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Sick of 2017? This meme will take you all the way to 3017

We out here in 3017.

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Jay Hathaway

3017 shoes with phone charger laces
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According to the Gregorian calendar, we’re all living in the year 2017. But some people seem to have access to better technology than the rest of us: their futuristic gadgets indicate that they are ahead of their time, already living in 3017.

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Calling things “3017” seems to have originated with Black Twitter, as a way of describing music that sounds so fresh it must be from the future. Soundcloud rapper Wintertime, for example, seems to be a 3017 icon:

https://twitter.com/Wintertime/status/815479312753291268

https://twitter.com/t_Allen757/status/820006522486980610

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https://twitter.com/llnskii/status/820060940410335233

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Futuristic style queen Janelle Monae is also very 3017:

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But “living in 3017” isn’t just about music anymore: it’s evolved into a sarcastic phrase that mocks people who build weird, impractical, low-budget life hacks—what some might call “kludges”—and it’s branched out from Black Twitter to conquer the entire social media landscape.

Let’s take a trip into the world of 3017, starting with the tweet that seems to have launched the meme into the mainstream:

https://twitter.com/MyFavsTrash/status/861986975997415424

Damn, Daniel. That’s how people eat cereal in the future. What else are people eating in the far future?

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https://twitter.com/nothinbutlag/status/864594620809969664

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Okay, okay. That’s cool and all, but what are people wearing? 

https://twitter.com/SilversTweet/status/874984218576793601

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https://twitter.com/RealRomCade/status/874296761098960896

Ugh, I can’t wait to get to 3017. Regular shoelaces are so over. Let’s see what other amazing advances humanity will achieve in the next 1,000 years:

https://twitter.com/OvaisBowss/status/873387052976529410

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https://twitter.com/marissuh_x/status/873972069314187264

https://twitter.com/FunnyBIacks/status/877023571289288704

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https://twitter.com/KarolineBlek/status/876196475788697601

https://twitter.com/SpeakComedy/status/875897639149219841

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https://twitter.com/connzillaa/status/874772720835317760

https://twitter.com/itsabdus_/status/877164762215403520

The future of the world looks bright. And so does the future of this meme. There’s no limit to the faux-futuristic junk people can come up with, and they have approximately 1,000 years to keep doing it. By the time this finally gets old, we’ll be seeing previews of the year 4017.

 
The Daily Dot