BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) English96•11 months ago“Hey, he can’t mock our attacks! Wahhhh.”
magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) English38•11 months agoHe turned an insult back on the childish morons who started it, then he went back to the Oval Office while his rival defended himself in court.
That coffee must have tasted really fucking good.
dmention7 ( @dmention7@lemm.ee ) English14•11 months agopearl clutching intensifies
spitz ( @spitz@lemmy.ml ) 51•11 months agoCan someone explain Dark Brandon for us non-Americans who don’t know?
popcap200 ( @popcap200@lemmy.ml ) 62•11 months agoWell conservatives were Chanting “Fuck Joe Biden” and the news presenter said they were saying “let’s go Brandon” which because a big meme for conservatives. Liberals put glowing red eyes on Biden and called him Dark Brandon.
Andy ( @andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ) 64•11 months agoIt’s actually a mashup of (at least) two memes. As mentioned, the name “Brandon” comes from a NASCAR event that spawned the phrase “Let’s go Brandon” as a euphemism for “Fuck Joe Biden”, so critics began calling Biden “Brandon” in reference.
The “Dark” part came from a series of conservative/MAGA memes from last year, where commenters began to propose that Trump and his allies had been holding themselves back rather than acting as aggressively as they should’ve, and this vision for the future was called “Dark MAGA”, and used a lot of overdramatic anime imagery of Trump as a violent despot serving up the justice his enemies deserved.
“Dark Brandon” emerged as a parody of it, because the idea of Biden as a powerful and ruthless mastermind is, admittedly hilariously absurd.
Reference: Know Your Meme
zanyllama52 ( @zanyllama52@infosec.pub ) English18•11 months agoIs this shit for real? I feel like this is from a cartoon or something.
Andy ( @andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ) 11•11 months agoI’m not sure what you’re referring to when you say “this” – the meme? my comment? the situation – but they are all both very real and also probably from a cartoon or something.
zanyllama52 ( @zanyllama52@infosec.pub ) English5•11 months agoIncredible. This is our world.
iesou ( @iesou@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months agoI don’t know how this is the thing that makes you realize that. The fact that people believed and in some cases still do believe that there are lizard men who drink the blood of babies for adrenochrome which somehow allows them to live forever, and that these men run the democratic party is much more weird and mystifying to me.
Chetzemoka ( @Chetzemoka@kbin.social ) 9•11 months agoOh no, it’s way better than that. It started from literal Chinese propaganda art, which was repurposed into the Dark Brandon meme:
Spimble ( @Spimble@lemm.ee ) 21•11 months agoI believe this sparked the dark brandon name. Originally made by a propagandist cartoonist to make Biden look evil, the left memed it because he’s an old man so the juxtaposition is funny, then libs just adopted it as a cool way to brand Biden
𝙣𝙪𝙠𝙚 ( @nuke@yah.lol ) English28•11 months agoIt’s funny because they try to hate but they just end up making him look badass instead
Spimble ( @Spimble@lemm.ee ) 8•11 months agoI think that’s partially a cultural difference. The original artist is Chinese and being a murderous warlord is seen as sexier in the USA than in China
I could be wrong
spitz ( @spitz@lemmy.ml ) 13•11 months agoThat’s… a much more bizarre story than I was expecting. Says a lot about the integrity of the MSM too. Oh well. Thanks for explaining!
Platomus ( @Platomus@lemm.ee ) 10•11 months agoWait… What does that say about MSM?
Because one reporter next to a (notoriously) loud NASCAR race misheard what a crowd was chanting? Because the reporter didn’t say “fucking” on TV?
some_guy ( @some_guy@kbin.social ) 3•11 months agobecause they’re making this a story.
seems like youre being intentionally obtuse to pick a fight.
Platomus ( @Platomus@lemm.ee ) 8•11 months agoWait… Where did MSM make a story out of it?
spitz ( @spitz@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months agoseems like youre being intentionally obtuse to pick a fight.
That was my impression too. Inevitable in any online discussion about politics, whatever the country.
Zorque ( @Zorque@kbin.social ) 17•11 months agoAt a Nascar race there was a reporter interviewing one of the racers. All the people in the audience in the background decided to start shouting “Fuck Biden”. The reporter, trying to salvage the interview, insinuated that they were shouting “Let’s go Brandon”, who I believe was the racer they were interviewing. Conservatives decided that “Let’s go Brandon” was now code for “Fuck Biden” because they have a persecution complex and believe they’d be lynched if they actually said it for realsy-reals. Eventually, when Biden started making fun of conservatives, people started styling him as “Dark Brandon” to make him seem cooler.
I hate the term cringe, but there is nothing but when talking about this topic.
