Memes that Perfectly Sum Up the Weirdness of 2020
2020 was a year of new experiences, most of them not great. It felt like the world was turned upside down and we had to adjust to a number of changes in our everyday life. Social gatherings became a thing of the past, and working from home became the new normal for people around the world. Students started attending class from their computer screen and face masks became the must-have accessory for anyone who ventured outside. We became hooked on ordering food by delivery and Netflix became the holy grail of all entertainment. In short, 2020 was a pretty weird time for everyone. People have taken the bizarre events of the past year and turned them into memes we can all laugh at.
When 2020 is a Thing of the Past
We’re all dreaming of a time where masks and hand sanitizer are no longer a part of our daily routine. One of these days it will seem absurd that we walked around with covered faces all the time, but what if the future is even more ominous. This Twitter user isn’t doing our nighttime anxiety any favors by painting this post-apocalyptic picture.
Perhaps this feels like a fitting sequel to 2020 if it were an action franchise. You might be a fan of this kind of setting in a book or video game, but it’s safe to say that most of us don’t actually want to live through it. Here’s hoping the future won’t look at grim as this Tweet.
How Our Priorities Changed in 2020
This year brought about a major lifestyle change for everyone, and that meant a change in priorities! Living through 2020 meant a constant change in perspective for what you thought was important. One day toilet paper might as well have been as precious as gold, and the next day the significance of your car plummeted. It may look nice sitting in the driveway, but where are you going to go with it?
Bras became an ancient relic and sweatpants soared as the fashion statement of your living room. Coffee kept its importance year-round, as we all expected. But you know what’s missing from this chart? Takeaway. What would we have done without “at your door in 30 minutes) pizza delivery??
Upon Meeting a time Traveler
How would you describe 2020 to people from the past? Imagine if you got into a time machine and went back to December 2019, how would you explain the events that took place this year? Well, this meme poses the imaginary scenario of a time traveler coming back to 2020 from the future. You might be hard-pressed to answer any of his questions about “the disaster”.
I mean, which disaster would he be referring to exactly? Be more specific time-traveling stranger! I just hope that if I encounter a time traveler he’ll have some explanations to offer me. And maybe he’ll have some good news from the future to give us a little bit of optimism for 2021.
The Pets Were Both Happy and Unhappy
This year brought about a huge shift in how people went to work and school. Mom and dad used to leave for the office every morning, while the kids caught the school bus. Any house pets would have to remain at home alone. Whether or not that was a bad thing would have to depend on the pet. Cats probably preferred the hours of solitude during the day, but dogs? That’s another story.
There’s no doubt that our canine companies were overjoyed to have us spending every waking moment at home with them. Now instead of waiting by the door for us to come home, they could get 24/7 head pats. It was a win for them, but less so for the cats!
Longing for Another Hot Girl Summer
You might remember the hit single “Hot Girl Summer” released in 2019, featuring rap artists Meghan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj. We may have heard that song on the radio last year and thought our summer had been hot enough, and that we didn’t need to spend all that time at pool parties or the beach. But spending a summer in 2020 made us wish we had!
We would have given anything to lie on a blanket by the shore for just five short minutes. Or the crack opens a beer poolside while surrounded by friends. There was no Hot Girl Summer for anyone in 2020, and we all regretted the time we spent indoors August 2019 playing Call of Duty.
The Awkward Camera Angles
There’s no denying it, some of us are just plain awkward when it comes to video calls. In a normal year, we’d only be using Zoom or Google Hangouts to talk to our friends and family aboard, but 2020 was totally different. Schools and universities shifted all their classes to the virtual realm, and all lessons were had over group video calls.
But not everyone is great at setting up their camera, which ends up leading to some pretty awkward-looking angles. The animals in this collage represent video call newbies perfectly. You’ve definitely seen someone who looks just like one of these critters during a video chat. Just make sure you’re focused more on the lesson than people’s embarrassing expressions!
