This Meryl Streep meme makes it look like our greatest actress is yelling out pop song lyrics

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Almost more often than not, Meryl Streep is nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2015, she was nominated for her supporting role in "Into the Woods," where she plays a witch.

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She lost to Patricia Arquette for her role in "Boyhood," but the internet was determined to make her a winner anyway. It turned a moment from the 2015 SAG Awards into a meme.

In the still from the awards broadcast, Streep is cupping her hands around her mouth to project something she's shouting.

It kind of looks like she's joining a song verse.

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Sometimes the meme involves getting the lyrics wrong.

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It also looks like she could be yelling a slogan from a commerical.

—Meryl Memes (@MerylMemes) March 19, 2017—wairimu (@julietselassie) March 19, 2017

People have highlighted Meryl's expression since over a year ago, when now-Entertainment Weekly editor Joey Nolfi recalled Streep being "Awards Season Hype Girl." It's not really clear why the moment resurfaced this weekend.

This is, of course, far from the only time Meryl Streep has become a meme. In fact, that's not the only time from that awards season. When Patricia Arquette won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role in "Boyhood" (again, beating out Streep for "Into the Woods") Arquette used her speech to discuss the importance of equal pay for women. Streep and Jennifer Lopez hooted and applauded in approval.

Streep's lively expression also achieved memedom during this year's Oscars, when "Moonlight" won best picture after "La La Land" was announced as the winner.

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