COVID’s Delta variant is coming for your fall plans in this new meme

A young boy (L) and a bee (R).

In the wake of COVID’s Delta variant spreading rapidly, musicians are canceling appearances, they’ve ended entire tours, and music festivals are starting to pull the plug. It’s a far cry from the falls we envisioned once we were vaccinated, but the reality of Delta wreaking more devastating havoc more than a year-and-a-half into a pandemic, it’s also the setup for a new meme—and the arrival of an upsetting plot twist.

The meme includes some variation of the phrase “My fall Plans // The Delta Variant” alongside two images from a movie, a show, a book, or a real-life event: One of them is one or several characters (likely our heroes) while the other involves the plot twist designed to ruin, resulting in heartbreak, betrayal, or death.

For instance, Heredity’s most shocking death, in which Charlie (Milly Shapiro) is decapitated by a telephone wire, is a perfectly grim fit for depicting the derailment of those plans.

https://twitter.com/talaskegrams/status/1425111514227396608

It also works with one of television’s most iconic and divisive endings.

https://twitter.com/EricHaywood/status/1425241093357150218

Real-life events weren’t immune to becoming meme fodder for the Delta variant. Dakota Johnson, who was already viewed by some as the catalyst that eventually led to Ellen DeGeneres announcing the end of her show back in May, emerged as the twist for DeGeneres. There was also a reference to Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, the latter whose ex-husband attacked Kerrigan in January 1994 to take her out of the running for the U.S. Figure Skating Championship. And one podcast even looped in Olivia Colman’s surprise Oscar win over Glenn Close.

https://twitter.com/LeviPsmiley/status/1425287442714791944
https://twitter.com/ZenSammich/status/1424954518303698958
https://twitter.com/academy_queens/status/1424930307019616259

If there’s devastation to befall a character—both serious such as Serenity and on the sillier side like Harley Quinn losing her bacon egg and cheese or Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Cabbage Merchant losing his cabbages—the memes will find a way. Even Order 66 wasn’t immune to the treatment.

https://twitter.com/alessandra_kr/status/1425182819937099781
https://twitter.com/Jody_Houser/status/1425170988874952704
https://twitter.com/svershbow/status/1425450030098485260
https://twitter.com/Grilledmelt/status/1425247087432802304
https://twitter.com/6Attitude/status/1425085434238021633
https://twitter.com/filmdaze/status/1424945483739455493
https://twitter.com/heyitsjennalynn/status/1425154833124839433
https://twitter.com/BlastZonePod/status/1425434261885276160
https://twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status/1425217369161576449

And if you didn’t think that a movie-related COVID meme wouldn’t come without at least one reference to My Girl (a movie that likely scarred a generation of children), you underestimate the internet.

https://twitter.com/BrianLynch/status/1425248677472268294

No matter what thing is being depicted, the context is more or less the same: “Those are some nice plans there, it’d be a shame if something...happened to them.” We know what’s coming, and the results can be truly devastating—just like if someone was to get COVID.

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