Boulevard Of Stolen Memes
Boulevard of Stolen Memes
Homer’s On The Biden ‘Meme Team’
Biden wants a memelord
Politico–Eagle-eyed observers of President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign might have noticed an unusual job posting on its website this week: “Partner Manager, Content and Meme Pages.”
Presidential campaigns have tried to insinuate themselves into the esoteric, in-joke-laden online ecosystem for years, often with dubious results: Recall Hillary Clinton, awkwardly exhorting young voters in 2016 to “‘Pokémon Go’ to the polls.” The ecosystem naturally treats disruptors a little better than incumbents; observers attributed former President Donald Trump’s shocking defeat of Clinton in part to his supporters’ mastery of “meme magic.”