This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Then we beat that dead horse until all that's left is a singular bottle of Elmer's glue and errant pieces of mane. We, the troll people of the internet, know how to take an isolated moment and blow it up into abject absurdity. If 2020's best memes represented our growing detachment from reality, 2021 is all about what happens once we've fully flown away from sanity, Sandra-Bullock-in-Gravity-style. And we've taken note and turned these pop culture moments into internet culture staples.Įven the solemn moments of President Joe Biden's inauguration have given us something to turn into online fodder. (See: Lil Nas X going to hell.) And Oprah-Oprah!-is interviewing people again. (See: The Suez Canal meme.) We've found joy in unexpected places. After a year of practice-a residency in trauma, if you will-we have mastered the craft of taking a bad situation and turning it into a fun one. The weather is finally cooling off after a tumultuous summer, and things are, dare we say, hopeful? And the memes are just as ripe.
