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And this year provided not only plenty of fodder for shopping Grinches among us, but a bit of a toxic meme as well.
The latest toxic meme to spread across the pages of my once-beloved Washington Post is that President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is the one reasonable man in the White House.
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And every one of those "alternative facts", and toxic memes used by the Trump campaign (and by the Republicans in general since the Gingrich era) has had one intention -- to emotionally charge the people who already tend to agree with them.
Nevertheless, our cover seems to have launched a less toxic but still unfortunate meme: the idea that Obama can't take a joke — that "he's so tightly wrapped, overcalculated and circumspect that he can't even allow anyone to make jokes about him," in Maureen Dowd's words.
If you've casually browsed Reddit over the last couple of days, you may have got caught in the crossfire of a goofy meme war that turned toxic.
The meme effectively shut down the toxic element of the fandom by using fans' smugness against them.
'Queer Eye's' Jonathan Van Ness is a one-man meme machine ready to take down toxic masculinity.
Now that moment is a meme to point out all the toxic people and institutions who fuck shit up and try to pass the blame on to someone else.
Artists ranging from streetwear mogul Shepard Fairey to the indie GIF animators showcased throughout this piece are drawn to the imagery, and meme-makers have adapted it to countless a-ha moments and toxic conspiracies.
This gave birth to a culture, a new political perspective, fostered by Twitter and communities of meme-makers on Facebook a cutification of politics that could turn even the most toxic of right-wingers into an emoji in a suit.
A case in point is the so-called Tide Pod challenge, an internet meme encouraging teens to eat brightly colored detergent packs as if they are candy, not toxic laundry detergent.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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