I’ve never heard of this phenomenon before, but it fits perfectly. Thanks!
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Anonymous1w
He crashed someone’s wedding today apparently
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Anonymous1w
Baudrillards 4 stages of simulacrum unironically explains this
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Anonymous#11w
Ew. I’d be devastated
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AnonymousOP1w
They seemed to be all over it lol. The RNC is definitely trying to humanize him and make him interact better with the public
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Anonymousshrimp_fried_rice1w
Hold on lemme see if I can demonstrate I’ll be back
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Anonymousshrimp_fried_rice1w
I love how this was the first example that came up when I looked that up
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Anonymousshrimp_fried_rice1w
I feel like, especially after all the press in regards to him being on vacation constantly they’re definitely trying to make him do more, yeah
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AnonymousOP1w
Notice how the image has completely departed from the original, but we still associate it with Vance
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Anonymousshrimp_fried_rice1w
It makes me wonder if later on in history they’ll have trouble depicting him accurately 😭
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Anonymousshrimp_fried_rice1w
I mean, I’m sure there are enough images of him that have been preserved accurately. but I wonder if future history textbooks will address the memeification of him
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AnonymousOP1w
I feel like “history of political meme culture” could be a really cool class