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  2020-03-12

  Find All Collectibles Trophy tweet

  A common trope in video games is to find a mysterious place where someone has died, and to find journal entries, letters, and other mementos to find out what happened to the person. This tweet uses this trope as a joke since people were in isolation for so long
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  2020-03

  Michaels

  A meme comparing the coronavirus pandemic to the black death in the middle ages, showing a person wearing a plague doctors outfit to go to the store Michaels
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  2020-03

  Breaking

  In March, the pandemic was getting very serious, and people were feeling overwhelmed with the constant new information on the virus
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  2020-03

  Celebs singing imagine

  Some celebrities in March of 2020 made a video together singing Imagine by John Lennon in an attempt to bring a sense of unity to the world. The meme is criticizing these celebrities for not doing greater efforts for the pandemic than this video
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  2020-03-18

  Celebrities be like

  shows the inequality between celebrities and the average person, as celebrities were trying to relate to them
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  2020-03-15

  Ask not

  tweet spoofing off of the JFK quote, about how staying inside will help the country with coronavirus cases
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  2020-03-14

  hoedown

  Tweet written by comedian Ryan Styles joking about singing a hoedown during quarantine, as he does on the show Whose Line is it Anyway
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  2020-03-15

  Dating Apps

  Since people who were meeting on dating apps weren't meeting in person for a while due to the pandemic, the tweet jokes that there is more time to talk to each other
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  2020-03

  Zoom conference

  Since many schools took to zoom and other platforms to have virtual classes, many would see their fellow students pets on camera
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  2020-03

  Side by side

  uses the popular lord of the rings meme format to display the "6 feet apart" recommendation by health officials
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  2020-03-23

  Sacrificing grandma for the stock market

  The U.S. government was planning on opening the country again and having daily life go back to normal sooner than health experts recommended. People were angry that the government was willing to allow at-risk people (the elderly) to die rather than have the economy crash
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  2020-03

  Long month

  March was the first month of quarantine, so people felt like march was a long month due to isolation
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  2020-03

  Celebrities during quarantine

  Many celebrities were expressing frustration about being quarantined, despite that they were very wealthy and had extravagant homes, unlike the average person.
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  2020-03-23

  Growing my own toilet paper

  a joke tweet about growing toilet paper, since there was a shortage during the pandemic
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  2020-04

  Quarantine activities

  meme showing that people were having bad impulse control with nothing to do in quarantine
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  2020-04

  SITH

  Using the word sith from star wars to tell people to stay inside during the pandemic
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  2020-03

  Let me out

  The original meme format is "let me in," but since everyone is staying inside to quarantine, everyone is anxious to get out of the house
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  2020

  We were rooting for you

  A popular meme at this time is Tyra Banks, host of the show America's Next Top Model, yelling at a contestant named Tiffany. This meme uses this format to show how people are disappointed with how the year 2020 was turning out to be due to the pandemic
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  2020-04-03

  Therapist over the phone

  a joke about people losing their grip on reality during quarantine
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  2020-04-01

  Landlord left a list of homeless shelters

  The tweet shows a picture of a list of homeless shelters the twitter users landlord displayed on their doors. This is due to financial issues for many. Many people were unable to pay rent due to being laid off for jobs. The person replying to the tweet expresses outrage that the landlord is not willing to make an exception since this is in the middle of the pandemic.
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  2020-04-01

  When July arrives...

  a sort of uplifting meme that maybe the pandemic won't make the entire year so bad.
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  2020-03-27

  Hozier sings The Parting Glass | The Late Late Show | RTÉ One

  Hozier performs a special version of The Parting Glass with a special dedication from presenter Miriam O'Callaghan to those that have lost their lives to COVID-19.