If you've managed to get through the last year without too much specifically bad happening to you or your loved ones, then great — it's still been completely exhausting. Every single Wetherspoons at 10am on 21st June pic. On 22 February, Boris Johnson announced the earliest date we could drop all social distancing measures and launch ourselves headlong into The Greatest Summer Of All Time.
There are a lot of ifs. There are numerous buts. The Jenga tower of assessment dates and tests could topple with the slightest nudge. But for the first time we've got a solid date on which life could return, and it's just in time for England v Czech Republic at Wembley.
Some have pointed out that Johnson also reckoned last March that we'd be out of this within 12 weeks, that we'd not need a November lockdown, and that cancelling Christmas would be "inhuman". But really, can one man be that badly wrong four times in a row? It gets statistically less likely every time he's wrong!
That's just maths. A post shared by Esquire UK ukesquire. WandaVision hasn't pumped out many memes, but Kathryn Hahn's stage-wink as it was revealed she'd been a witch in hiding the whole time went overground as the series reached its climax. It's your regular intention-versus-reality gag, a bit like Evil Kermit, but this time the captions have had a more intellectual bent.
Politicians attempting to talk to The Youth Of Today invariably produces excellent moments, like the time David Cameron bored a seven-year-old to death. More bizarrely, Rishi Sunak tried to connect with the voters of tomorrow by admitting he had a terrible addiction to Mexican Coke.
That's, ah, central American Coca-Cola. AccidentalPartridge pic. Look at those lads, gamely listening while the Chancellor of the Exchequer tries to talk himself out of a class A-shaped hole by rambling on about high fructose corn syrup.
Sunak's not even correct here, by the way — Coke in the UK is made with sugar. In the future, the pandemic's equivalent of 'What's the deal with airline food? Ponton, who seems to be genuinely trapped inside a baby kitten's face, is commendably professional about the whole thing. Up until February , the sleepy parish of Handforth in Wilmslow, Cheshire was best known for its easy access to Manchester airport and the M6. But all that changed when Shaan Ali, a year-old from East London, tweeted out two minutes of highlights from a Zoom parish council meeting in December.
Jackie Weaver, parachuted in to help keep the beleaguered parish council moving after councillors kept bickering among themselves, bore the brunt of even more bickering. But instead of bowing to pressure, Weaver started kicking councillors out: first Brian Tolver, who questioned Weaver's authority; then vice-chair Aled Brewerton and unidentified friend and Barry Burkill felt the full force of Weaver's boot.
Speaking as a Cheshire expat, the mixture of bureaucratic glibness and foaming indignation at anything going wrong is a pretty solid map of my home county's personality.
Every single moment of the meeting's been memed or quoted in some way: "You have no authority here, Jackie Weaver! Read them, and understand them! It's the This is Spinal Tap of viral videos right now. And then Iain Duncan Smith made a joke about it in Parliament and ruined it. Still, if you're at a loss as to what to watch tonight, the Handforth parish council meeting is on YouTube in its entirety and runs to a tight 90 minutes.
The first genuine mega-meme of came, as you might have expected, from Joe Biden's inauguration. It wasn't Joe himself, though, with his air of steady competence and stable boringness. It was meme machine Bernie, and the mittens he was gifted on the campaign trail in Vermont. As soon as that picture of him sat like a cat, with his mitts crossed, was turned into a background-free PNG file, all bets were off.
Bernie went on a road trip around the internet. I mean, really. We've since found out that those mittens were a gift from teacher Jen Ellis and that they're made of recycled materials and are technically 'smittens', an amalgam of mittens and a sweater. Ellis has since run out of said smittens, so don't both trying and track any down. Sadly, I have no more mittens for sale. There are a lot of great crafters on Etsy who make them.
There's no chance of Ellis chucking in the day job to go full time on the smittens. If you're after more Bernie memes — and why on earth wouldn't you be — we collected some of our favourites in a Twitter Moment right here. Right back in July last year, Scottish postman Nathan Evans began putting up a TikToks of himself singing sea shanties.
Just after Christmas, he put up a very nice one in which he harmonised with himself a 19th century seafaring ditty called Soon May the Wellerman Come. The Wellerman. Which is lovely on its own, and it's racked up 4.