Neato ( @Neato@kbin.social ) 12•11 months agoIt started with “Let’s Go, Brandon” meme. Which was when a NASCAR camera captured the chant, “Fuck Joe Biden” and the announcer played it off as “Let’s go Brandon”. This was facile and seen through by everyone instantly. But the right-wing in America picked up “Let’s go Brandon” as a way to say “Fuck Joe Biden” without swearing or being overt. A base subterfuge that the right wing thinks is clever and obscure.
Sometime after that the Dark Brandon meme appeared which is a highly ironic meme usually picturing Joe Biden wearing his aviator sunglasses and smiling. It depicts a “darker, edgier” Joe Biden (doesn’t take much) usually in concert with a political victory or getting something done. This can exist because Joe Biden is generally seen as so very boring that any amount of aggression or elevated emotional state would be seen as “extreme”.
So now most people use Dark Brandon as a joke to try to trigger the far right or just as a tongue-in-cheek reference to Biden being kinda boring.
BigCow ( @BigCow@kbin.social ) 7•11 months agoCombines the two “let’s go Brandon” and “Dark MAGA” both of which are from the political right in US.
Let’s go Brandon is described in other replies but…it means fuck Joe Biden
Dark MAGA is being used in the right sphere showing Republican mainly Trump learning from their mistakes and done playing nice… edgy and more aesthetic. janWilejan ( @janWilejan@kbin.social ) 6•11 months ago- a bunch of nascar fans were chanting “fuck joe biden” at a car show
- a reporter thought they were cheering “let’s go brandon” (one of the racecar drivers was named brandon)
- right wingers start using “let’s go brandon” as a minced oath instead of saying “fuck joe biden”
- left wingers start using “let’s go brandon” to signal support for joe biden. this turns into the dark brandon meme
Yes. American politics are that silly.
Chetzemoka ( @Chetzemoka@kbin.social ) 6•11 months agoThe Brandon thing does come from the place everyone is mentioning, and yes, it’s fucking stupid as hell. The “dark” part comes from equally hilarious Chinese propaganda depicting Biden as some kind of evil mastermind dictator. The internet just mashed the two stupid hilarious things together:
narwhalperson ( @narwhalperson@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•11 months agoI’m not sure about the “dark” part, but the “Brandon” comes from when a group of politically right leaning individuals started shouting “F*** Biden” at an event and a news anchor misinterpreted it as “Let’s Go Brandon”.
Dark Brandon has laser eyes that make everything socialism. Duh
squiblet ( @squiblet@kbin.social ) 2•11 months agoA reporter was interviewing a race car driver named Brandon at a track following his win in a race. The crowd was chanting a slogan that the reporter mistook to be “Let’s Go Brandon”, which would make sense, right? It’s a race, and Brandon just won? However, for some unknown reason, republicans/rednecks/heathens have decided it makes sense to chant “Fuck Joe Biden” in situations like that. So after this, “Let’s Go Brandon” became something degenerates would put on flags, bumper stickers and coffee mugs and so on, as a stand in for “Fuck Joe Biden”, demonstrating their high levels of class. Then, someone online made images of Biden looking sorta evil with glowing eyes etc, which were posted in actual appreciation of Biden, sort of making fun of the right-wing claims that he’s incompetent and senile. You could read this article for a more thorough explanation plus some examples.
TigrisMorte ( @TigrisMorte@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agoSome folks misreported others shouting fuck Biden as lets go brandon. The right thought this so funny they started branding everything in sight with lets go brandon. Biden supporters created the laser blasting eye Dark Brandon by drawing laser beams shooting from the eyes of the same merch as the lets go brandon folk were pushing. Now Dark Brandon label is strutted out whenever President Joe Biden does something which makes the right’s teeth clench.
While the prior is in no way academic nor accurate of detail, it is the best gist of events I may provide.
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) English41•11 months ago
Republicans: haha let’s go Brandon hahaha
Biden: sips from mug… No fuck you
Republicans: oh boohoo Biden is mean
queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 34•11 months agoAmerica is a joke country.
WtfEvenIsExistence3️ ( @WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com ) English19•11 months agoHumanity is a joke species
Spimble ( @Spimble@lemm.ee ) 13•11 months agoMushrooms however are a giga based species
Laughs in American
…I don’t get it…
sharpiemarker ( @Sharpiemarker@feddit.de ) 29•11 months agoYea well that’s our word now you fucks.
7heo ( @7heo@lemmy.ml ) 29•11 months agoexpired
Wage_slave ( @Wage_slave@lemmy.ml ) 15•11 months agowell i would count that as abso-fucking-lutely winning.
kitonthenet ( @kitonthenet@kbin.social ) 9•11 months ago“Brandon is not a compliment” https://i.imgflip.com/5hy89a.png
stappern ( @stappern@lemmy.one ) 5•11 months agoChad
Conman_Signor ( @Conman_Signor@lemmy.one ) 3•11 months agoHmmm me thinks I need one of these mugs
PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months agoDark Brandon is very cringe.
Neat
Rottcodd ( @Rottcodd@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agoFight fire with marshmallows.