Today is Beyoncé’s 33rd birthday. For anyone else in the world, 33 would normally be a pretty uneventful birthday — but because we’re talking about Beyoncé, it’s automatically extraordinary.
In fact, if Twitter had its way, today would be an international holiday. And while school has started for many students, some are already talking about skipping class. BuzzFeed spotted a tweet of an email that may or may not have been sent to a college professor (regardless, the concept is hilarious):
Here are other musings and birthday tributes from tweeps:
Happy Birthday Mrs. Carter! Wishing you a beautiful day. XX, DV. @Beyonce pic.twitter.com/zD5kDCcc0H
— VERSACE (@Versace) September 4, 2014
Something tells me everyone is going to go a little overbort with Beyoncé tweets today.
— Awkward Girl (@AwkGrlPrblms) September 4, 2014
this is weird but until today i hadnt considered that beyonce has an age
— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) September 4, 2014
Happy Birthday @Beyonce! 33 Jahre wird der Superstar - Checkt die Beyoncé-Birthday-Playlist http://t.co/CNELfzFX5m pic.twitter.com/nqYt9hQovY
— MTV.de (@MTV_Germany) September 4, 2014
And every day is Beyoncé’s birthday in this pizza company’s world, ever since the pop star wore a pepperoni pizza-patterned outfit last year:
.@Beyonce if it's your birthday then you shoulda put some pizza in it,
if it's your birthday then you shoulda put some pizza in it OH OH OH
— DiGiorno (@DiGiorno) September 4, 2014
This GIF will make you fall “Drunk in Love” with her all over again:
For more of where that came from: GIPHY, a website that compiles GIFs, claims it has aggregated every single Beyoncé one here.
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