The post appeared to reference recent right-wing conspiracy theories featuring the pop star Taylor Swift.

President Joe Biden had conspiracy theorists in a tizzy after posting what appeared to be his reaction to the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl win on Sunday night.

“Just like we drew it up,” Biden posted on X alongside a photo of “Dark Brandon,” the meme created by hardcore—and very online—supporters of Donald Trump that Biden and his team loved so much they adopted it as their own.

The post was apparently referencing far-right conspiracy theories which posit the NFL and high-level government operatives conspired to rig the Super Bowl in Kansas City’s favor to give maximum exposure to a yet-to-be-announced endorsement from Chiefs star Travis Kelce and his girlfriend Taylor Swift.

  • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
    913·
    9 months ago

    I get the gut reaction to say ‘haha epic burn’ or whatever, but this makes me really uneasy. I don’t think an official presidential account should be addressing this through a meme. Right wingers are going to lose their minds over this, but that scares me more than amuses me at the moment. Someone already got decapitated by their son over MAGA conspiracies this year, so meming about it feels really really reckless to me.

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
      31·
      9 months ago

      Idk I think that making fun of the conspiracy theories and joking about them is a good way to kill their credibility. Not addressing it at all would probably only lead to it persisting longer.

    • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      Right wingers are going to lose their minds over this, but that scares me more than amuses me at the moment.

      They will lose their minds over literally anything, they created this whole conspiracy out of thin air and hatred of women.

      Someone already got decapitated by their son over MAGA conspiracies this year, so meming about it feels really really reckless to me.

      That happened anyway, avoiding making fun of them (by pointing out what they say is nonsense) won’t make their delusions go away.

      • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
        11·
        9 months ago

        That does alleviate some of my misgivings, still not my favorite idea but its better that it wasn’t on an official government account.

    • Shenanigore@lemm.ee
      34·
      9 months ago

      “Dark Brandon” isn’t no right wing thing, there was a team of PR guys creating pro Biden memes leading up to the last election, to compete with the more natural pro trump memes being made. They were obviously not made by your usual trolls because they weren’t fucking funny.