Message from @Andy
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Proofs?
The Jews did it
False flag af
There is no gas
Let's face it, there will be no Nuclear war
China isnt gonna do anything
>Wanting nuclear war
China is colonizing Africa
GODO
REMOVE NIGGER
Yes, and replace the Afrikaner and Boer
very good, goyim
"Pepe the frog" autocompletes as a search option at my college's research library.
hue
To be honest, I dont care as much as I used to do.
Like what can I do besides getting rid of commies?
>Godo
Yes?
Oh gosh the articles that come up are so bad
RACIST TRUMP FROGS
Guys, I should get into a new hobby
Is Steampunk good?
Q. When did memes become a force in American politics?
A. The 2008 election was the light-bulb moment. Campaigns were trying to reach out to younger voters on emergent social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook. Shepard Fairey's ''Hope'' poster went viral, inspired countless parodies and was an early breakthrough that shed a light on social media's potential for crowdsourced campaigning.
There were also so-called ''single serving'' sites like Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle, which really blew up. That was a very simply laid-out website that would display randomly generated non sequiturs that portrayed Barack Obama as your helpful next-door neighbor, like, ''Barack Obama warmed up your car for you,'' or ''Barack Obama left a message on your blog.''
The general message was: Barack Obama is good for you, he is in tune with the social media generation.
>salamander cucks
They are citing FB tier memes as equivelent to our pepes.
Fucking n*rmies
werent Paul happening memes the first real political memes that weren't facebook tier
Were Republicans able to counter with memes of their own?
In 2008, memes were simply a P.R. nightmare for the Republican Party. Most of them were satires of Sarah Palin. She was one of the first major candidates to be perceived as a loose cannon and as a sound-bite generator that ultimately worked against the party.
A hashtag that really took off was #AccordingtoPalin, which was just a running joke about remarks that she had made that were very questionable, like, ''You can see Russia from Alaska.''
So surely the G.O.P. learned its lesson by 2012?
As far as memes go, 2012 was an even bigger nightmare for the Republicans. Obama had a comfortable lead for most of the way, and Occupy Wall Street was a grass-roots movement that really saturated social media and aligned sentiment against rich guys in general.
A lot of memes ended up portraying Mitt Romney as the Sith Lord of America. The ''binders full of women'' line from the town hall debate was a prime example. Within 24 hours, that gaffe turned into a full-blown meme, mostly in the form of captioned image parodies.
yes
and can you guess which memes the faggot they are interviewing forgets about in favor of forced liberal FB memes?
What's new this year?
From what we've observed so far, memes are no longer treated as nuisances, although they still can be. We've seen memes play a vital role in crafting a powerful cult of personalities for Bernie Sanders and Donald J. Trump.
Sanders seemed to come out of nowhere this year. Were memes a factor?
If I had to pick one thing that was the most unique this year, it was the idolization of Bernie Sanders through meme caricatures.
Two of the most popular ones were Barnie Sandlers and Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash, two Facebook pages that operated on the same joke, that Bernie was running on a pro-meme platform. People would cut and paste text onto promotional materials, like official Sanders fliers, so it would seem as if Bernie was making insightful comments on the state of memes, as opposed to the state of politics.
Ultimately, they helped provide him an exceptionally large online following, in comparison with his actual delegate count.
IT HURTS
What about with Donald Trump?
This year, meme culture has outgrown its longstanding, left-leaning edge. Reddit, for example, has a sub-Reddit page called The_Donald, which is one of the fastest growing pro-Trump communities. There is also 4chan's /pol/-Politically Incorrect page.
Donald Trump himself has been a major factor. No other candidate in modern U.S. election history has had such an openly antagonistic relationship with the news media and a high level of disregard for Beltway conventions. Memes have been his way to take his message straight to the people.
>This year, meme culture has outgrown its longstanding, left-leaning edge. Reddit, for example
What's this from?
The NY Times
KEK