Oh boy, do we have a treat for you. This week, we offer you a special look into the AI-generated Twilight Zone thanks to a new trend that imagines celebrities without fame, a truly horrifying concept that might just make our favorite celebs too relatable.

On top of that, we've got an appearance from Hood MrBeast, a job application form for you to fill out and a very important message from Paul Revere.

Here are five of the biggest memes from the past week for you to lay your eyes on.

What Celebs Would Look Like Without Fame and Wealth Trend

The spooky power of AI has brought us yet another massive meme format this week, as images of what celebrities without fame and wealth might look like go viral on social media.

The trend is inspired by a collection of photoshops uploaded to Facebook in 2022, which imagined celebrities like Jay-Z and Beyonce stripped of their fame and fortune. The photoshops typically show these celebrities in more casual settings and attire, offering a glimpse into a world where they're all normies just like the rest of us.

Over the past few days, this trend was revived on sites like Instagram and TikTok as users put celebrity images through AI to quickly imagine what they'd look like as broke losers.

With an endless pile of celebrities to choose from, the meme has proven incredibly prevalent this week, offering some truly impressive AI edits of celebrities smiling and doing absolutely nothing. They're just like us, huh?

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Holy Airball

We've all seen someone take a wild chance at something and miss out, but now there's a new slang expression you can use when it happens: "Holy Airball."

The term "holy airball" is a reference to the basketball term "airball," which describes a shot on net that doesn't even come close to going in.

"Holy airball" has been used since as early as 2024 as an expression similar to "holy cow," meant to call out someone who just shot an airball. The "airballs" in question don't usually have anything to do with basketball, either. The term is used towards missing out on any type of shot, for example, using a pickup line on a girl who rejects or ignores you.

This week, TikTokers took it upon themselves to elevate the term to new heights of popularity with a trend. The trend has users share anecdotes about times that someone, usually a date, misunderstood or downplayed a claim they made, which led to them missing out on something.

For example, a girl telling her date that she likes basketball and him failing to understand that she is a basketball player, that failure being the "holy airball."

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MrLean / Hood MrBeast

MrBeast got an unexpected makeover recently, and his transformation into MrLean has been going viral this week.

At the beginning of May, TikToker @user2847438378482838 posted an edit of YouTuber MrBeast spreading his money out in front of him, complete with a fire fit and fresh haircut. This inspired a whole wave of similar edits that looked to turn MrBeast into "Hood MrBeast," an unashamed flexer with a penchant for lean.

The meme got so big that MrBeast himself even played into it. This week, he posted a collection of photos of himself recreating the memes by dressing similarly and flexing his money on his private jet.

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Job Application Forms

The biggest fear of the unemployed has hit the mainstream recently as memes about evil job applications go viral on social media.

So, what makes these job applications so evil? Well, they're job applications. They don't have fangs or muscles or a desire to kill you, but they do have a desire to make you work, and when it all comes down to it, isn't work the true silent killer?

Memes about scary job applications have been spreading online for years now, but this week they really took off on sites like TikTok as a major villain.

Some of the most popular examples of the meme use footage from Roblox, which hosts several games in which job applications are the villains. If you've ever wanted to experience your real-life aversion to work as a video game, it might be time to sign up for a Roblox account.

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Paul Revere "The British Are Coming" Painting

Edward Mason Eggleston's classic painting Midnight Ride of Paul Revere has been a meme for a while now, but it's been seeing a bit of a revival this week, offering a great way to mock overenthusiastic information sharers.

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The painting depicts Paul Revere riding his horse past a home and informing the people that the British are coming. It's a classic moment from American history, and for the past few years, it's been used with increasing frequency to make fun of people for announcing mundane things online. Some recent examples include the temporary hack and shutdown of 4chan, a new Team Fortress 2 comic and the announcement of a new Tomodachi Life game.

Recently, the meme has been popping up all over sites like X / Twitter and TikTok, where it's being used in the same ways as usual. Some versions of the meme are even using other paintings of Paul Revere, adding a little variety to the format to help keep it fresh.

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We'll be back next Friday with another edition of our Weekly Meme Roundup series, so stay tuned!

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