Just Two Normal Years Hanging Out
A new year rolling in is always an exciting thing, but the beginning of 2021 felt like a breath of fresh air to the whole world. We all looked forward to 2020 ending, however, we all failed to realize that the previous year’s problems don’t just go away on December 31st. We’ll still be dealing with 2020 issues in 2021, though we don’t think they’ll be quite as bad as this.
Hopefully, 2021 won’t be anything like one movie villain getting instructions from another. But this photo does make us wonder which would be worse, 2021 run by Pennywise or the Joker? After watching IT: Chapter 2 we think we’d have to choose the infamous Batman antagonist!
The Unluckiest Number of them All
We’ve all heard of the unlucky numbers before. Some buildings leave the number 13 out of their elevators because of its superstitious bad rap. And there’s a reason Friday the 13th is a feared day, and it’s not just because of that one horror movie. And I think we’re all familiar with how 666 is considered the number of the devil. But there’s a much more sinister number that tops both of them.
You guessed it (or you just looked at the picture above), it’s 2020. From now on people will shudder whenever they lay eyes on the number 2020, more than they ever would have with 13 or 666. Perhaps 2020 will spawn its own superstitious horror movies in the future!
If Our Pets were Politicians
The different reactions of dogs and cats to the lockdown was funny to watch. Our new lifestyle of permanently staying at home wasn’t received the same way by these two species. Dogs could not have been more overjoyed to get constant attention from their owners, while cats sneered at the idea that they would no longer have their regular alone time.
The picture above imagines our pets as political leaders, and how they might have different policies on the quarantine. Obviously, they would only keep their own best interests at heart, but they are house pets after all. Let’s hope we can keep our pets from running for office, politics have been crazy enough this year!
Skipping School Became a Whole Lot Easier
Before the pandemic skipping school was a whole ordeal. You would have to ditch the second your parents or the school bus dropped you off, and you were risking the possibility of running into an adult who might rat you out. It was a situation that required planning and caution, and it was usually something you did along with your friends.
But in 2020? Skipping school is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Step 1: Log into your virtual classroom, Step 2: Turn off your camera, Step 3: Turn off your microphone. Once you’ve complete all these steps feel free to lounge in bed with a video game and a snack! Skipping school was really no big deal in 2020.
Carole Baskin’s Relationship Advice for Lockdown
After Tiger King became a smash hit on Netflix, people couldn’t stop creating memes referencing the bizarre events of the series. If you hadn’t watched a single episode you were probably beyond confused. But those who had already binged the show would be cracking up at the many in-jokes shared online. It was inevitable that many of these memes would also reference the quarantine.
Couples who had once had time apartment during the work week were now cooped up with each other every hour of every day. No doubt you were beginning to resent the little quirks of your significant other after week 5 in lockdown. I just hope you didn’t consider feeding them to a tiger, as it was implied Carol Baskin did with her husband in Tiger King.
The Plight of the Glasses Wearers
This year we all had to get used to wearing masks when going outdoors. It might have seemed fun at first, you could pretend you were a character on ER or scrubs, but it became more irritating as time went on. Both stuffy and itchy, we all yearn for a day where wearing a mask outside is no longer the norm. But near-sighted people have a different mask challenge to worry about.
People who wear glasses on a regular basis might be familiar with the constant fogging of their lenses whenever they exhale. This is probably particularly bad for those wearing glasses in cold climates. There was no better time to switch to contacts than in 2020!
The Tables Have Turned
For years and years, introverts were the little brothers of extroverts. Most people who grew up more introverted were forced to go out and socialize, attending parties and events that they couldn’t wait to escape. Introverts have longed for a time where they would be able to bask in the comfort of their bedroom and not have to leave. that time finally came in 2020!
