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Chris Pine Dissociating In Venice, And More Of The Week's Best Memes, Ranked

Molly Bradley
Molly Bradley
Chris Pine Dissociating In Venice, And More Of The Week's Best Memes, Ranked
This week we've also got Burning Man, Biden's speech, Jerry Seinfeld posing for Kith and Harry Styles talking about how "Don't Worry Darling" is a movie that feels like a movie.
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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 Burning Man memes, Biden’s speech about the battle for the soul of our nation, Jerry Seinfeld posing for fashion brand Kith, Harry Styles talking unintelligibly about “Don’t Worry Darling” at the Venice Film Festival and, also in Venice, Chris Pines dissociating throughout the press tour for the same movie.


5. Burning Man

The meme

Ah, the beginning of September: the summer begins to come to a close, the smell of new school supplies is in the air, you start to feel that fall crisp in the early hours of the morning and when it gets dark in the evening… it’s beautiful. But none of that is as beautiful as the quiet and calm that falls over a number of major cities with the exodus of their most annoying residents: those who go to Burning Man.

In case you’re somehow, blessedly, unaware, Burning Man is a roughly weeklong festival that takes place in the Nevada desert, a few hours north of Reno, in a makeshift village called Black Rock City that’s set up specifically for the festival and deconstructed at its end.

It may have begun as a small, hippie-ish gathering in 1986 (though it only took place in the Black Rock Desert as of 1991), but now, over 30 years down the line, it’s attended by some 80,000 people who pay thousands of dollars for tickets, glamping gear, costumes, drugs and more, and who generate and leave a 100,000-ton carbon footprint in their wake every year. Not everyone who attends Burning Man is a tech million- or billionaire, but even to attend modestly requires a decent amount of disposable income and free time.

All of this is to say: it’s ripe to dunk on. Here are some of this year’s best tweets and memes about the festival.


Examples


But more seriously, the impact of the event is not negligible: in addition to its carbon footprint, Burning Man affects local native tribes, who have no say in the festival’s presence or location, and this year in particular, its contribution to the spread of COVID and monkeypox is an additional concern.



Also, this kind of thing does not look fun at all:



Molly Bradley


4. The Battle For The Soul Of Our Nation

The meme

On Thursday, September 1st, Joe Biden delivered his Battle for the Soul of the Nation speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. During the speech, Biden gave a scathing assessment of the Republican Party, saying, “(it’s) dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”

But it was the conspicuously dark red backdrop of Independence Hall that captured most people’s attention, which prompted many to observe Biden was standing with a dark aura.



Biden’s supporters and detractors used the setting to create memes and crack jokes that Biden was really leaning into his new Dark Brandon persona.


Examples


James Crugnale


3. Jerry Seinfeld For Kith

The meme

Car enthusiast and funnyman Seinfeld was thrust back into conversation on Tuesday, September 7, by NYC-based fashion brand Kith, who debuted its fall collection on him. The only thing I remember about Seinfeld, from around when the pandemic started, is that he’s making some kind of Pop-Tarts (yes, really) movie. Anyway, his appearance on Kith’s instagram sent shockwaves through a Four Pins bereft fashion Twitter. When you’re Jerry Seinfeld and posing for Kith, the jokes write themselves.


Examples


Adwait Patil


2. Harry Styles On The Movie That Feels Like A Movie

The meme

“Don’t Worry Darling” stole the show this weekend at the 2022 Venice Film Festival — but for all the wrong reasons. Director Olivia Wilde (sort of) addressed rumors that she and the film’s star Florence Pugh have fallen out, Harry Styles was accused of spitting on co-star Chris Pine, and Pine was spotted zoning out while Styles talked nonsense during a press conference.

It’s this last moment, which you can watch below, that has really captured Twitter’s imagination. In the clip, Styles can be heard saying “my favorite thing about the movie is that it feels like a movie”, whatever that means — and the rest is history.



Examples


Darcy Jimenez


1. Chris Pines Dissociating In Venice

The meme

Chris Pine, you sweet summer child, you poor old soul. Your career should be way better than it is, you’re currently doing press for what seems to be a potential bomb, and all that anybody is talking about is you being possibly spat on by a smaller, worse actor than you.

We need to throw this man a party or something to cheer him up. I mean, something besides the millions of dollars and extremely good looks he has.

But Chris Pine having to listen to translated questions and pretentious answers on the behalf of the press tour for “Don’t Worry Darling” led to some truly cringe non-reactions. Which, then in turn, got transformed into memes. So here are the best of Chris Pine sitting silently while the world around him burns.


Examples

                     

Jared Russo



And if you're hungry for more memes, here's the last edition of "The Week's Best Memes, Ranked”, where we rank Leonardo DiCaprio dumping his girlfriends once they turn 25, Taylor Swift’s new album announcement and more.

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