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Three Tickets To 'Challengers' Please, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
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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, the memes include misheard song lyrics, JoJo Siwa's bizarre new dance, throuples going to see "Challengers" and a rapper that really should have done a fact-check before releasing their new song.
5. Bradley Beal be damned
The Meme
It's so incredibly rare that a meme begins its life as an innocent moment or quote, and then goes on to spawn an arc with a beginning, middle and an end.
Bradley Beal, NBA shooting guard for the Phoenix Suns, recently said in a press conference: "I've never been swept a day in my life... I'll be damned if that happens." His team was, at the time, losing 0-3 in a best-of-seven series against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
The Suns then lost Game 4 and were very much swept, so of course the memes damning him flooded into sports fans' timelines — but at least this story has a happy ending. Beal acknowledged the quote, and in a press conference said: "I'll be damned, man," with a smirk on his face. Good on him for owning it!
Examples
Beal is gonna be making 54M next year. Da NFL would legit hire a Hitman before they paid him dat money
— ken (@JaiIpose) April 29, 2024
pick up ur phone buddy https://t.co/E76gshhOLC pic.twitter.com/GB6laHQbRw
— pia (@sofiasunss) April 29, 2024
⏳Hours⌛️ https://t.co/WfDT6jrU35 pic.twitter.com/9VsF2LAR6r
— Yearner Herzog (@notbuaydubz) April 29, 2024
BREAKING: Local Man Has Been Damned https://t.co/eGDOErG2p2
— samuel (@samtrayter) April 29, 2024
I’m picturing the Devil waiting in the locker room with a broom ready to damn Bradley Beal pic.twitter.com/YxlOxu5YPs
— Charlotte Wilder (@TheWilderThings) April 29, 2024
Bradley Beal sits down and says “I’ll be damned, man.” pic.twitter.com/4KIn1OshNV
— Shane Young (@YoungNBA) April 29, 2024
Jared Russo
4. Scrootnoo
In the middle of April, TikToker @coldwetbasementnoodles posted about mishearing the lyrics to the song "Tell Ur Girlfriend" by Lay Bankz. Instead of hearing "Been thinking of you, every time I screw him," they heard "Been thinking of you, they saw my scrootnoo." What's a scrootnoo? Why are people looking at it? Nobody knows, but over the past week the TikTok crowd have really embraced the scrootnoo in all of its glory. Please do not look at my scrootnoo without express written permission.
Examples
@coldwetbasementnoodles Scrootnoo:-(
♬ Tell Ur GF - Lay Bankz
@forgetmenothistory I need answers!!!!! #songlyric #misheardlyrics #music #scrootnoo ♬ Tell Ur GF - Lay Bankz
@violadagoomba i always love consulting historical sources 😌 (to be clear: this is a joke) #gregorianchant #choir #musichistory #medievaltiktok #scrootnoo ♬ Tell Ur GF - Lay Bankz
@katiecalabrese Scrootnoo…. #theysawmyscrootnoo #scrootnoo #fyp ♬ Tell Ur GF - Lay Bankz
@itskellmartin singing the real lyrics #fyp #cover #tellurgf #laybankz #scrootnoo ♬ original sound - Kell Martin
@wowwlookatme I made myself physically ill recording this #fyp #pwincess #scrootnoo ♬ original sound - Geriatric Millennial
@grizzlybarenaked #scrootnoo ♬ original sound - sophia sm🥱
Grant Brunner
3. JoJo Siwa
The Meme
In April, singer and ex-"Dance Moms" child JoJo Siwa released her new single "Karma" — with it came an edgy new persona and a bizarre dance routine.
In videos and behind-the-scenes clips shared to promote the song, Siwa can be seen performing some very unique choreography, and one particularly aggressive dance move has since been memed by X users who seem to find it both hilarious and cringeworthy.
Examples
the animatronic at Spirit Halloween when you walk past the motion sensor: https://t.co/FSKweSNrgC
— Key 🔜 FWA (@BuckWithKey) April 29, 2024
Ima do this whenever I want someone to stop talking to me pic.twitter.com/TdTDhqZvzq
— Tina Turtle 🐢 (@tinaturttle) April 28, 2024
violation: racket abuse pic.twitter.com/RzilE0Pgtx
— bald ann "tennis" dowd (@ali_sivi) April 29, 2024
my 6 year old niece when i trick her into grabbing the electric fence https://t.co/Ro3zwFuvHu
— Burner (@BurnerDontask) April 30, 2024
Me after my me espresso pic.twitter.com/Y42uVpYyU0
— MP (@mattprisco) April 28, 2024
this is how it feels to drink a diet coke pic.twitter.com/3YPcrAIyTk
— 🏴☠️ (@cursedkief) April 27, 2024
jojo siwa must be getting more concussions this year than all the players in the NFL combined pic.twitter.com/UPauujeq6V
— adi (@folieadieux) April 29, 2024
Darcy Jimenez
2. Kendrick Lamar's Haley Joel Osment shout-out
The Meme
On Tuesday, April 30, award-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar released a song called "euphoria," which was intended as a diss track towards popular rapper Drake. Lamar's song was a direct response to Drake's track "Push Ups," in which the Canadian rapper targeted Lamar alongside other contemporary rappers.
