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pwhodges:
I could have put this in the pointless thread, or in the discussion thread about the Supreme Court's deliberations, but decided it can best stand on its own.

This is a complete quote of a post from another board (no, not that one) which both amused and interested me - as is, apart from some housekeeping:


--- Quote from: Elect G-Max ---Today, I logged into Facebook and saw that one of my friends had changed her profile pic to this:



Several hours later, I found out that it's actually a parody of some kind of "red equals sign" meme that's supposedly taking over Facebook in an attempt to... I don't know... let the Supreme Court know what people who spend their entire lives on Facebook think about some gay rights thing that's happening today. I say "supposedly take over" because the thing is only hours old and already parodies and variants are more common than the original.

Goth variant:



Dr. Who variant:



We all knew Threepio was gay, but Artoo was a surprise:



Deadpool:



Thanks for letting us know what state you're in, because it's not like that's already on your Facebook profile:



I'm not kidding, there are at least two with this damn cat:





...and at least two variants with Bert and Ernie:





Inexplicable:

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Contrarian:





This could end up being the most rapid memetic mutation in the history of the Internet.
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TheEvilDog:
I was wondering why I kept seeing some many of these Red Equals on facebook.
Its quite interesting to see this really taking off, the only one I can think of that had so many varients in such a short amount of time would be the "X grab my Y" meme from Deviantart a couple of years ago.

TRVA123:
I like it. If nothing else the equal signs are making people pay attention to the supreme court for the first time in a while. The people who claim that they are pointless clearly don't understand what raising awareness means.

Zingoleb:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 27 Mar 2013, 16:07 ---Inexplicable:

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actually, that's the transgender symbol. #explained

Carl-E:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 27 Mar 2013, 16:07 ---Inexplicable:


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Really?  Come on, it's matzoh for passover...

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