In recent years, Simon & Garfunkel’s 1964 signature “The Sound of Silence” has been transformed from a folk-rock classic into a meme, made to soundtrack running jokes between the internet ...

The original form of the meme seemed to address Christians who speak over members of the Jewish faith or ethnicity, and it spread across Twitter from there. What is the “silence X, a Y is ...

In April 2020, Affleck was seen smoking with a face mask over his nose, updating the smoking meme for the pandemic. In one popular remix, “The Sound of Silence” was added to the video.