Meme Report 2/9/26
Get. Em. Banned.
Get em banned
Finally. An honest-to-goodness inescapable meme for 2026. There is something comforting about the dominating yell of a peloton instructor, someone whose job is to give in to the adrenaline of the moment while keeping their composure. They are our guides through the world of fitness, having mastered it enough to not only lead us but keep us entertained and engaged. We can’t help but be in awe of these people, especially when they have to express an emotion more complicated than “let’s do this.” This meme isn’t even all-purpose; it’s about finding reasons to post it so we can see her beautiful face and hear her wonderful voice once more.
Y’all Know I’m Canada Down
Tate McRae, Canada’s begrudging princess, keeps making the mistake of trying to be American. Being Canadian never matters more than during the Winter Olympics, at least to anglosphere pop culture. We look at Tate and can tell that she grew up watching CBC coverage of the Olympics and probably doesn’t remember when Bob Costas got pink eye. Tate McRae was forced to apologize to the good people of Canada and said, “y’all know I’m Canada down!” Not Enough. Tate McRae feels more Canadian than Justin Bieber, who I always forget is Canadian, probably because he got famous young enough that he was fully Americanized. I’ll never forget that Tate McRae is Canadian. Probably because that’s the only memorable thing about her.
My Steak Too Juicy, My Lobster Too Buttery
This, to me, is a very funny thing for a bunch of people to start saying out of the blue. Obviously, people love to come online and either complain about something that is not that bad. I like a meme that ends a conversation. We don’t have to entertain these people and carry out discourse about how to behave in public. We can simply retort with “Oh my steak too juicy” and move on.
America A/America B
The dumbest and least culturally aware people are now discovering that there might be two Americas and need to put their little engineer spin on it. The rest of us have been referencing this as the national divorce, or the two americas but now the blue checks want to do some cultural criticism because they don’t understand that some people are watching network television, and some people are watching HBO. America A/America B is the product of 3rd rate Start up intellectuals trying to understand culture, something they’ve never cared about before. There’s not even 2 americas there’s like 40. It’s a big country. The rest of us have all been talking about this for a long time. Glad you could join us.
Nutella Tricks
It’s funny to me what of the AI slop we are fed every day gets traction. We see so many attention-getting videos and spammy sentences its a wonder to me that certain phrases get clocked as more weird than others. How does anything stand out? I guess “Nutella tricks you learned in school” was the right level of nothing that it stuck out. It’s not a delicately balanced kind of incongruity; it’s too many things at once that we had to push back. Nutella tricks you learned in school is a bridge too far.
TikTok
Hockey Games
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We know how we got here. Heated Rivalry, touching grass, the American obsession with spectacle. yadda yadda yadda. How do I make this my job? I want to be in charge of the fun stuff that happens on the Jumbotron. I want to produce the entertainment portion of these games. I really think I would be good at it. I could be the Don Draper of Jumbotron bits for a medium market hockey team. I could creative direct the hell out of filling time while they figure out the logistics of a game. I know about Boythrob! I could find celebrity lookalikes! If I had the power to hire random people to fill time at hockey games, I just believe that I would do it better than anyone else.
Tell Me Lies
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I would have watched this show if everyone had told me about it before this week. Now it’s too late, and I feel bamboozled. This whole time, everyone was watching the Freeform original Tell Me Lies, and nobody thought to mention it to me or anyone I know until last week. I would have given this The Summer I Turned Pretty full court press if I had known about it, but I guess not. I guess there’s a divide now. It’s like when you’re sick for a day at school, and suddenly all your friends have these inside jokes you don’t know about. You’ve all been watching this show for 3 seasons, and it hasn’t come up until now? But as Bald Ann Dowd said, some shows are only visible to women with class pass.
Can I Talk To You For A Second
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A long time ago, during a cold, harsh winter, I watched what felt like every episode of South Park in 30-second clips split-screen with footage of an iPhone game. I was never a South Park person because I’m a snob and found the animation ugly. I have an appreciation for it now as the Lingua Franca of TikTok. It is held in higher reverence there than another common gathering place on the internet. The recognizability of the characters in both look and sound, combined with their audacious vulgarity on any given subject, lends itself to a wide variety of sounds that can be deployed for any occasion, even the mundane.
Sometimes a meme comes across and I feel just so grateful that it hits me the way it does everybody else…Peloton lady is that. Also PS I agree your work is meant for the Jumbotron
Omg Bob Costas pink eye mentioned