me explaining
a song I heard
years ago only
knowing the melody google pic.twitter.com/pCXHHH8e3i— Elizabeth Zaks (@ElizabethZaks) May 29, 2019
A relatable new meme emerged in May after Quen Blackwell tweeted a before and after photo comparison of herself with the description, “a mental health glo up. I’m so proud of myself dude. I literally LOOK healthier.” People soon juxtaposed the “before” picture of Blackwell with a screencap of Ms. Juicy Baby from an episode Lifetime Channel reality series Little Women: Atlanta to make it appear like the two are having a one-sided conversation.
The tweet at the top of the page was a particularly popular early entry in the genre, and here are a couple more representative samples:
https://twitter.com/DenisHolton/status/1125892987119181827
me explaining
my love for my
cat and how i
would die for him my cat pic.twitter.com/VoklIxcdDD— ♥︎ hannah (@shybunni) May 27, 2019
The most common theme of the jokes, however, was the arguments many of us had with our long-suffering parents when we were kids. And yes, we still want those chocolate scented erasers from the Scholastic Book Fair. Parents just don’t understand.
https://twitter.com/x_sxls/status/1133876269467283458
10 year old me
explaining why i need
a club penguin
membership to have
different colored
igloos and puffles: my mom: pic.twitter.com/G8VW4M3IS8— 𓍊𓋼𓍊 tony 𓍊𓋼𓍊 (@voguetony) May 23, 2019
10 year old me
explaining why I need
5 chocolate scented
erasers from the
scholastic book fair: my mom: pic.twitter.com/hk6Pu7pI0f— amina (@phenaminan) May 23, 2019
https://twitter.com/freakin_dani/status/1133805769567166464
Me explaining
to my dad that
I NEED to paint My Dad
“IDIOT” on the
back of my shirt
in 2014 pic.twitter.com/GEtesCnCVV— sam 🏴☠️ (@meluhme) May 28, 2019
https://twitter.com/pashmola/status/1133532274937479169
https://twitter.com/wiIIjem/status/1131673004939849734
The Marvel Cinematic Universe was also a surprisingly popular (though not too surprising) subject of jokes:
sam wilson explaining
that dr strange HAS to
open the portal on
steve’s left otherwise
his joke won’t work : dr strange : pic.twitter.com/lzhDNlCevY— closed (@jaeviy) May 27, 2019
2023 nebula telling
past gamora about
everything that
happened to her
in the future: 2014 gamora: pic.twitter.com/P35N4eTJ4k— follow @yelenaspugh (@peterquillsI) May 26, 2019
me explaining
why i need to
stay after the the cinema
credits even tho staff
endgame has no
post credit scene pic.twitter.com/kC2aaooO24— em •◡• | bIm (@dartsinvers) May 22, 2019
Me explaining how the
X-Men will be introduced
into the Marvel Cinematic
Universe My wife pic.twitter.com/0uldzV5m5i— Benjamin A. Vorwerk (@bvorwerk) May 30, 2019
Speaking of media properties that may be confusing to some, the upcoming PlayStation 4 video game Death Stranding continued to baffle the Internet:
Hideo Kojima People trying
dropping to figure out
something new what does that
about mean
Death Stranding pic.twitter.com/BlZhUTEZTe— Pınar (@CinnamonChuck) May 28, 2019
And some people chose to baffle law enforcement instead:
me explaining that
i’m a gemini and it was
my other personality
that committed the
crime the police pic.twitter.com/FMhcrQpPen— keely (@kexlyy) May 31, 2019
While other people are befuddling their partner instead:
me explaining
to my boyfriend
why we both
have to hate
this girl. my boyfriend pic.twitter.com/61w397GSTp— maybe: clare (@clur19) May 30, 2019
me at home
explaining how
the client wants
to make the my husband,
logo bigger an ICU nurse pic.twitter.com/1O9gVpPZ0Z— Aisha (@aishamadeit) May 29, 2019
And some just resorted to shameless pleading:
me explaining to myself why i should stop procrastinating vs me procrastinating pic.twitter.com/LAbVdORmBP
— piulia (@piulietta) May 24, 2019
https://twitter.com/uhfeeyuh/status/1134168879423377408
(Hat tip to Buzzfeed)