Hello! Today is the day after my birthday. I am freshly 26, older, and wiser, with a fully developed frontal lobe that’s been kicking around for a year now. This means the birthday special is ending, but there is still one more day to get a year of Memeforum for only $25! Get access to special sections like Memforum Movie Club and Mean Girl Moment!
Preheating My Oven
The thing about gay guys is they’re really amenable to adopting the language and behavior people accuse them of online. This isn’t the first or the last time someone has written a fake example of a thing a gay guy would do, and then several gay guys either admit to doing it or begin to adopt it. It is, however, my favorite. “Preheating my oven” allows people who would have never a tweet reminiscent of the original to begin “preheating my oven” posting, which is both the lowest and best form of posting. However, now it has become semi-ironic. No one is genuinely preheating their ovens anymore, which is a shame. Twitter is at its best when it is just strangers sharing their quotidian details. I want to know when the people that live in my phone are preheating their ovens and what they’re cooking, and I wouldn’t mind seeing a picture of Bjork attached!
Name A Male Acting Performance
The downside of the Oscar season is that everyone seems to think they’re a film critic. Twitter has a lot of lowest common denominator takes, and very few people bring nuance to the table other than “this is good,” “this is bad,” or the worst one of all, “just let people enjoy things.” This week we have been feeding the beast with prompt tweets about acting performances. Male acting performances where he doesn’t yell, female acting performances where she does, and so on and so forth. Each one gets more specific to a particular role or kind of role until the joke becomes too obvious.
My problem with this trend is that no one can decide who is joking and participating in a meme and who is seriously asking. Even someone who should know better can’t resist. It doesn’t matter whether the original tweet author was asking in a joking way or was just joking, period, and is now getting quote tweeted to hell. We all can’t resist having the final world or keeping quiet on our silly little tweets. Everyone feels the need to chime in without any consideration for the audience. I am tired of seeing these and want them gone. Stop talking about movies like this! Have an original thought!
TikTok
Rearranging Furniture/ Jamiroquai Resurgence
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As part of the family guy renaissance, there is what can only be described as a moment happening on TikTok right now. Now we could try to trace the roots of this, but that won’t help with anyone’s understanding of the meme itself. You have to take it as it is. It is Random XD humor combined with deep winter psychosis. Random XD humor has no need for nor any appreciation of explanation, so I won’t waste your time. You either get it, or you don’t.
Now deep winter psychosis is easier to explain. It’s what happens in The Shining but on a much milder level. You have come to terms with the new year and settled into the long haul of January. Except January is much longer than we all remember and of course, after January, there is February to deal with. This realization hits many, and to seek solace, we attach ourselves to anything that brings us joy. Here we have the musical stylings of the forgotten 90s relic Jamiroquai as performed by Carter Pewterschmidt. It’s a perfect looping joy that one can listen to make the days pass faster. The thaw of spring will be easier to imagine in our darkened homes as Carter sings, “Dancing, Walking, Rearranging Furniture.”. It will be even easier to remember when we’re all doing it together.
Proof That Not Everything Can Be An Album Cover
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I will always hate album cover memes. No one’s photos look like album covers. It’s fun to say about photos you took, but you should never post those photos and say these should be an album cover. They all lack the deeper connection of the album cover, which is our parasocial relationship with the artist. Rarely do we consume album covers in a vacuum, and they are often only seen after we’ve heard the songs out in the world. They help us to understand the persona of the artist, but only after we already have an image of them in our minds. I am not interested in album covers without a connection. That’s just a cool picture. Post it on Instagram.
He Quiet As Hell
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Every single one of these elicits a “so true” response from me. Whether it be someone’s cat or the weenie dog from Oswald the Octopus. I believe every one of these people are funny as hell, but only if they know you. Truly our best simple meme going right now.
Happy belated birthday!