You can be a different person after the pandemic
Fine. Whatever. Throw up a picture of Don Draper next to the screenshot of the headline and get your likes. I do not have the energy to rally against it but… not our best work.
Just because you’re vaccinated
I cannot tell what side people are on with this one. Doesn’t feel like people are actively making fun of the original people who say this or agree with them but want to say something fun. It makes it harder to figure out what people think they can do after they’re vaccinated. I don’t hate it because I think it disseminates false information or anything like that. It’s more about battle lines being drawn outside of the meme and I want to know what side people are on and this doesn’t help me, a nosy gossip, figure it out.
My mom took my phone
Is this a real meme or do I just follow lil Nas x and he is retweeting his stans? Impossible to know. It's reminiscent of the Ariana Stan who had to tweet from her smart fridge and people saying the best way to watch Christopher Nolan movies is on an iPod nano. Lighthearted fun.
Pfizer gang versus Moderna gang
I love it. I love that Americans are so stupid and will fight about anything. It’s so funny and causes me endless joy. It’s a Covid fight that’s not about morality or behavior or even efficacy of the vaccines. There are three sides, for now, that want to fight and they are going to fight about it forever because there’s no right answer. I did not get a choice in which vaccine I got, and to the best of my understanding, most people don’t. You show up and you get what you’re given. Once you get what your given, you can go online and joke about it. Being Pfizer gang is the same as being assigned to the blue team in gym. It’s random and doesn’t have a great significance but I’m still gonna go hard for the blue team in floor hockey.
Talking playfully about the vaccine that we all should be getting, I feel, promotes getting the vaccine. You're excited not only to be vaxxed but to join Moderna Hive or what have you. It’s fun. We’re having fun. Getting the vaccine is good and joking about this thing that we’re all doing and all should be doing is good.
I Would Go to School If (Revival)
I guess there’s just so many ways to say you are all the exact same type of person. Every single version I’ve seen has been about the same kind of girl. It’s new and different ways to say we want to be Effie from Skins but now we’re a little more self actualized and are achieving it to some level. Living the coffee-and-cigarettes tumblr lives we always wanted. Would love for someone who hasn’t read and then based their personality on My Year of Rest and Relaxation make a version but it also seems like no one else is interested.
I Always Loved The Way They Loved
Everyone is allowed to make fun of Lana Del Ray but it feels weird to me to see her stans act like this is not part of her whole schtick. Of course she loves Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. It’s a weird thing to say about them I guess but that’s her whole thing and I’m not saying you have to like it but you can’t be surprised at this point. She’s been famous for almost ten years now, this is what she does!
Met Gala 2021
God I can’t wait. I love the Met Gala. I love thinking about it and I’m glad it's in the public consciousness again. I know it’s gonna be a lot of Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger but god what if it was all Mall Core. I hope everyone shows up in Gap or Limited Too. Claire’s head to toe.
Tiktok
Everyone is fighting. Feuds are not memes and I don’t have a job at the New York Times so I don’t have time to get into all of them. I do want to loop you all in on what people are talking about, even if it’s not memes. These are the various involved parties. There’s Onlyjayus, a person nobody liked anyway, who fumbled their chance to redeem themselves from a previous scandal by actively ignoring the black creator, Auntkaren0 who wanted to collaborate with them. Neumane has been accused of stealing content from black creators. Everyone is hating on this fake goth girl band who wrote a song about not hooking up with straight white men anymore, which at the very least is so 2015. Marcus Dipaola, the tiktok news guy is getting called out for spreading misinformation. It’s pretty clear cut what the sides are but if you’re interested, I implore to do your own research.
He’s Just A Bit Of A Fixer Upper
Ok people keep saying that they keep seeing white girls excusing their racist boyfriends using this sound but I looked at it for a long time and like there’s some of that buts it’s outweighed by girls looking back on relationships that were bad and red flags they ignored, most of which are about treating them poorly. Obviously there is a ongoing problem of women excusing the racist actions of their boyfriends but i think either those videos aren’t getting a lot of likes and views or we’ve bullied them all into deleting them. So good for us. I hate the sound now because I watched so many videos with it. It’s a fine trend on the surface I guess.
Somethings Only God Can Forgive Scream
Too long nobody cuts the scream right.
We’ve harnessed the power of the inverted filter to use it to our advantage. Good for us. I like that there’s two different sounds associated with doing this. Fun to wonder which one you’re going to get before the music starts. I do believe that the second one with the Olivia Rodrigo song is a psyop from Disney to get her to happen but I’m fine with that. It’s sometimes nice to have a PG version of a meme that doesn’t sanitize it too much.
I think this sound is fine. I see ones that I hate and ones that I think are just ok so I’m not willing to fully write it off. There’s worse videos on the app.
full newsletter dissecting met gala looks after it happens please (i've tried to comment this three times now omfg i hope this goes through)