Baby Alzheimer's
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Baby Alzheimer's refers to a series of jokes parodying an anti-vaccination woman who claimed that vaccinations gave babies Alzheimer's disease. The tweet sparked a series of parodies imagining a baby suffering from Alzheimer's disease, a memory-loss illness that typically only affects the elderly.
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On January 21st, 2020, Twitter user @sasha4short[1] responded to a tweet asking for opinions on vaccinating one's infants by saying she didn't want to get her infants to get diseases like "Down syndrome, Alzheimer's, etc." (shown below).
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The exchange was screenshot and amplified by Twitter user MJK_NY31,[2] who put his account on private after the exchange gained attention. Twitter users began making jokes about "Baby Alzheimer's" shortly after. For example, user @goodbeanalt[4] joked, "it’s true. I had Alzheimer’s as baby. I can’t remember anything from when I was 1, 2, even 3 years old. and it’s all because I was vaccinated," gaining over 15,000 retweets and 140,000 likes (shown below, left). User @BeeGilly[3] posted a reaction image example, gaining over 17,000 retweets and 71,000 likes (shown below, right). "Baby Alzheimer's" jokes were covered by Junkee.[2]
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