17 Of The Best Jokes From This Year So Far That Wouldn't Have Made Sense 10 Years Ago
Honestly, I'm still recovering from Prince Harry's memoir.
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.
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.
— WallStreetBΞts (@wallstreetbets) February 4, 2023
Below the official timeline and corresponding map. pic.twitter.com/8pKPyL52TF
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
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