Well, it's the three year anniversary of the pandemic.
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.
Let's start with the good...
1. Some celebrities were *actually* kind of funny.
Yeah, no, sorry. Not gonna do "My Corona."
2. Vanessa Carlton made a good joke.
Don't go downtown.
3. Kacey Musgraves compared the initial quarantine to that week between Christmas and New Years.
I feel like I’m somehow stuck back in that weird time period between Christmas and new year where anything goes
4. Devon Sawa brought up Final Destination.
Final Destination was released 20 years ago today. Remember that scene in the movie where I quarantined myself in that cabin so death couldn’t get me? I’m doing that right fucking now, in real life!
5. Rita Wilson, who was literally the first celebrity along with her husband Tom Hanks to get the 'rona, chimed in.
From here on out, the only Corona I want is from Mexico and you drink it.
6. Taylor Swift showed her cat quarantining.
For Meredith, self quarantining is a way of life. Be like Meredith. #QuarantineCats
7. Conan O'Brien made a then very timely Lori Loughlin joke.
Lori Loughlin is wondering how the Coronavirus got into Princeton and her kid didn’t.
8. And James Blunt reminded everyone just how much he hates himself.
During lockdown, while many other artists are doing mini-concerts from their homes, I thought I’d do you all a favour and not.
9. Really, he was the MVP celeb at the time.
Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse.
10. But not everyone was so funny!
Singing “I saw your face in a crowded place” suddenly seems a little dated.
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.
One year ago Trump and Vanessa Hudgens had the same strategy to fight COVID19
Remember she talked about "respecting the virus?"
And her whole "yeah, people are gonna die" thing.
"Terrible, but like, inevitable."
12. Sia posted this picture that I still, three years later, have no idea what it means.
I'm the virus? You're the virus? Us with a heart?!
I need answers.
13. Bette Midler saluted "housekeepers across the globe" for keeping families alive as if we all had housekeepers or something?
I never knew my appliances as well as I’m starting to know them. So grateful to #Kenmore and #Maytag. This is no joke. I salute housekeepers around the globe, doing your best to keep your families well, safe and alive.
Special shout out to hashtag Kenmore and hashtag Maytag too!
14. There was THE legendary "Imagine."
They got Will Ferrell to do it.
Amy Adams, too.
Natalie Portman whispered the lyrics from the woods.
And Mark Ruffalo did from his bed.
They even got Zoë Kravitz by a fireplace 😭😭😭.
I love how celebrities singing to us became a whole ass genre during this time.
the celebrities singing imagine to us poor common folk during a pandemic
15. Madonna made a video where she called the coronavirus the "great equalizer" from a bathtub sprinkled with rose petals.
16. She also sang a song from her bathroom about eating fried fish to the tune of "Vogue."
Living in Special Times............thank GOD for imagination and fried fish! 🐠🐠🐠 #quarantine #covid_19 #staysafe #becreative
To her credit, we were all very, very bored.
17. Jennifer Lopez was still with A-Rod and posting from their house that looked exactly like the house from Parasite.
We can’t go out to any restaurants or anything but the service and entertainment here is pretty good...😊 #StaySafe
They definitely were hiding someone in that basement.
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:
19. Priyanka Chopra clapped to her ginormous lawn.
priyanka chopra clapping on balcony
20. Drake posted a picture of his personal basketball court with the caption: "My life for the next however long."
.@Drake documents his quarantine experience for Instagram 🏀: “My life for the next however long”
Which, like, relatable.
21. Sam Smith set up a tripod (?) and took pictures of themselves crying.
Sam Smith shares emotional snaps of 'quarantine meltdown' at £12m home https://t.co/RKaqDHAZ54
22. Katy Perry thought Italian people were singing "Roar" from their balconies.
Except that clip was fake, lol.
23. Actually, a bunch of singers fell for it. Madonna thought people in New York were singing her song "I Rise."
24. Jaime King made a video thanking the coronavirus, like what?!
25. Evangeline Lilly bragged about not socially distancing.
26. Arnold Schwarzenegger told us to socially distance from his Jacuzzi while smoking a cigar.
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*."
28. Kim Kardashian said to take social distancing seriously at a table across from her mother.
Social Distancing is the most important thing! Please take it seriously
29. And lastly, Jennifer Aniston showed us what it was like for her dog.
Poor Clyde 🥲
