UIt is not necessary that we tell you that 2020 is an American slides of intensive emotions, from disappointment to boredom to sadness to anger. You also do not need us to tell you that memes have helped many to cope with this long, long year.
The memes were force in 2020. Strength, in order to get out, force, to call for changes, strength, to find normality, the force of searching for the connection, more than when, the memes became a common language that connected the gaps during the blocking, but also expanded the partisan schisms. Cheezburger Cat and the success of Kid Memes of the young Internet have matured in the waves of jokes that betray a more piece, more cynical online community. 2020 memes reflected the Internet, which became desensitized in a burning house around him and phrases “This is fine” This is rather a request than a resignation. Memes and the Internet that generates them were pointed to a beautiful, sometimes desperate point.
At the same time, memes continue to exist, as always: inclusive inside the jokes and fascinating reduction for very specific experiences of life. They still reveal recognition and even the community, regardless of whether people communicate Influence Covid-19 on Mental Health Or approximately In anticipation of the order of coffeeField
They also continue to be joyful, immeasurably stupid. Do not look further than when Picture of carp Blessed most of Twitter at the beginning of this month.
Thanks to group chats, social networks, interruptions in colleagues and many other methods, the memes have united a lot, divided a lot and brought frivolity to an expanded crisis after an expanded crisis. Thus, when 2020 is coming to an end, we collected some memes that captured the true essence of this unprecedented year and left an indelible impression on the Internet.
Bernie Sanders asks again
It seems with confidence that no one in the campaign of Bernie 2020 could predict that December 2019 video From the then democratic presidential candidate, openly asking for donations when you walked along Snezhnaya Street, will lead to the screen that launched a thousand memes. But this is exactly what became with the announcement of funds with the participation of Sanders related to the cold, asking his supporters about financial assistance.
There are so many people left this year. And Bernie, who cracked in winter cold, provided the perfect avatar to ask for help.
Full mode SUE SYLVESTER
JoyThe six-season launch may end in 2015, but you will never know this from online memes. While it seemed that someone was working on sabotage all our lives from the wings, it is easy to understand why Suu Sylvester is the final saber McKinley High and the legendary Jane Lynch played in the popularity of memes.
The ruthless wrestling coach, seeking to create the most toxic environment, was a full mood of 2020, but this was not always not always the charge. While many used the threat of Sue as a way to get rid of those who seek destruction, the meme was also often used in the first person, they bring a little more chaos to the world with those joyful.
Animal intersection to help
A few weeks after New York closed, Nintendo released the perfect game to play in the middle of a pandemic. Animal Crossing is a game that relies on the fact that the players have enough time to spend on the collection, decoration and personalization of things only to show them to other people who collected, decorated and personalized their own lives. The game is a deeply relaxing, pleasant experienceFull of cute characters and charming moments. Millions of people, many of whom claimed that they were not permanent players in video games, delved into the creation of their island and found out what it was to be deep in debt to Tanuki.
Despite the fact that there was not a single meme that covered the Internet, the animals inspired multiple reefs, one is turned off, sucks and fandoms based on the game. This wonderful game allowed to win in the game, and in memes it helped to create.
Pope Francis gives his blessing
There is nothing sacred on the Internet. Therefore, it is not surprising that the concept of pope photographing, offering dad, dad flew up on Twitter. Despite the fact that people have edited this specific picture since it first appeared on the Internet in 2013, Twitter users put a new rotation on the meme using the tile format of image of the social network site so that it looks like Pope Francis holds everything from Simba to Twilight DVD -Aunt Anna.
How it all started, how are you
Regardless of what, as you thought, 2020 will bring when the clock made its way at midnight on January 1, it was probably not a global pandemic that would send the world to block for several months in a row. Of course, that is why the format of memes, ridicuating scenarios where things do not solve, as you expect, was almost everywhere this year, even if it began as A brief way to boast of your relationshipField
Although this meme can be seen at the riff on My plans against 2020He not only condemned a year. In a refreshing positive turn, for many this meme has become a way to demonstrate how far they advanced in training skills, achieved goals, sharing children's pictures or even proudly demonstrate their personality.
