Due to the pandemic and confinement, Spaniards have spent a lot of time on the internet this 2020. Part of this time, possibly, we have dedicated to seeing (or making) memes.
Humor is a mechanism to face anguish and uncertainty, and boy have we used it: this year we have had Ghanaians dancing with a coffin, big and small dogs, communist rabbits ... How to talk about all the memes would be impossible, We've compiled some of the most popular to remind you of what made us laugh this year, even in the midst of a pandemic.
JANUARY, the month of poems and #Pedrizia
After two unsuccessful attempts, in January 2020 the investiture of Pedro Sánchez as president came to fruition.
After years joking about
Peblo
, a fictional love story between Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias, a new imaginary love emerged with the Sánchez government: Pedrizia, a romance as false as it is fun between the Prime Minister and Queen Letizia Ortiz.
January was also the month in which we compared poets with their works and the #DollyPartonChallenge, a meme popularized by singer Dolly Parton about how we show ourselves on different social networks.
Apart from athletes, musicians or actors, dozens of museums joined.
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the poet the poem pic.twitter.com/OAzv4CFHsk
- a (@akapoulainne) January 24, 2020
FEBRUARY, is Sam's month going slow? No my
dear
On social networks, February 14 is celebrated more than Valentine's Day: it is the day of memes of Sam va lentín, a meme inspired by
The Lord of the Rings
that each year adds more followers.
So this joke that is over ten years old was the only standout from February?
No, my
dear
: this phrase has become a recurring meme to express that no, that we have come this far.
It is a version of the meme in English
periodt
("period"), and is usually accompanied by the image of a cartoon character with big lips, hoop earrings and very long nails.
It even has an Instagram filter.
2020 is THE year
Coronavirus: then not my heaven pic.twitter.com/q06jDFBNFB
- valele (@valelesantiago) March 12, 2020
I feel bad for those who do not speak Spanish because they cannot enjoy the memes name it pic.twitter.com/xNCXhYiJLc
- ari 🦧 (@froggyrights) February 20, 2020
February 14 pic.twitter.com/BCL5rdZNKn
- ☃️🎄 「Reczi」 🎄☃️ (@recshitt) February 14, 2020
MARCH and coronavirus, name a more iconic duo
March was the month in which the state of alarm began due to the coronavirus, and with it, the confinement and memes about the pandemic.
But not everything was going to orbit around the covid-19: it was also the month of
name a more iconic duo
(name a more iconic duo), a meme that consists, as its name suggests, in publishing two images that form a couple famous.
Although in other countries it was normally used to talk about tandems of fictional characters, actors, musicians or athletes, in Spain we were given for the decoration.
I studying the Black Death: I do not understand the subsequent artistic movements are basically shitposting of wanting to die
Me with the coronavirus: AHHH FILHO DA PUTA AGORA SIM I UNDERSTAND
- PutoMikel 🍷 (@PutoMikel) March 10, 2020
"Madrid grandfather during the coronavirus".
Utap Aitsoh, 2028. pic.twitter.com/DUaHH4hYjL
- Proscojoncio (@Proscojoncio) March 9, 2020
pic.twitter.com/UoN1JXPuBo
- Aarón Rodríguez |
ア ー ロ ン (@thiscantbeempty) March 6, 2020
APRIL, the month of the Ghanaians of the coffin
There are pictures that have no sound, but you can hear them.
The same is the case with the videos of Ghanaians dancing with a coffin on their shoulders.
This meme, known as
coffin dance
("the dance of the coffin") has hundreds of versions, but all follow the same scheme.
First, you see some images of someone about to get into trouble: it could be a spectacular fall, a situation that looks to end badly ... But, just before it happens, the sequence is cut and some individuals in suits appear , dancing in an exaggerated way with a coffin on his shoulders.
They are coffin bearers, a common profession in Ghana, and in
Verne
we spent a day with them.
