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#whoremembers
We have given up! Nothing says limited brain power and nostalgia fumes like this. Every single thing has lost meaning and purpose. The hashtag here is almost pointless. It’s a reference to a reference to a reference. Hashtag humor usually still works because the joke is always about being out of touch. Here it’s just another thing the kids are doing because the adults were doing it first. They don’t understand or remember why it’s funny to throw a hashtag where it doesn’t belong. Or they’re engaging with the hashtag seriously which is more than I can bear to think about. All this in service of a hot picture of a celebrity, one of the lowest forms of posting.
It’s not that all the fun is gone from Twitter, it’s just that most of it is. There is about one good hour of scrolling a day. My friends and favorites are still posting, there are just fewer of them. The memes aren’t what they once were. The discourse isn’t the same level of both measured and deranged. It’s all diminishing but it’s not gone yet. #whoremembers is not the death of anything but proof that things just simply aren’t what they used to be and probably won’t ever be again.
I’ve tasted [x], I’ve tasted blank [x] and I recommend [x]
This meme is trying to get to the bottom of something. What is the best thing in the world? More importantly, what is worth it? Academics and Nerds are always saying it’s academic validation. Others are saying it's love and/or sex. Others are saying the first warm spring day. For me? It’s watching a movie on cable in a hotel. There’s simply nothing better. Everyone else wants their carefully crafted tweet to reflect their philosophy of life or their goals. They want their best thing to be morally pure or earned or a reflection of their values. Unfortunately, this is a fool’s errand because the best thing in the world is being in a hotel and watching TV.
TikTok
Mark is Hot
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We’ve reached peak Severance. Perhaps the three-year break between seasons was worth it for the cultural force that it has now become. Part of becoming culturally dominant is having a comedian on TikTok create some kind of earworm about your show that informs how the rest of us experience it. The easiest way to do this is to write irreverent lyrics to the show's ominous theme song. Now every time we sit down to watch this depressing show we have a little giggle thinking about our inside joke with the internet.
Misbehavin’
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Sometimes things come together perfectly. The sound of Walton Goggins as Uncle Baby Billy menacingly singing one of the greatest songs ever written for Television, Misbehavin’ does sound like the inner monologue of a cat as they climb the furniture looking for something to knock over. It helps that Righteous Gemstones season 4 premiered last week but I doubt most of these people even watch the show. They heard Misbehavin’ and knew exactly how to utilize it. It’s free advertising of course but that doesn’t make the trend any less good.
My Millennial Wedding
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This trend is a minefield. The participants are mostly laughing at themselves, aware that they are susceptible to timely trends thinking they are a reflection of their individual style. Mason jars, barns, string lights, and mustaches. All elements of the millennial wedding that seemed to highlight individuality but turned out to be a passing trend. As the trend grows, everyone who has had a wedding wants to participate. Wedding planning on the internet is a beast that sucks us all in sometimes. Curiosity gets the better of us and we fall into the rabbit hole of fun ideas for a reception. Weddings are the ultimate party one can throw and this chance makes the people who are drawn to the idea of throwing a $ 10,000-plus party a little bit crazy. Once the party is over, all they have to show for it is their marriage. But given the chance to talk about their successfully executed expensive party, they jump at it. Even if the conversation isn’t about how good their party was. This trend is about embarrassment. We’re all laughing with the original authors. As time goes on, we will just end up watching slideshows of well-executed weddings under the guise of making fun of millennials.