What does loca mean in twilight

The Twilight fandom has recently been cracking up over the line “Bella where the Hell have you been, loca?” but why did this obscure New Moon quote go viral online? Released in 2008, Twilight was a huge hit with its target audience of teenagers—but not overly beloved by critics. A melodramatic fantasy romance, the movie was based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyers, and its success soon saw the entire Twilight saga adapted to film.

However, while viewers may have loved the movies despite their corniness, critics were not kind to Twilight. The original Twilight, with its murder mystery subplot, was slightly better reviewed, but its sequels struggled to earn critical approval, and 2009’s New Moon, in particular, received a veritable mauling from reviewers. To be fair to the critics, New Moon was the weakest movie of the series and featured an infamously pointless plot, making the mockery all but inevitable.

Still, this did not hurt New Moon’s performance at the box office and, when 30 Days of Night director David Slade took over directorial duties for the vastly superior sequel Eclipse, the movie’s flaws were largely forgotten. Until now, that is. Recently, a clip from New Moon went viral, and the hilarious out-of-context line reading reminded many fans why the sequel was seen as the worst Twilight sequel movie. When Taylor Lautner’s secondary love interest Jacob Black encounters Bella at his reservation home, he grins and asks “Bella, where the Hell have you been, loca?” and the bizarre question has prompted countless memes from the franchise’s sizable fanbase in recent months.

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The line remained a memorable part of the Twilight fandom in the years after the film's release. In 2021, the line popularly saw use in memes amidst a Twilight fandom renaissance. On February 11th, 2021, Twitter account @twilightreborn[1] posted a screenshot where the line is replaced with an acronym, gaining over 28,000 retweets and 138,000 likes (shown below, left). On February 15th, user @ufobri[2] posted a joke about the line, gaining over 600 retweets and 2,900 likes (shown below, right).

The line continued seeing use in jokes among the Twilight fandom throughout 2021. For example, on August 29th, user @babybunnybean[3] posted a joke conflating the line with the lyrics to "Hey There, Delilah," gaining over 43,000 retweets and 200,000 likes (shown below, left). On September 1st, user @jayjayriv[4] posted a Mary Jane Defending Peter Parker parody with the line, gaining over 12,000 retweets and 69,000 likes (shown below, right). The jokes were covered by Buzzfeed[5] and Daily Dot.[6]

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