The Choose Your Quarantine House Meme Keeps the Internet Busy
Folks hunkering down at home during the time of coronavirus may be looking for something to distract them from their roommates, the news cycle, or just the current climate as a whole.
And a recent meme making the rounds on the Internet is giving people something fun to debate about online. Namely, who would you hypothetically want to live with during a lockdown?
The so-called “choose your quarantine house” meme is a variation of last year’s lunch table meme, which asked people to choose a seat at a cafeteria table based on the artists, actors, songs, TV shows, etc. who were already seated at the table.
okay girls and gays, where are you sitting? pic.twitter.com/SO38XcqkyI
— moved accs! (@blanchetths) August 2, 2019
The approach has now evolved for this moment, asking people to choose which celebrities they would want to shelter in place with during this experience. The trend appears to have originated on Facebook with user Savannah Locke, according to Know Your Meme, the meme database. It moved to Twitter after user @flotisserie shared a version there, which is where it really took off with people around the world weighing in.
I think I’m a house five person. pic.twitter.com/2szob41Xus
— Petty White (@flotisserie) April 5, 2020
As the memes make their rounds, people debate over different iterations opting for various combinations of roommates. Like in reality show casting, most of the versions that have been sweeping across social media, include a house with desirable inhabitants mixed with seemingly less desirable ones making people really think about who they would want to live with for weeks on end. In one example shared by The Cut, people debated whether they would want to live with Chrissy Teigen and Busy Phillips, if it also meant sheltering-in-place with Tiger King subject Joe Exotic? (Click on the tweet to see the whole image.)
You can only pick one. Go 👇🏽https://t.co/U7STS21FF3 pic.twitter.com/cVcQ99qTDJ
— The Cut (@TheCut) April 7, 2020
Mad Men actor Kiernan Shipka opted to hang out with her former co-star January Jones.
house 6 https://t.co/vDogVZP5O8
— Kiernan Shipka (@kiernanshipka) April 7, 2020
On Instagram, Teigen, Phillips, Jones, and others debated the correct option:
A post shared by Comments By Celebs (@commentsbycelebs) on Apr 8, 2020 at 9:06am PDT
Once the internet latched onto the meme, soon there were other iterations making the rounds, like this one with a political twist from FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief Nate Silver:
Choose your quarantine house. pic.twitter.com/e6bD8hgJPx
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 8, 2020
There were some with a literary bent:
Choose your quarantine house, fictional book characters edition. pic.twitter.com/LhRKuqkEbg
— NaNoWriMo (@NaNoWriMo) April 7, 2020
— Literary Hub (@lithub) April 7, 2020
A dog lover’s version:
Dog lovers: Which #quarantinehouse would you pick? 🐶 pic.twitter.com/xhFpkR1BpS
— VetriScience (@VetriScience) April 6, 2020
Actor Jackée Harry shared an edition of her own:
🤔🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/sqIG0oV3bf
— Jackée Harry (@JackeeHarry) April 8, 2020
There’s a version for fans of The Simpsons:
choose your quarantine house pic.twitter.com/ecEOqFxL8V
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 7, 2020
Another for Star Wars enthusiasts:
Choose your #StarWars quarantine house! Which group are you #SocialDistancing with? pic.twitter.com/0Sh43EE6z9
— The Resistance Broadcast | Star Wars News Net (@RBatSWNN) April 7, 2020
A quarantine house filled with composers:
#QuarantineHouse but with dead composers, by me #memetime pic.twitter.com/YAQeoyXobR
— RogueMillennielle🧘🏼♀️ (@RMillennielle) April 7, 2020
Freestyle fans may have a hard time making their choice here:
You can only quarantine in one house, who are you picking?
House 1:
- Future
- Young Thug
- Gunna
- Lil Baby
House 2:
- Lil Uzi
- Carti
- 21 Savage
- Travis Scott
House 3:
- J. Cole
- Kendrick
- Big Sean
- Gambino
House 4:
- Drake
- Lil Wayne
- Tory Lanez
- The Weeknd— Hot Freestyle (@HotFreestyle) April 8, 2020
There’s even a skincare version:
I did a skincare thing... #QuarantineHouse pic.twitter.com/KCyX8uTlsh
— DermAngelo (@dermangelo) April 8, 2020
And a potato-based edition:
ok who wants to come to the quarantine potato house
choose your quarantine potato house pic.twitter.com/yLfJdbgiAr— darth™ (@darth) April 9, 2020
There’s a very dark version that is extremely difficult to answer:
What’s so impressive about your work is there’s a house with Mao, Goebbels, and Judas and its somehow not the worst house to live in
— Tim (@Timm3r95) April 7, 2020
Yet, all of those are somehow less difficult than this far-too-realistic version making the rounds:
my realistic memes never go viral pic.twitter.com/6gKLdNDcwb
— Matt Ufford (@mattufford) April 7, 2020