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Best of the MEMernet 2024

Video of the Year

Once again, Hitler was ranting about the Memphis food scene, this time about the abrupt closing of Houston’s. Instant classic.

Weirdest Tweet of the Year

Memphis businessman Elon Musk tweeted at Taylor Swift: “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.”

Photo of the Year

Comment of the Year

@gorgeousbrains said Vice President-elect JD Vance “looks like he wants to go to Slider Inn but thinks the neighborhood is too violent.”

Highest Profile

Easily the biggest celebrity moment of the MEMernet in 2024 was when GloRilla met President Joe Biden at the White House. Go Glo!

Memphis on the internet.

Houston’s Problem

The MEMernet was dominated late last week with the news that chain restaurant Houston’s closed its longtime Memphis location, citing staffing and safety challenges.

Reactions online followed a familiar rhythm — shock at the news, sadness over the dishes that will be missed, remembrance of good times had at the chain restaurant, a wave of pffffftt about safety concerns in one of the safest parts of town, a review of all the other restaurants in the area that are thriving, undertones of racism in the motivation to close, context on how the restaurant never engaged with the Memphis community, news that a local wanted to step in to reopen the place, and, finally, a meme showing Houston’s could reopen as a Jack Pirtle’s Chicken.

Haunted Hepburn

Someone bought some Halloween just for Christmas. A recently purchased poster ($50) of Audrey Hepburn was described as “haunted” in a Facebook Marketplace post from Collierville. The poster said whatever spirit was attached to the poster was “escalating” things by touching them and even leaving red marks.

UFO on Sam Cooper?

A video posted to X by Myra Moore The Paranormal Chic apparently showed a UFO transported through Memphis last weekend on a flatbed trailer, driving down Sam Cooper Boulevard.