Vice President JD Vance jokingly called for instituting a “narrow exception to the First Amendment” Tuesday to prohibit Americans from uttering the numbers “six” and “seven,” referencing the viral meme that has exploded in popularity among children and teens, including Vance’s own five-year-old chil...

These people still don’t care for the First Amendment.

  • Tilgare@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    This is some quality reporting - that’s more details on the memes’ origination than I’ve ever read before. As far as I knew it was utterly random.

    “Where did this even come from?” Vance continued. “I don’t understand it. When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story.”

    First of all - hilarious that the article explains where it came from and then ends with this quote.

    But no, we absolutely did not have an origin story for all of our childhood memes. Every kid knew about the Mew under the truck in Pokémon red/blue, or that Marilyn Manson removed a rib. People still marvel today at the proliferation of that (false) information - how did we all hear it, and where in the world did it come from?