The '202023' meme emerged as a digital coping mechanism for the feeling that the chaotic events starting in 2020 have simply continued indefinitely. It plays on the concept that time has stalled since the global pandemic, humorously rebranding 2023 as '2020-3' or '202023'. This trend gained massive traction on platforms like Twitter and TikTok as users joked about the repetitive nature of global news cycles and personal fatigue. The meme is typically used to express exhaustion with the current decade, suggesting that we aren't moving forward, but rather living through an extended version of a single, very long year.