Ah, the aughts. An era both cringe and endearing to millennials, whose fashion choices will never again reflect such blissful ignorance—we're much too jaded a generation to gleefully wear ripped jeans under pink and brown paisley dress. It's too bad, because life would be much funnier if we all dressed like we were on our way to the 2003 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. Enter the 2021 Met Gala. The renowned annual fundraising event is a stage for the world's tastemakers to show off the work o

Last night, the lavish and decadent 2021 Met Gala broke the internet for the first time since 2019 , due to Covid-related cancellations and postponements. Perhaps starved for some new memetic excitement, Twitter was on fire with the memes last night. Even a snowclone meme emerged as the event was still taking place. Twitter users posted absurdist images of various characters edited onto the red carpet, captioned, '[name] has arrived at the Met Gala.' Throwbacks to past Met Gala memes were repos…