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The Queen's Death Has Melted a Record Number of Brains

It's wild out there right now.

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Jack Mirkinson
Sep 09, 2022
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The death of Queen Elizabeth II has reverberated around the world. It has also caused many people to temporarily part company with the part of their body known as “the brain.” We have all been on a wild ride together over the past 24 hours as we have borne witness to some of the most cursed posting in human history. It’s a tribute of a sort to the unprecedented nature of the Queen’s reign, and the objectively significant mark she left on our culture, that her death has turned so many minds into puddles of goo.

Below, we take a very abridged stroll through just some of the chaos that Ol’ Lizzie left in her wake. Spoiler alert: scroll to the very end for the post that will never, ever be topped.

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