#notmyjob – Memphis Flyer

Memphis on the internet.

The winner

Reddit user u/notanotheraibot wins the MEMernet this year with a high-quality meme featuring Hitler finding out his favorite Memphis pizza place was not treated well in a Reddit poll.

Runner up

Richie Esquivel posted a sad/hilarious photo of a dead raccoon painted over by a road crew laying new traffic stripes on Getwell. The Facebook post went around the world, picked up by The Guardian, the New York Post, and more.

“#notmyjob,” he wrote. “Memphis, Tennessee, baby. But Getwell Road looked real nice, tho.”

Tyre’s Memphis

Hundreds of thousands found the photography website for Tyre Nichols.

“My name is Tyre D. Nichols. I am an aspiring photographer,” he wrote. “Well, I mostly do this stuff for fun but I enjoy it very much. Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way. It expresses me in ways I cannot write down for people.”

Memphis on the internet.

#notmyjob

Richie Esquivel’s sad/hilarious Facebook post went around the world last week, picked up by (as of press time) WMC-TV, The Guardian, and the New York Post.

His photo shows a dead raccoon painted over by a road crew laying new traffic stripes along Getwell. It raises so many questions, but one thing was clear to Esquivel. It was “#notmyjob,” he wrote. “Memphis, Tennessee, baby. But Getwell Road looked real nice, tho.”

Bike City

The 46th Annual National Bikers Roundup roared into town again last week, bringing thousands of primarily Black bikers to Memphis.

Party central was Liberty Park, converted again to a campground for an estimated 30,000 bikers and their families. But the biker joy spread all over town, especially to Beale Street, where nearly every night was bike night.

Horror

A popular subreddit asks for horror stories in two sentences. Yvette Rhoton’s Nextdoor post from last week certainly qualifies. “Wasps in little library on Nelson close to Tanglewood. Ask me how I found out.”

Memphis Barbie

“Barbie goes to Memphis …,” reads the post from Memphis Memes 901. Submitted here without commentary.