If you've been on X the last week or so you've probably seen many JD Vance memes. I assumed they were related to the Zelensky meeting, but according to this article, the meeting merely catalyzed things and the memes date back farther.
Since October, the Vance edits have only become sweatier, more surreal, more upsetting to behold. He’s been meme’d so much that multiple viral tweets have expressed the difficulty of conjuring up an actual picture of Vance in one’s head because of how much the edits have distorted his image in the collective consciousness.
“It’s such an easy own,” says McNamee. “Like, this is a guy who takes himself so seriously.” Juxtaposing an edit of a chubby, childlike Vance with the text, “YOU SHOULDA SAID PWEASE,” then, isn’t just a commentary on his subservience to Trump but a skewering of how lame and transparent his entire “extremely online guy” persona is.
