Earlier this month, the ubiquitous question “what’s your zodiac sign?” got turned on its head when a user posted on Twitter, “F*CK YOUR ZODIAC SIGN, whats your favorite lil peep song?” The tweet quickly took off as a meme, as others piled on with more modern, relatable ways of determining a personality type than what the Earth’s position around the sun was at the time of your birth.
Examples included everything from choice in Mario Kart player to a favorite episode of The Office to your preferred Whataburger order.
But as these things tend to go, the meme has mutated into something else entirely. Another person tweeted earlier this week: “Whoever won Best Actress the year you were born is your real Zodiac Sign.”
Whoever won Best Actress the year you were born is your real Zodiac Sign.
— Tess ⚔️ (@isabeIIehuppert) August 20, 2018
As far as memes go, this one is pretty easy to play along. Essentially, all you have to do is Google “best actress [year you were born]” and there you go.
Not surprisingly, the simplicity of the meme was likely in part conducive to its popularity, as hundreds began playing along.
https://twitter.com/amandadeibert/status/1032472066996371456
https://twitter.com/17days/status/1032382655612903424
I'm Cher, B!tch! https://t.co/FMT0bKONMl
— T.homo Arigatō (@frozenfire8688) August 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/Asetisis/status/1032631893953404930
Katharine Hepburn.
— Geek Girl Diva (@geekgirldiva) August 23, 2018
This explains SO much. https://t.co/3In4IU0aNb
i mean technically Susan Sarandon but Emma Thompson was ROBBED for Sense and Sensibility so I am choosing to claim her instead https://t.co/UhnGNH10Dd
— m (@mpwnewman) August 23, 2018
I am Shirley MacLaine. Yeah I'm good with that. https://t.co/kAkm2VwFcp
— Phillip (@OKTXARPoke) August 23, 2018
Katharine Hepburn and Barbara Streisand (it was a tie that year).
— Abel Undercity (@AbelUndercity) August 23, 2018
This might explain why I feel like I'm going in several directions at once. https://t.co/fg5YDtz6Lg
JESSICA LANGE https://t.co/Nid6H7MN1e
— cariño (@venusianrage) August 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/maryinblue6/status/1032632039483138048
https://twitter.com/AngelicaLittleM/status/1032583572006363136
Not everyone was so thrilled to have been born in 1999, however, when Gwyneth tearfully accepted the Oscar for Shakespeare in Love—if the original poster’s mentions were any indication:
all the grumpy people who got GOOP as there zodiac. i'm sorry okay pic.twitter.com/atPcGQNq1c
— Tess ⚔️ (@isabeIIehuppert) August 20, 2018
Maybe in another 15 years or so, people will be talking about how they were Jennifer Lawrence or Brie Larson babies.