But early in January, the world realised that TikTok had done its Ratatouille: the Musical thing with it, and turned it into a swoon-worthy piece of folk vocalising. That was the point at which it went properly overground. As in, the New York Times did a piece on it and Evans got roped in to explain himself on the Today programme.
I thought there must have been a demand. Evans reckons that despite how tricky that alto line sounds, the simplicity of the sea shanty is its strength, as well as the communal sing-along aspect. Well, not quite everything and everyone. The missing ingredient was, it turns out, an absolutely belting bassline.
The Wellerman Sea Shanty is Funky pic. As you've probably seen, there's a bit of resistance to the newly and speedily developed vaccines going around, and a lot of misinformation. Claims that the various different jabs aren't safe they are or are part of some conspiracy to monitor you they aren't or could make your feet turn into a mass of purple sores they can't have been flying around since early December, and there are a lot of other baseless, unscientific ideas floating on the breeze too.
Obviously, you're not automatically an idiot if scare stories scare you. That's rather the point. But, as many people pointed out, all of the vaccines are a lot safer than many of the things you do and ingest on a fairly regular basis. The outside world is full of far more potentially dangerous fluids than a rigorously tested vaccine. And especially if you're in North London, just walking to get the bus could potentially land you with Legionnaires' disease.
There's been a dead pigeon hanging from that bridge for months now. When will it drop? And who will the pigeon of Damocles drop on? With the state being particularly slow to give out election updates, the home of Las Vegas became the butt of many jokes.
With being a complete and utter mess, many associated the year with the Titanic sinking, and the meme creators being the musicians keeping everyone calm as the world sinks into oblivion.
While brought us dark times, our favorite tech companies gave us dark mode. Appropriately matching our moods. In a world of nonstop video calls, true friendship is when the call disconnects and you both decide not to call back. Whether it was laughing at the absolute absurdity of this year or the funny text you just sent your roommate, this meme says it all. To all of the meme-ers out there—we thank you. Your wit and creativity have helped us laugh our way through this crazy year.
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If your FYP is on tik tok u probably have seen people try to set themselves on fire or give their friends concussions bruh tik tok theese days. We've deliberated thoroughly over why human beings want so desperately to consume Tide Pods, but what about the other inedible objects that nonetheless make our mouths water? All forbidden, all irresistible. We're not sure if this qualifies more as a "cursed" meme, but it brings us joy all the same. Every few years or so, there's a powerful resurgence of both Harry Potter and Twilight , as the newest generation precedes to meme them to within an inch of their lives.
This year, it's reared its twin heads on Tiktok, where Gen Z has been making cringeworthy POV videos, usually involving the subject dating one or more characters in either universe. In our strange, anxiety-ridden times, there's a certain wistful longing for a simpler life, perhaps as a cat massaging the back of a pregnant sheep , or a lovingly rendered flower in a Studio Ghibli movie.
Everyone wants to get away from it all sometimes -- not just get away, but become something smaller, simpler, more primal and more boring, and this meme encapsulates that exact feeling. TikTok is a strange, irreverent place, so it makes all the sense in the known universe that its creators would find a way to turn a worldwide pandemic into a meme. The result is someone saying "it's corona time… hey, it's corona time right now" over and over again over the intro of club track "Don't Stop the Rock" by Freestyle from According to the Los Angeles Times , user playboierik21 made the original sound that's blown up to remind the world to wash your hands and wear a mask outside and for less sincere, more deranged content about dousing your phones in hydrogen peroxide or opening doors with your mouth.
The Witcher dropped on Netflix at the tail end of December , yes, but the memes have kept chugging along as the decade turned over and more and more people aggressively binged the fantasy series.
The main character, Geralt of Rivia, has two catchphrases: "Hmm" and " fuck ," and every time he grumbles either of them have been compiled into supercuts as they inevitably would. There are paragraphs and paragraphs, whole analytical papers, to be written about every aspect of this TikTok.
The dead-eyed stare into the camera lens. The way one of them answers, "Mona Lisa," like of course that's the answer. The perfectly in-sync, identically inflected "Da Vinky??? All the way back in , Chance the Rapper fired off an earnest tweet about the importance of self-care, starting with "cancelling plans to read is ok. Hence, these memes that usually use the plot of a movie above: Parasite to justify "doing what you have to do to cope.
