AboutWhat does the meme depict?

The 'Why Can't You Just Be Normal?' meme features a still from the horror movie 'The Babadook.' In this scene, the main character, a distraught mother driving her car, turns towards her son sitting in the backseat and pleas, 'Why can't you just be normal?' to which her son reacts with a loud shriek. The popularity of this scene has turned it into an exploitable meme format where the characters are creatively labeled to represent various relatable or humorous scenarios.

OriginWho did it first?

The 'Why Can't You Just Be Normal?' meme originates from a key moment in the 2014 horror film 'The Babadook.' The movie follows the story of a mother and her young son, who is struggling with social issues and is convinced that a malevolent entity from a children's book, The Babadook, is haunting them. The specific scene captured in the meme occurs after a sequence of stressful events, where the son, overwhelmed, starts screaming uncontrollably in the backseat of their car, prompting his mother to desperately ask him why he can't just be normal. This particular moment from the film is highlighted in a Youtube video.^[1]

Origin: 2014