As the ballots determining whether President Trump or Joe Biden will be the next US president continue to be counted into their third day, Americans are understandably frustrated by the seemingly slow pace.
Currently, ballots are still being counted in key swing states such as Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona.
Fortunately, people on social media have managed to distract from the uncertainty of the election with memes and videos that mock the ballot counting pace.
On Twitter, users have compared Nevada, which has 76 per cent of ballots counted and which could determine the election, to everything from the friend who says they are on their way but hasn’t left yet to a notoriously slow sloth.
“Nevada is that friend who says they’re on their way but is actually still lying around in a towel,” one person tweeted.
Another said: “Nevada pulling up to finally announce the results after taking two trips around the world and four bubble baths before they decided to count the votes.”
“If we all agreed to continue to pay attention to Nevada after the election, would they agree to count the votes faster?” Pod Save America co-host Dan Pfeiffer asked.
Someone else jokingly wondered whether the state was saying “Mississippi” after every ballot count.
Pennsylvania, which has also said ballot counting won’t be finished today, has faced exasperation on social media as well, including from Stephen Colbert, who tweeted: “The human body was not made to expend this much energy thinking about Pennsylvania.”
The jokes have also made it to TikTok, where users are impersonating the remaining states as they slowly count votes.
In one video, a woman runs up her stairs to depict the speed at which other states counted ballots, before showing herself reading a book in bed and checking her watch before going back to sleep with the caption: “Pennsylvania.”
But despite the pace, Americans are encouraging the states to continue counting votes, despite attempts by the president and his supporters to stop the ballots from being counted.
“Thank you Nevada for being at 76 per cent reporting after being at 75 per cent for two days. Your progress is slow but we believe in you sweetheart. You’ll get there,” one person tweeted.