If there's one thing the internet will never stop loving, it's former vampire and current Batman Robert Pattinson. When an image surfaced of RPattz rigidly standing in a kitchen wearing an Adidas jacket and Timbs, allegedly a costume test for the Safdie brothers' Good Time , it was everywhere within days, on Twitter, TikTok, and even edited into iconic Pattinson vehicles Twilight and Harry Potter.
Although, given Pattinson's quarantine habits , we'd also believe that this was just a random photo of him in his own kitchen. Still, we can't help but laugh at the whistling song and real-life take on a shy anime character's pose of their toes turned inward and index fingers touching that cosplayers also a big topic for people to make fun of on TikTok coopted.
An out-of-context Glee screenshot in which Jane Lynch's Sue Sylvester plots to ruin the glee club became one of the best meme formats of the year when people started tinkering with the onscreen subtitles, subbing in other words to make humorous situations.
An early but no less powerful meme of involved an innocuous question posed by Gossip Girl 's Serena van der Woodsen and answered by Blair Waldorf rearranging the "Gossip" part of the letters of the show's title card. Why did the U.
Oil, girl. What is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter? Pi, girl. Peppa who? Pig, girl. This one's been around for a while, as a mercilessly re-edited image, but given how 's socially distanced quarantine has made life's most mundane tasks seem more pointless by the day, the meme came roaring back in text-based form. Every day we put on our silly little sweatpants and check our silly little emails and have a silly little mental breakdown over whether we'll be allowed to go get some silly little drinks with our silly little friends ever again.
This mildly disgusting trend has faceless people dressed in oversized sweatshirts where the sleeves cover most of their hands, a la Ariana Grande. Only here, the memers neglect to roll up their sleeves, dipping sweatshirt-covered hands into piles of mashed potatoes and saucy gravy for a Thanksgiving feast or some other sloppy food item.
We've also seen the occasional activity, ie. This trend started in late , but we're rooting for it to get even more popular in because for as gross as these videos tend to be, they're also very, very funny.
Uncut Gems , our favorite movie from , is inherently memeable. Adam Sandler? As a Diamond District dealer? Who's addicted to risky gambling?? Kevin Garnett??? A gemstone Furby???? Six-way parlay?????? Especially in the wake of the film's Oscar snubs, a few choice screenshots have become memes, including the Sandman's confrontation with his bookie telling him that's the dumbest best he's ever heard "I disagree.
New Yorkers have specific preferences for many things, one of which is their choice of seat on the subway. Renegade is THE hottest dance on TikTok, an app that has no shortage of people trying to create viral dance routines. Learn Renegade now before the Facebook boomers inevitably ruin it. While "medieval" style covers of pop songs have been a thing for a few years now, they've finally hit it big in , a year where the similarities between now and a certain Black Plague era are undeniable.
Occasionally these songs will pop up on Tiktok, where they're used as ambience for whenever someone does something that puts them in mind of the Middle Ages, such as eating a slice of bread with cheese or carrying the laundry basket on their hip like a fair village maiden. Also, these covers slap, so there's that. Some context: Doug Dimmadome was a recurring character on the Nickelodeon cartoon The Fairly Oddparents , a wealthy southern business mogul sporting a mustache, a white suit, and a very large hat.
The moment he introduces himself to protagonist Timmy Turner got remixed into the song that accompanies the video above. People did all kinds of stuff with this sound, but the best efforts were making extremely tall hats and taking them out into public. A little context: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a long-running and beloved anime series one of our favorites of the decade!
That has gone beyond JoJo's Bizarre Adventure to other anime, like Naruto or boys' high school volleyball series Haikyuu!! It's weird, sure, but also very fun! Politics can be a dead zone of unfunny memes -- if we see another Nancy Pelosi clapping GIF ever again, we're going to lose it -- but the memes made from screenshot of Bernie Sanders asking for supporters to donate money to his campaign are pure gold, ranging from hyper-specific " I am once again asking for vocals in my monitor " in front of the stage at Trans-Pecos, a small venue in Queens to viral callbacks " I am once again at the combination taco bell and pizza hut " to the highly relatable above.
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