Summer is upon us, and you know what that means: Beaches, bikinis, and people fighting on the Internet about how hot the interior of a car can get in direct sunlight.
And, because the season won’t be complete until we get a handful of stories about strangers breaking windows to rescue babies or pets negligently left in these parking lot ovens, a presumably staged photo designed to inflame the masses has captured social media’s normally fragmented attention. Go ahead and take a look.
https://twitter.com/fee020/status/736410564793110528
The image’s origins remain murky. Select All reported that @fee020, a teen who claimed that the dog was named Kram and enjoyed the pop stylings of Rihanna, had made up that backstory after finding the photo elsewhere online. It didn’t much matter; the flames of hot-car controversy were fanned, and the memes began.
https://twitter.com/bseyka/status/737843548310102016
But this was never destined to be a Photoshop meme. In the week since the picture blew up, people have repurposed and mocked the language of the sign, less so the specific visual.
https://twitter.com/haramkilam/status/739349709483954177
https://twitter.com/ngvhi/status/737815492925087744
https://twitter.com/brobekcs/status/739176262199975936
the ac is on
he has water & is listening to his favorite music pic.twitter.com/oApnH4B5ZA— iz (@izzzycarrolll) May 31, 2016