Suddenly it seemed the tables had turned between extroverts and introverts. Extroverted people had no social events to attend, and all bars, clubs, and pubs were closed. Now it was time for the introverts to comfort them, from a safe distance on their computer screens. It was finally the introvert’s moment in the spotlight!
A Different Kind of Yearbook
Every school year is more or less the same. The teachers, curriculum, and final exams rarely change all that much, that is unless the year is 2020. The past year shook up the entire school system, from teachers scrambling to take their lessons online to the principal or dean figuring out how to make tests virtual.
Everything moved to zoom, where school desks and whiteboards are totally nonexistent. That would explain why the class of 2020 would look like a group of internet avatars. Not much else you can do when there’s no school picture day! Maybe the graduating class of 2020 will enjoy their futuristic yearbooks, they’ll certainly be a relic for years to come.
What it Felt Like Going Abroad
There were probably a good number of you who had travel plans that ended up getting chucked out the window. Tickets were canceled, suitcases were unpacked and returned to the back of the closet. Travel became a thing of the past in 2020, and anyone who had to go abroad for work might as well have been walking through a minefield.
We never knew what countries would be available for us to enter, and which ones we would need to quarantine in upon arrival (and for how long!). The regulations were constantly changing, bringing a whole new aspect of flight anxiety. Would you need to spend a month at home once you landed? There was no way to know.
That Would Explain the Slow Counting
There was tons of anticipation leading up to the 2020 election, and the possible outcome was all anyone was able to talk about. Typically, Americans will see the results of the election the very next day, but this year was exceptional. With an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots, it took election offices much longer to tally up all the results.
People worldwide were refreshing the results for days, only to find that several states didn’t have their numbers finalized. But there was one state that took significantly longer than the rest; Nevada. By the time the results were announced Nevada still hadn’t finished counting all their ballots! There was speculation all over the internet, but some suspected this Sesame Street character was behind it all.
Fashion Trends in 2020
With the variety of terrible things taking place in 2020, it’s natural that there were a number of different outfit changes that went along with them. All we can do in the face of these disasters is try and laugh because there isn’t much else we could do in the face of natural disasters. From wildfires to floods to a global pandemic, 2020 really tested us.
The one long-standing fashion accessory that has persisted throughout the whole year was definitely the face mask. Whether you went for the classic blue scrubs mask or something a little funkier, this was the must-have look of the year. And by “must-have” we mean you had to have one on when you left the house for safety purposes!
The Year that Just Won’t End
We’re all waiting for 2020 to end with bated breath. Whether you’ve started a countdown clock or are simply marking the days off on your calendar, we all can’t seem to wait for this terribly exhausting year to finish. The year has been so exceptionally bad that it almost feels like it might never end. We can only imagine what might happen as we watch the clock on December 31st.
It almost feels like 2020 will find a way to continue. Maybe time will reset itself to January 1st, 2020, or perhaps there will be a 13th month that will magically appear out of nowhere. Regardless, we won’t believe that 2020 is ever going to end until it actually does!
Flashbacks from 2020
This year is one that will be forever burned into the memory of the people who lived through it. No matter how many days, months, or years that may pass, we will all remember what an exceptionally bad year this was, so much so that merely seeing the number 2020 may cause us to have flashbacks. Whether we see the number in the form of time or currency, it’s bound to jog our memory in an unpleasant way.
You might end up staring into space as you remember the time people were hoarding toilet paper, or when you had to spend two weeks locked inside your house. Someone might have to shake you or splash cold water on your face to snap you out of it.
Entering the New Year Like…
Usually entering a new year is something to look forward to. It’s exciting to see one year pass into the next and imagine all the things you will experience and accomplish in the next 365 days. Not to mention, a new year means a New Year’s Eve party, and those are always a great time. Unfortunately, what we thought 2020 was going to be wasn’t what it ended up being.
It felt like we were strolling confidently into the future, only to get slapped by the harsh realities of what 2020 was going to dish out. It’s almost comical looking back at the beginning of the year when we were all still so unaware of what was to come.
