I didn’t think I was going to wake up this morning and write the words “Anal Bead Cheating Scandal” as a meme headline, but the competitive chess storyline has taken over the internet. Long story short, it has been alleged that Hans Niemann defeated five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen using vibrating anal beads. Yeah, it doesn’t make sense to me either, but this is the world we live in, so here are the best memes and tweets about the scandal that’s brought the wrong kind of attention to the world of competitive chess.
