Yesterday was April 30, which on the internet is no longer a date. It is a holiday. A 14-year-old image of Justin Timberlake, mouth slightly open mid-syllable, gets posted across every platform that exists, accompanied by four words that have outlasted Vine, Tumblr, original Twitter, and roughly nine algorithm reshuffles. It’s gonna be May . And then, on cue, May arrives, and the internet collectively retires the joke for another 364 days. The “It’s Gonna Be May” meme is the most boring thing in the world to explain and the most interesting thing in the world to think about. It is older than half the people sharing it. It is built on a song that came out in 2000. It survives because the entire internet, every year, agrees to pretend it is funny again. That is not how memes work. That is how a religious calendar works. A 26-year-old vocal coaching note that became a holiday The song is “It’s Gonna Be Me,” released by NSYNC in June 2000 as the second single from their album No Strings Attached.…