This Capybara is All of Us in Quarantine
If you were to make a scrapbook of all your moments in lockdown this is probably what it would look like. Except I assume you’re a human being and not a capybara. Not that I’m making any assumptions, but most rodents don’t have the capacity to use a computer or a smartphone. Regardless of your species, this mammal’s photoshoot is super relatable.
During quarantine it felt like all we did was work, sleep, and stare pensively out the window while having an existential crisis. But mostly that last one. At least we have the comfort of knowing that we didn’t have this experience alone. Many people, and capybaras, shared in your lockdown blues.
New and Irrational Beer Fears
There are a couple of names for the pandemic that swept the globe in 2020. Some refer to it as COVID19, while others call it the more formal “Coronavirus”. But there was a particular alcoholic beverage that shared its name with this disease, and a certain stigma started to grow around it. Cracking open a cool bottle of Corona used to sound refreshing, now it just puts a bad taste in our mouth.
The company even had to make a public statement telling people that their beer had no connection to the virus, it was just an unfortunate coincidence. Nevertheless, they might want to consider rebranding to something that’s a little less similar to the virus that caused a pandemic.
The Swimsuits in Fashion during 2020
Most summers are spent at the pool or the beach, wearing colorful swimsuits and splashing your friends. But 2020 was a very different year when it came to cooling off in the water. Public pools were closed and access to the beach was highly limited. The only way anyone would have been able to take a swim would be if they wore a hazmat suit.
And who knows, maybe if these types of bathing suits had come into fashion we would have been able to enjoy the water on hot summer days. But such was not the case. If you didn’t live in a house with a pool then the closest you could’ve gotten was a bathtub with an inner tube.
The Worst Year to Time Travel To
There are several movies that deal with the concept of time travel, oftentimes the plot involves the time traveler getting stuck in a less than desirable year. We can foresee that sometime in the future someone will direct a movie that tells the story of a time traveler accidentally arriving in 2020 after his time machine breaks down. Sounds like that would be an especially sticky situation.
The last year anyone would want to relive would be 2020, would’ve been a whole lot better if you ended up getting stuck in 2000, right after we all welcomed the new millennium. Plus if you got stuck in 2000 you would have tons of bizarre fashion and cheesy music to enjoy, instead of a pandemic and with social distancing.
An Entire Month to Blaze It
This is something a little more lighthearted when it comes to the events of 2020. Normally, Americans have a 4/20 one day every year on April 20th, and that’s because Americans write their dates in the order of Month/Date/Year. But the rest of the world follows a different order, and in the year 2020 that meant having an entire month of 4/20!
April was probably the month of getting blazed for every country outside the US, and that wasn’t just because of the intense lockdown going on. April 2020 was 4/20 no matter what day of the month you were in, so there was no reason not to light up, inhale, and relax.
We Came Up with another Difficulty Level
Life is usually nothing like video games, no matter how realistic game designers try to make them. No matter what game you pop into your console you usually have a range of choices that don’t exist in reality. One of those things is the option to choose a difficulty setting. But if real life and video games somehow crossed over into one another, I think we all know what the most intense setting would be.
If “2020” was a mode in today’s video games I doubt anyone would select it, that is unless they were secretly a masochist. There’s hard, and then there’s 2020, the year is on a whole different level. Next year let’s hope we’ll be playing in “easy” mode.
How March became the Worst Month Ever
March was undoubtedly the most tumultuous month of 2020. For most of the world, it was the month where everything began to shift, and our lifestyles changed to comply with new regulations. By the time the later months rolled around we had already grown accustomed to these changes, but March was the month of adjustment. And I’m sure it was not easy for most people.
2020 has given March a very bad rap, and now we have a negative association with this innocent Spring month. The prospect of living through another March would make most of us recoil in fear. Will it be anything like March 2020, or will it be a turning point for the better? Only one way to find out.
