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A New Meme Is Spreading Like Magic On Twitter, One Summoning Circle At A Time

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Over the past week, another joke format gained in popularity on Twitter. As with other recent memes like “you want this?” or Historian Sign Bunny, this one is very visual. The new meme arranges emoji (usually the candle one) in a circle with the message “summoning circle, hope this works” and placing their desired magic result in the center.

Many of the summoning circles expressed a humble and understandable wish for an object, such as the tweet above from Patrick Monahan, a spell casting which was super effective:

https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/1104214104825319424

https://twitter.com/WaxLumberHell/status/1104214026995814402

We’ll stop now, before this just becomes a post full of dogs in sunglasses, not that we’d have any objection to compiling a power ranking of exactly that.

It wasn’t just dogs getting summoned for the purposes of a Twitter meme. This cat tried to summon some critters, too:

https://twitter.com/daredeviIish/status/1103635453436137472

Other people made requests that seemed humble enough to us:

https://twitter.com/hellabold/status/1102664003401207808
https://twitter.com/jaboukie/status/1103824021144121344

https://twitter.com/justanothertown/status/1103697515038171136

While other folks put more pressure on their summoning circles:

https://twitter.com/alktomycin/status/1103475810608902144
https://twitter.com/dancing_dawson/status/1103375099187642369

https://twitter.com/TheAz_R/status/1103729967169441795

Some people were thinking outside of the box:

https://twitter.com/notviking/status/1104139003970744321

This guy made a classic callback to Stephen A. Smith’s greatest work. Take a look, y’all:

For the most part, people on Twitter were just trying to do their spells in peace like this cat was, but during these last two examples things went wrong.

https://twitter.com/ryanjjvance/status/1103372254161850368