Why 'Callum Turner' Is Suddenly The Internet's Most Confusing Obsession And Everyone Is Googling Him At Work
The internet has collectively lost its mind over actor Callum Turner, but not for the reasons you'd expect. In a bizarre twist of millennial and Gen Z humor, Turner has become the unwitting face of a niche meme trend where users pretend he's the secret object of their platonic affection, leading to a flood of tweets like "I would leave my wife for Callum Turner" from people who swear they've never seen a single film of his. The irony is thick enough to cut with a knife: the joke is that there is no joke. Social media sleuths have traced the trend back to a single viral clip of Turner looking confused at a red carpet, which users captioned with "When you realize you're trending because people are pretending to be in love with you." Now, offices across the globe are reporting a spike in incognito Google searches, as workers desperately try to figure out who this guy actually is before the joke gets too meta to explain. The ultimate punchline? Callum Turner is probably at home, just as confused as the rest of us.