The 'Americans Will Use Anything Except The Metric System' meme highlights the persistent refusal of the United States to adopt the metric system, focusing on the creative and often absurd alternative units of measurement used in news reports and social media. It gained massive traction through viral screenshots of local news outlets describing sinkholes as the size of '6 to 7 large washing machines' or distances compared to the length of multiple school buses. The humor stems from the visual of people doing complex mental math with everyday objects rather than using simple decimal-based units like meters or liters. It has become a staple of internet culture, poking fun at American exceptionalism through the lens of bizarre scalar comparisons.