April was also the month in which nature made its way through Spanish cities, both in its real version –in some towns you could see wild boars, mountain goats or peacocks roaming freely– and in humorous terms.
the dolls of the traffic light walking freely.
nature returns to its natural habitat.
the virus is us https://t.co/2jOHOzEtvY
- 🦧 (@beyonsesa) April 29, 2020
This photo comes to me from New York.
Two weeks of confinement and the animals are already recovering their space.
The virus is us.
pic.twitter.com/b8vSQPzzUf
- Javi Martín (@georgebest_) April 6, 2020
MAY, the month of the dog (big and small)
One of the most used memes this year, which continues to be used even seven months after its birth, is that of the big dog and the small dog.
This photomontage serves to make parodic comparisons: between eras, generations, professions ... And the small dog does not usually come out very well.
May was also the month in which we realized that the plans we had for 2020 were one thing and the 2020 plans for us were quite another.
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My plans // 2020 pic.twitter.com/t8pWt7rtyV
- Jacob |
🧚🏼♂️ #Approve (@jacoblablaa) May 17, 2020
my plans 2020 pic.twitter.com/lQvnKE1nIZ
- Isomaeru (@Timainas_) May 18, 2020
JUNE, "we have" a meme
It is very likely that, walking through Twitter or Instagram this summer, you
came across
an image of the
Looney Tunes
that clearly did not appear in any chapter of the series.
It features Bugs Bunny, the communist hammer and sickle, and the text "we have" on a red background.
It is a comic montage –the original image comes from a 1940 short film– that is used to talk, with humor, about how beautiful it is to share.
Springfield: I have a tree with
Shelbyville
lemons
: pic.twitter.com/vQjGzzRIca
- Simpson ｃｒａｐ Memes (@simpsoncrapmeme) June 18, 2020
Girl: I have to piss
The rest of the girls in the group: pic.twitter.com/znAeGLGOzp
- 🎄🐱 Kittens that cure your depression 🐱🎄 (@gatitos_qctd) June 17, 2020
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JULY, the month made of cake
Tuba Geçkil is a Turkish pastry chef specialized in cakes that do not look like cakes: she makes cakes in the shape of other sweets or fruits, savory dishes ... and even a pot or slippers.
His works are so realistic that, when they were popularized in July on Twitter, many users joined in the joke that, in reality, absolutely everything in this world was made of cake.
I also want to make the bad cake joke.
pic.twitter.com/8eDRzQHZWM
- Chris G. Represa (COMMISSIONS OPEN) (@CGRepresa) July 12, 2020
‼ ️‼ ️ DID YOU KNOW WHAT ... In Goya's painting "Saturn devouring his son", actually Saturn was checking if his son was made of cake pic.twitter.com/o0uZRp9pec
- Properly Xmas Xexu (@xexu_fernandez) July 12, 2020
guys please i told you i am not made of cake is a lie please guys nooo pic.twitter.com/pzb3jEY9JI
- l'èric (@erkascinc) July 12, 2020
AUGUST had a meme, but ...
At the beginning of August, a meme to make jokes without making them became popular in Spain.
They all used the same template: they start with "I have a joke about [any topic here], but ...", and then the reason why the joke cannot be told is told.
Which is actually the joke itself.
I have a joke about machismo but they have to explain it to me first.
- Paula Púa (@pppua) August 1, 2020
I have a gore joke, but it has neither head nor tail
- Thor🇸🇪Ezno 🔨⚡🥥 (@Thor_quemado) August 1, 2020
I have a bankers joke but it is of no interest.
https://t.co/Wi6FyY8cEj
- Pijus Magnificus (@PijusMagnificvs) August 1, 2020
SEPTEMBER, there is an impostor among us
Although it was published in 2018, the success of the video game
Among Us
arrived this summer and, with it, the memes.
The dynamics of the game, in which the members of the crew of a ship have to unmask the impostor, is the same in which the jokes in networks are based.
