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Assassination Coordinates, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked

Molly Bradley
Molly Bradley
Assassination Coordinates, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
This week we've also got nepo babies and Salt Bae being obnoxious at the World Cup.
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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 nepo babies, Salt Bae being obnoxious at the World Cup and assassination coordinates.


3. Nepo Babies

The meme

Maybe the most circulated and popular story Vulture has put out in a very long time, their visual chart explaining “nepo babies” has been an internet sensation for days now. It shows all of the famous people you might not have known also have famous parents and grandparents, and it just exploded into a meme extravaganza. So enjoy people dunking on both particular nepo babies, or the general concept, and have fun with it. It’s okay to make fun of celebrities because they have more money than we do.


Examples

                     

Jared Russo


2. Salt Bae

The meme

The following footage was memed to death this week, after Argentina beat France in the World Cup Finals:


 

A picture says a thousand words, and Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships. This old meme man, interacting with Messi, in front of the entire world, launched a thousand memes. I don’t know where Salt Bae is from, or why he was on the field, or if Messi knew him, but does any of that matter? No. Because comedy is countryless and transcends all languages.


Examples

           

Jared Russo


1. Assassination Coordinates

The meme

The main discourse of the past week was, as it has been for what feels like a very long time now, about Elon Musk and Twitter. But the flavor of Twitter discourse most recently centered around Musk’s decision to suspend @ElonJet, an account that tweeted (publicly available) information about the location of Elon Musk’s private jet.

The account has been around since June 2020, and Musk has actively been looking for ways to shut it down since 2021. At one point, Musk offered to pay the owner of the account, Jack Sweeney, $5,000 to shut it down. (Sweeney responded by offering Musk advice on restricting flight tracking data.)

Though Musk said he would not ban @ElonJet, he of course banned @ElonJet last week, for this reason:



Which… sure. It’s fine to not want people to know where you are at all times. It’s trickier when you travel by private jet and information about that jet’s movements is public information. It gets even hairier when you then try to base your platform’s ad strategy around forcibly extracting information about all of your users’ locations.



Anyway! People had a blast with the term “assassination coordinates” — a truly novel and delightful way to frame the concept of, you know, places.


Examples


Molly Bradley



And if you're hungry for more memes, here's the last edition of "The Week's Best Memes, Ranked”, where we rank HBO Max removing things, Evri delivery and “White Lotus” memes.

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