Those memes almost immediately spawned "Dark Brandon," featuring a sinister Joe Biden. In this context, they often show images of the president shooting red lasers from his eyes or wearing ...

At first, the rise of “Dark Brandon,” President Biden’s cooler, laser-eyed internet alter ego, presented us with a number of complicated questions about memes and their origins. Who gets to ...

Basically, “Dark Brandon” memes are images of Joe Biden, except scary and powerful; and they have risen in popularity as the president recovers from COVID-19 and advances his legislative agenda.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Not since Hillary Clinton dabbing on ‘em has a meme been so brutally murdered ...

In an inverse of the online right’s QAnon-tinged paranoia and absurd hypermasculine meme energy, the online left began Dark Brandon: Joe Biden in dark grays and reds, with intentionally low-res ...

Meme wars are a time-honored internet tradition. The latest political memetic battle centers on the Dark Brandon meme, which is liberals’ new retort to the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” an ...

In the meme wars, President Joe Biden has proved an elusive target for right-wingers and Trump cultists; Biden’s limp centrism just doesn’t fuel the reactionary fire. Trump’s crowd is still ...

Which is exactly why this should-be-cringeworthy meme, against all odds, works. Dark Brandon came from normal Brandon — a presidential alter ego conjured up by right-wing critics after an NBC ...

Readers will likely be familiar with the “Brandon” meme, which became something of a bumper-sticker slogan on the right in late 2021 after a NASCAR commentator misinterpreted a “f*** Joe Bid ...

Case in point: Joe Biden’s official Twitter account posting the Dark Brandon meme with the caption, “Just like we drew it up,” on Sunday night. This was intended as a cheeky response to the ...

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