The Lunar New Year isn’t for another 8 days, but it seems that 2024 is the Year of the Elmo. On Monday, the furry red seal (?) posted a tweet asking how folks are doing:

This was, perhaps, a mistake. The internet responded vociferously, and the answer was “Not so hot”. At least we all learned the phrase “trauma dumping”. It’s kind of funny to drop that on a Muppet.

As a result of this whole mess, Elmo wound up on the Today Show to discuss things. It was there that he got assaulted by Larry David. In David’s words, “Somebody had to do it”. Still, shortly after, he gave a not very convincing apology.

I don’t know what’s next for Elmo, but 2024 is weird, y’all. I don’t think it’s going to get less weird.