The endless FromSoft memes are the only good thing to come out of Britain’s coronation

The United Kingdom had a profoundly normal one last Saturday, when King Charles III, ol’ Chucky 3, became the 40th British monarch crowned at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony featuring all manner of storied orbs (opens in new tab), gowns, gloves (opens in new tab) and knick-knacks. There was also a big rock that the suffragettes once bombed (opens in new tab), so that’s all very exciting.

But here at PC Gamer, we only pay homage to one King (opens in new tab), so the glitz and glamour of the coronation aren’t particularly interesting to us. What is interesting, though, is the sheer profusion of memes that the coronation’s incongruous and archaic rituals brought into being on social media. The last coronation happened in 1953, 58 years before the release of Dark Souls, which meant Twitter didn’t have much to say about it at the time. But now? I couldn’t even do my usual Sunday morning doomscrolling without encountering games-related gags about the event, which I’ve otherwise tried to avoid.