The United Kingdom had a profoundly normal one last Saturday, when King Charles III, ol' Chucky 3, became the 40th British monarch crowned at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony featuring all manner of storied orbs, gowns, gloves and knick-knacks. There was also a big rock that the suffragettes once bombed, so that's all very exciting.
But here at PC Gamer, we only pay homage to one King, so the glitz and glamour of the coronation aren't particularly interesting to us. What is interesting, though, is the sheer profusion of memes that the coronation's incongruous and archaic rituals brought into being on social media. The last coronation happened in 1953, 58 years before the release of Dark Souls, which meant Twitter didn't have much to say about it at the time. But now? I couldn't even do my usual Sunday morning doomscrolling without encountering games-related gags about the event, which I've otherwise tried to avoid.
