The cliché that launched a thousand memes
Memes can appear in the blink of an eye, like a Jeopardy! a contestant who accidentally makes a sexual innuendo under the pressure of stage lights, or a child who is randomly interviewed on a playground and professes his undying love for America's most abundant crop, corn.
But as soon as we learned that former President Donald Trump would be incarcerated in Fulton County Jail for his fourth indictment, we knew the resulting photo would be everywhere for years, of this novelty t-shirt represents our hypothetical future children's history textbooks. We were waiting for it, knowing that as soon as the image was made public, it would become unavoidable.
“This will break Etsy,” Jesse Case wrote in a now-viral tweet (or post X, whatever). And of course, less than 24 hours after the Trump photo was posted, Etsy is already showing 5,290 results for the search “photo of Trump”.
Even the former president himself once opened an extensive merchandise store featuring t-shirts, posters, mugs, and stickers emblazoned with the photo, along with the text declaring "NEVER SURRENDER!" It's unclear if Trump chose that wording since he literally walked into Fulton County Jail, or if it went over his team's head. But nonetheless, now Trump supporters can buy their own beer koozie, and yes, that sentence took me a year to write.
Understandably, fake photos circulated on social media even before the real ones were published - and perhaps due to their less rigorous fact-checking standards, pop culture news accounts like Pop Base beat the traditional media to the punch, circulating the now ubiquitous photo. .
It doesn't matter what Trump's photo would look like. Regardless, this image was going to be both a viral meme and a historically monumental artifact. But even without any alterations, Trump looks yassified: his lustrous blonde hair shows no trace of gray, draped in a sweep across his forehead. The prison lighting is unforgiving, but combined with the overexposure of the flash, Trump looks almost younger, as the shadows smooth out the wrinkles in his left cheek. The wave of her hair is perfectly positioned in the center of her forehead, accentuating her angry look. At first glance, his eyebrows and hair look like one, which makes his scowl even more sinister, more shocking.
Image credits: Anonymous Internet User, courtesy of TechCrunch
As TikTok user Kirby Alice pointed out, there is an irony in these historic photos, which are not very high quality images, since, well, they are photos of a county jail.
“I can pretty much vouch that the camera they have to take pictures was probably bought at a Radio Shack circa 2007,” she said, days before Trump surrendered. "It might be in the back of a closet." Georgia is currently experiencing heat damage, and it is set to take one of the most significant images in American history. »
@kirby.aliceIf you have the possibility to remedy this situation, I personally ask you not to do so
♬ original sound – Kirby
I remember...
Memes can appear in the blink of an eye, like a Jeopardy! a contestant who accidentally makes a sexual innuendo under the pressure of stage lights, or a child who is randomly interviewed on a playground and professes his undying love for America's most abundant crop, corn.
But as soon as we learned that former President Donald Trump would be incarcerated in Fulton County Jail for his fourth indictment, we knew the resulting photo would be everywhere for years, of this novelty t-shirt represents our hypothetical future children's history textbooks. We were waiting for it, knowing that as soon as the image was made public, it would become unavoidable.
“This will break Etsy,” Jesse Case wrote in a now-viral tweet (or post X, whatever). And of course, less than 24 hours after the Trump photo was posted, Etsy is already showing 5,290 results for the search “photo of Trump”.
Even the former president himself once opened an extensive merchandise store featuring t-shirts, posters, mugs, and stickers emblazoned with the photo, along with the text declaring "NEVER SURRENDER!" It's unclear if Trump chose that wording since he literally walked into Fulton County Jail, or if it went over his team's head. But nonetheless, now Trump supporters can buy their own beer koozie, and yes, that sentence took me a year to write.
Understandably, fake photos circulated on social media even before the real ones were published - and perhaps due to their less rigorous fact-checking standards, pop culture news accounts like Pop Base beat the traditional media to the punch, circulating the now ubiquitous photo. .
It doesn't matter what Trump's photo would look like. Regardless, this image was going to be both a viral meme and a historically monumental artifact. But even without any alterations, Trump looks yassified: his lustrous blonde hair shows no trace of gray, draped in a sweep across his forehead. The prison lighting is unforgiving, but combined with the overexposure of the flash, Trump looks almost younger, as the shadows smooth out the wrinkles in his left cheek. The wave of her hair is perfectly positioned in the center of her forehead, accentuating her angry look. At first glance, his eyebrows and hair look like one, which makes his scowl even more sinister, more shocking.
Image credits: Anonymous Internet User, courtesy of TechCrunch
As TikTok user Kirby Alice pointed out, there is an irony in these historic photos, which are not very high quality images, since, well, they are photos of a county jail.
“I can pretty much vouch that the camera they have to take pictures was probably bought at a Radio Shack circa 2007,” she said, days before Trump surrendered. "It might be in the back of a closet." Georgia is currently experiencing heat damage, and it is set to take one of the most significant images in American history. »
@kirby.aliceIf you have the possibility to remedy this situation, I personally ask you not to do so
♬ original sound – Kirby
I remember...
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