Les-be trustworthy, girl liberty. (screenshot through @CISFAKER on X, all screenshots Hyperallergic)
I hate to say it, however after I noticed that lubricated hippo go for the Trump cake, I knew it was over. Months in the past, I predicted the downfall of Moo Deng, and I’m happy to say my speculation was largely appropriate: Many on X are actually blaming her for the result of america presidential election.
I bear in mind the November 2016 election, largely as a result of I used to be a freshman in highschool, but in addition as a result of Macklemore launched his cheugy lure ballad “Wednesday Morning” in response to Trump’s first election and I appreciated it (as a result of I used to be 14, please go away me alone). Eight years later, on one other Wednesday morning, I used to be trying — as Macklemore writes in his tune — “for change on the couch.” However on this Wednesday morning, I used to be additionally searching for memes. The day after the election, although, social media was so saturated with dread that I couldn’t parse by my feeds with out shedding my thoughts.
Moo Deng precisely predicted the US election outcomes by consuming a Trump-labeled cake. (picture through @loveshutterbug on Threads)
New Groundhog Day simply dropped and it’s Moo Deng selecting the following president. (screenshot through @aidanthereup on X)
As we settle into no matter we’re all settling into, memes which have floated to the highest of the frankly terrifying world of X reveal how this election inextricably linked popular culture and American politics, with memes concurrently main the branding of a $1 billion greenback marketing campaign and turning into a refined type of resistance.
I’ll start the saga earlier than Election Day, when a pal of a pal shared a customized Brat meme despatched by the Kamala marketing campaign reminding her to vote. What began off as a queer fan base meme of Charlie XCX was rapidly adopted into the marketing campaign technique when the singer endorsed Harris, months earlier than Unhealthy Bunny and Beyoncé backed the Democrat. Harris rapidly exploited the recognition of the meme, even lengthy after it was formally useless.
Message allegedly acquired by the pal of a pal from Kamala Harris’s marketing campaign
Memes from earlier than the election embody a cult fandom for the election as a spectator occasion, very like tuning right into a present like The Bachelor. One spotlight from my number of memes is a mock textual content change of MSNBC journalist Steve Kornacki (who by the best way was featured in a stay “Kornacki Cam” on YouTube in the course of the election, at a digital camera angle solely exhibiting his bottom).
Shortly, these posts devolve into the grimmest imaginations of the human thoughts about faith, immigration, and gayness, and the recirculation of the superstar rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine” that got here out in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
I’m sharing my private favorites under, for my sanity (and yours).
Me however with plenty of hair (screenshot through @benyaher on X)
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Finest film ever. (screenshot through @repftv on X)
