Farewell to #Justice4Barb, Stranger Things’ most enduring meme
Spoilers for Stranger Things season 1 (and early, minor developments in season 2) ahead.
Barb Holland only got a small amount of screen time in season 1 of Stranger Things, but that didn’t stop viewers from falling in love with her. Her best friend Nancy might be the smart, popular high schooler we wish we were, but the bespectacled, dowdily dressed Barb is probably the teen we were. Nancy gets to make out with the most popular boy in school; poor Barb ends up sidelined, ignored, and eventually dead, with a slug monster wriggling around in her mouth.
Barb was shunted to the side as an early casualty of Stranger Things, but fans didn’t take her graphic murder lightly. They demanded #Justice4Barb online, creating a meme so popular that...