Weekend Meme Roundup: John Xina, If You Want Me To Listen, Let's Go Brandon!

Welcome to the Weekend Meme Roundup, where the biggest memes of the past weekend are rounded up and examined more closely! This weekend was some IRL drama with a splash of TikTok cringe. In the real world, there was the slightly confusing and questionably embraced Let's Go Brandon!, as well as the slightly similarly themed John Xina. Online, a simple video post about anime boys with white hair turned into an entire genre of video, called If You Want Me To Listen Then Get On Your Knees And Beg.

If You Want Me to Listen Then Get on Your Knees and Beg

If You Want Me to Listen Then Get on Your Knees and Beg is a TikTok trend that started with a video featuring the anime characters Killua, Kakashi, Kaneki and Gojo, with a remixed version of Sean Paul's "Temperature" playing in the background. The video trend is to use quotes from each of the characters while featuring them doing an associated action, as a sort of hype video. This trend was then adopted by others on TikTok who used it as background noise while they did quirky dances or other types of scene transitions.

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Let's Go Brandon!

Let's Go Brandon! is a viral catchphrase that has become synonymous with resentment of the current President, Joe Biden, by various crowds at sporting and outdoor events. While originally starting out as a different phrase, the current meme version was coined by a newscaster at a NASCAR event who tried to say that she heard the crowd saying "Let's Go Brandon!" in support of the driver Brandon Brown, who was speaking to the cameras at the time. Since that instance, other crowds at various events began chanting the three-word phrase, and people online began photoshopping the phrase onto signs and in memes.

John Xina

John Xina is the continued evolution of people online making John Cena references and edits about his alleged love and support for China. Over the past few months, it seems like Cena has only increased in his love and overt appreciation for China in the eyes of the internet, which has finally culminated in him being branded as a morph between him and the current Chinese President, Xi Jinping. This most recent example came about after he publicly made a statement about Taiwan not being a country, which is an official policy upheld by the government in China.

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