It grew on Reddit, Twitter, and TikTok over the past few months – sometimes ironically as a way of mocking Trump superfans. The Dark Brandon meme is drawn from that. The phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” a euphemism for “F- Joe Biden,” became the soundboard for countless gifs and graphics. As president, he’s been castigated as elderly and frail and in over his head. During the Obama years he was portrayed as the bumbling “Uncle Joe,” always blurting out something off key and obsessing over his aviators and Corvette.
“‘Dark Brandon’ is the Malevolent kind of Biden we need,” wrote Mel Magazine last month.īiden is no stranger to being memed. One administration official turned an illustration - of Biden’s yellow eyes aglow - into the cover photo on their personal Twitter account.įar from the portrayal Yang set out to create, it’s been fashioned into a boast, depicting Biden playing five-dimensional chess, a master of the political dark arts.
CHRIS MURPHY (D-Conn.), the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and thousands of Biden fans celebrating several of the president’s legislative objectives passing through Congress. Yang’s images were shared by, among others, White House aides, Sen. until this past week, when they went viral in the United States as Democrats co-opted them as part of a meme dubbed “Dark Brandon.” Yang has posted many other images in the 20 months since - often with pro-China, nationalistic messages. "The sleeping king ascends the throne, the devil is resurrected," reads the Chinese caption on one illustration of Biden atop an Iron Throne-esque chair made up of automatic weapons as a hellish blaze surrounds him. In November 2020, a week after JOE BIDEN was declared the winner of the presidential election, a Chinese illustrator named YANG QUAN posted several cartoons on his Weibo microblog account depicting the president-elect as evil and seemingly all-powerful.
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