Don’t End Up Like the Torrance Family
You probably watched a good number of movies while having to stay indoors day in and day out. Let’s just hope you didn’t pop The Shining into your DVD player while your family was in the living room, otherwise, you might have given everyone a whole new set of lockdown anxieties! The Shining is a horror film that focuses on a family stranded at an empty hotel during a harsh winter.
While they’re isolated, the father begins to go mad and attempts to murder his family. You might start to give your parents some pretty shifty looks if you watched this movie during a quarantine. I wouldn’t recommend watching it if you want to get a good night’s sleep.
We All Became Bill Murray in Groundhog Day
Remember what I said about all the days blending into each other during a lockdown? Does that concept remind you of any particular film? Well, if you’re a fan of Bill Murray movies you might remember watching Groundhog Day. The movie follows the story of a weatherman who is reliving the exact same day over and over again. Does that sound familiar?
It felt like we were all the main characters of Groundhog Day this year, waking up every day to repeat the same events with little variation. I hope we will wake up one day in 2021 to something different, maybe by then 2020 will seem like a surreal and distant dream.
How Spongebob Represents Everyone
Spongebob seems to have an image for literally every human feeling and emotion, and that was no exception when it came to the events of 2020. Every crazy thing that went on this year has been perfectly summed up in 8 little screenshots from our favorite underwater cartoon. Hand sanitizer and face mask companies were definitely diving into vats of money this year.
2020 was definitely the year of the introvert. I mean what could be better than being expected to stay home all week, doing literally everything from the comfort of your computer? The rest of these images that describe the media and Redditors are also super spot on. Hopefully, we won’t have this kind of Spongebob mood board in 2021.
Good Morning 2020
Sometimes we forget 2020 was a whole 365 days and not just one very long fever dream. Waking up every day that year was crazy, the reality of the world hit you each morning like a splash of cold water to the face. Everyday kind of blended into the next and it was hard to keep track of the days of the week, but nevertheless, every morning was the same.
You turn off your alarm, pop out of bed and think, “Oh yeah, all of this is still going on.” Maybe you got lucky and dreamt you were in a parallel universe not suffering from COVID19, but you’d still have to wake up and face the real world every day.
A Whole New Way To Show Off
It’s nothing new that internet influencers and celebrities like to flaunt what they have, but in 2020 the things that were valuable changed around a little. Before the pandemic things like watches, brand name clothing, and cars were the material items you wanted to take pictures with and share all over social media. But 2020 was the year of toilet paper hoarding, and we all know what that means.
Suddenly TP became the thing everyone wanted to get their hands on, and it just seemed like there was never enough of it to satisfy the growing need. We can imagine rich kids bragging about how many rolls their parents got them, or influencers taking selfies with dozens of unopened packs.
The Introvert Lifestyle Was In
2020 brought about some major lifestyle changes for all of us. Pretty much everything in our lives was modified to be done from home, weeks would go by and we never needed to walk past our front door. However, there were some people who were already living the quarantine lifestyle years before the pandemic hit. We envy them for being able to transition so smoothly.
They probably had to put on a facade when their friends complained about how difficult quarantine was. While everyone was miserable not being able to leave home the introverts of the world were living their best lives. 2020 was really the year it paid off to be a homebody.
Life Became One Bad Game of UNO
Depending on where in the world you live you probably had to spend a few weeks (or more) in lockdown. At the beginning of 2020 we were told these lockdowns would only last a certain amount of time, but as the weeks passed the end date moved farther and farther away. What was meant to be a lockdown of one week became a lockdown of two, and sometimes even four!
Really felt like playing a game of UNO with the government, and they were laying on those +4 cards thick. In fact, you were probably playing more UNO in 2020 than you ever did in your life. I mean, what else is there to do when you’re stuck inside for weeks?
