[Takes a deep breath.] Then there were the hurricanes, earthquakes, explosions, and terror attacks. Mass unemployment and widespread chaos. Economic troubles and overwhelmed hospitals. And that’s just the tip of the Iceberg of Despair.

(PS—did you know that if you flip 2020 on its side, you get NONO? Coincidence? I think not! We should have known it’d be a bad year!)

"If the culture determines that 2021 is a better year than 2020, it's possible that 2020 could continue to be featured in memes, at least for the first two months. If 2021 is worse, then I can imagine some memes making fun of the idea that we thought this year was hard. Hopefully, though, there are some sunny days ahead, and we can look back on 2020 as a particularly rough one," Matt from 'Know Your Meme' shared his prognosis about the near future with Bored Panda.

On a more serious note, we wanted to find out Matt's opinion about whether 2020 could still be a home run of a year. While there are some indications that things might get better soon, Matt isn't as optimistic.

"I wish I could say yes, but the truth is, I think that as a society, we are going to be processing the hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of illnesses for the rest of our lives," he stressed the sobering reality that the pandemic's consequences aren't something that we can ignore. "And that's just focusing on the coronavirus, plenty of other really catastrophic things happened this year."

According to ‘Know Your Meme,’ the very first instance of an ‘if 2020 was a…’ joke actually happened back in November of 2019. Suspicious? A bit.

The meme spread and spiked in popularity in March of this year when the Facebook page Coronavirus Public Meme Service posted a version of the meme with a photo of Ramsay Bolton from Game of Thrones. You’ll remember Ramsay as being one of the worst people on the show, rivaling even Joffrey Baratheon with his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life.

It was on November 14 that the meme format saw a resurgence in popularity once again. This time, on Twitter.

If you had to compare 2020 to a thing or a food, what would it be, dear Pandas? Personally, I find that the reflection in my mirror perfectly sums the year up. Either that or a sad potato that was left behind in the fields while all of its friends went off to the factory to become chips and fries and those little smiley potato fritters.