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Ghost Face On The Train
New York has a new resident! Ghost Face! With this announcement, we got to trot out a rarely used genre of meme, pictures of people on the subway. We all have a favorite and they’re so rarely used for this specific purpose that it was fun to see them all at once.
Assassination Coordinates
It continues. The slow death march of Twitter under Elon’s reign continues on. This most recent round came from the deletion of Elon’s Jet, the twitter account that published the (say it with me) legally publicly available movements of his jet. Elon called his address the now iconic phrase “assassination coordinates” So far this is my favorite meme to come from the Elon stuff, mostly because it’s the only thing that’s actually a meme. Sure he’s fun to laugh at but I think we could do with more memes and less righteous indignation. Everyone is simply laughing at him for what he does and not making fun of him. That strategy was good for Trump who was often funny enough on his own and did not need our contribution, but Musk needs it. He has a fragile ego so the more clever ways we find to point and laugh the more fun we’ll have. Keep. Going.
Barbie Movie
The Barbie movie is going to kick ass. We all know this and it’s honestly a crime that we have to wait this long. I know it will be best as a summer release but PLEASE. I want to see it. We know what’s coming and every trailer feels like cruel taunting… six months. SIX MONTHS until we get bask in the glory of the Barbie movie. Until then all we can do is meme.
I Ate Him The Fuck Up
Speaking of the remnants of 2017 film twitter, The new Luca Guadagnino movie, Bones and All is finally getting a meme. Internet boyfriend Timmy Chalamet saying I ate him right the fuck up got some traction. I loved this movie. I thought it was equal parts beautiful and gross and silly, which I loved. This clip gets at all elements of the movie and allows for us to express our creativity. I know we can do more and I hope this is only the beginning.
Nepo Baby
We’ve reached the apex of discourse. Hopefully. I will be honest I can’t keep doing Nepo Baby bullshit in 2023. It’s like baby’s first material analysis. It’s a nugget of a seed of an idea. No one is really saying anything and what was once a worthwhile observation on how the entertainment industry functions is now just a phrase that means recognition, it’s about as useful as saying Cow Goes Moo. Hopefully this article is the last of it. Get your memes in while they are relevant.
TikTok
Anime Filter
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Every video I see with this filter has like 4 likes. I’ve never seen a filter so popular and so uninteresting. No one is really doing anything with it except for the obvious, trying to get anime girl titties. I derive no joy from what seeing strangers on the internet would look like as anime characters. There is no narrative, and therefore no interest, for me.
Transforming My Mom Into Me
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A classic Home-for-winter-break tiktok. The moms look good! They’re having fun with it! It’s clear those in the video were able to have some fun mother-daughter time over the course of filming. Both parties were equally involved. This trend is what the internet should be. Making silly videos with your loved ones and having a little bit of fun. A good way to spend an afternoon.
Big Boy
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A trend that makes me question whether or not people on TikTok have any kind of reading or social comprehension at all. In the original song, SZA says she wants a Big Boy, she tears down a poster of fit skinny evil Chris Pratt and puts up one of old fat loveable Chris Pratt. That should tell us all we need to know. In case that wasn’t clear, people never say big to imply someone is muscular or tall, so everyone showing off their tall skinny boy friends or their roided out boyfriends, are missing the point. It’s about needing a big boy for the winter and yet people are obsessed with showing off their boyfriends who look like their bones making creaking noises when they walk.