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People Are Sharing Just How Bad 2020 Ruined Them With The ‘Mentally I’m Here’ Meme

Remember when Katy Perry sang "do you ever feel like a plastic bag"? Mentally, I'm there.

by Michelle Rennex  24 August 2020
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Considering we’ve spent the last five months basically stuck at home because of COVID-19, it’s no surprise that people are dissociating from the world around them.

It makes sense: People who made travelling their entire personality no longer have anything to talk about, wannabe food bloggers are struggling to get free food from pandemic-affected restaurants, and the annual Summer Eurotrip girls have been forced to sit at home in the winter cold and simply reminisce over their Mykonos trips from the previous years.

Basically, everyone wishes they were somewhere else, doing something else, or with someone else. And that’s exactly what the “Mentally I’m Here” meme is all about — picturing the obscure places we would all rather be than the shit show that is 2020.

Oh, and to share all the dark places that 2020 has sent us mentally too, of course.

Taking a positive approach to things, some decided to use the meme to transport themselves to better times in film like the Care Bear‘s Care-a-Lot, The Kingdom of Far Far Away in Shrek, Donna living her best life in Mamma Mia!, and Twilight’s moody landscapes — most importantly, to that iconic baseball scene.

For some reason, a lot of people’s heads were stuck in random early 2010s games too, finding peace in the vivid memory of Freddi Fish and Purble Place.

But while some used the meme as a way to transport themselves to better places, others used the “Mentally I’m Here” meme to highlight just how badly this year has affected their mental state. Specifically, through nonsensical SpongeBob SquarePants scenes that felt like a fever dream when we first watched them — kinda like how 2020 has made us all feel.

Beyond SpongeBob, people also used known mindfuck movies and shows — like Coraline, Midsommar, and Dance Moms — to demonstrate just how hard the year hit them.

For everyone else, the “Mentally I’m Here” meme was just pure delirium, that somehow made perfect sense in the context of what’s gone on this year.

Personally, I’m mentally the plastic bag that Katy Perry sang about in ‘Firework’.