a reaction image macro, with 'It's time to stop' written across the top3. It sits in the same roster as Stop Posting and other 'please cease' images that got heavy use across Tumblr, Twitter, and Discord threads. Editors also pasted the shot into scenes involving time-manipulating characters, especially Stand users from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure3.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube / Tumblr (viral spread)
Creator
Filthy Frank
Date
2015

Filthy Frank, the YouTube persona run by comedian George Miller (later known as the musician Joji), uploaded the source clip on December 24, 2015 to one of his alternate channels1. Frank framed the upload as a gift to fans who had asked for green screens, offering several shots as free downloads on his website3. The 'It's Time to Stop' segment shows him walking into frame, gripping an oversized wall clock, and shaking it while shouting the phrase on repeat1.

How It Spread

The first compilation videos arrived on December 25, 2015, one day after the source dropped, from YouTubers Popsicle Juice and Creepypasta Archives, both of whom bundled Frank's green screen pack into single uploads3. Standalone edits of the clock shot followed within the same week4. YouTuber Pyrocynical posted a widely watched single edit on January 1, 2016, which pulled roughly 400,000 views by February of that year2.

Tumblr picked up the still frame as a reaction image, with the phrase turning up on posts tied back to Frank's clip. Beyond video edits, the line spread as a shorthand reply in comment threads and imageboards, used to shut down anything from bad takes to disturbing content5. Urban Dictionary contributors define it as a response for 'when something disturbing is shown' or when someone says something stupid or off-topic5.

How to Use This Meme

The typical video edit cuts the green-screened Frank shot on top of whatever the editor wants to reject, so his shaking clock and shouted line function as the punchline. For static use, the common convention is to post the image macro of Frank with the clock, with 'It's time to stop' captioned along the top, as a hard-cut reply to a cringe post, bad take, or cursed image.

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