To address the concern: No, President Joseph Biden is not all of a sudden a backer of Bitcoin. The octogenarian political leader’s social media group is appropriating the images of hardcore Bitcoiners, after publishing an image of the U.S. president with laser eyes on Twitter/X.
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The image of Dear Old Joe is obviously a referral to “Dark Brandon,” a meme that Democratic advocates are attempting to require. As Mashable reports:
“In reaction to the Chiefs beating the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, the president published the spooky picture that liberals have actually reinterpreted and utilized because 2022 to portray Biden as a superhero …
“The genesis of the Dark Brandon meme is peak web, which actually simply indicates its story is dirty and tough to trace. As Vox discussed in 2023, the meme apparently came from at a NASCAR Xfinity Series race in October 2021, when NBC press reporter Kelli Stavast identified crowd chants of “F ** k Joe Biden!” as “Let’s go Brandon!” throughout a live interview with winning chauffeur Brandon Brown.”
Biden, eyes swollen, arms crossed and teeth shimmering, puzzled the world particularly thinking about that bitcoin has actually been on a tear. The cryptocurrency is now trading at its greatest level because December 2021.
Orange-pilled, he is not. According to Mashable, the meme is an action to a conservative conspiracy theory that the Biden administration would rig the Super Bowl to protect assistance from billionaire super star nation vocalist Taylor Swift. If that does not make good sense, congrats; you have not decayed your brain by investing all your spare time online.
To rapidly unload it: Swift, who campaigned for Biden in 2020, just recently began dating Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce, who, throughout the coronavirus pandemic, did public outreach attempting to persuade his fans to get the COVID-19 vaccine. This obviously puts them both in the pocket of Big Blue.
Swift is currently riding the wave of newly found popularity after her hit Eras trip, which is extensively mentioned as the highest-grossing performance series of perpetuity. The only thing that might enhance her credibility, and for that reason assist her brainwash her fans into choosing Biden, would be if her partner became part of the winning group of the highest-watched, live telecasted occasion of the year.
The Chiefs pulled ahead actually in the last seconds of overtime, ending up being the very first group to win back-to-back Super Bowl video games given that Tom Brady led the New England Patriots 2 years earlier.
“Just like we drew it up,” Dark Biden published on social networks, playing down the bizarro-land conspiracy.
To be reasonable to Bitcoiners who overcame delighted by another political leader publishing laser eyes, 2 years after the joke stopped mattering, Biden’s social networks group’s “meme” wasn’t precisely simple to parse.
