30 memes that shook the internet after the release of ‘Stranger Things’ season 4

By Malavika Pradeep

Published May 30, 2022 at 10:04 AM

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Disclaimer: This article includes ‘Stranger Things’ season 4 spoilers. If you’re someone who stopped watching the show in its third instalment, I recommend you to stay in the armpit, that is Mike Wheeler’s basement. If you’re caught up, however, proceed in an orderly fashion into the Watergate.

Ever since that girl Barb died a few years ago, it has been one thing after another in Hawkins. Set in the spring of 1986, six months after the Battle of Starcourt, the gang is now struggling with its aftermath as Eleven (Jane “El” Hopper)—played by Millie Bobby Brown—moves to California with the Byers. Having lost her powers, El struggles to adapt to her new life as she gets bullied by her classmates—something she keeps hidden from her boyfriend, Mike Wheeler.

Back home, Max Mayfield continues to mourn the loss of her stepbrother, Billy Hargrove, while Lucas Sinclair joins as a benchwarmer on the Hawkins High basketball team to aid his popularity in school. As Mike and Dustin Henderson become a proud part of the Dungeons & Dragons group, Hellfire Club, a new supernatural threat surfaces—one that sends the entire town reeling in horror as victims are left with their bones snapped and eyes gouged out.

Among high-pitched audio distortions and menacing background scores, Stranger Things season 4 is back with a new instalment of the Hawkins curse. Released three years after its announcement, audiences were bestowed with a much-alive Jim Hopper, a fresh heartthrob, a Barb cameo, a new sleep paralysis demon, adorable Dusteve dynamics, rekindled romance and an ‘extra sus’ character development of Will Byers. Oh, and we can’t forget the internet’s reaction to all of this.

Here are 30 of the best Stranger Things season 4 memes that are guaranteed to last you till its second volume drops with two new episodes on 1 July 2022:

1. The ‘Family Guy’ crossover we don’t deserve

https://twitter.com/dearfuturelou/status/1530303198753349635

2. Voldemort 🤝 Vecna

https://twitter.com/alwynnchen/status/1530799200128073729

3. “Always the goddamn babysitter”

https://twitter.com/lvpartridgesss/status/1530731941477371906

4. Are we going to talk about Will’s gay panic at the airport?

https://twitter.com/sannspov/status/1530804975307202560

5. Nothing ‘Purple Palm Tree Delight’ can’t fix

https://twitter.com/LUV4LLY/status/1530831020508839937

6. *squelching intensifies*

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by inStrangerThings

7. Kate Bush supremacy

https://twitter.com/forEdvinm/status/1530803308180430848

8. Bangers only

https://twitter.com/sunbabyslover/status/1530679337879412736

9. 001 deserved more screen time, period.

https://twitter.com/luujhonson/status/1530800016733921280

10. Don’t forget the roller skates

https://twitter.com/NetflixGeeked/status/1530919391281438723

11. A new bar of friendship

https://twitter.com/Obstikhal/status/1530379268391325696

12. We did get to see green paint on the canvas but…

https://twitter.com/Katie_Murphy776/status/1530560265875513346

13. … I’m 100 per cent convinced this is what Will painted

For anyone wondering what Will painted. You’re welcome.
byu/DeCurt1998 inStrangerThings

14. Here’s something you can’t unsee

https://twitter.com/scoobyhistory/status/1531085691278573570

15. “I can fix him”

https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things/status/1530958161036845057

16. Choose your fighter

https://twitter.com/bvckystjames/status/1530663880686415872

17. ‘Gravity Falls’ X ‘Stranger Things’

https://twitter.com/chkmtxtun/status/1530762243431800832

18. Let’s not jinx things now, shall we?

https://twitter.com/foreverstevenat/status/1530932728723832832

19. The Wandafication of Eleven

https://twitter.com/LizzieContent/status/1531061680255291392

20. Me and who?

https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things/status/1530579659360026628

21. It’s been two seasons, come on Steve!

https://twitter.com/HARR1NGTONS/status/1530663790039007232

22. All evil must have a home

https://twitter.com/WandaMX20/status/1530698274868445187

23. This is peak meme culture

https://twitter.com/prongsupremancy/status/1530873222484398081

24. Two best friends chilling in a junkyard, five feet apart cuz they’re…

https://twitter.com/StrangerNews11/status/1530942125340250113

25. Quick, take notes

https://twitter.com/ohmobius/status/1530873924925685760

26. A comfort character

https://twitter.com/joycelhopper/status/1530942150736760832

27. Robin Buckley deserves a raise at Family Video after this

https://twitter.com/elletanod/status/1530944878502346754

28. Saved you a click, you’re welcome

https://twitter.com/NetflixFilm/status/1530624952608645121

29. Demogorgeous

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30. Binge watching, with a capital B

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