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How *Gestures Broadly at Everything* Became the Perfect Meme for Our Bad Times

How *Gestures Broadly at Everything* Became the Perfect Meme for Our Bad Times

If there is one meme that was made for 2020, it is *gestures broadly at everything*. This short history of the meme takes us back to 2016 (which, at the time, seemed like a particularly bad year), to David Bowie’s death and a woman with the username @SweetestCyanide. The last paragraph of that story is just…*chef’s kiss*.


From Weekly Filet ##323, in October 2020.

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