Meme Report 3/16

Losing Was Good For Timmy Actually

Wrote 2 mean girl moments this weekend: One about the Best Picture nominees in case you still need a hit, and one about the First Lady of New York City and why the girlies like her so much.

Mean Girl Moment

Twitter

Oscars

Even when I’m not having fun, I’m having fun. This year, I was disappointed by every outcome because I couldn’t bring myself to root for the Big 3. OBAA was fine, Sinners was good until the vampires showed up, and Hamnet was quite simply not my bag. Even Sentimental Value, which I was ready to love, I did not love. I can’t go into Oscar night with high hopes for The Secret Agent because while I loved the movie, I’m not a moron. I know how these things go.

I loved what I always love: people being snarky on Twitter. It’s still fun. It’s fun to be with people building the same narrative you are. When Timmy lost the Oscar, it was fun to see the spin zone work in real time. Our takeaway on #teamtimmy is that this is good, we just don’t know how yet. I laughed. I cried. I shook my head in disagreement. It was as good a night as any, but maybe not the best.

The days after the Oscars always leave me with an empty feeling. What now? I’ve seen all the movies I wanted to see. There’s no point in watching all the nominated shorts in one sitting now. There is no deadline approaching. What do I think about? What’s happening in culture? What is the overarching narrative that all of this is leading towards? The party’s over. We just have to wait until the next invitation comes along. Hopefully, it’s coming sooner than we think.

Industry gifs

Industry may have ended a few weeks ago, but it lives on in gifs. Gifs can go either way in terms of free advertising. Being served the GIF of “strict asian obama” 10 times a day is not enough to turn consumers into viewers. But it isn’t nothing. As a Day 1 industry fan, I applaud everyone for their efforts. There’s only 1 more season left, but we still have the Emmys to go. Let’s see if we can turn the GIF of Harper walking on the boat into hardware for our girls.

TikTok

Sofi Tukker at Salt Hank

@sofitukkerPURPLE HAT WITH @salt hank

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This event is neither important nor noteworthy, but I’ve seen every angle of it. Eventually, you run out of stupid content living in New York, and all they can show you is the same stupid content from a different angle. I knew who both of these people were independently, but neither of them felt noteworthy enough to tell the rest of you about until now. Sofi Tukker is an electronic music duo that I have to know about because I lived in LA, and Salt Hank is a food influencer who went brick and mortar and now runs a sandwich shop in Lower Manhattan that only sells French Dips. They did a collab, and everyone who works for them was there. Seeing more than one video about this pissed me off about the life I have chosen for myself. This is part of the reason I feel so depressed by the end of Oscar Season. This is what I have to look at instead. Is that all there is?

Harry Styles American Girls

@tswifteverlarkgood morning! #harrystyles #barackobama #hobama #fyp

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All Harry Styles Music sounds like it’s been translated into English to me. His birthday is the day after mine, so I am unimpressed by his nonsense. I think it’s beneath us to do a half assed aquarius performance for normies. He was more interesting to me when he was trying to hide his weirdness, but now that he’s an adult and allowed to be weird, he’s not that interesting. Sometimes it’s better to let people know that you’re trying to be normal and can’t help yourself, rather than “being yourself” and have everyone respond that you are more or less normal. Leave a little to the imagination. But the one thing I’ll give him credit for is that when his music gets released, it is a wall of sound to me. I don’t even register that it’s playing, which sometimes can be good. It’s not great, but it’s not that bad either.