disease cannot be included. The Jared Leto-led vampire movie has been infecting various sections of the internet throughout the week, spreading from Discord to Twitch to Twitter. Now, with a fanatical new audience calling themselves “Morbheads” enthralled by 24/7 broadcasts of the Marvel film from renegade Twitch streamers, the fandom has reached its logical conclusion: memes. So many disease memes, everywhere. You can’t escape them.
A collaboration between Columbia Pictures, Marvel and Sony Pictures Releasing, disease is about a human biologist who searches for a cure for his unknown, deadly disease, only to become a living vampire instead. It’s a silly premise, and one that hasn’t been reaped much critical praise if you look at the reviews. Still, the film’s inexplicable seriousness and Jared Leto’s obnoxious method acting gave way disease a touch of irony, a bit like Tommy Wiseau The room. And in a similar way disease It seems like it’s slowly becoming a cult classic as thousands of viewers flocked to the repeat live streams on Twitch – I’m one of them.
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Thanks to the distribution of the film on Twitch since at least May 24, a flood of disease Memes have started to infiltrate the internet. As is Twitter user Rama_Firmansya hilarious “History of Morbius Meme” a timeline from 2016 to 2022, showing our progress from Hugh Mungus to Amongus to Morbius. There are a variety of box art memes out there disease As a nintendo ds, Switchand Wii Game – a trilogy, if you will. Hell, I even discovered an entire twitch channel called morbing_man that was only streaming disease Meme before the company took it to space. The memes are everywhere at this point, like a virus. Like a… morbius?
It’s Morbin Time, a comic twist on the Power Rangers‘ iconic catchphrase, is the disease meme of the moment. Apparently first tweeted in November 2021 Photographer Rhi Daneel Olivaw’s It’s Morbin’ Time has since appeared in a variety of contexts, e.g Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to the fast food chicken joint KFC is trying to get in there for people wondering what it would look like if disease said it with Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet. I mean even someone Put “It’s Morbin’ Time” in fake subtitles. it’s deep Still has to be my absolute favorite meme the crappy Wii remote speaker that speaks the infamous line after that Super Smash Bros. Announcer introduces Doctor Michael Morbius:
Like, come on! It doesn’t get any better. The sheer amount of nonsense going on here – Who pronounces Morbius? How did you do that? What’s happening? – is so contagious that I can’t help but laugh. It speaks to meme culture’s ability to turn entertainment into a distilled comedic moment, and I love every part of it. Maybe that makes me a morbhead.
While Twitch keeps clapping disease Live streams, the film rises effortlessly from its coffin and keeps coming back with new streams. What can you say? Morb becomes morb. However, people don’t seem too excited about the possibility of Marvel or Sony green light for a sequel.
