Meme Monday: The Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony

Mondays are tough. Here's a meme compilation to cheer you up

It’s time for a special edition of the newsletter where I highlight a trending meme. If you’re new, you can subscribe here and follow me on Threads or X. Views are my own. Happy reading!

What is the meme?

The Paris Olympics’ Opening Ceremony staged some notable moments, to say the least. In the words of X user @TechnicallyRon, “This #OpeningCeremony has everything. Threesomes. A sad man playing piano in the rain. Artworks from the Louvre that look at you. The guy from assassins creed for a bit. A short film about Minions for some reason.”

You can read more about it from John Leicester at The Associated Press here.

When did the meme pop up?

The opening ceremony was Friday, July 26.

Where is the meme?

I mostly saw them on X, or screenshots of X on Instagram. (Note: I haven’t been checking TikTok lately).

Why is the meme?

No one does it like the French.

Read the last Meme Monday: Brat and it's the same, but it's memes in my newsletter, so it's not