Jewish Twitter is loving this meme. Image by iStock

By Irene Katz Connelly June 30, 2020

Twitter’s newest trend is a twisted travel game for the quarantine era.

It’s the “I know a spot” meme: people suggest a “cool” place to go, which turns out to be a destination you don’t want to visit. For example:

men be like “i know a spot” & then take you to rock bottom

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— ratatouille (@nussyrox) June 26, 2020

Meme-tracking website “Know Your Meme” traced “I know a spot” to a June 22 tweet mocking unimaginative date spots. Just eight days later, everyone on Twitter wants to take you somewhere. People are using the meme to heap adoration on their favorite K-pop stars, take unsubtle potshots at ex-partners and, of course, remind followers to stay home:

Dr. Fauci be like “I know a place” and then tells you it’s your home.

— Jesus Jiménez (@jesus_jimz) June 30, 2020

It should come as no surprise that the Internet’s Jews know a lot of spots and are very insistent you go to all of them, right now. Here’s a selection of their best suggestions.

These (in)famous Biblical locales.

hashem be like “i know a spot” and then it’s a perfect garden haven made especially for you but your wife befriends a snake and eats a piece of fruit and now you must toil the land and know hardships

— shoshana || שושנה (@TheTonightSho) June 29, 2020

hashem be like “i know a spot but you’ll have to be enslaved there for 400 years before escaping in the middle of the night with unleavened bread” and then makes you escape to egypt in a famine

— shoshana || שושנה (@TheTonightSho) June 29, 2020

Avraham will be like “I know a place” and then takes you to a mountain to slaughter your oldest son https://t.co/ThRxQ5DPx7

— ᴇʟɪsʜᴇᴠᴀ ✡︎ ᵇˡᵐ (@jewish_lgbt) June 30, 2020

The 20th-century socialist movement.

20th century jewish socialists be like “i know a place” and take you to a Bund meeting

— samantha/שֵׁײנָא✡️?️‍??? (@koshersemite) June 28, 2020

The ubiquitous 1990s bathroom couches.

Kids in synagogue in the 1990s be like “I know a spot” and take you to the couches in the bathroom

— Talia Kaplan (@tkaplan27) June 28, 2020

An empty, cry-ready sanctuaries.

Shul Staffers be like, “I know a spot” and then take you to the social hall kitchen for a frozen brownie and then to the empty Sanctuary for a daytime cry.

— My Shul Called Life (@RogueShul) June 28, 2020

The vestibule of your synagogue — not to be missed!

Jews will be like “I know a spot” and then one hour later you’re still waiting for them to finish saying their goodbyes at shul so you can leave

— maimonides nutz (@maimonides_nutz) June 30, 2020

And if you’re single, you’re obviously not going anywhere else.

Jewish grandmothers be like “I know a spot” and then take you to synagogue to find a husband

— ilovematzah (@ilovematzah) June 30, 2020

Your mom’s favorite destination.

Jewish mothers be like “I know a spot” and then take you on a guilt trip

— vivushit (@vivushit) June 29, 2020

No explanation of this spot needed.

ashkenazim be like “I know a place” and then take you to the corner pharmacy to buy lactaid

— ᴇʟɪsʜᴇᴠᴀ ✡︎ ᵇˡᵐ (@jewish_lgbt) June 28, 2020

The basement where they’re keeping the menorah (if you don’t understand this tweet, read this immediately).

Jews be like “I know a spot” and then take you to the Vatican basement to gaze upon the Menorah

— Alex (@JewishWonk) June 29, 2020

His mother’s house — no matter where you go, you’ll always come back.

jewish boys be like “I know a spot” and take you to their mom’s house

— sarah shtern is cancelled (@shterminator) June 29, 2020

Irene Katz Connelly is an editorial fellow at the Forward. You can contact her at [email protected].

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