{"id":36725,"date":"2022-06-04T18:55:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T18:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jared-leto-is-now-actively-participating-in-morbius-2-memes\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T18:55:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T18:55:31","slug":"jared-leto-is-now-actively-participating-in-morbius-2-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jared-leto-is-now-actively-participating-in-morbius-2-memes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Leto is now actively participating in Morbius 2 memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"sc-1eow4w5-1 eLNveM align--bleed js_lazy-image js_marquee-assetfigure\" data-id=\"42fcf1e61d3c23ae28918868ff9a5fa0\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/42fcf1e61d3c23ae28918868ff9a5fa0\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"3549\" data-height=\"1995\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"false\">\n<div class=\"sc-1eow4w5-2 loxZOX has-data img-wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"max-width:3549px\" data-link-reference=\"\" data-link-target=\"\" data-syndicationrights=\"true\" data-imagerights=\"getty\" data-hidecredit=\"false\"><span class=\"sc-1eow4w5-0 dnhHtZ js_lightbox-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.2%\" class=\"sc-1eow4w5-3 lktKQM image-hydration-wrapper\">\n<div><img alt=\"Image for article titled Oh, how droll!  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Jared Leto is now participating in your &#038; quot; Morbin &#038; # 39; Time &#038; quot; memes\" data-anim-src = \"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-7s1ndr-0 ikKPtM no-caption\">Photo<!-- -->: <!-- -->Alberto E. Rodriguez<!-- --> (<!-- -->Getty Images<!-- -->)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-id=\"42fcf1e61d3c23ae28918868ff9a5fa0\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/42fcf1e61d3c23ae28918868ff9a5fa0\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"3549\" data-height=\"1995\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Oh, how droll!  What an unexpected turn of events!  Jared Leto, the eponymous \u201cliving vampyr\u201d from Sony&#8217;s latest \u201cWe have the rights to make movies about <em>Spider-Man <\/em>that do not contain any spidered men \u201dpicture <span><em>Morbius<\/em><\/span>has now put his personal stamp of <!-- -->approval<!-- --> on the internet&#8217;s beloved \u201cIt&#8217;s Morbin &#8216;Time\u201d meme!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"twitter-embed\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=twitter-1532849263809396736&amp;autosize=1\" autoresize=\"true\" id=\"twitter-1532849263809396736\" data-recommended=\"false\" width=\"500\" height=\"159\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">That&#8217;s right, folks: The meme culture surrounding <em>Morbius <\/em>has now officially hit the \u201cWendy&#8217;s making its own &#8216;Sir this is a Wendy&#8217;s&#8217; joke<!-- -->\u201dInflection point, as Leto posted a video of himself yesterday evening with a fake script for <span><em>Morbius 2<\/em><\/span><em> <\/em>subtitled <em>It&#8217;s Morbin &#8216;Time<\/em>.  This arrives <span>just as Sony makes a weird little push to put <em>Morbius <\/em>back in theaters this weekend<\/span>jumping from less than a hundred screens over Memorial Day Weekend back up to a number that&#8217;s been reported to be more than 1,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">All of this, in turn, has apparently been propelled by the internet&#8217;s adoption of <em>Morbius <\/em>as the latest thing to get ironically hyper-fixated on, and which has followed the same curve that all internet obsessions tend to these days: Early amused irony begets a culture of people making <em>Morbius <\/em>jokes as a way to show connection with each other, which<!-- --> begets corporations<!-- --> noticing there&#8217;s money in them thar internets,<!-- --> which <!-- -->begets a video of Jared Leto demonstrating that he&#8217;s \u201cin\u201d on the joke.  As per the norm, a<!-- -->ny actual connection to <em>Morbius<\/em>the fairly dull superhero vampire movie, sloughed off the whole thing about three permutations back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">And that, of course, is sort of the whole point of meme culture, as far as we can tell: It reduces <!-- -->the entire concept of comedy down to a set of simple LEGO-esque building blocks that are so easy to use that\u2026 Well, we were going to say &#8220;that even Jared Leto can successfully employ them,&#8221; but that seems a little too mean, so we&#8217;ll just let that<!-- --> sentence trail off instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">It&#8217;s now clear, in any case, that Sony is running some sort of bizarre experiment here with this whole \u201cBring <em>Morbius <\/em>back to theaters \u201dproject: Pick a fairly weak box office weekend \u2014 sliding in between the debuts of<!-- --> <em>Top Gun: Maverick <\/em>last week <!-- -->and the US debut of <em>Jurassic World: Dominion <\/em>next week<!-- -->\u2014And figure out exactly how many dollars 8 million \u201cMorbin &#8216;Time\u201d memes actually translate into.  We&#8217;d be lying if we said we didn&#8217;t have our fingers crossed for &#8220;None, please, for the love of god, no money for meme movies, Christ<!-- -->.<!-- -->&#8220;B<!-- -->ut we&#8217;ll have to see what the box office reports hold next week to know for sure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez (Getty Images) Oh, how droll! What an unexpected turn of events! Jared Leto, the eponymous \u201cliving vampyr\u201d from Sony&#8217;s latest \u201cWe have the rights to make movies about Spider-Man that do not contain any spidered men \u201dpicture Morbiushas now put his personal stamp of approval on the internet&#8217;s beloved \u201cIt&#8217;s Morbin &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jared-leto-is-now-actively-participating-in-morbius-2-memes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jared Leto is now actively participating in Morbius 2 memes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[484,1119,14,2754,3839,2839,17244,16799,17207,15218,17243,292,17210,16598,2124],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_675,pg_1,q_80,w_1200\/42fcf1e61d3c23ae28918868ff9a5fa0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}