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Feb 12, 2024 · Shortly after the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII, U.S. President Joe Biden’s official X account posted an image of Biden with red lasers shooting out of...
Feb 12, 2024 · It is an image that could belong to a film that is part horror, part sci-fi: US President Joe Biden standing against a murky background, bright-red laser beams emanating from his eyes, his...
Feb 12, 2024 · In September 2023, he shared a video on Instagram of him filling up a mug with his own face on it, the eyes on which turned red after contact with boiling water.
- What Are The Origins of Dark Brandon?
- What Does The Dark Brandon Nickname Refer to?
- Dark Brandon in Action
Dark Brandon did not capture most internet-dwelling Americans' hearts and minds until summer of 2022, but the character's origins date back to before President Biden took office. On Nov. 14, 2020 — just one week after Biden won the 2020 election — Chinese illustrator Yang Quan uploaded several images to Weibo depicting the 46th president as evil, p...
Dark Brandon is a play on "Let's Go Brandon," a popular right-wing political meme that originated when an NBC Sports reporter interviewing NASCAR racer Brandon Brown in October 2021 seemingly misheard racing fans in Talladega, Alabama, chanting "F--- Joe Biden," as "Let's go, Brandon," according to Vox. That phrase took off as a means for Republica...
In August 2022, The New York Timesconfirmed in an article detailing the rise of Dark Brandon that Biden himself "has seen some of the Dark Brandon memes and found them funny," citing several people close to the president. White House officials and Democratic politicians began using them around the same time that polling aggregators like FiveThirtyE...
- Tommy Mcardle
Feb 12, 2024 · As soon as the final buzzer went off, Biden sent out a post on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that said “Just like we drew it up” with a photo of him with laser eyes.
- Ricky O'donnell
Feb 12, 2024 · The post included a darkened photo of Biden with glowing red eyes, harkening to the “Dark Brandon” meme tied to the president. “Brandon” stems from the phrase “Let’s go Brandon,” described by...
The sinister, highly stylized iteration of Biden with glowing red eyes is inflammatory coming from right-wingers, painting the president as a supervillain of sorts.
