Weekend Meme Roundup: Djokovic Denied, QRPosting, Wordle

Welcome to the Weekend Roundup, where the biggest memes of the weekend are rounded up and examined more closely! This past weekend had a lot of political undertones to it in the form of Novak Djokovic getting denied entry to Australia, which started out as a tennis thing and quickly turned into an international debate on COVID-19 policy. In cyberspace, a new alternative to The Pirate Bay was found in QRPosting, and a fun daily game was discovered in Wordle.

Novak Djokovic Denied Entry

Novak Djokovic Denied Entry To Australia is a weeklong event in which the world No. 1 ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic was given a medical exemption so he could go to Australia and compete in the major tournament, The Australian Open. Upon his arrival in the country, however, the medical exemption was revoked and he was forced to stay in a detainment holding area while his lawyers appealed the decision. After memes, hot takes and the president of Serbia weighed in on the matter, a judge in Australia finally delivered the verdict that Novak was allowed to keep his medical exemption.

QRPosting

QRPosting is the act of inserting a QR code into a meme and then posting it. The image itself is deceptively simple, as the QR code is meant to be scanned, and the meme itself acts as a hint as to what is supposed to be found by scanning the code. Though different formats are used, such as My Child Will X, the name of the game is to have the QR code be a direct download link or direct stream to something, like a recently released movie in HD detail, and then the meme is sent out for people to scan and enjoy the goods. However, this was easily abused, with some QR codes being links to shock sites and malware.

Wordle

Wordle is an online word game that is updated every day at midnight EST. The game started out as something made by Josh Wardle for his partner, Palak Shah. It works in a similar way to the old television game Lingo in which the player guesses five-letter words to see how many of the letters are similar, or in the correct position, to the goal word. The player has six "word guesses" to get the puzzle right, leading to many sharing their Wordle results on social media as a contest of skill and even in memes.

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