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Earlier this year, the account had around 3,000 followers.
The accounts popularity coincides witha resurgence ofSopranospop cultureover the course of the year.
Maya and other Gen-Z folks arent just watching the show for a mafia drama fix.
When Tony shrugs and asks Is this all there is?
Add in a pandemic?Madone.
Maya says she and other Zoomers reviving the series are reimagining its position in pop culture too.
The president is in hospital and Mike Pence is waiting in the wings?Theres aSopranosscene for that.
Big Pussy Bonpensiero going in the water?WAP.
Other Zoomer fans concur.
Its such a fun and chaotic show, they say.
Pandemic conditions have only boosted the shows relevance.
In Philadelphia, 22-year-old Simon says thatThe Sopranoswas perfect quarantine material.
Like listening to sad music when going through a breakup.
The show absolutely speaks to our conditions, says Benji, a 17-year-old Twitch streamer based in New Jersey.
Like Tony, Benji feels hes living at the end of an era.
I often find myself thinking that Ive come too late for anything good, he says.
The next step is making fun of the fact that that frustration even exists.
How could you even believe this?
It makes you realize how brutal all of it is.
This yearsSopranosmemes, she continues, are an example of Gen Zs evolution of culture critique.
Its the exact same thing.
I worked on this for years, and these kids are just tweeting it out.
Theyre just using different terms for it.
This thing Im involved in is over, Sepinwall points out.
This is painfully true during a pandemic that has killed more than 300,000 Americans.
Why do we even have America?
Theres aSopranosmeme for everything, frombodega discoursetoShakespearean tragedy.
We kind of see each other, you know?
