Long Live Greg Peppers, The Quarantine Everyman

One of the downsides of social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic is that people have started doing the Your Name Game (obviously it isn't the biggest downside, but it's a downside nonetheless). For those unfamiliar, the "Your Name Game" is a variation on the snowclone "Your (situation) name is the (x) and the (y)." In the time of the Coronavirus, that will look like this:

This joke is usually never that funny or interesting, and people were not having it this time around.

However, one tweeter somehow defied the odds and managed to make the joke funny. That would be @lunch_enjoyer.

And thus was born "Greg Peppers," a joke name that somehow managed to trend on Twitter over the past few days.

While @lunch_enjoyer's initial joke was solid, the meme soon took a wild turn as people began writing about the history of Greg Peppers.

Mostly, people were confused about what the hell was happening.

In this moment, I swear we were Greg Peppers.