Jazmine

notchicken

I hate the internet. I hate how this poem doesn’t need to be finished but it has 13.9k retweets and 21.1k likes. Everyone knows how this poem ends and I hate it

boomerbuzzard

Violets are Blue

Michael Jackson sang Thriller

explainingthejoke

The first image is a screenshot of a tweet that reads “Roses are red, Harambe’s in heaven…” followed by a photo of. George W. Bush. There is another post added in the comments of this one that reads “Violets are blue, Michael Jackson sang Thriller…” followed by a photo of Ted Cruz. Bush was the president of the United States; Cruz ran for president, but failed.

Two ongoing jokes about these men is that Bush secretly orchestrated the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks, and that Cruz is secretly the infamous zodiac killer of the late 1960′s. These are conspiracy theories, and some find it funny to perpetuate them because they are outlandish and because they don’t like these men.

“Roses are red” and “violets are blue” are very well known to be starts for a poem with an A/B/C/B rhyming format.

Therefore, the first poem could read something like this:

Roses are red
Harambe’s in heaven
George W. Bush
Did nine-eleven

And the second might look something like this:

Violets are blue
Michael Jackson sang Thriller
Ted Cruz is really
The Zodiac Killer

I think this counts as deconstruction of a meme, because the joke itself isn’t even mentioned; the image is provided and the reader understands the joke without the meme having to be explicitly said.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Jazmine

you all just let me play myself like that