Bored Panda reached out to a Twitter user who goes by the handle @_aanittangele, whose post with the caption “2020 needs to pull over and just let me out… i’ll walk” got selected by Twitter among the funniest posts of the year that best describe 2020.
@_aanittangele said that she was tweeting like she always does until she received a message from Twitter asking if they could promote it to the world, and she agreed. “I didn't know what that meant, but I was okay with it and when I saw it on the billboard yesterday, I was shocked,” she said.
The author of the tweet, who’s from South Africa, agreed that memes and puns made it much easier to cope with the struggles of the pandemic. “There would be times where I'd feel overwhelmed and stressed and coming on to the internet and seeing all these jokes, memes, and puns just made me feel better.”
Just like for most of us, 2020 has also been extremely challenging for @_aanittangele. “Wearing masks, social distancing, being in quarantine, and generally not being able to go anywhere freely” were the things she has had to adjust to.
Moreover, she missed out on 3 months of school and still had to write end-of-the-year exams “on our whole curriculum, and so that was one of the biggest challenges faced.”
“The thing I'll remember most is people buying toilet paper and clearing all the toilet paper shelves in the shops when they found out about the virus,” the Twitter user said. Another thing that @_aanittangele said she'll never ever forget is “how many challenges we as South African matriculants overcame in this one year and matriculating in a pandemic, obviously.”
