Twitter Is Rewriting History with This Hilarious New Meme Trend

Chelsey Sanchez
Photo credit: Twitter
Photo credit: Twitter

From Harper's BAZAAR

The first one that appeared on my Twitter timeline captioned the cover of British rock band Bring Me The Horizon's second studio album (a white girl with a short brunette bob, her hazel eyes staring at a point just above the camera, and holding a nest of dripping intestines in her hands) with: "gonna tell my kids this was hillary clinton."

It was the first drop that preceded a hail storm. After that, "gonna tell my kids..." memes besieged my timeline, swapping the cast of Twilight for the Kardashian family, a tree for Scarlett Johansson, and Destiny's Child for Mount Rushmore. Twitter did as Twitter does best, gestating memes from their templated beginnings and propelling them into ubiquity, before calcifying them down with millennials' classic, ironic acid until the posts emptily drift through the cybersphere. (Remember when "Rise and shine" was all fun and games until Kylie Jenner started selling the phrase on $65 hoodies?)

The concept is simple: Make wry, revisionist comparisons between two different people or things. Baby Yoda is Danny DeVito. Glee's Lea Michele and Chris Colfer are Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes. René Magritte's epochal Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe is, actually, a pipe.

Because I like to ruin good things for myself, and nothing ruins a meme like writing about it, I've rounded up all my favorites before the "gonna tell my kids"'s shelf life of three days expires for good (or, at least, before Kylie Jenner somehow figures out how to capitalize off of this, too).


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