As the US waits for Nevada's delayed vote counting, people are frantically making memes about the state
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Palmer Haasch
Nov 6, 2020, 03:29 IST
A county worker loads mail-in ballots into a scanner that records the votes at a tabulating area at the Clark County Election Department, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in Las Vegas.AP Photo/John Locher
As of Thursday morning, the presidential election results out of Nevada were still unclear.
People are meme-ing their way through the wait for Nevada results, making posts imagining what could be going on in the state as well as fantasizing about showing up and helping count ballots themselves.
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As of Thursday morning, Americans still were waiting to know whether Republican incumbent Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden would take the state of Nevada in the 2020 Presidential race.
According to Business Insider and Decision Desk HQ, Biden was still narrowly leading Nevada as of midday, and the result had still yet to be called. The state, and its six Electoral College votes, could prove to be crucial for either candidate to reach the necessary threshold of 270 electoral votes in order to win the presidency.
As BuzzFeed News reported, Deanna Spikula, the Washoe County registrar, told reporters Wednesday evening that Nevada election officials were still working to count all ballots. "I know everyone's eager to get the final results tomorrow, but I would really just caution people to wait," Spikula said. "We're doing our best. We're working hard."
Many memes and posts imagine what could be causing Nevada's wait time
As people continue to wait for results, they're comparing Nevada's longer process to a variety of familiar situations, like forgetting to take the meat out of the freezer before a parent arrives home. People are also speculating on what could be going on in the state in the meantime.
There's not much to do other than wait for Nevada's results to roll in at this point, and some are expressing their frustration and stress through memes that show them keeping a close eye on the state.
The bureaucratic sloth from 'Zootopia' had a moment too
One of the best scenes in Disney's 2016 animated film "Zootopia" shows a DMV staffed entirely by sloths, including one ironically named "Flash." On multiple social media platforms, people made memes imagining Flash and his coworkers as the ones counting ballots in Nevada.
The meme cycle wouldn't be complete without a fancam
"Fancams" are short videos that originally referred specifically to K-pop performance videos. As fancams have become a meme in their own right, however, the definition has loosely expanded to also signify short edits typically used in fandom spaces on Twitter. This fancam, set to "Blue Hour" by Korean pop group Tomorrow By Together, uses the song's lyrics — "but it's you (you're the one that I want) / you (everything that I want) / blue" — to focus in on Nevada.
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