As the age-old adage goes, no shitty graphic shared on the internet ever goes unpunished.
On Saturday the FBI Twitter account tweeted an innocent, simple graphic of a pleasant snowman next to the message, “Happy holidays from our FBI family to yours.”
Happy holidays from the #FBI pic.twitter.com/l9VoIbQXnx
— FBI (@FBI) December 24, 2016
I imagine the tweet was meant to be a sweet season’s greeting between vitriolic tweets and negative headlines, a break from the bustle of shopping for presents and meal preparation.
And yes, the snowman-clad e-card did bring many a Twitter user great joy…
@ebruenig I absolutely love that an agency with millions of dollars in funding assigned this task to an intern using MS Paint.
— Laya Maheshwari (@lazygarfield) December 24, 2016
…To roast the joke of a graphic like chestnuts on an open fire, that is.
As Twitter awoke on Christmas Eve, eager elves set their sights on the FBI’s early gift to the internet and attacked with pleasure.
https://twitter.com/hrtbps/status/812656930594426881
we need to have the "Lucida Calligraphy" talk.
— Rachael Sullivan (@rachaelsullivan) December 24, 2016
All those millions of emails you have access to and this is the best Christmas image macro you could find @FBI
— Lindsay of the decade (@HyperGlavin) December 24, 2016
— Caelan Reid (@caelanjwreid) December 24, 2016
Yes, Twitter did its best to convey to the FBI just how embarrassingly horrid the sad-ass Frosty looks surrounded by those anemic, oblong snow flakes.
.@FBI
— Iɢɴᴀᴛᴢ, the Bringer of Jollity. (@ignatzz) December 24, 2016
Goals:
1) Spend 5 minutes making a Christmas Card in MS Paint.
2) Interfere with an election and fuck up the whole world.
https://twitter.com/shatterfront/status/812649457783185408
https://twitter.com/raininblack/status/812668197631643648
.@FBI Why are you letting your 5-year-old play with MSPaint on your computers? Not very secure.
— COVIDeo Killed the Ratio Star (@cambrian_era) December 24, 2016
Sure, a few folks took issue with the agency’s use of “Happy Holidays” over “Merry Christmas.”
https://twitter.com/chillmage/status/812681550642946048
Psst!! We're celebrating Christmas. It's no secret.
— Joan of Argghh! (@JoanOfArgghh) December 24, 2016
Thought y'all were fighting the "War on Christmas." Focus on doing something abt Giuliani and partisanship in your organization!
— Say Their Names (@BluPhoenix2018) December 24, 2016
Donald Trump is going to LOSE HIS SHIT when he reads "happy holidays" instead of his trademarked phrase "Merry Christmas".
— Jennifer B Dot (@jenniferbdot) December 24, 2016
But let’s be honest, we all know what the real crime is here.
MS Paint is a graphic design crime scene https://t.co/4imLCZbkqu
— CあRLY (@carlycarbonate) December 24, 2016
Twitter truly ran amok with the “graphic design is my passion” meme on this one, too, to the point of basically hammering the last nail into the coffin and lowering it straight into the goddamn ground.
.@FBI pic.twitter.com/EMHBVenuZS
— Marti (@mrmarti_) December 24, 2016
graphic design is my passion https://t.co/KVN3dzTIfE
— j (@jesusacostx) December 24, 2016
love too graphic design https://t.co/w909ydab9I
— justin █████ (@jusatk) December 24, 2016
Hi, I'd like to apply for the empty position you have in the graphic design department https://t.co/KZVRtHXV3q
— cassi (@cassiwithoutane) December 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/DAREDEVllLS/status/812704591158669312
https://twitter.com/erikhauIa/status/812704526197293060
https://twitter.com/nb_root/status/812703677324533760
where's the graphic design is my passion meme https://t.co/CYo3Z8IfBX
— kennedy (@generalfinnpoe) December 24, 2016
Thanks for the good laugh, FBI Twitter. We know we’re gonna need it in 2017.