Maybe it’s the sourpuss perspective. Maybe it’s the sincerity with which he campaigns for the countryside, reasonably than simply shouting “cows” joyfully when confronted by them. Maybe it’s a basic diminishment of curiosity in British royalty. Maybe it’s the gold state coach and cloak at a time when tens of millions of UK adults are unable to afford essential hygiene products.

But right this moment, as King Charles III is topped in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey in London, the response of the web’s meme-makers will really feel muted compared to the one loved by his mom, Queen Elizabeth II, who was a meme queen we all stanned.

On the face of it, King Charles must be a great candidate for memedom. He has unnervingly pink, rotund, sausage fingers. He has a cartoonish visage, lampooned for years by cartoonists and eBay sellers, with jug-handle ears and a hangdog, sullen expression. He has an unnerving, harmless, naive lifestyle that leads him to say outlandish issues, which regularly come again to chew him. He as soon as, reportedly, shrieked when he first noticed plastic wrap.

Charles’ 1989 declaration that he was so infatuated with Camilla, who will develop into queen this Saturday, that he wished to be reincarnated as a tampon so he might perpetually reside inside her, has big dril energy.

Yet none of that has minimize by means of to make Charles a perennial web fave. Even makes an attempt at internet traffic-catching roundups of the best King Charles memes are … underwhelming, and infrequently probably not in regards to the man himself.

“He’s not publicly weird enough to be endearing, but he’s also not like a patriarch because he’s too weird to give off being normal,” says Hussein Kesvani, a journalist and podcaster specializing in digital tradition. “When it comes to being popular online, especially cross-audiences, you need to have a malleable weirdness that makes you endearing as a subject or a feature.”

Perhaps the tally of “good-weird” in the case of evaluating Charles’s suitability for memedom is outweighed by the tally of “bad-weird.” He has all the time been portrayed as problematic in comparison with his ex-wife, Princess Diana, who died in a 1997 automobile crash. He has been willing to intervene in politics in a approach that unelected members of the royal household have tried to keep away from. He has an unfortunate habit of accepting money donations in suitcases and grocery baggage from Middle Eastern sheikhs.

And maybe he’s affected by the issue more likely to blight his reign: He spent a lot of his life taking part in second fiddle to Queen Elizabeth, residing in her shadow and being unable to develop a lot of a kingly standing of his personal within the public’s eyes. “The queen was around for a very long time,” says Jeremy Blackburn, an assistant professor in pc science at Binghamton University and cofounder of the iDRAMA Lab, which seems to be at memes on the net. “So there was a long history that people had to draw from there.”

While Queen Elizabeth II was seen as a grandmother determine to the world, an harmless, candy outdated woman, like Angela Lansbury however with palaces, Charles has lengthy been seen—seemingly incorrectly—as ready for his mom to present him his time to shine.