The problem of the cart
It can be gloomy, but also 2020. The problem of the trolleybus is a famous mental experiment that asks people to weigh the ethical dilemma whether it is better to let the unbridled trolleyboon take their course and kill the group of people, or distract the trolleybus and kill only one in order to save others. The search for new ways to create this problem, with a height of humor on the Internet, has become one of the main online discourse of coronavirus this year.
The meme was often used to select binary choice, which, as many believed, were not binary elections at all. Can the richest country in the world allow itself to help save the economy afloat, or should enterprises remain open, even if hundreds of thousands of people die? Does we wear a mask of a face that protects people, those whom they love, and their community, or is it a complete loss of personal freedom?
Troll Press Memes questioned the very nature of these options and is designed to emphasize the absurdity of limited thinking.
Nature heals
How Carbon emissions fell At the beginning of the year, when the Covid-19 brought most of the world, stopping, people began to publish mental photos and videos Animals allegedly return to urban areasMany of these viral posts were the field misleadingThe field but on the other hand, they have prepared Twitter users for one of the best parody formats of the memes of the year: “Nature is healing, we are a virus.”
DW through the fence
Where the summer 2016 gave us Arthur squeezes his fist memeThe spring of 2020 gave us a revival of the popularity of DW, with longing through the meme.
Scenes from the favorite children's show PBS of the 90s Arthur For a long time they were feeding for communication with the help of online jokes, but perhaps never more than when people began to miss everyday walks – from making their nails to capture Margs with friends – who make life pleasant, staying at home among the coronavirus. Fomo is so real and, in the simplicity of the image, many immediately recognized their own desire.
All cake
In July, Food Food BuzzFeed Tasty Come video Compilation of the chef, cutting into a series of hyperrealistic cakes, decorated to look like everyday items, including COC shoes, a roll of toilet paper and a plant in pots. The Internet quickly came to the conclusion that in a year, when nothing else made sense, for something it was quite possible that it was actually a cake.
Collective anxiety “All Cake” has occupied power, and since then nothing has been the same on the Internet. This post is probably a cake.
Play how you feel
At the end of summer, Nathan Apodak reflected our own collective atmosphere Having nothing but a skateboard, a little cranberry juice and “dreams” from Fleetwood Mac. A short Tiktok showed that he skates on the street, taking a sip of juice and sings the words “only for you to play the way you feel.” It was one of the most beautiful moments in 2020.
Only on Tiktok the video received more than 77 million views. This attracted the attention of the co -founder of Fleetwood Mac Mika Flitwood. He sent “dreams” The very top of iTunesThe field gave rise to “dreams.” And he gave us all a few seconds to cool this year.
Four seasons General landscape
One of the strangest stories that were played on the national scene, which says something, occurred on November 7, the day when most large news networks called Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election. That morning, Rudy Juliani held a press conference in the parking lot of the common landscape company Four Seasons, located in the north -east of Philadelphia between a sex store and a crematorium.
At 9:35 that day, President Trump wrote on Twitter that in the four seasons a meeting will be held, which many have accepted the hotel network. Ten minutes later he Twisted againSpeaking “Big press conference today in Philadelphia in the four seasons of the General Landscape”, which, without being offended by business, many have never heard in the press.
Thank you tweet It would seem that someone in Trump’s camp accepted a family landscape business for the Luxurious Downtown Hotel. While the campaign of Trump denied that there was a mistake that prevented few people from suggesting that the entire press conference, knocked down with non-fiction, next to the busy, noisy highway, was a huge self-control.
Do not worry about what is in the vaccine
As a misinformation around the recently introduced COVID-19 vaccinations increased – development, which led to an increase Vaccine indecision Among the Americans, the no-free pro-vaksers turned to the memes to console those who are afraid to vaccinate.
One of them is increasingly popular online -it asks people to reconsider their thoughts about the vaccine, if they, when they, participated in a number of general experiments, which potentially can have more alarming side effects.
