2020 was a year when most of us remained at home and spent most of our time online, with meme or memes. Whether it was working from home or watching movies online with movie theatres being locked, the internet proved to be our best friend, our savior, and teacher as well. Many learned cooking through the internet during this period, while many others used it for learning a new skill.
Despite different people using the internet for different tasks, we used it for one common motive. That common motive was entertainment. From short movies to web series and memes, we turned to our mobile screens for some laughter every time we got bored or sad.
Memes have become heavily popular in the past few years, and lit memes are among the most important reasons behind people using social media despite dealing with so much negativity. The year 2020 presented a tailor-made situation for members who were on work round the clock to keep the online space entertaining and interesting. Memes are the simplest and red hot means of entertainment.
From Instagram to Twitter, 2020 was the year of memes. Whether it was the US vs. India challenge or the latest “Pawro ho Rahi hai” trend, the fire that started in 2020 is continuing in 2021 as well. After going through the internet’s length and breadth, we have compiled a list of 9 hot memes that became most popular.
The US vs. India memes
We Indians love to compare, and that’s one of the top reasons that the US vs. India meme template was in the trends for several months in late 2020. Someone posted a tweet comparing Indian and American reactions out of the blue. The template soon spread on the internet like a forest fire. To make it even doper, the good old Babu Rao from Hera Pheri was clubbed with the challenge. From Insta to Twitter, the template was a superhit on every social media platform.
Pawri Ho Rahi Hai
This girl from Pakistan decided to fake her accent while posing with her friends and car while enjoying the ‘pawri .’ The video traveled faster than the hyperloop. Just within a few days of the girl posting the video, the ‘pawri’ reached across the border. The meme got funnier when Yashraj Mukhate did what he does the best. Clubbing the pawri audio with his insane music and mixing skills.
Tuada Kutta Kutta Sada Kutta Tommy
Big Boss is a factory of memes. With contestants as funny and entertaining as Shehnaaz Gill, the show was bound to give loads of insane meme content. The most funny of them was when Shehnaaz said “Tuada kutta Tommy Sada kutta kutta”. While she had said this in a very light mood, some hilarious creature decided to post it on Instagram months after the show ended. It soon caught the eyes of Yashraj Mukhate, who mixed the audio with his music, and it was an instant hit.
Rasode Me Kaun Tha
Completing the 2020-21 meme list without mentioning the hilarious conversation between Kokila ben and Gopi Bahu that transformed into one of the most hilarious memes of our times would be a sin. Years after the show’s conclusion, Yashraj Mukhate decided to pick up this otherwise intimidating tone of Kokila ben and made the whole country laugh with the funny music he mixed with the angry mother-in-law’s voice.
Teachers During 2021
Teachers’ job is very thankless, but unlike the frontline workers who put their life at stake at the tough times of the Covid outbreak, teachers taught the students online. Members thought of depicting the stark difference like a teacher’s job graphically, and it soon aged into a trending meme. When the world was brought to its knees, teachers did their job with utmost calmness and patience.
Perfect Selfie Doesn’t Exist
This meme template has been there for the past couple of years. It gained huge popularity in both formats – graphic and text. Perfect Bio Doesn’t Exist and Perfect Selfie Doesn’t Exist were the two most popular trends with this hilarious concept. No one, absolutely no one was spared, and some super funny edited pictures of known personalities made us laugh non-stop.
Expectation vs. Reality
This one was one such template that most of us could relate to very easily. The meme template picked up pace during the beginning of 2020. New year resolutions expectations vs. reality being the first idea. But with members having so much time in their hands amid the pandemic, so many different ideas around the same template went viral on social media. We all had some expectations from 2021, and frankly, not many of them came out to be true.
The Ajay Devgan Meme
‘Pictures can speak a thousand words, and we heard all of them when an old picture of Ajay Devgan with black spectacles went viral after members clubbed it with hilarious texts. It started in 2019, and the trend continues to make us laugh even now. From Instagram to Twitter, this trendy picture is everywhere to be seen. It became most popular during December 2020.
2020 Can’t Get worse
2020 was the worst year for the generations currently living on this planet. From a pandemic starting in February to forest fires, cyclones, tornadoes, floods, and snowstorms posed a new challenge every day. When we thought that the worst was over, we were shocked by yet another challenge. The entire 2020 was like that. Our members converted the crisis into opportunity by depicting the failed hopes in the form of lit memes.
