How Does Kanye West VMA Interruption Give Birth To Internet Photo Meme?
Kanye West’s stage-crashing appearance at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards made the Internet explode with tweets, blog rants and at least one video mash-up. Reactions, condemnations and parodies move as quickly as people can conceive them. Though West has repeatedly apologized (and finally called Swift himself yesterday, seemingly putting the beef to bed), the Web still hasn’t forgiven him, and anybody with access to Photoshop is not going to let him off the hook that easily. West’s interruption has created a meme that sees West interrupting any number of events, each time telling somebody that he’ll let him or her finish and then talking about how much better something else is. For example, West drops in on Shaquille O’Neal shooting a foul shot and says, “I know you about to miss this free throw and I’m gonna let you finish, but Ray Allen has one of the best free throw percentages of all time!” He also dropped in on the moon landing, telling Neal Armstrong, “I’m really happy for
Kanye West’s stage-crashing appearance at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards made the Internet explode with tweets, blog rants and at least one video mash-up. Reactions, condemnations and parodies move as quickly as people can conceive them. Though West has repeatedly apologized (and finally called Swift himself yesterday, seemingly putting the beef to bed), the Web still hasn’t forgiven him, and anybody with access to Photoshop is not going to let him off the hook that easily. West’s interruption has created a meme that sees West interrupting any number of events, each time telling somebody that he’ll let him or her finish and then talking about how much better something else is. For example, West drops in on Shaquille O’Neal shooting a foul shot and says, “I know you about to miss this free throw and I’m gonna let you finish, but Ray Allen has one of the best free throw percentages of all time!” He also dropped in on the moon landing, telling Neal Armstrong, “I’m really happy for
