If, like us, you spend far too much time on the internet for your own good, you’d have seen an image of Meryl Streep hollering at the 2015 Screen Actor’s Guild Awards circulating.
The images played on our very human condition of screaming along to our fave songs, and thus a meme was born.
Britney: my loneliness is killin me
Me: AND I!
Britney: I must confess, I still believe
Me: STILL BELIEVE! pic.twitter.com/VSvdcsepKK
— EMANUEL (@blingspice) March 18, 2017
The Killers: It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?
Me: IT WAS ONLY A KISS IT WAS ONLY A KISS pic.twitter.com/pDsShTLWzc
— erika is okay. (@erikaofthestate) March 19, 2017
Alicia Keys: IN NEW YOOOOOORK
Me: CONCRETE JUNGLE WET DREAM TOMAAAAATO pic.twitter.com/9VM4tXytHs
— ???? Apologen ???? (@MissZindzi) March 18, 2017
Wheatus: and she doesn’t give a damn about me…….
me: CAUSE IM JUST A TEENAGE DIRTBAG BABY YEAH IM JUST A TEENAGe DIRTBAG BABY pic.twitter.com/mttA3ABS3W
— ? (@intoxicaitd) March 19, 2017
pokemon theme: i wanna be the very best like no one ever was
me: TO CATCH THEM IS MY REAL TEST, TO TRAIN THEM IS MY CAUSE pic.twitter.com/hs3QGVzbMU— marissa (@tylerhosephs) March 20, 2017
Outkast: I’m sorry Ms. Jackson
Me: I AM FORREALLLLL pic.twitter.com/7PBTk9DGjV
— Meryl Memes (@GassedMeryl) March 20, 2017
Nelly: If you want to go and get high with me, smoke a L in the back of the Benz-E, oh why must I feel this way?
Me: AYYY MUST BE THE MONEY pic.twitter.com/AkvbuoYSmU
— Meryl Memes (@GassedMeryl) March 20, 2017
You know how everyone does the ‘Friends‘ clap? This is the song version of the ‘Friends’ clap.
As with literally any meme these days, it got weird bloody quickly.
queen: THUNDERBOLTS AND LIGHTNING VERY VERY FRIGHTENING ME
me: GALELILEO ????????? pic.twitter.com/d7dsteEcmB— ?????? (@DAREDEVllLS) March 19, 2017
Not least of all because the Backstreet Boys joined in with ‘Everybody‘, undoubtably their weirdest track.
Nick: Am I original?
Us: YEEEEEEAH! pic.twitter.com/tU5Ez3lzxj— backstreetboys (@backstreetboys) March 20, 2017
Which had the most obvious reply:
@backstreetboys Nick: Am I sexual?
Me: YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH pic.twitter.com/aA5OPcscxA— libertadaça 2017 (@hadassahhh) March 20, 2017
And of course, the meme jumped ship real quick:
Miranda Priestly: But what you don’t know is that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis.
Me: IT’S ACTUALLY CERULEAN! pic.twitter.com/F33r8Y9Q30
— Sam Stryker (@sbstryker) March 20, 2017
Reddit sub Meme Economy – a dank place that treats memes like the stock market they are – had a weigh in, but Meryl memes have been debunked as “normie trash” (by deign of the very fact that we and other publications are writing about it, they absolutely are).
Get ’em while they’re hot, mates, because this stock is dropping.
Photo: Twitter.