Joe Exotic was the Most Normal of Us All
You might recall the Netflix documentary series detailing the crazy life of Tiger breeding. It all seems so very long ago, but the name “Joe Exotic” might jog your memory, and you’ll start to remember the hours you spent binging this unbelievable show. Even though the people documented in this series seemed to live the most insane lives imaginable, it all feels so much more normal than living through 2020.
When it was first released for streaming in March 2020 we were shocked by the behavior and lifestyle of most of the people featured in Tiger King. But as the months began to pass by it somehow seemed less and less weird. Maybe our perspective will change yet again in 2021.
Someone Must’ve Started a Game of Jumanji
With a number of catastrophes taking place in 2020 it felt like the world might be under some kind of terrible spell. That or someone made the fatal mistake of opening up this cursed board game. If you’re only familiar with the 2017 film, you might not remember the 1995 version of Jumanji that centered around a board game with dire consequences for the players.
Beginning this game would cause awful things to happen, like a rampage of wild animals or the growth of killer man-eating plants. With everything that went on this year is it really far-fetched to assume some poor sap decided to roll the dice on this game? If so, we hope whoever it is will reach the finish line soon!
We Think We’ve Had Enough, No More Please
Remember those old-fashioned TV commercials? Whenever the presenter had described the product’s features, they would always close the ad with the words, “But wait, there’s more!”. Usually, that meant doubling the offer or throwing in something extra, free of charge. But in 2020 this took on a completely different meaning. Every month felt like a “but wait, there’s more!” except we didn’t get a second set of ceramic pots or a free recipe book.
What we got instead was another disaster, whether it was a beloved celebrity passing away or COVID-19 infecting yet another country, it seemed that the catastrophes would never cease. Hopefully, we won’t have any “more” come 2021, enough is enough!
Time No Longer Worked like it Used To
Living in a mandatory lockdown has made the concept of time go fuzzy for a lot of us. It was hard to create a timeline of what we did every week, as each day seemed to blend into the next. Your calendar was getting a real workout considering you were probably using it to check what day of the week it was on a regular basis.
People were hit with the sudden realization that they had entered the month of July, having thought that it was still Spring. Figuring out how much time had passed since the beginning of quarantine seemed like an algebraic equation way beyond our comprehension. Time abandoned us in 2020, but I sure hope it comes back in 2021!
We All Got Rick Roll’d
If you were around in the early days of the internet you might remember the man from the photo below. Clicking on a video with an unbelievable or exciting title would only redirect you to a video of this handsome ginger gentleman singing a very out of date song. And that sinking disappointment is exactly what we felt after reassuring ourselves that the virus would soon pass.
Then again, it seems there are more similarities between COVID19 and Rick Astley. They both never wanna give you up or say goodbye, those are at least two things they have in common. But here’s to hoping that it will soon say goodbye and desert us, I think that’s something we’ll be able to live with!
Stashing Your Cash During the Quarantine
Remember all that money you used to spend on new clothes, going out for a drink, or on movie theater tickets? Well, you can now save up all that extra cash during quarantine! Perhaps you’ll put aside enough to buy a Nintendo Switch! But honestly, I think we all know where the money we would have spent shopping really went during the lockdown.
That’s right, it all got funneled right into ordering delivery. You probably never had so many empty takeout containers and pizza boxes in your house before. But if you’re an at-home cook you might have managed to save a nice chunk of change, just some of the perks of switching to quarantine.
We All Snacked Way More than Usual
What happens when you get bored while staying indoors all day? For most of us, the result will be many, many visits to the snack cabinet. Because you want to make as few trips to the store as possible, you’re probably stocking up on enough snacks for several weeks at a time. But will those snacks actually last as long as you intended?
Well, since you’re in close proximity to your snacks all the time you’re more likely to polish off the month’s snacks within a few days! Packing on a few extra pounds was definitely not unusual during a lockdown, and my guess is that many gym memberships will be made once this is all over.
