It’s formally fall. How do I do know this? Nicely, it’s time for the meme of Lenny Kravitz in an infinite, blanket-sized scarf to re-emerge. However this time, it popped again up with a twist: The actor and musician performed together with the headband meme in his debut TikTok, which was uploaded over the weekend.
“Seize your huge scarf, it’s the primary day of fall,” Kravtiz says, strolling in direction of the digicam, sporting the notorious scarf.
This second was a decade within the making. On a fateful day in Nov. 2012, a paparazzi photographer captured a picture of Kravitz on his solution to get groceries whereas he wore a shawl of ginormous proportions. The headscarf is mesmerizing. It’s a Kravitz cocoon, if you’ll.
Redditors, in fact, instantly liked the picture, and within the following years started photoshopping the headband to make it even larger. Some Redditors even cosplayed as Kravtiz in his fall apparel, or knitted equivalent wanting scarves.
Greater than 5 years later, Jimmy Fallon requested Kravitz in regards to the scarf, on an episode of The Tonight Present. It as soon as once more catapulted the meme into the limelight. “I can not escape this, brother,” Kravitz mentioned to Fallon. “I reside within the Bahamas, I’m used to scorching climate, and — you see I needed to go to the shop. I used to be shopping for some groceries, proper? And I assumed I’d placed on a bit of scarf to guard my throat, and that’s the headband I had.”
“However Lenny, this isn’t a shawl. It is a blanket,” Fallon responds (appropriately.) Kravitz then goes on to confirm that that picture is, certainly, the headband, however that “the headband retains getting larger and larger” because of individuals on the web.
One other 5 years later, and the headband is again on our timelines — this time, because of Kravtiz himself. Joyful fall.
