Meme Report 1/8/25
I see I see I see
Jeremy Strong in Teal
There were a lot of fun moments from The Golden Globes that had nothing to do with achievements in film and television. Emma Stone Pixie Cut! Zendaya Possibly Engaged! Baby NessaRose! But the most important fun moment from the evening was Jeremy Strong stepping out in a teal suit. Jeremy is usually seen in something understated and brown. It sets him apart from the other men on the carpet and makes him look more like an intellectual and less like a movie star. This time, our boy is having a little fun. He can still take himself and his work seriously while taking some chances in the world of men’s red-carpet fashion. It was fun that we could then see him in every wide shot of the audience, like a little smurf. Can’t a self-serious actor turn himself into a game of Where’s Waldo for an evening? It’s not all method acting and Roy Cohn. Sometimes it’s a bucket hat and haunting the broadcast.
Emilia Perez Clip
I have not seen Emilia Perez yet. I cannot speak to anything about the film. Except for this clip all over my timeline. It seems insane. The music seems bad and it seems to have a very…. French take on gender. I know it’s not fair to judge a movie based on out-of-context clips on Twitter but I can’t imagine there’s a world in which context makes that clip better. The problem is that regardless of how good the clip is as a scene from a movie, it is enchanting as an internet video. I watch it every time it comes up on my timeline to see if the singing is as bad as I remember. I know the discourse for the next two months will be bad but it will mean I get to watch my favorite clip over and over again. That will be the problem at the crux of the conversation, whatever anyone says about awards bodies and their bigotries will be undercut by the mesmerizing spectacle of how bad the movie actually is.
TikTok
Mommy Can We Go On Our Plane
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The second and third seasons of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills detail the great American Tragedy of Taylor Armstrong. Like any modern American tragedy, it has also produced its fair share of gifs and memes. This most recent iteration is from Taylor explaining to her daughter that they no longer have a private plane and other ways their lives have changed since her abusive ex-husband committed suicide. We could spend hours debating how sad it is to lose access to one’s private plane given the circumstances but I am impressed that after all these years there are still moments from this tragedy, almost all of which were caught on camera, for us to meme. But why am I surprised? It’s what we do best. We love to take the tragic and privileged life of a blonde woman in California and turn it into entertainment. It’s easier than not doing it at this point.
The Sorority Letter
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There’s nothing new happening right now, there hasn’t been enough time for anything to happen so we dive into nostalgia. Before Bama Rush made us all PR consultants for Panhellenic, this was the most recent entry into collective memory for sororities. It’s from an unrecognizable era. Kids today don’t understand how the internet used to work. You wished you lived in the era when the internet was just starting to come into a bit of money. When Michael Shannon would do a dramatic reading of an email leaked to GAWKER for FunnyorDie. Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. We would all work for websites forever and the money would keep flowing and it would never get old. Now, the app reveling in a nostalgia I don’t think they fully understand is days away from a shutdown. It’s all diminishing. Cunt punted into eternity.
That Part
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I understand that Jeffree Star is a fun character from our shared dark past on the internet, but he needs to stay there. New people cannot learn about Jefree Star. Jeffree Star should not believe he has enough goodwill to mount any kind of comeback. I get that he is fun to make fun of in a nostalgic way, but not in public. Close friends only, babe.