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Most sons and daughters have experienced embarrassment fueled moments with Mom - but Pieter Hanson's experience yesterday will have most people feeling grateful that their moms don't use twitter. The 32 year old Navy veteran was busy with a marketing exam when his phone began blowing up. He assumed something was very, very wrong, and in a way he was right. It just turned out to be social media related instead of a family tragedy.
Upon checking his phone, it turned out his mother had written the following tweet, paired with a photo of Hanson in his Navy uniform:
"This is MY son. He graduated #1 in boot camp. He was awarded the USO award. He was #1 in A school. He is a gentleman who respects women. He won't go on solo dates due to the current climate of false sexual accusations by radical feminists with an axe to grind. I VOTE. #HimToo."
Pieter was horrified. He told the Washington Post that his mother's words couldn't be less true: he actually considers himself an ally of the #MeToo movement. Hansons's friends found the tweet troubling as well, saying that they know it "isn't him." It didn't take long for the tweet to inspire parodies involving pop culture figures from Guy Fieri to Eminem. The memes became so popular that Hanson himself made a Twitter account and used the copypasta to set the record straight:
"That was my Mom. Sometimes the people we love do things that hurt us without realizing it. Let's turn this around. I respect and #BelieveWomen . I never have and never will support #HimToo . I'm a proud Navy vet, Cat Dad and Ally. Also, Twitter, your meme game is on point."
While for Hanson's sake we are glad that his mother has since deleted the tweet, we are in fact enjoying these amazing parodies. Here are some of our favorite renditions.
Twitter's new favorite text meme involves calling out white people for the silly things they say in very specific situations. The meme is somewhat triggering to the Ned Flanders-esque white person writing this (nobody under 30 should sound this much like a Midwestern dad) but the tweets are pretty funny - and all in good fun.
It's not often that clickbait does anything more than elicit eye-rolls or lamentation from most of us, but today we're happy to say this is not the case. We're here to thank The Daily Mirror for composing a tweet so incredibly clickbait-y that Twitter has turned the damn thing into a meme. To promote a piece about a Tinder love-connection gone wrong, the publication tweeted the following:
"Woman's perfect Tinder date with 'The One' shattered by five simple words."
It's a pretty histrionic title, especially when considering the five words: "Stay away from my boyfriend." Her supposed Prince Charming was not, in fact, an eligible bachelor. The spicy yet vague headline immediately put Twitter to work. Social media jokesters started to tweet five words that would leave them shook - and the rest is history. We'll keep our politics to ourselves, but Julia Carver's (now deleted) tweet is on point. This website could never love someone who doesn't get down with some Popeyes.
It's said that indifference is worse than hatred. This new Spongebob meme takes that sentiment seriously. Folks on Twitter have been responding to things they don't care about and things they absolutely hate with images from cartoons that insinuate the lack of ability to hear. Think playground era feigned deafness: "What's that I hear? Is that the wind?"
People are using the reaction images to respond to everything from Apple Music announcements to video footage of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz in police custody. The memes are unbelievably low-effort, so we implore you to join the very blase party.
