The internet is determined to show how every movie and TV series would've ended in 2007
The latest meme turns all media into a rehash of the 2007 Transformers' Linkin Park end credits
The world was a very different place in 2007. In that seemingly distant past, the middle class believed they could still buy a house someday, most of us didn’t know what a coronavirus was, and, most alien of all, fading into Linkin Park’s “What I’ve Done” for a movie or TV show’s end credits was still considered a pretty cool thing to do.
In an effort to imagine a popular culture that always understood the power of this choice—one that places all work beneath the shadow of the stirring, robot-narrated conclusion to Michael Bay’s Transformers—the internet has been remixing every conceivable film and show ending to create an alternate, “What I’ve Done”-soaked reality.
The best way to show how effective this kind of edit can be is to start with its finest implementation so far: Jack Aling’s “The Godfather but it came out in 2007.”
Every version of the meme follows this same template. The last scene in a movie or TV series is shown and the song begins to play just before the credits start rolling.