Bill Cosby attempted a simple little PR stunt on Twitter Monday, and it blew up in his face almost instantly.
Tweeting a link to a Cosby meme generator on his website (which has since been deleted), he asked his followers to turn his pictures into memes, by adding some text.
But this year, following news that he would be starring in a new NBC sitcom, Cosby's past has come back to haunt him, with old sexual assualt allegations resurfacing in the media.
So it probably wasn't the best time to ask people to get creative with Cosby's images. Has his social media team ever even heard of the Internet?
Here are a few examples of the resulting Cosby meme - he certainly got lots of attention for this stunt, but not in the way they had hoped.
Man. #cosbymeme pic.twitter.com/NOZrK4b5gG
— Adam Hammer (@AdamHammer) November 10, 2014
Oh man, these are making my day! #CosbyMeme pic.twitter.com/nWwhFEDEhD
— Cornhole West (@Floyd_Banks) November 10, 2014
How about this one, is this one okay... RT @BillCosby: Go ahead. Meme me! #CosbyMeme pic.twitter.com/1sKnvLdyQl
— Jason Steele (@FilmCow) November 10, 2014
Don't mind if I do... #CosbyMeme pic.twitter.com/vdS2icWEHD
— Rusty Redenbacher (@rustymk2) November 10, 2014
.@BillCosby This is fun! #CosbyMeme pic.twitter.com/O1ScpMBzqA
— Matthew Bramlett (@matthewbramlett) November 10, 2014
#CosbyMeme Oh Boy! pic.twitter.com/5shOSuH74c
— E.J. Coughlin (@ejc) November 10, 2014
The Internet Gods have spoken: we have been overdue for another stupid social media privacy hoax. This time around, boomers and the technologically ignorant are concerned about their already non-existent privacy on image-sharing site Instagram.The post claims that deleted photos and messages will be made public unless the "memo" is shared. The message is laughable, but the masses are pretty damn gullible where privacy is concerned. To make matters worse, celebrities and politicians such as Rick Perry (The US Secretary of Energy...) and Usher have been sharing the bogus spam as well. Instagram and Twitter users with a bit more of their wits about them have been using this opportunity to roast their share-happy peers via memes and exasperated tweets - and the results are pretty fricken' funny.
We never thought we'd see people get so worked up over a board game, but here we are.
Hasbro just launched a "women-centric" version of the classic game Monopoly that they've named "Ms. Monopoly." In the game, players invest in various inventions created by women.
Where the game gets controversial is the rule that female players must make more money than their male counterparts, which many Twitter users have been calling out as "sexist" and counter-productive to actual gender equality.
Below are some of the amusing Twitter reactions and memes in response to Hasbro's launch of the new game.
Yeah, she goes from an innocent fivehead to full on Elephant Man status. Twitter user @RhiRob99, went ahead and tweeted out a reminder that it was about this time last year when her friend's head grew to 900x its normal size due to a violent allergic reaction to grass/wheat. They're lucky everything worked out, cause it sounds like they waited a dangerously long amount of time to seek medical attention.
Donald Trump's kept it pretty low key on Twitter in recent days. That didn't stop him from penning a little St. Paddy's Day sentiment though. If only he'd spell checked before sending it off though. Then again, would we expect anything less than this from the guy with a wide-reaching, well-developed reputation already for spelling shit in his own language incorrectly?
Yeah, yeah, we know. Here are some Trump Memes to smooth it over.