Author: Emma Grey Ellis / Source: WIRED
The internet loves to tear things to shreds. So to absolutely no one’s surprise, it jumped on Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony—a serious event in which the CEO of one of the world’s richest companies is answering to the federal government for mistakes like user-data breaches and enabling Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election—like a choice steak.
Instead of a fork and knife, though, it used its own pointy tools: memes.Memes used to be about cats and Chuck Norris. But now, not only is a dry, two-day, multi-hour Congressional grilling session considered meme fodder, it’s a veritable treasure trove of repeatable phrases and exploitable images. It wasn’t entirely Social Network jokes, but those did abound.
No one was safe: not Zuckerberg, and certainly not the octogenarian Senators doing their best to understand the Facebook. A question about websites’ business models has become iconic. Pro-Trump online personalities Diamond and Silk have been catapulted onto the national stage. It’s been a time to reflect on just how strange our world has gotten. So we gathered up the wildest Zuckberg testimony memes the internet has to offer. And no, we still can’t really believe this is happening either. And we know one wide-eyed, besuited Harvard alum who probably feels the same way.
This isn’t Mark Zuckerberg’s first go-round in the meme machine. Zuck Memes were already an established format with a dedicated subreddit. They’re…
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