Bernie Sanders Iowa Victory Speech Reactions

About

Bernie Sanders Iowa Victory Speech Reactions is a reaction image series featuring Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders sequentially making four separate expressive faces correlating with four captions. The images which began trending on Reddit in February 2020 were taken from Bernie Sander's speech following the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucus.

Origin

On February 6th, 2020, Bernie Sanders spoke in New Hampshire after receiving the majority of the Iowa Caucus results. The speech was uplouded to Youtube by PBS Newshour and garnered over 35,400 views and 1,400 likes in a day (shown below).

That same day, Redditor CaptainCrutches uploaded a new template to r/MemeEconomy^[1] featuring Sander's four facial expressions and gained over 15,600 points (93% upvoted) in a day.

Spread

On February 6th, 2020, Redditor doesnotapply posted a variation of the meme to r/dankmemes^[2] with the sequential captions reading "100 Followers on Instagram", "50 subscribers on YouTube," "10 Followers on Reddit" and "5 followers in a dark alleyway" (shown below). The post received over 60,000 points (93% upvoted) in a day.

On February 7th, Redditor that_onion_knight uploaded a variation to r/memes^[3] which included the meme I am once again asking for your financial support (shown below, left). The post accumulated over 15,400 points (93% upvoted) in a day. That same day, Redditor 0SaturatedFats posted a similar meme to r/memes^[4] but with a laser eye edit to the bottom image (shown below, right). The post gained over 13,300 points (95% upvoted) in a day.

Various Examples

Templates

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