And if you like bad jokes, you are in luck: in September, Captain America told a lot on WhatsApp.
Me after killing half the crew.
pic.twitter.com/DQbE83XuAW
- Among Us (@AmongOficial) September 4, 2020
me in among us pretending to do my fake tasks when I am an impostor pic.twitter.com/1Rg6ogRp1I
- goddess (@diosa_os) September 12, 2020
OCTOBER, how it started and how it was
How it started / how it's going
("how
it started / how it's going
") is a meme with which, through two images, a story is told: the first shows its beginning and the second, the current situation.
Although its main use, especially in English, was to tell beautiful or overcoming stories, it was also used to make jokes that did not have such happy endings, but they did have more fun.
October was also the month to post four images on Twitter that worked like the four wheels of the supermarket cart: three work well and one regular.
How it started.
How it ended.
pic.twitter.com/M64jyldbTP
- MrFunado (Georgie Miller) (@MistrJorgetorre) October 13, 2020
How it started // How it goes pic.twitter.com/SZctd7IJHc
- • alberto • (@soytucancerfav) October 17, 2020
The wheels of the supermarket cart.
pic.twitter.com/LT0RyoIes1
- Things 🍞 (@subiendoelpan) October 19, 2020
The wheels of the supermarket cart pic.twitter.com/YtJoaUDOex
- Cirope de Freza (@ciropedefreza) October 19, 2020
NOVEMBER, month without memes (
ⓘ official sources claim that this is false
)
In May 2020, Twitter began enforcing its new deceptive message moderation policy.
One of the novelties was that, when a tweet contained information that could be fraudulent or false, the platform would include an alert message.
It was rare to come across these warnings on a day-to-day basis ... Until, in November, Trump began tweeting about the results of the American elections.
Many of his posts on the subject, even today, continue to incorporate this notice from Twitter.
Many tweeters appropriated the format by manually incorporating this warning at the end of their tweets.
November was also the month to put
stories
to everything.
"I'm going to start a new series"
ⓘ official sources decree that this information is false and that you are going to see Grey's anatomy again
- ً (@Iexiepcdia) November 30, 2020
My ex has written to me but I have not replied.
Ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
- Paula Púa (@pppua) November 18, 2020
now twitter has stories, in 2021 I imagine it to excel like this pic.twitter.com/jQQ9AL4Yyh
- kevin (@kevinlmds) November 19, 2020
Wow.
I spent this morning in the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca and they have updated it with stories 🤯 pic.twitter.com/QdCqGQNQ8S
- Roberto ツ (@Roberisamess) November 20, 2020
DECEMBER, the month DiCaprio laughed at us
Leonardo DiCaprio was, for years, the Murakami of the Oscars: He received five nominations before achieving the statuette, becoming a recurring meme every time the awards approached.
In 2016 he finally got the award, and he was not spared from the jokes of the tweeters.
Now, it's DiCaprio who's laughing at us.
As explained by the specialized meme page KnowYourMeme, the scene from
Django Unchained
in which the actor laughs with a drink in hand began to be used repeatedly on the Reddit forum last August.
In Spain, although it has been circulating for a few months, it was this December when it reached its maximum tweet splendor.
Me: I just came to change the oil.
The one with the workshop: pic.twitter.com/XuGkFC2vTl
- Miguelito (@NotaLebowski) December 15, 2020
Me: I'm going to cancel printing
The printer: pic.twitter.com/9fmmNh10pV
- Very Empanao (@MuyEmpanao) December 19, 2020
–Honey, don't eat even a powder from the box that are for the holidays.
-: pic.twitter.com/K77Ag69Of8
- Craich (@ACraich) December 18, 2020
My mind: "mens healthy in healthy body"
My body: pic.twitter.com/IImvd1hmj4
- Lizardo Bizarro (@lizardobizarro) November 11, 2020
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