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Wyatt Koch's Shirt Video

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Wyatt Koch's Shirt Video
Category: Meme Status: Submission Year: 2017 Origin: Instagram Region:
Type: Viral Video,
Tags: koch brothers, wyatt koch, rich, taxes, ugly,
Wyatt Koch's Shirt Video

About

Wyatt Koch's Shirt Video refers to a video of Wyatt Koch, heir to the Koch Brothers' fortune, talking about his line of shirts. Though posted in the summer of 2017, video went viral in December of 2017 when it was linked to in a story by the New York Post. The video spread as social media users commented the video was emblematic of wealth inequality and joked about the style of the shirts, some of which had literal money bags emblazoned on them, which many found ugly and unattractive.

Origin

The video was originally posted to Instagram by Koch, though the post has since been deleted. A copy was posted to YouTube[1] on June 6th, 2017 (shown below). In the video Wyatt talks about the value of being "bold" and an "individual" as it pertained to his line of shirts.



Spread

On December 19th, 2017, the video was linked to in a story by the New York Post's gossip section, Page Six.[2] Once the article was posted, Twitter users began to discover the video and joke about it. Twitter user @david_j_roth[3] posted a link to the video and sarcastically congratulated Koch, as he stood to benefit from the recently-passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The tweet gained over 1,300 retweets and 2,900 likes. (shown below, left). User @AdamJohnsonNYC[4] tweeted the video itself, simply stating "can't look away," gaining over 1,700 retweets and 5,300 likes (shown below, right).


David Roth @david_j_roth Following Congratulations to this Koch heir, who is going to become like $75 billion richer in the next few days. He's going to use it to make very innovative ugly shirts. instagram.com/p/BYZH4TsloS6/... 1:18 AM- 20 Dec 2017 Adam H. Johnson @adamjohnsonNYC Following can't look away 0:35 479K views

Media coverage of the video tended to focus on the ugliness of the shirts while tying Koch to the recently-passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Vanity Fair[5] wrote that Koch had "inadverdently emerged as the face of Trump's tax plan." Esquire[6] wrote "A Koch Heir Has Created the Ugliest Shirts on the Planet." Spin,[7] GQ,[8] and Mashable[9] also covered the video.

Online Reactions


John Levenstein @johnlevenstein Follow If it were possible to make better shirts than Wyatt Koch, those shirts would be all over the place. They're not. You don't see them 2:35 AM - 21 Dec 2017 Christmas (Bobby please come ho... @BobbyBigWheel Follow They're going to buy Wyatt Koch's shirts to own the libs 6:29 PM -20 Dec 2017 southpaw @nycsouthpaw Follow Wyatt Ingraham Koch designs shirts. His design for this shirt is bags and bags of money. Wyatt Ingraham Koch President & CEO Joe Berkowitz Φ Follow JoeBerkowitz DEAR GOD HOW DOES A LARGE ADULT KOCH SON POSSIBLY HAVE A SHIRT DECORATED WITH CARTOON SACKS OF MONEY The Son Of One Of The Koch Brothers Sells Ugly Shirts, Has No Apparent Self... Charles Ingraham Koch, wearing a shirt literally emblazoned with moneybags, says he wants his shirts to be worn "in the boardroom or in a discoteca or a nightclub or digg.com Thomas Paine @papalia722 Follow Wyatt Koch's inheritance should be taxed at 105% and his dumb shirts should be burned

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External References



Tags: koch brothers, wyatt koch, rich, taxes, ugly,


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