Today, September 26, is the awkwardly titled “The Last Of Us Day.” As portion of this yearly planetary time of celebration, developer Naughty Dog has released 10 caller animated gifs featuring characters from the game, similar Joel and Ellie.

In the beingness of The Last Of Us, September 26 is the time erstwhile the in-game microorganism reached a captious mass. What a amusive day to celebrate! The Last Of Us Day started backmost successful 2013, and was primitively titled Outbreak Day, which is decidedly a better, little clunky name. However, this yearly solemnisation of each things Last of Us had to change its sanction successful 2020 owed to the real-world, ongoing, and deadly covid-19 pandemic. And today, successful grant of the celebration, Naughty Dog has released 10 caller animated gifs featuring characters from the series, inspired by fashionable online memes. It’s clip to get yourself successful the The Last Of Us Day time spirit.

Did you ever privation to spot Joel recreate the celebrated Robert Redford smiling gif? Well, present you go!

Perhaps you’ve agelong wanted a Last of Us-themed gif based connected the net classical “Dramatic Hamster?” Good news, your oddly circumstantial imagination has been fulfilled.

According to Naughty Dog, with each crippled merchandise its animators prime immoderate of their favourite memes and recreate them utilizing characters and assets from their ain games. Earlier this month, the squad released immoderate gifs successful grant of The Last Of Us: Part 1’s launch. But the squad had adjacent much gifs to stock and that’s what’s been released contiguous connected Giphy. Such joy.

“The accidental to laugh, wage homage to immoderate of our favourite TV shows and movies, and collaborate with artists of antithetic disciplines to marque these GIFs has genuinely been a delight,” explained Naughty Dog. “Thank you to everyone who contributed your endowment and consciousness of wit to make these! Our feeds volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid again.”

You tin find much of Naughty Dog’s meme recreations here connected its authoritative Giphy page. For those who similar this benignant of thing, there’s a treasure trove of contented to beryllium found. For others, similar me, who find each this worldly unspeakable and off-putting, well, wherefore are you adjacent speechmaking this…

Also, arsenic portion of today’s celebrations, Naughty Dog and HBO released a caller trailer for the upcoming live-action amusement based connected the archetypal game. It’s acceptable to merchandise sometime adjacent year.