It’s the bromance that Hollywood deserves. Everybody within the movie trade is aware of how highly effective Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s friendship is. Nevertheless, with the “which might imply nothing” memes, many netizens are taking a look at their relationship in a brand new mild.
The “which might imply nothing” meme stemmed from a Lainey Gossip headline: “Matt Damon not sporting marriage ceremony ring once more throughout one other go to to Ben Affleck‘s home which might imply nothing.” The hilarious addition to the top of the article sparked a viral meme that has been used for years, however has intensified just lately as a consequence of Ben Affleck’s divorce rumors with Jennifer Lopez.
Matt and Ben have identified one another since they had been 8 and 10 years previous. “As an adolescent, the pure factor is to have buddies who’ve frequent pursuits and so that you match collectively seamlessly. Earlier than Matt, I used to be on my own. Appearing was a solo exercise the place I’d simply goof and do one thing, act in a bit of TV present or one thing, and nobody understood it,” the Argo director instructed Parade. “Rapidly I had this buddy, Matt, and he will get it and desires to do it and thinks it’s fascinating and desires to speak about it. Quickly each of us are doing it.”
The 2 co-starred in a pair initiatives collectively like in Glory Daze and had cameos in College Ties. Their large break was after they each wrote and starred within the film Good Will Searching, the place they gained an Academy Award for Greatest Unique Screenplay. Ben nonetheless holds the file for the youngest winner of the award. “Matt mentioned, ‘Look, will you assist me write this? I’m unsure what it’s or the place to go.’ So we began writing it form of backwards and forwards,” Ben instructed Boston Journal.
Ben and Matt would then collaborate in a plethora of initiatives like Venture Greenlight, The Final Duel, and Air. In 2010, Ben Affleck’s then-wife Jennifer Garner joked about her husband’s friendship.
“Ben is half of one of many best love tales ever instructed. Not with me,” she mentioned in a speech on the American Cinematheque Awards. “The precise prototype for the good Hollywood Bromance … Right here’s proof that love is alive and effectively in Hollywood. No less than for my darling husband and my husband’s darling husband.”
Ben later joined on the enjoyable, “Matt at all times mentioned to me, ‘Ben, there are two issues which are extra necessary to me than anything on this world.’ Of us: ‘Fame, cash.’ You probably did it, Matty! You bought there!”
In late Might 2024, there was a resurgence of TikTok posts about their friendship. One fan edit exhibits an interview with Matt stating about how they persevered by means of the trade. “I’ve identified him for 35 years, and we each had been in love with the identical factor, with performing and filmmaking. We ate up one another’s obsession throughout our necessary childhood and that bonded us for all times,” Matt mentioned within the interview with the TikTok caption being “which might imply nothing.” One Redditor mentioned of the development, “Even when it does imply nothing, that is very candy. Males need to have shut friendships.”
Amid Ben’s divorce rumors with Jennifer Lopez, a fan edit with Chapelle Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” exhibits the supposed stress between J-Lo and Ben, which is resolved when Matt Damon seems. One commenter posted, “how a lot i like ben affleck is significantly decided by how shut matt damon is close to him. he simply seems to be so blissful and calm when matt is by his facet.” The meme has outreached to different fandoms like Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, which focuses on a pair of male greatest buddies and their total friendship. So protected to say in the long run, bromance prevails.
