‘Cultural Reset’ Meme Revives Pop Culture Moments That Became Iconic Milestones
By Thanussha Priyah, 21 Feb 2020

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It started with a clip recounting Caroline Polachek’s So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings. A Twitter user had shared it online, captioning it with, “It was a cultural reset… it was a cultural reset.” Since then, internet users have been flooding the platform with their own versions of what “cultural reset” means to them.
The term refers to moments that were significant to the evolution of pop culture, ultimately changing history.
One user pointed out the baseball scene in Twilight as a “cultural reset”moment, while another vouches for the scene in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban where Hermione Granger (played by Emma Watson) throws a punch at Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton).
This year itself, people have crowned “cultural reset” moments to Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey and Robert Pattinson in his Batsuit for the upcoming Matt Reeves-directed The Batman.
Check out some of the best cultural reset picks below.
cultural reset never been done before academy award winning one of a kind phenomenal mind blowing unparalleled astonishingly incredible critics are raving accomplishment of a mastermind visionary genius cinematic history pic.twitter.com/ysb14aRLmy
— rey (@koryskai) February 14, 2020
a cultural reset pic.twitter.com/Hf1nmIvSvE
— bill hader (@jackbootskata) February 20, 2020
ROBERT PATTINSON IN A BATSUIT IT WAS A CULTURAL RESET pic.twitter.com/1DGBrukMD0
— ken (@amerikensycho) February 14, 2020
this was a cultural reset pic.twitter.com/4fkWw7LQGp
— cin (@minyardists) February 20, 2020
Shakira belly dancing to arabic oriental music at the racist nfl event was a cultural reset. #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/UKLjbhSyBx
— Ardit Luciano (@Ardit_Luciano) February 3, 2020
it was a cultural reset pic.twitter.com/Kp33FekJQ6 https://t.co/YOCiIfvyjx
— red (@pattinsonbats) January 29, 2020
it was a cultural reset pic.twitter.com/LLdikb3Ss5
— gst | milo (@xMilo19) February 20, 2020
it was a cultural reset pic.twitter.com/Njdml77XGE
— bibi (@rictuos) February 20, 2020
[via Junkee, images via various sources]