Driving Toward the Apocalypse

Text on the meme

Getty Ctr Dr 1/2 Sunset Blvd 2 1/2 Wilshire Blvd 3 3/4 The Getty Center NEXT EXIT

What it means

A car drives along a freeway at night while a massive wildfire engulfs the hills ahead, with road signs pointing toward the Getty Center. The peaceful, melancholy music—The Ink Spots’ “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire”—creates darkly comic irony, making the catastrophic scene feel like a calm, romantic drive toward the end of the world. It works as a reaction to impending disaster, doom, or blithely continuing toward an obviously terrible situation.

Sound

♪ The Ink Spots — I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire

music / музыка

Objects

freeway / автострада cars / автомобили black sedan / чёрный седан road signs / дорожные знаки wildfire / лесной пожар flames / пламя burning hills / горящие холмы smoke / дым night sky / ночное небо road lanes / полосы движения lane markers / дорожная разметка concrete barrier / бетонное ограждение reflective posts / светоотражающие столбики tail lights / задние фонари Getty Center direction sign / указатель к Центру Гетти