People are dropping their phones for this 'Stranger Things' meme
Buckle up, everyone. This meme is taking us to the Upside Down.
In the second season of Stranger Things, our favorite gang of Demagorgon fighters gets another glimpse of the mysterious Upside Down. Even though the new season premiered months ago, people have spent the past week creating elaborate mirror selfie videos paired with the Stranger Things theme song.
Spraying the bathroom in the upside down 👽 pic.twitter.com/2nYB9ZhjYJ
— ℵ𝖊𝖆𝖓𝖚 (@keanuarias) April 9, 2018
The trend involves recording mirror selfies by dropping your phone in slow motion and editing it with a backwards version of another slow motion phone drop.
Think of the selfie Olympics from a few weeks ago — this one's just a little more extreme.
The result is part mirror selfie, part trolling, and part thirst trap.
— Nolan (@NolanR) April 8, 2018
A post shared by ℌ𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔞𝔦 𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔯 (@goodluckneb) on Apr 9, 2018 at 4:01pm PDT
the stranger things editors are shaking pic.twitter.com/MfUfxDPid3
— lara (@ughmileven) April 6, 2018
Y’all, the trailer for Stranger Things Season 3 is insane!!! pic.twitter.com/2Ih61OInqK
— nobody (@YungDaygo) April 6, 2018
A post shared by Dez Paradise (@dezadise) on Apr 10, 2018 at 6:19pm PDT
When u find out she’s watches stranger things pic.twitter.com/dO5Roi9SYY
— Frank Dragotto (@fragottodrank) April 11, 2018
For some, their attempts at the Stranger Things meme just didn't go as planned.
the stranger things phone drop thing didn't work for me... pic.twitter.com/oymOVnSf9P
— Rusty Cage (@Rusty_Cage) April 8, 2018
And others got creative with their video edits.
The upside down 🤔 pic.twitter.com/G6f4sxt7Tu
— Juan Francisco (@TorresJFranco) April 9, 2018
On the next episode of stranger things... pic.twitter.com/2lwOdoupaU
— Suketu Patel (@yungsuku) April 8, 2018
A post shared by Stevie Ray Franck (@zephyr_is_pretty_average) on Apr 10, 2018 at 5:39am PDT
Then there's this one, which is just timeless.
A post shared by brendan (@princetonhall) on Apr 9, 2018 at 5:03pm PDT
The Duffer brothers haven't announced an exact date for Season 3, but we know it'll have at least eight episodes. We probably won't find out more about the Upside Down until April 2019, but until then, we at least have these brilliant memes!
And before you try this at home, make sure you have a case on your phone. Or at least a screen protector — the Upside Down won't save you from a cracked screen.