You might have seen an image of a blue-tinted, smiling Grinch with the caption, “That feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow.” The meme has proved surprisingly durable, but what on earth does it mean?

There’s a TikTok user who goes by Tamara who is marking 2026 using 365 buttons. How is Tamara doing that exactly? No one is sure. That’s the whole point. This slightly confounding practice was ...