You know the meme by now. For roughly eight years, the internet’s sought to ring in the month of May with memes of a tight-curled, turn-of-the-millennium Justin Timberlake declaring not that it’s gonna be me, but rather it’s gonna be May, a gentle jab at his overwrought delivery on the No Strings Attached chart-topper. It’s delightful and dumb, a reminder of what Twitter was like pre-GamerGate.
You’d be hard-pressed to find it this year, however. With everyone in lockdown due to COVID-19—many states will remain closed throughout this entire month—spirits are simply too broken for the harmless memes of yore.
Well, they are for everyone except N’Sync, who didn’t appear to get the memo. Lance Bass and Joey Fatone, for example, came into this year’s festivities hot.