A Flavor of Chips to Represent 2020
Potato chip brands push out a number of different flavors every year. You’ve got your classic barbeque and sour cream n onion, but then there are the funkier ones like dill pickle and sloppy joe. If we all had to agree upon a chip flavor that represented 2020 I definitely think orange juice and toothpaste would be the unanimous winner.
Think about it, it’s the taste you get in your mouth right when you expect to have a normal day. But instead of the sweet taste of a refreshing beverage, you end up with an unpleasant and gag-worthy combination. That’s exactly how I would describe living through this year. In fact, these chips could be named “2020 flavored” and people would still get the idea.
We Learned Not to Tempt Fate
People often use comedy to cope with a difficult reality, this couldn’t have been more true when it came to 2020. At the start of the year, people would crack jokes and publish memes that made fun of the way everything seemed to go downhill, not expecting anything could have gotten much worse. But then it did and we were all eating our words.
There’s the saying “don’t tempt fate”, and that might have been what a lot of us were doing at the beginning of the year. We were only poking fun at the idea that things were going to get worse, but then they actually did! Maybe we should start joking about things getting much, much better.
A Different Kind of Leap Year
Usually, time moves in a linear direction, every day has an equal number of hours, and every week an equal number of days. Most months have about the same number of days, excluding February. But in 2020 everything we understood about time was thrown right out the window! March seemed to drag on to the point it felt like an entire year.
And April? It seems like another lifetime ago! It’s honestly hard to believe that this year only had 12 months in it. It feels a whole lot more like 100! I just hope there won’t be another leap year that day as many extra days as 202 had. Hopefully, new Year will arrive on time, and it won’t take 3 more months to reach January.
The Manager of Nevada’s Ballot Counting Offices
It seemed like the entire world had their eye on Nevada during this year’s election, and we were all baffled as to why it was taking them so long to count the votes. Of course, mail-in ballots due to the pandemic had to have been a factor, but with so many states publishing their final results we had to wonder; what was the deal with Nevada??
Well, there is one theory behind their sloth-like counting pace. Remember those DMV clerks from Zootopia? Well, it wouldn’t sound too bizarre to think they were the ones manning the election offices in Nevada this year. Humans beings can’t possibly count ballots that slow, you would need to be an entirely different species.
Now You Have to Stay Indoors
Winter holidays are usually spent indoors, wearing warm sweaters and sipping mugs of hot chocolate. Who knew that 2020 would basically force us to spend chilly days indoors? At least there are always holiday decorations to cheer you up during the lockdown, that’s got to be a silver lining to the whole situation.
Normally you’d probably have no issues with staying inside during winter, but there’s something about it not being a choice that makes it a lot less fun. But if you’re going through a lockdown in the cold weather we recommend a fuzzy blanket and a hot drink. You might as well make the most of it if you can’t go anywhere!
Pizza Delivery Became Risky Business
Living through the pandemic caused many of us to become super paranoid. Shopping trips felt like going into a warzone, as did any mundane task that involved leaving our houses. We tried to minimize the number of times we set foot farther than our front lawn, but it was obviously inevitable that we would have to go beyond our comfort zone sometimes.
When it came to takeaway we became overly protective of having a stranger at our door. What used to be a neutral exchange between customer and delivery person had become a rushed and awkward interaction. Most restaurants offered no contact delivery, and once the food was left on the doorstep we couldn’t wait to hear the sound of the delivery person driving off!
The Most Eventful Year of Recent History
2020 is definitely going to be one for the history books. Far from an uneventful year, it felt like 2020 had enough going on to fill up an entire history book. No doubt that in the future teachers will have to dedicate one or a few classes solely to what was going on in 2020. Now that’s a final exam I would dread having to take!
With all the historically significant things that happened this year, it will be difficult for future students to pick out what to memorize for their tests. I foresee many highlighters going dry from too much use, and classrooms filled with the terrible stench of sharpies. Good luck to you, history class of 2040!
