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By now you’re probably aware that Facebook as a company is not just Facebook the social medium per se. It’s a multifaceted affair that owns several major properties and runs a slew of projects that until now have always been under the “Facebook” umbrella.

Well, all of this is now changing as Mark Zuckerberg, the big guns behind Facebook, announced that the company will change its name to Meta. Oh, and you better believe how much social commentary it has spawned on the internet in the form of memes.

Scroll down to see some of the best memes people online have spawned since the announcement in the curated list below. And while you’re there, don’t forget to vote and comment on the best submissions!

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So, Facebook. You know Facebook, right? That hella huge social media platform with the blue thumbs up and everything? The company behind Facebook, which is also called Facebook, has announced that it will be rebranding itself as “Meta”.

In the announcement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that Facebook has two major segments: one that’s all about their family of apps, and one that’s all about work on future platforms. So, to encompass everything that Facebook does (which currently includes the likes of Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus and a bunch more), it introduced a new identity as Meta.

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Now, considering all of the privacy issues, its business model, how it can’t moderate itself, among others, people have started speaking out about this name change in the form of memes.

Besides it just being loads of fun, it has also become a social commentary of how nobody believes that this will change anything, as the re-branding equates to slapping a band aid on a flesh wound, and people will quite likely still call it Facebook.

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Speaking of memes, there are tons of them, starting with people who vandalized the logo to include a phallic representation of something that shall not be mentioned explicitly in this sentence to using “Meta” puns (like “Metaphor” and “Never Meta Girl”) to straight up visual memes.

The latter includes memes such as Flex Tape Slap, Grandpa Simpson “Back In My Day”, “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” memes featuring Steve Buscemi, and a whole bunch of other visuals fit for Facebook’s current situation.

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Continue scrolling as there’s much more to be had, but know that the Twitter hashtag Meta is now hella trending, and Facebook’s also got a good Meta hashtag feed, so you’re always welcome. But before you go, why not tell us what you think about all of this in the comment section below!