friends

Yet another thing that never seems to get taught in Adulthood 101 is how the heck a grown up is supposed to make new friends. Being thrown into the social battleground of school and college is an occasionally traumatizing experience, but at least it makes it easier to meet people. Once you enter the world of bills and responsibilities, it's often a different story.

While it's a dilemma shared by many, most are unwilling to admit to it. This has contributed to the huge reaction towards a video produced by duo Brently and Jeafry, in which they ask people on the internet to come and be their friends. In it, Brently explains how they like to hang out "all over the place" and they demonstrate the things they like to do together, like drinking Slush Puppies and watching movies.

In the fickle entertainment industry, career rejuvenation sometimes happens in the most unexpected of ways. This was proved by the long-awaited Friends reunion last week. While the focus was on generating nostalgia for the famous sitcom, many people were more interested in how each of the main actors looked. 

Out of all the cast, Matt LeBlanc drew attention for having aged in a way that could best be described as 'normal'. Is this a damning indictment of our skewed beauty standards and youth obsessed culture? Probably! However, it also came with a positive side effect: the screenshots provided perfect meme fuel.

Drawing on his uncomfortable pose and middle aged button down, Twitter users began to build an alter ego. Suddenly, he became the internet's uncle, making awkward small talk and expressing bafflement at his younger relative's varied lifestyle choices. On top of that, he switched nationalities and embraced being as Irish as possible (with a few Scottish or English examples here and there). 

The meme has turned the actor into an everyman, perfectly playing the role of the distant relative you could expect to meet at an Irish family reunion. It goes to show that if somebody is going to be typecast, nobody does the job better than social media.