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The best of Pinterest’s terrible “Conservative Memes”

You don't have to be a liberal to appreciate how bad these image macros are.

 

Kevin Collier

Internet Culture

Posted on Aug 17, 2012   Updated on Jun 2, 2021, 12:38 pm CDT

As election season ramps up, a Pinterest page simply titled “Conservative Memes” has pinned a host of image macros with, let’s say, mixed success.

The double-edged sword of image macros—often incorrectly called memes—is that while anyone can make them, anyone can make them.

Redditors got miffed in early 2012 when college students started flooding Facebook with memes describing their experience—many of which completely failed to grasp the individual memes’ traits, which is what makes them funny in the first place.

Conservative Memes are split roughly equally into three camps—established image macros like the Dos Equis Guy and Philosoraptor, new ones like an eagle’s face and various pictures of President Obama, and images straight from the Paul Ryan Gosling blog.

So here’s a collection to highlight some representative Conservative Memes. You don’t have to be a liberal to find these hilariously unfunny.

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*First Published: Aug 17, 2012, 3:37 pm CDT