A brief bones/no bones day intro
You’ve probably already heard about this but, a 13-year-old pug named Noodle’s ability to “have bones” has become the new Mercury in Retrograde.
Noodle’s owner, Jonathan Graziano, takes to TikTok everyday to announce if Noodle “has bones” or not, which has taken on a sort of ominous prediction about the quality of the day. The presence of bones is typically a good sign: be ready for clear skin, bountiful crops, etc.
Theoretically Graziano could be filming these multiple times with different outcomes, which is quite frankly, a little terrifying, because who is this man to play God? Who knows.
That all being said, this trend, just a few weeks old, is already on the out. Rule #28904 of internet memes, is that once mainstream news outlets are writing about it, it’s dead. And this bad boy has been in the NYT, on the Today show and more already. So bye Noodle, I wish you a peaceful, boneless/ful life.
Beware of The Snail
One time in college, my friend Evan confessed to our friend group that one of his irrational fears was that, “snails are secretly really fast and we don’t know it and one day I’m going to turn around and there’s going to be a snail right behind me.” We laughed, but little did we know he’d somehow sort of predict a TikTok trend seven years later.
The trend actually originates from a 2014 clip from the Rooster Teeth podcast (holy shit now as I’m writing this, Evan did you steal this obscure fear from Rooster Teeth??? it’s fine if you did but woah I had no idea) in which the hosts discuss a hypothetical situation in which a person receives $10 million in exchange for having a snail follow them wherever they go for the rest of their life that will kill them upon being touched.
This scenario has quickly blown up on TikTok, resulting in stuff like this, this and this, imagining what it would be like to live a life of immortality while also having to steer clear of said snail. Why is this a thing? Who knows.
Life is really just us vs the snail.
Pop culture moments we don’t talk about enough
YouTube user fr0zenintimeee, you are my savior, you are my life.
For the last few months, this YouTuber has been consistently posting these quick compilations of iconic pop culture moments ranging from the legendary Rihanna throwing a stack of money at some guy at the 2015 BET Awards, to the more obscure interview where someone asks Avril Lavigne if Venice smells like eggs.
I live for these videos. Watch all of them if you get the chance.
Evil memes
I’m sorry but who would’ve thought that these “I Can Haz Cheezeburger”-style memes would consistently make me laugh in 2021. So simple, so perfect, easy to replicate, but because they’re movie/music/TV-based, you can make them as obscure as you want.
Required watching before the next one:
It’s the remix
Maybe one of the greatest joys of TikToks is how much talent is concentrated on one app, and how quickly said talented users move. This is especially prevalent with music remixes, how users can transform any meme sound into a song.
Take the Little Lad Dance, a spoof off of this absurd 2007 “Berries and Cream” Starburst commercial.
After that audio recently took off on TikTok, it resulted in a plethora of audio remixes like this and this and this, and brought back the original Little Lad themselves.
More recently, the go-to audio has been derived from this boy accidentally breaking his family’s dining room table.
All, of, these honestly kill me.