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GONCHAROV IS LOWKEY GOATED WHERE SCORSESE IS THE VIBE

The Greatest Mafia Movie Never Made, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked

Molly Bradley
Molly Bradley
The Greatest Mafia Movie Never Made, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
This week we've also got so-called "free thinkers," things that are lowkey goated in certain vibes and Drake singing "Do your thing, 21."
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Here at Digg, we try our best to cover the most important and confounding memes that come across the timeline. But the web is littered with tons of great memes that never quite hit the mainstream and instead just bounce around the weird corners of Twitter or Reddit. Enter our recurring feature, Memes, Ranked.

This week, we’ve got so-called β€œfree thinkers,” things that are lowkey goated in certain vibes, β€œGoncharov” and Drake singing β€œDo your thing, 21.”


4. So-Called β€˜Free Thinkers’

The meme

This meme was so close to being a 100% innocent, pure, un-problematic meme. Just once it would be great to not have to explain a meme, or any context, and find out it’s rooted in weirdness. But here we are, having to deal with β€œfree thinkers” and people β€œabove” normal preconceived notions of β€œfacts” and agreed-upon β€œhistory” or whatever conservative nutjobs say when they’re outnumbered in their wacko rhetoric.

But enough about flat earthers and Holocaust-deniers and the like, let’s use their β€œfree thinking” to make fun of cats and stuff!


Examples

             

BONUS

   

Jared Russo

3. Things Are Lowkey Goated When ___ Is The Vibe

The meme

As Twitter’s impending collapse lives to see another day, Cameron Bradford gave us one of the most beautiful text-based β€” the purest form β€” meme templates of the year. Bradford, who is otherwise also very good at Twitter, poked fun at Zoomer terminology with an incredibly perfect sentence formulation. How great are things, you ask? Depends on the situation vibe.


Examples


Adwait Patil


2. Goncharov

The meme

Have you seen Martin Scorsese’s β€œGoncharov” (1973)? Wait, you’ve never even heard of β€œGoncharov”?! Where have you been???

In all seriousness, the place you need to be to have heard about β€œGoncharov” is online β€” specifically on Tumblr, whose impressively creative fanbase has created an elaborate mythos around a Scorsese movie that doesn’t exist. That said, I’m starting to think it should.

The jumping-off point of this bit to which the entirety of Tumblr (and much of Twitter) has committed was an old Tumblr post featuring a knock-off pair of boots whose label read β€œMartin Scorsese Presents GONCHAROV.” The person who posted it was flabbergasted, and so in true Tumblr fashion, someone responded: β€œThis idiot hasn’t seen Goncharov.”



Now, there’s a whole universe of β€œGoncharov”: users have fabricated an entire plot for the movie, based around two characters β€” the titular Goncharov and someone called Andrey β€” immersed in a forbidden mafia love story with a tragic end. There’s an official poster, images people are passing off as screenshots from the film, fan art, fanfiction and academic papers on β€œGoncharov.” Even Tumblr itself has wholeheartedly embraced the bit.



It’s gone so far that outlets are covering the tale of β€œGoncharov” β€” both in terms of the vast meme’s origin story and in terms of the β€œactual” movie.



And with that: please enjoy β€œGoncharov.”


Examples


Molly Bradley


1. Do Your Thing, 21

The meme

Okay, I admit I’m a little late to this one β€” but it would simply be wrong not to include it. Drake’s new album β€œHer Loss” has sparked controversy for a number of reasons since it dropped earlier this month, but the funniest one relates to a track called β€œRich Flex.”

In the chorus of the song, which features rapper 21 Savage, Drake repeatedly says: β€œ21, can you do something for me?” and β€œdo your thing, 21” β€” sounding, as one person put it, β€œzesty.” TikTok and Twitter users have responded by sharing β€œsassy” images of Drake along with the lyrics, or imagining how Drake looked recording those lines in the studio.


Examples

@barstoolsports Drake and 21 ready for the tag titles 🀺@barstoolgametime ♬ original sound - Barstool Sports
@cliffthegift πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ #zesty #funny #drake #herloss #21savage #champagnepapi #fyp #richflex ♬ Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage
@ashleykeno17 Bro sounding mad zesty😭😭😭 ib:@solmoney #GenshinImpact32 #ashleykeno17 #drake #21 #drakeft21savage #21savage ♬ Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage
@glossycostella Drake and 21 in the studioπŸ˜‚ #richflex #21savage #drake  #doyourthing21 #GenshinImpact32 #comedy #foryou ♬ Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage
@fylertunke

21 πŸ₯Ί can u do sum 4 meee

♬ Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage
@harleengosal 21 can u do sum for meehhh 🫢🏼  #drake #drizzydrake #herloss #21savage #21savagedrake #jimmycooks #foryoupage #foryou @kg ♬ Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage
@simo_ziqubu 21, can you do somethin for me 🀭 #drake #21 ♬ Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage

Please also enjoy 21 Savage reacting to some of the memes.



Darcy Jimenez



And if you're hungry for more memes, here's the last edition of "The Week's Best Memes, Ranked”, where we rank World War III trending on Twitter, some truly surreal clips of VP Kamala Harris and total Taylor Swift tour ticket chaos.

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