What Is Joker's "We Live in a Society" Meme Even About?

What Is Joker's "We Live in a Society" Meme Even About?

Is what Is Joker's "We Live in a Society" Meme Even About a hot topic right now? Read key highlights in our dedicated article.

Everywhere you look on social media, people share photos of the Joker, offering up their own take on what's wrong with "society," either seriously or in irony. 

Now, it appears that the meme has become DC canon of some sorts, because Jared Leto's Joker himself says "we live in a society" in Zack Snyder's massively four-hour long and much anticipated "Snyder Cut" of the Justice League flick, which debuts on HBO Max on March 18, 2021.

New scenes were shot for the film that feature Jared Leto reprising his take on the Joker yet again, however, he seems different from the much maligned, tattooed version he greeted fans with in Suicide Squad. He tells Batman in the trailer, "We live in a society, where honor is a distant memory. Isn't that right, Batman?"

This new "world weary" version of Jared's Joker is now being used in memes, even by the actor himself who retweeted director Zack Snyder's post of the new Justice League trailer, which debuted on Valentine's Day 2021. Jared's commentary on the retweet? A simple five word message: "We live in a society."

The fact that this was added to the script's dialogue is either a happy coincidence (for meme-lovers everywhere) or Zack Synder getting in on the trolling fun. In any event, people are running with it and it's already adding to the voluminous annals of Joker "we live in a society" memes.

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