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IF THE (SEXY) SHOE FITS

Let Bob Odenkirk Look At Feet In Peace, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked

Molly Bradley
Molly Bradley
Let Bob Odenkirk Look At Feet In Peace, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
This week, we've also got Andrew Tate being terrible, Dark Brandon, Ezra Miller as a real-life Carmen Sandiego, sightings of Pete Davison with various new dates and a great image of Alex Jones in court.
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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 Andrew Tate being terrible, Dark Brandon, Ezra Miller as real-life criminal jet-setter Carmen Sandiego, Bob Odenkirk following (and then unfollowing) a foot fetish account, sightings of Pete Davidson with new dates, and a great image of Alex Jones in court.


6. Andrew Tate Being Terrible

The meme

If you don’t know who Andrew Tate is, I envy you. He’s basically the perfect post-COVID villain. A throwback character (says stupid sh*t and doubles down), looks like a clown (instagrams fast cars and him boxing etc) and is unbtothered by everything around. Because clout is a pure numbers game (almost 8 billion of us mate) his egregious takes will continue to pop up on our feeds. Online his fans are pretty much siloed and don’t interact with the general public — so whenever he’s trending, everyone is clowning on him.


Examples


Adwait Patil



5. Dark Brandon

The meme

Back in October 2021, NBC reporter Kelli Stavast misheard NASCAR fans chanting a profane anti-Joe Biden refrain as “Let’s Go Brandon” and it launched thousands of memes (and t-shirts/bumper stickers/flags) at the president’s expense.

Flash forward to summer 2022, and amid a wave of Biden legislative successes and other bits of good fortune, left-leaning netizens began appropriating the anti-Biden nickname with a twist mocking pro-Trump Dark MAGA memes and juxtaposed it with photoshopped images of a suddenly badass Biden, with lasers shooting out of his eyes and repurposed Chinese propaganda of him looking evil.

As Mother Jones’s Ali Breland described it, “For the first time in a while, sitting on a throne of assault rifles or digitized into pink vaporwave worlds, Biden actually looked vaguely cool online. The meme went from being a joke about him being so hapless that he could never possibly look in control to him actually looking in control as his signature legislation passed.”



The avalanche of “Dark Brandon” memes soon became embraced by Democratic leaders and Biden Administration officials.



Examples


James Crugnale



4. Ezra Miller Is Everywhere

The meme

It’s been a big week for the nation’s international person of mystery: Ezra Miller, the actor who this year has been arrested several times for assault and accused of harboring a woman and her three children at Miller’s ranch in Vermont. The actor was charged this week with felony burglary of a house in Stamford, Vermont.

The wildest thing about the Ezra Miller saga is how hard they are to pin down geographically. From Hawaii to Vermont to, apparently, Iceland, Miller seems to be everywhere at once, logging crimes across the globe, like a real-life Carmen Sandiego.

It’s equally wild that Warner Bros. is still apparently preparing to release “The Flash,” a superhero movie starring Miller — and that while law enforcement was consistently unable to locate the actor, they were apparently doing reshoots for “The Flash” this summer.



It really is a little on-the-nose that the ever-elusive Miller plays a character who has super speed and the ability to move around unseen. Naturally, people are losing their minds over every twist and turn in the story.


Examples


Molly Bradley



3. Let Bob Odenkirk Look At Feet

The meme

Actor and all-around beloved public figure Bob Odenkirk — of “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” fame — got attention this week for a reason he probably didn’t want to: following a foot fetish account on Instagram. A Reddit user posted a screenshot of the account @perfect_feet_in_sexy_shoes which appeared to be followed by Odenkirk’s actual Instagram account.

But Odenkirk’s fanbase is so powerfully loving that, while people did hop on board teasing him some, the overall sentiment was one of support. Look: the man’s done great work on TV, and he almost died of a heart attack last year. He can look at some sexy feet if he wants to.


Examples


Unfortunately, the public attention — warm as it was — did lead Odenkirk to unfollow the foot account.



Molly Bradley



2. Pete Davidson Spotted With…

The meme

In case you hadn’t heard, we found out last week that Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson broke up. Which is, well… unsurprising, because Pete Davidson is cosmically fated to date probably just about everyone on this earth at some point or another, and just about everyone on this earth is into Pete Davidson, and time’s a-ticking.

The memes about who Davidson might date next, of course, came fast and plentiful, and grew only more absurd by the minute. Whoever Davidson does date next, we sincerely hope he finds happiness.


Examples


Molly Bradley



1. Alex Jones In Court

The meme

Alex Jones is, in this editor’s opinion, a gigantic pile of human garbage. But this isn’t about what I think about that lying fear-mongering racist liar — this is about what the internet thinks of him, and his recent time in court. He got sued, I won’t get into the specifics, but this one look that was captured on video instantly ignited a spark that launched a thousand fire memes. Here are the best of them, plus some extra pizazz thrown in for good measure.


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 the new Pokémon Fidough, “I’m assembling a team,” friends you should have by the time you’re 30 and Taylor Swift taking unnecessary flights on her private jet.

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