Can we be frank with all of the Baby Boomers out there for a moment? Your memes are normally terrible. That’s okay, because memes are not your generation’s art form, but come on… you can do better.
Boomer memes usually consist of an uninspired photo with a gigantic wall of unfunny text that no one is going to read. We already know the text is just going to be a bunch of regurgitated Republican talking points that you saw on Hannity the night before. There’s no originality to typical Boomer memes, no artistry, no humor and no subtle irony.
Every once in a while, though, a Baby Boomer will create a meme that is so spectacular that it goes viral – as memes should, and as this one did this week. We suspect it’s a Boomer meme because most of us younger meme afficionados were unlikely to be aware of this iconic Hollywood photograph. The photo is an absolutely perfect metaphor for how the country is feeling about state coronavirus responses.
This photo was snapped when Italian bombshell Sophia Loren first visited America in 1957 and was seated next to Jayne Mansfield in a Hollywood restaurant. Multiple photographers caught the exact moment when Loren cast that jealous sideways glance at… Texas and Florida.
