17 Of The Best Jokes From This Year So Far That Wouldn't Have Made Sense 10 Years Ago
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Somehow it's July, and we're more than halfway done with 2023. A LOT has happened already this year — and, as usual, people on the internet have made just about everything a meme.
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So, here are some of the most memorable memes of 2023 so far that truly wouldn't have made sense last year:
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1. Every. single. meme from the upcoming Barbie movie, like the "Do you guys ever think about dying?" moment in the trailer:
the exact moment the girlies with depression were down for barbie no matter what pic.twitter.com/fvfSERJ8DI
— 🦋The Other Happy Place🦋 (@otherhappyplace) May 25, 2023
2. And the memes from the fact that Barbie and Oppenheimer open on the same day:
Their entire lives have led up to the Oppenheimer / Barbie release pic.twitter.com/w2FgLwhDg1
— Yann (@yannhatchuel) June 26, 2023
3. When McDonald's released Grimace Shake in June for his birthday, and Grimace took over the official McDonald's Twitter:
i have suprise on 6/6 txt me 707-932-4826 pic.twitter.com/gboDwOcWQL
— McDonald's (@McDonalds) June 5, 2023
That shake made Grimace the talk of the town:
mcdonald’s app wasn’t working so i had to go up to a real person and say the words “can i try the grimace milkshake please” pic.twitter.com/VpZC61lsAr
— Alex (@alexxmalloy) June 16, 2023
4. All the memes from Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime show performance — including the ones about her backup dancers:
unidentified flying objects entering u.s. airspace pic.twitter.com/0SbW5MSH60
— Brittany Shepherd (@brittanys) February 13, 2023
5. When the US shot down that Chinese spy balloon, and people came up with several memes:
BREAKING: The US government has neutralized the threats posed by the Chinese spy balloon.Below the official timeline and corresponding map. pic.twitter.com/8pKPyL52TF
— WallStreetBΞts (@wallstreetbets) February 4, 2023
6. All the memes from King Charles' coronation:
He finally gave us his Housewives tagline. pic.twitter.com/k4AdvqOqDx
— Josh Feldman (@ItsJoshFeldman) May 6, 2023
7. The jokes from Twitter users when Elon Musk announced the app will limit how many posts individual users are able to view daily:
— fresh 🥖 faguette (@SupaDupaQQ) July 2, 2023
Literally this:
elon even my own mother doesn’t limit my twitter screentime who tf are you
— rey (@thecallowayist) July 2, 2023
8. Ariana DeBose's rap at the BAFTA awards, which featured the iconic lyrics "Angela Bassett did the thing":
This has fully consumed my brain. I replay it every time it crosses my timeline. I search for it in quiet moments. I’ve seen it 84 times and it still titillates like new. I will sing it on my deathbed. Angela Bassett did the thing. It is all I know now. https://t.co/vHaGMt3sde
— Zach Kornfeld (@korndiddy) February 21, 2023
9.The MSCHF big red boots that took over the internet:
The jokes wrote themselves:
Yall gotta get the gloves to match the big red boots too lol pic.twitter.com/abSxbY49yj
— Malcolm Xcellent (@J_Nova_Kane) February 8, 2023
10. The reactions to Prince Harry's autobiography, Spare, which includes a lot of private details we didn't ask for:
A moment of silence for the sound engineer who recorded Prince Harry's audiobook 😳🫣 #princeharry #spare pic.twitter.com/JFggeCHUp4
— Munya Chawawa (@munyachawawa) January 12, 2023
11. The memes from Taylor Swift's Eras Tour:
Me getting ready to watch opening night of Taylor Swift Era Tour From bed #TSErasTour pic.twitter.com/7dOTJKJTFz
— 🧜🏾♂️🧚🏾♀️🫧⭐️ (@moonlighttsouls) March 17, 2023
A huge moment for the Swifties:
Help why is this so ominous sounding pic.twitter.com/HcFdzWDURC
— Jenna 🩷 7/29 & 8/9 (@spilling_wine13) March 17, 2023
12. The Pedro Pascal eating a sandwich meme from a clip from Snack Wars that blew up online, especially on TikTok:
Us watching you attempt to outrun something you tried to pspspspspspsps after we specifically said not to pic.twitter.com/gQq7sKQ8pK
— Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (@OKWildlifeDept) March 23, 2023
13. The reactions to Disney's highly anticipated The Little Mermaid remake:
the little girl next me in the theater watching my grown ass cry during the little mermaid pic.twitter.com/xF2QgmiU85
— ➐ (@pinkfaiyr) May 28, 2023
14. The "She's Everything. He's Just Ken." memes based on the Barbie movie:
they were the true 'she's everything ... and he's just ken' pic.twitter.com/5MUUDwi9Pe
— POP CULTURE (@notgwendalupe) April 5, 2023
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15. When Elon Musk's Twitter removed people's blue check marks:
they really took his check pic.twitter.com/KSyBRvc12m
— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) April 20, 2023
16. The memes after Beyoncé announced her Renaissance world tour:
DONT BUY RENAISSANCE TICKETS ON SHEIN pic.twitter.com/MTKqCrGoO7
— RENAISSANCE Updates🪩 (@B7Album) February 16, 2023
17. And finally, every joke about Threads vs. Twitter since Threads came out:
me logging onto twitter after using threads pic.twitter.com/aHB2tYqKwr
— Molly Morrison (@mollyhannahm) July 6, 2023