Solid Relationship Advice When You’re Working from Home
Spending every waking moment with your significant other can become frustrating after a while. Of course, you love them with your whole heart, but sometimes you just need to get away from them for a bit. You might find that the little things they do (or forget to do) are beginning to annoy the living heck out of you. this Twitter user has the solution you need.
When you’re working from home your significant other is basically your coworker. So whenever one of you does something that annoys the other, simply blame it on a non-existent coworker! Dishes in the sink? It was Cheryl! Someone ate all the cookies? Cheryl did it! The bathroom’s always occupied? You know who to blame.
Saving Lives Was Different in 2020
You probably remember the 2020 slogan “stay home, save lives.” While the saying might seem absurd years into the future, social distancing did truly help in reducing the mortality rate of COVID19. However, when you contrast “saving lives” with previous disasters it does seem a bit silly. Who knew that saving lives could be as mundane as scrolling through your phone on the sofa?
It’s a lot less scary than battling a natural disaster or fighting in a world war, but it was nonetheless an important factor in reducing the infection rate! Introverts around the world can now feel like superheroes for doing what they usually do on a regular basis.
Social Distancing During the Plague
Depending on what country you were in, there were brief pockets of time during the summer when you might have seen people you hadn’t run into since Winter. Spring was the harshest lockdown of the year, and most people were at home, not associating with anyone outside of their own household. It was definitely a surreal experience to meet people in person after only communicating with them over video calls.
It’s almost as if you forgot they existed in a physical form, and not just as a face on a screen. 2020 definitely made social interactions stranger than they had ever been, and sentences like “I haven’t seen you since the plague” became a little more commonplace.
2020 Set Everything Ablaze
This year certainly did no favors for the world at large, and that ended up affecting pretty much everyone’s lives individually. Some people gained unwanted weight or ruined their diet places due to excessive snacking during the lockdown. Other people had to cancel flight tickets, or have their birthday plans completely destroyed. And of course, there were those who faced even more serious hardships.
We think we can all relate to this photo on some level, this year made us feel like our lives went up in flames while 2020 was watching deviously from the sidelines. Hopefully, 2021 will represent the firefighters who come help put out the flaming disaster that was all our lives during 2020.
Zoom Meetings Became the New Normal
If there’s one thing that became super popular during 2020 it’s Zoom Meetings. This may have been an app you never even heard of before this year, but it soon became the word on everyone’s lips. Whether you were a manager in a corporate job or an 8-year-old going to school, pretty much everyone around the globe started using this video conferencing service.
Suddenly it felt like your webcam was always on, and the only time you saw any human beings was on a computer screen. Any technical issues meant that you could no longer attend meetings or classes (which wasn’t always a bad thing). But one thing is for sure, video conferences became the new normal this year.
Holiday Traditions 2020 Style
If you’ve ever celebrated Christmas you’re probably familiar with the Elf on a Shelf. It’s that little doll in the form of Santa’s helper, the one who’s meant to watch you throughout the holiday season and report back to the big guy in charge. But if 2020 had its own version of the little elf we know exactly who it would be.
That’s right, none other than the most famous murdering doll of all time; Chucky. This old-school scary movie villain would be the perfect representation of a 2020 Elf on a Shelf. We wonder what 2020 versions of other holiday items would be, though on the other hand, we think we’re better off not knowing!
Remember When People Feared 2012?
We’re sure most of you remember the superstition of the year 2012 marking the end of the world. Back in 2011, there were talks that 2012 was supposed to be a Mayan phenomenon that foretold the beginning of a new era. Thousands of people bought into the hype and believed that the year would in fact be the end of humanity as we know it.
Who would’ve guessed that 2020 would do everything that 2012 wished it could? Thankfully the world didn’t end, but life as we know it did undergo extreme changes that we would have never predicted. Turns out that 2012 prediction was just 8 years early and all those people were worried for no reason!