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How Did The Internet Miss This Seapunk Image of NASCAR-Loving, Skeet-Shooting Obama?
Considering that every new image of Obama doing anything remotely unusual is typically transformed into a tumblr-traversing meme, isn't it a little strange that the objectively wonderful photo featured above isn't all over the internet?I mean, the thing barely spread beyond the audience at the White House correspondent's dinner. The image was a prop in a joke about how everyone thought that PR photo of Obama shooting skeet had to be Photoshopped—this was the real one, get it? (Okay, it's actually a pretty good joke). But the internet somehow missed it altogether.It may simply be that members of the media (who don't get invited) loathe that smarmy self-congratulating tribute to the super-powerful so much that anything produced therein is ignored on principle. But seriously—there wasn't a single Buzzfeed blogger in the crowd?Of all the presidential images that journey across our Facebook walls, racking up thousands of likes and shares, this is the one that gets a pass? The one with cats and laser beams and rainbows? The one that's full-on Seapunk? This thing is tailor-made for the internet. How is it not still on the top of Reddit?I mean, I'd rather look at this than some photo of Obama fist-bumping the janitor any day. In fact, maybe I'll print this thing out. Maybe I'll crumple the edges and burn them, like we did in second grade to make printer paper look old, and then maybe I'll frame it. Who knows, maybe in this majestic era of artistic remixing and reproduction, that counts as actual art. I am an artist. And I shall call my first work The Presidential Meme That Never Was.