Inauguration Day Berniemania continues with new memes, site that lets you put his picture anywhere
It’s been less than 24 hours since Joe Biden’s inauguration and the apparently instantaneous development of a new meme based on a photo of Bernie Sanders sitting cross-legged and mitten’d in the cold. In the brief period of time since we first covered everyone’s rush to edit Sanders’ picture into whatever other image came to mind, the trend has continued to spread with unprecedented speed.
The senator has been placed in famous paintings and TV shows, movies and album covers, his impassive, masked face and crossed arms fitting into just about anything.
As with every meme, though, the corporate buzzards have been quick to spot an opportunity to join in and kill the fun that everyone’s having. While we’ve (so far) been spared entries from fast food companies and clothing brands, Twitter accounts for everything from municipal transit authorities and airports to concert venues and universities have found ways to use the meme.