20 Cringey And 9 Funny Things Celebrities Did At The Beginning Of The Pandemic That Are Wild To Look Back On Now

Well, it's the three year anniversary of the pandemic.

distraught woman getting on the couch
distraught woman getting on the couch

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You probably remember just how weird March 2020 was, and I'm here to make you all remember all the cringey, weird, and sometimes hilarious things celebrities did back then.

sign in New York giving tips for the coronavirus
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Let's start with the good...

1.Some celebrities were *actually* kind of funny.

2.Vanessa Carlton made a good joke.

3.Kacey Musgraves compared the initial quarantine to that week between Christmas and New Years.

4.Devon Sawa brought up Final Destination.

5.Rita Wilson, who was literally the first celebrity along with her husband Tom Hanks to get the 'rona, chimed in.

6.Taylor Swift showed her cat quarantining.

7.Conan O'Brien made a then very timely Lori Loughlin joke.

8.And James Blunt reminded everyone just how much he hates himself.

9.Really, he was the MVP celeb at the time.

10.But not everyone was so funny!

PLENTY of celebs did weird-ass cringey shit...

11.Vanessa Hudgens was one of the first celebs to do something ridiculous with her "rant" against the disease.

Remember she talked about "respecting the virus?"

Vanessa said, "It's a virus. I get it. I respect it"
Vanessa Hudgens

And her whole "yeah, people are gonna die" thing.

Even if everybody gets it, like yeah, people are gonna die"
Vanessa Hudgens

"Terrible, but like, inevitable."

"Terrible, but like inevitable. Maybe I shouldn't be doing this right now haha"
Vanessa Hudgens

12.Sia posted this picture that I still, three years later, have no idea what it means.

The word 'VIRUS' with the V I R crossed out leaving the word 'US'

I'm the virus? You're the virus? Us with a heart?!

closeup of the image

I need answers.

another closeup of the image

13.Bette Midler saluted "housekeepers across the globe" for keeping families alive as if we all had housekeepers or something?

Special shout out to hashtag Kenmore and hashtag Maytag too!

closeup of a character dramatically saluting in front of an american flag
closeup of a character dramatically saluting in front of an american flag

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14.There was THE legendary "Imagine."

They got Will Ferrell to do it.

Will Farrell participating in the singalong

Amy Adams, too.

amy during the video

Natalie Portman whispered the lyrics from the woods.

natalie in the video

And Mark Ruffalo did from his bed.

mark laying down in the video

They even got Zoë Kravitz by a fireplace 😭😭😭.

zoe in the video

I love how celebrities singing to us became a whole ass genre during this time.

15.Madonna made a video where she called the coronavirus the "great equalizer" from a bathtub sprinkled with rose petals.

madonna in her bathtub

16.She also sang a song from her bathroom about eating fried fish to the tune of "Vogue."

To her credit, we were all very, very bored.

Madonna singing "Come on...go...let's go eat some frieeed fish"

17.Jennifer Lopez was still with A-Rod and posting from their house that looked exactly like the house from Parasite.

They definitely were hiding someone in that basement.

J Lo's son standing on a hoverboard in front of their swimming pool in her large manicured backyard

18.J.Lo was really everywhere in the early pandemic days. Remember when she posted this selfie with a man seemingly screaming for help in the background?

I made this a while back, but it still holds up:

closeup of the man seemingly hiding interlayed on the photo of j.lo's backyard with the text, Parasite 2: waiting for tonight to leave j.lo's basement

19.Priyanka Chopra clapped to her ginormous lawn.

20.Drake posted a picture of his personal basketball court with the caption: "My life for the next however long."

21.Sam Smith set up a tripod (?) and took pictures of themselves crying.

22.Katy Perry thought Italian people were singing "Roar" from their balconies.

balconies in an apartment building for the tweeted news story

Except that clip was fake, lol.

Twitter: @PopCrave

23.Actually, a bunch of singers fell for it. Madonna thought people in New York were singing her song "I Rise."

madonna tweeting the same fake story

24.Jaime King made a video thanking the coronavirus, like what?!

virus cells with the text thank you for shaking us and showing us

25.Evangeline Lilly bragged about not socially distancing.

Evangeline said, "Just dropped my kids off at gymnastics camp. They all washed their hands before going in. They are playing and laughing"

26.Arnold Schwarzenegger told us to socially distance from his Jacuzzi while smoking a cigar.

arnold smoking in his hot tub

27.David Geffen (who is a billionaire) showed us this drone shot of his yacht wishing us well while he was "isolated in the Grenadines*."

David tweeted, "Sunset last night...isolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus. I'm hoping everybody is staying safe"

28.Kim Kardashian said to take social distancing seriously at a table across from her mother.

29.And lastly, Jennifer Aniston showed us what it was like for her dog.

Jennifer's dog sitting on her large balcony and taking in the scenery

Poor Clyde 🥲

zoom in on her dog on the balcony

Overall, it was such a weird and scary time. We're clowning on these celebs, but we were all so naïve then!!!!!