Reese Witherspoon Creates Meme About 2020 Using Her Film Roles

Let’s face it: 2020 has been a year and we’re not even three-quarters of the way through it. Memes are helping to sum up our collective angst, and few do it better than the one recently introduced by Reese Witherspoon. In a meme that she’s calling the #2020challenge (aka the COVID Calendar), the format comprises nine boxes in which each square is a different month (January–September). Using stills of herself from her different movie roles, she assigns a “mood” to each of the months. As you’d expect, things in January start with the optimism of a new decade—Witherspoon likens it to a bright and optimistic vision of Elle Woods from Legally Blonde—and the following months descend into confusion, fear, and exhaustion, the last of which is perfectly illustrated by her portrayal of Cheryl Strayed in the film Wild.

While the #2020challenge meme might sound utterly depressing, the recognition of it via Witherspoon’s greatest roles is both funny and cathartic. It also caught on among other actors and celebrities, and they copied the format and replaced it with their own projects. Mindy Kaling soon followed Witherspoon’s lead, starting with her dressed in award show glam for January and ending with September as Kelly Kapoor (from The Office) when she endured an awful diet cleanse. With each iteration of the meme, it has you saying, “Yeah, same.”

Scroll down for more celebrities—from Kerry Washington to Mark Ruffalo—taking part in the #2020challenge meme.

Actors and celebrities are expressing their 2020 angst in the #2020challenge meme started by Reese Witherspoon.

Many choose to do it with their acting roles, while others use photos of themselves (including selfies).

How’s your #2020 going? Thanks for the inspiration, @ReeseW and @mindykaling. pic.twitter.com/7evMnZgpqR

— DVF – Diane von Furstenberg (@DVF) August 5, 2020

This one isn’t created by Toni Colette herself, but it is spot on!

has anyone done this one yet pic.twitter.com/Sgq7GEVcrc

— Niccole Thurman (@niccolethurman) August 6, 2020

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