The 'George Jetson Is Almost Here' meme gained massive traction on social media when fans realized that according to the show's lore, the patriarch of the Jetson family was born in the year 2022. Specifically, fan calculations based on George being 40 years old in the 2062-set show pointed to July 31, 2022, as his birthday. This triggered a wave of nostalgic and existential memes comparing our current reality to the high-tech flying-car future depicted in the 1962 cartoon. It is typically used to joke about how the future is now our present, highlighting the lack of personal jetpacks and robot maids in our everyday lives despite reaching the chronological birth of the show's main character.