Green Day Trends, Which Means It's October 1st

There is hardly anyone who still sincerely makes "Oh, it's time to wake up Billie Joe Armstrong" jokes anymore, yet every October 1st, like a bad April Fools prank, "Green Day" trends on Twitter because it's time to wake up Billie Joe Armstrong.

‘shut the fuck up when october comes’ coming soon on the next green day albumpic.twitter.com/hTaiJcrVyq

— tu puta madre (@gilipoyas_) October 1, 2021

Yes, it's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" season yet again. In 2004, Green Day released the aggressively maudlin ballad on the back half of American Idiot, and while it was written about the passing of singer Billie Joe Armstrong's father as a child, Green Day never marketed the song that way, opting instead to release a music video that featured a miniature soap opera about a couple splitting apart because of the man's decision to go fight in the Iraq War (ahh, the Bush years).

The "Wake Up Billie Joe! hoofle doofle" joke was an internet staple of the early 2010s in the era of advice animals, but in current times, there are hardly any tweeters still sincerely trotting it out. The joke has turned itself into a form of bait to rile up the many, many passionate Green Day fans who still get upset at the joke.

Green Day waking up every October 1st to the same joke pic.twitter.com/6JfYVyDPVo

— Corna King (@ElCornaKing) October 1, 2021

Go ahead. Tell Green Day to wake up. Do it. See what happens. I dare you. pic.twitter.com/YI4Xmujg1t

— NateIsLame (@NateIsLame) October 1, 2021

green day is green day is
trending trending. pic.twitter.com/j1AvWIVjOs

— ً (@nightoutonearth) October 1, 2021

hopefully everyone learns that green day’s wake me up when september ends is actually about the passing of billie joe armstrong’s father pic.twitter.com/g0RqWmNlNh

— Noah (1985) (@noaher_goulini) October 1, 2021

"Its October Time to Wake the guy from Green Day U-" pic.twitter.com/CefAIAp52H

— Donutt🍡 (@BR1TTLEB0N3S) October 1, 2021

Society when people stop making the “Don’t forget to wake up Billie Joe Armstrong / Green Day tomorrow” jokes pic.twitter.com/LgGcCawKeK

— ashley misses the tour vibes 🥺 (@secretly_a_mess) September 30, 2021

the day that ppl realize that the wake up green day joke is not funny because "wake me up when september ends" is about billie joe armstrong's trauma surrounding his father's death is the day i will know peace.

— n 💫 ceo of han "leias concubine" solo (@skyswalkerleia) September 30, 2021

Such is the beauty of the internet: if a meme lasts long enough, the backlash to it will itself become a meme. May the two sides fight for eternity to ensure that every October 1st, we remember to wake up Billie Joe Armstrong, as he asked.

if billy joe armstrong didn’t want people to wake him up at the end of september he shouldn’t have made a song called wake me up when september ends. just a thought.

— John Wicca 🎃👻💀🍂 (@andymoney69) October 1, 2021