Just finished reading The Hunger Games. I enjoyed it, but I felt like it could’ve had a more accurate name, so I made this.
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Just finished reading The Hunger Games. I enjoyed it, but I felt like it could’ve had a more accurate name, so I made this.

I woke up with this song stuck in my head and it wouldn’t go away until I found a photo of a moray eel and added lyrics to it. Look at this moray eel. He looks totally shocked that I put words near his face.
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I woke up with this song stuck in my head and it wouldn’t go away until I found a photo of a moray eel and added lyrics to it.

Look at this moray eel. He looks totally shocked that I put words near his face.

The song “Imma be” by the Black Eyed Peas is not very good, and given the way clubs, bars, grocery stores, movie trailers, and radio stations work, you will not always be able to avoid this awful song. However, if you pretend they’re using a contraction to say “I am a bee,” the song becomes drastically different. Suddenly it’s a wacky fever dream in which crazy people shout “I’m a bee!” at you, over and over. “I’m a bee, livin’ that good life,” etc. It’s now a song sung by trendy pop stars in bee costumes, shouting the same phrase like it’s some sort of Buddhist mantra when in fact it’s just utter nonsense. I slapped together this image after accidentally hearing “Imma be” and deciding that something needs to be done so that I never, ever hear the intended meaning “I am going to be” ever again. When it’s people repeating “Imma be” in the future tense, the song is depressing. Don’t talk like that, guys. You’re ruining the English language. I hated you less when you repeated actual words. But “I’m a bee” in the present tense? Unintentionally hilarious, and hopefully seeing this stupid image will help cement that meaning into your interpretation of the song. I did a half-assed job with this graphic. Things worth mentioning: Two of the bees are from Bee Movie promotional images (Hat Guy on the left and Fergie). Hat Guy got the most exciting bee body because he also has the most boring face. I probably could have found an image of Fergie dressed up like a bee for some other reason. (Ladies trying to look sexy still occasionally dress like bees, right? Is that still a thing?) Instead I figured she should also get a cartoon bee body. If you’re going to look like a bee, it’s going to be on my terms (i.e. you look like a stupid bee, not a sexy bee). The guy on the right’s bee body is from some guy dressed up like a bee at the mall. It was also part of the promotion for Bee Movie. Thanks, Bee Movie, for providing so many bee-related images for me to use on the Black Eyed Peas. The guy in the middle making the sedated rapist face got the body of a baby in a bee costume. Note that I did not bother to remove the baby hands. The whole thing looks like the plot of a bad sci-fi thriller. “When a baby in a bee costume needs a head transplant on Halloween and the only head donor is a sleepy sex offender, madness ensues. SUMMER 2010. HALLOW-‘BEE’-N!” Everybody has awesome hand-drawn antennae to further drive home the fact that they are definitely bees and not idiots talking in the future tense. No sir. Buzz buzz buzz. Definitely bees. I got the original image here. They’re all trying so hard to look cool, and then I made them into bees. It’s oddly satisfying. Hope this helps! -Henry
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The song “Imma be” by the Black Eyed Peas is not very good, and given the way clubs, bars, grocery stores, movie trailers, and radio stations work, you will not always be able to avoid this awful song.

However, if you pretend they’re using a contraction to say “I am a bee,” the song becomes drastically different. Suddenly it’s a wacky fever dream in which crazy people shout “I’m a bee!” at you, over and over. “I’m a bee, livin’ that good life,” etc. It’s now a song sung by trendy pop stars in bee costumes, shouting the same phrase like it’s some sort of Buddhist mantra when in fact it’s just utter nonsense.

I slapped together this image after accidentally hearing “Imma be” and deciding that something needs to be done so that I never, ever hear the intended meaning “I am going to be” ever again. When it’s people repeating “Imma be” in the future tense, the song is depressing. Don’t talk like that, guys. You’re ruining the English language. I hated you less when you repeated actual words. But “I’m a bee” in the present tense? Unintentionally hilarious, and hopefully seeing this stupid image will help cement that meaning into your interpretation of the song.

I did a half-assed job with this graphic. Things worth mentioning:

  • Two of the bees are from Bee Movie promotional images (Hat Guy on the left and Fergie). Hat Guy got the most exciting bee body because he also has the most boring face. I probably could have found an image of Fergie dressed up like a bee for some other reason. (Ladies trying to look sexy still occasionally dress like bees, right? Is that still a thing?) Instead I figured she should also get a cartoon bee body. If you’re going to look like a bee, it’s going to be on my terms (i.e. you look like a stupid bee, not a sexy bee).
  • The guy on the right’s bee body is from some guy dressed up like a bee at the mall. It was also part of the promotion for Bee Movie. Thanks, Bee Movie, for providing so many bee-related images for me to use on the Black Eyed Peas.
  • The guy in the middle making the sedated rapist face got the body of a baby in a bee costume. Note that I did not bother to remove the baby hands. The whole thing looks like the plot of a bad sci-fi thriller. “When a baby in a bee costume needs a head transplant on Halloween and the only head donor is a sleepy sex offender, madness ensues. SUMMER 2010. HALLOW-‘BEE’-N!”
  • Everybody has awesome hand-drawn antennae to further drive home the fact that they are definitely bees and not idiots talking in the future tense. No sir. Buzz buzz buzz. Definitely bees.

I got the original image here. They’re all trying so hard to look cool, and then I made them into bees. It’s oddly satisfying.

Hope this helps!

-Henry