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If you love a good, twisted meme, and making fun of the times that came before us, you’re in for a treat. The post 50 Funny ...
If you’re not terminally online, Dark Brandon is a riff on Dark MAGA, a short-lived meme about Trump. Dark MAGA’s few proponents said that Trump would return (probably in 2024) with the gloves ...
A meme known as "Dark Brandon" has been increasingly used on social media to describe U.S. President Joe Biden after his gaffe-filled trip to the Middle East last week.
Basically, “Dark Brandon” memes are images of Joe Biden, except scary and powerful; and they have risen in popularity as the president recovers from COVID-19 and advances his legislative agenda.
The Dark MAGA meme embodies the idea of a “Revenge President birthed from the far right’s urge to reclaim what they crave and have lost: power,” according to the authors.
In March, Dark MAGA memes began circulating on the website 4chan and social media platform X, and the Dark MAGA Reddit community — now with 5,400 members — was created on March 16, 2022.
The meme ironically combines “Let’s Go Brandon” and “Dark MAGA” to celebrate Joe Biden’s policy wins.
Dark Brandon’s roots in Chinese propaganda and distinctly alt-right aesthetics only further draw attention away from the very thing the meme was deployed to celebrate. That’s obviously not ...
But the left appeared to love it, too. So they co-opted the idea. Now, Democrats employ Dark Brandon images to tout Biden's policy victories. And that's how one ends up here — with an official ...
In an inverse of the online right’s QAnon-tinged paranoia and absurd hypermasculine meme energy, the online left began Dark Brandon: Joe Biden in dark grays and reds, with intentionally low-res ...
Hence, the rise of “Dark Brandon” memes, which co-opt the hilariously hyper-masculine aesthetic of 2016 Trump memes, which depicted the former President as a hulking warrior, an all-American ...
According to Stone, the Dark Brandon meme has given Democrats a way to “turn the right wing’s ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ meme against them.” However, some members of the GOP have been quick to ...