The worldwide quarantine caused by the Coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 was the perfect recipe for a viral meme: millions of Millennials and “Gen Z-ers,” sitting at home all day, stuck on their phones with nothing much else to do. It was no time at all before Twitter user “baro_tokiyo” created a meme based on the 2007 TV series Gossip Girl, with the caption, “This is testing what little sanity I have left.” The meme depicts the protagonists of Gossip Girl, Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf, having a short interchange in which Serena says “i have to pee”…
