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The Retro PlayStation Cover Revival, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
The Retro PlayStation Cover Revival, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
Featuring that sassy little smoking duck you've seen everywhere.
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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, we've got jokes about basketball coach Kim Mulkey, a sassy smoking duck and album covers reimagined as PlayStation games.


3. Kim Mulkey

The Meme

The head coach of the LSU's championship winning women's basketball team, Kim Mulkey, is currently in the midst of March Madness, trying to defend their title and go back-to-back. Mulkey is a somewhat inflammatory and controversial figure, known for her actions, words and colorful flamboyant outfits on the sidelines while coaching.

But a curious tweet from reporter Pat Forde about an upcoming (and potentially devastating) report from the Washington Post on Mulkey, alongside a fun new photo of her holding a player's face in her hands, sparked a wildfire of memes about the coach. That report has yet to drop, so nobody knows what she might have done, but she gave a press conference ahead of it, damning the reporter for daring to ask her questions over the past two years — as if journalism is the enemy of her life's work.

Examples


Jared Russo



2. Smoking duck

The Meme

If you've been on the site formerly known as Twitter lately, or read our brief explainer, you'll know that a sassy little smoking duck is the internet's favorite meme right now.

The GIF — in which the duck appears to smirk and shake its head knowingly — communicates a mood that is inexpressible yet universally understood, and has been applied to all manner of scenarios by people on X.

Examples


Darcy Jimenez


1. PS1 cover art

The Meme

This December will mark the thirty-year anniversary of the original PlayStation launching in Japan, so it's no surprise that nostalgic feelings are hitting a high right now. As a way of coping with our fading memories of youth and the unstoppable march towards the grave, X users have been remaking iconic artwork from albums and other media properties in the style of a CG-rendered PS1 jewel case. We'd play all of these if they were real games.

Examples


Grant Brunner



And if you're hungry for more memes, here's the last edition of "The Week's Best Memes,", which featured reactions to Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, people's non-human crushes and creative applications of an instantly iconic "Drag Race" quote.

Comments

  1. Matthew Gaw 4 weeks ago

    Digg writers yet again not doing their due diligence. It will be the 30th anniversary of the PS1 in December.

    The Playstation 1 was released in Japan on 3 December 1994, in North America on 9 September 1995, in Europe on 29 September 1995, and in Australia on 15 November 1995.

    1. Digg 4 weeks ago

      Fixed, thanks!

  2. Unknown 4 weeks ago

    Twenty year anniversary of the PS1? Dang then what was I playing in the 90s?!?

    1. Juan Denzer 4 weeks ago

      Well, obviously not the PlayStation. Everyone knows that is a Gen Z console, right?

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