Photos showcased empty shelves where the bathroom necessity should have been, while memes about toilet paper shortages and stockpiling started cropping up on platforms like Twitter and TikTok.

Costco actually employs toilet paper engineers to review and test the ... covering quirky facts, trivia, memes and humor. She is a former editor at Reader's Digest and Trusted Media Brands.

It’s a scene familiar to those who remember the toilet paper shortage early in the pandemic. Don Caldwell, the general manager and editor in chief of the internet archive site Know Your Meme ...