Ah, you knew the memes from Oppenheimer (and Barbie! And Barbenheimer!) were coming after the Christopher Nolan movie dropped over the weekend.
And there are a bunch of them! Let’s concentrate on this one right now: It’s a stressed-out Cillian Murphy as Robert Oppenheimer. Although I haven’t seen the movie yet, I was told by my colleague Blake Schuster that “it’s just inventors contemplating the ethics of their creation.”
See? A spoiler-free explanation! If you haven’t seen the film yet, you can still understand this one with ease. And if you had? Maybe you’ll laugh harder.
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Here they are:
the guy who invented playing a slowed down pop song in movie trailers pic.twitter.com/azNUP7bikm
— Mike Scollins (@mikescollins) July 23, 2023
the guy who invented webp files pic.twitter.com/WRZzhRD3kq
— Tristan Cooper (@TristanACooper) July 23, 2023
The guy who invented QB rating seeing it used to argue Kirk Cousins over Josh Allen pic.twitter.com/mV995A9lah
— Carter Donnick (@CDonnick1) July 24, 2023
The guy who invented the Win O’Meter watching the 2021-22 Devils pic.twitter.com/K9TJ0ETOQ8
— Zach Berman (@BermanZB) July 24, 2023
Me when I realize I have to fly out of LAX because there’s not a cheap or direct flight from Burbank: pic.twitter.com/7oPYXcTD1D
— Americana At Brand Memes (@americanamemes) July 24, 2023
Me coming up with the heart in a blender line pic.twitter.com/M2XlzeVKI8
— eve6 (@Eve6) July 24, 2023
The guy who invented adding 2+ instrumental interludes on a 10 track album pic.twitter.com/imb0TFYVrA
— Discog. Discourse (@Discog_Pod) July 24, 2023
The guy who invented blending the news sections and football sections in Premier League Years tweets. pic.twitter.com/6mex9xapCk
— Jonny Sharples (@JonnyGabriel) July 23, 2023