We love a tongue-in-cheek shitpost that takes us back to "the good old days," and boy, does this one check both of those boxes. Harkening back to our childhood school days with references to "independent reading time" and "silent reading time," these memes take the tone of a teacher's pet, and they're pretty freaking hilarious. To make things even funnier, the memes use Impact ironically - a touch that really takes things to the next shitpost-y level. We've scraped the hallowed halls of Know Your Meme for our favorites, but we expect to see more of these in coming days. And we ain't mad about that.
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Amazing things happen when you give kids a task that requires some amount of cultural context, such as labeling popular memes. Obviously, kids can't possibly know all of the pop culture references that, say, a Millennial knows.
We've gotta say that these versions might be even better than anything that most of us adults could come up with.
Make way for #SweatPantsGate, the latest scandal to grace the internet. It all started when Kevin Gu, a Harvard law student, recently interviewed for a position at Edelson P.C., a prestigious law firm based in Chicago.
The trouble started when Gu emailed the firm with the intention of scheduling a follow-up interview. Instead, he received a reply from a staff member at the firm stating, "At this point, I think bringing you in for a callback interview would be a waste of your time, and ours."
Gu posted his exchange with the firm online and it quickly blew up and sparked a plethora of reactions. The story was subsequently picked up by Above the Law, a news source devoted to reporting the happenings in the legal field, which then gained the attention of Jay Edelson, the firm's founder and CEO.
Edelson quickly wrote up a response to the story, explaining the firm's decision to reject Gu from the position. He stated that Gu had interviewed with Edelson several times before in on-campus interviews (OCI) as a law student; in the first interview he apparently showed up late wearing sweatpants, and late again to the second interview.
The icing on the cake in Edelson's response, however, was the very last line, which read, "I have more to say, but the cat videos are calling." Many have since accused Edelson of trying way too hard to relate to the kids.
Gu then replied to Edelson's message in attempt to set the record straight, stating that he has always worn "100% wool slacks" - not sweatpants - to interviews with Edelson P.C.
The ordeal has of course lead to many different reactions and opinions on the matter, all of which can be expressed in the memes below.
