Joker and Murray: Masterpiece Meme Generator
Your flatmate holds up the pineapple pizza box like evidence. "Did you order this on purpose?" You did. And you'd do it again.
"Do you actually enjoy the office Christmas party?" Yes. The free wine, the karaoke, the man from accounts doing Bon Jovi. You've stopped apologising for it.
Your mum finds you watching a dating show on a Tuesday night, season nine, the one even the presenters seem tired of. She asks if you're really enjoying this. You turn the volume up.
At film club someone asks, slowly, whether you really rate Cars 2. You've thought about it for a long time. You do.
Why it caught on: Arthur Fleck's "I do. And I'm tired of pretending it's not" on Murray Franklin's talk show in Joker (2019) became the internet's template for owning an unpopular opinion with full dignity.