‘Zabol Priestess with a Golden Eye’
A tweet about a “5,000-year-old prosthetic eye found near Zabol in Iran” on the skeleton of an “unnaturally tall” priestess was popular in August 2021.
2020 bingo
‘Mad Max is Set in 2021’
A set of related viral memes contain some variant of, “I don’t want to be a pessimist, but Mad Max 2 was set in 2021.”
‘Asteroid Could Hit Earth’ Clickbait Revived by the New York Post
The New York Post is still milking the “2020 bingo” meme to spread misleading claims, such as how an asteroid “could” hit Earth in November 2020.
‘OK, Who Had Nuclear Cannibal Ants for August?’
The ongoing “2020 bingo” meme involved the escape of “nuclear cannibal ants … for August,” but the story making the rounds was from a year before.