In the second verse of Lamar's track, he references "Joel Osteen" and the film "AI," and ends the section with the line: "And my sixth sense tellin' me to off him," which people have concluded to be a reference to the popular M. Night film. After putting together "AI" and the reference to "Sixth Sense," fans and critics could only speculate that Lamar had confused actor Haley Joel Osment (who worked in "AI" and "Sixth Sense") with the famous Texan pastor Joel Osteen.
While there could be some obscure meaning behind this, netizens were mostly concerned why no one fact-checked Kendrick before he released the song.
Examples
Can't wait for Haley Joel Osment to write a diss track about Anna Kendrick
— Giant Dadephage (@JasonEAlt) April 30, 2024
Haley Joel Osment listening to Euphoria pic.twitter.com/TdI5w6wsON
— 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐲 (@iamJustinBailey) April 30, 2024
Kendrick Lamar revitalizing Haley Joel Osment’s social presence for another 4 years. pic.twitter.com/10REoho7WL
— Patto (Pacific Rumble) (@Patto_Sand) April 30, 2024
Haley Joel Osment being brought up in a rap beef was not on my 2024 bingo card pic.twitter.com/h3L5xROWq0
— z (@ZGronda) April 30, 2024
Haley Joel Osment has been sort of invoked https://t.co/8QBPyTtvuT pic.twitter.com/THy9nw65q4
— Jason Kirk (buy my novel) (@JasonKirk_fyi) April 30, 2024
Haley Joel Osment hearing that new Kendrick like. pic.twitter.com/lVYLMV6MAL
— a.s.f. aint doin shit (@asfaintdoinshit) April 30, 2024
I hope Haley Joel Osment has a euphoric day pic.twitter.com/idiQdE2b5w
— Kayla 🩷💜💙 (@kaylawog) April 30, 2024
Adwait Patil
1. Three tickets to 'Challengers'
The Meme
April 26 saw the release of "Challengers," Luca Guadagnino's racy sports drama about the sexual tension between three tennis stars, basically. The "tickets to [insert movie name], please" meme isn't a new one, but for "Challengers," the groups asking for tickets were fictional, rumored or totally made-up love triangles in popular culture.
Examples
Three tickets to Challengers please pic.twitter.com/z18hUHUf4H
— Light House Cinema (@LightHouseD7) April 27, 2024
Three tickets to Challengers please pic.twitter.com/hYpghZnIT5
— sam greisman (@SAMGREIS) April 26, 2024
three tickets to challengers pls pic.twitter.com/vGQ9grufNv
— The Cinegogue (@TheCinegogue) April 26, 2024
three tickets to Challengers please pic.twitter.com/oUQW4xCtED
— hannah (@dumbandfunn) April 27, 2024
"I guess three tickets to Challengers, please." pic.twitter.com/oX5CPK71ut
— Brown Anthony™ (@anthelonious) April 27, 2024
“Three tickets to Challengers, please” pic.twitter.com/jf0fRfotFJ
— Erika W. Smith (@erikawynn) April 26, 2024
“Three tickets to Challengers, please.” pic.twitter.com/7DA79NIIOt
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) April 26, 2024
“three tickets to challengers please” pic.twitter.com/8rk8jP328e
— Fletcher Peters (@fIetcherpeters) April 28, 2024
"three tickets to Challengers, please" pic.twitter.com/VLhsG4YCBP
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) April 26, 2024
“Three tickets to Challengers, please.” pic.twitter.com/3mVX1dyJBt
— cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic) April 27, 2024
"three tickets to challengers please" pic.twitter.com/mIfg9EzXkw
— girl dennis reynolds (@paddysroyco) April 26, 2024
“24 tickets to CHALLENGERS please” pic.twitter.com/CZo4ZFN8oK
— Larry Wright (@refocusedmedia) April 28, 2024
Darcy Jimenez
And if you're hungry for more memes, here's the last edition of "The Week's Best Memes,", which featured people and animals dancing to a Chappell Roan song, "Shōgun" memes, reactions to a fake photo of Mark Zuckerberg and creative responses to a Taylor Swift lyric.