We Get It, Melbourne Had An Earthquake, Here’s All The Best Memes Now Shut Up

Wow, did Melbourne have an earthquake last night? I didn’t hear about it on every social media platform ever…

Alright sickos, put down your seismographs and pick up your mememographs (shoot me now) because we’ve compiled everyone’s best efforts to conjure up a funny gag while still reeling from one of the biggest shakes to hit the city since Boost Juice launched its protein smoothies.

First up is a category I like to call “everyone making the same Betty’s Burgers joke but with very minor variations”.

For context, when Melbourne experienced a magnitude 5.8 quake in September 2021, a Betty’s Burgers in South Yarra copped it pretty hard and the front facades essentially got destroyed.

The good news was, that was pretty much the extent of the serious damage to the city, bar a few bruised egos from realising our city wasn’t the perfect, majestic jewel in Australia’s cultural crown we all thought it was.

Flash forward to May 2023 and Betty’s Burgers is the butt (read: bun) of the joke once again.

“A second quake has hit Betty’s Burgers” pic.twitter.com/1zN4MBMY2X

— cosmic jester (@cosmicjester) May 28, 2023

Betty's Burgers rn #earthquake pic.twitter.com/KR2KuWCt4p

— Joel Smith (@mrjoelsmith) May 28, 2023

Phew! All ok. Thank you @TheTodayShow for checking on Betty’s Burgers. #earthquake pic.twitter.com/F62nkf7DHm

— Jason Caddy (@jasoncaddy) May 28, 2023

Things to do in #Melbourne after an #earthquake.

1. Put on your Kathmandu
2. Go outside, see if anyone is there, if not take off Kathmandu.
3. Check to see Betty’s Burgers South Yarra is still standing.
4. If all is OK with Betty’s Burgers, head to bed.

— Kieran Simpson (@kieransimpson) May 28, 2023

This next block of memes I like to call “possums, possums, possums” and it is, you guessed it, people joking that they thought the earthquake was actually possums scurrying across their roofs.

After I saw the first Tweet referencing this phenomenon, I giggled. Why lie? I’m only human.

But then I saw the second, the third, the fourth the fifth (the minor fall and the major lift), and concluded that Melbourne residents are truly a hive mind, incapable of original thought.

All we do is drink soy latte, eat hot chip, experience occasional earthquake, wear all black and joke about possum. It’s a LIFESTYLE.

Living in Melbourne for 15 years, I am like: 60% a very very fat possum on the roof, 40% earthquake #earthquake #Melbourne

— Dr Behrooz Hassani-M (@behrooz_hm) May 28, 2023

I love that Twitter is the goto to confirm that an #earthquake happened in Melbourne, and it wasn’t just raucous possums with heavy feet running across the roof.

— Smorganism 🥃 🐨 (@smorganism) May 28, 2023

MELBOURNE EARTHQUAKE! What a way to be woken up during the night

My wife said "Is is possums Chris?"

as the entire HOUSE shook violently and our bodies too

"Unless we now have Jurassic possums I think its a f*****g earthquake"#JurassicPossums #melbourneearthquake

— Christian O'Connell (@OC) May 28, 2023

Dropped my sister off at Melbourne Airport an hour ago and am now minding her house for a month. She warned me about possums running across the roof. Got home, sat down, and the house started shaking. "They've got bloody big possums in Sunshine", I thought.#MelbourneEarthquake

— Gigs (@AndrewGigacz) May 28, 2023

What this earthquake chat is really showing is that there is a much bigger possum problem than I previously realised! #melbourneearthquake

— Mikkayla Mossop (@MikkaylaMossop) May 28, 2023

#melbourneearthquake … ? … I thought it was just a giant possum hitting the side of the house instead of landing on the roof.

— mel (@MelHaitch) May 28, 2023

Finally, we have reached the light at the end of this tunnel. The good shit*.

*Comedy is subjective. I did my best. I survived a natural disaster last night, okay?

Please enjoy/cringe/tell your housemates that it was you who in fact, found them.

@jay.chabz

you guys already draining it #melbourneearthquake #earthquake

♬ original sound – Jay Chabz

A lot of experts weighing in on the magnitude of that earthquake last night. Some real seis queens out there.

— Kirsty Webeck 🦈 (@KirstyWebeck) May 28, 2023

huge earthquake in Melbourne! look at the damage it’s done to Federation Square pic.twitter.com/Zvn8zbbIEp

— 𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒔 ♱ (@BorehamIsabelle) May 28, 2023

so no earthquake warning for iphones? #Melbourne #earthquake pic.twitter.com/exWpGpatjr

— James Harnden (@jamesnharnden) May 28, 2023

Like omg we get it YOU’RE BETTER THAN EVERYONE your nightlife is THRIVING

— Gabbi Bolt (@GabbiBolt) May 28, 2023

Seismologists say the Melbourne quake was a shallow event which makes it sound more like a Sydney thing

— Tim Callanan (@MrTimCallanan) May 28, 2023

BREAKING: JASON DERULO HAS FALLEN DOWN THE STAIRS AFTER THE MELBOURNE EARTHQUAKE pic.twitter.com/wTvCxpwcS3

— sarina (@sarinacsgo) May 28, 2023

Peta Credlin says Dan Andrews is responsible for #Melbourne earthquake.

“Nothing ever moves when Liberals are in power,” Ms Credlin told a source.

— SlurryNewsAust (@AgnusMunshin) May 28, 2023

I guess I need to retweet this now. https://t.co/jSs2ddpyFw

— Darren Levin (@darren_levin) May 28, 2023

Okay, now everyone get back to work.

That’s enough internet for today.

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