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‘Gonna Tell My Kids’ Meme Is Ready to Confuse Children of the Future
The meme calls for users to pair an unrelated photo with a celebrity's name.
November 19, 2019
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The internet strikes again.
The world’s future kids might be a little perplexed by a history-based meme that’s circulating on Twitter. For the meme, Twitter users pair a largely irrelevant image with a famous person’s name—and sometimes object—and caption the tweet, “Gonna tell my kids this was.” Some have compared characters from the Shia LaBeouf-starring movie Holes with Brockhampton, Tyler, the Creator with Barack Obama, and Lana del Rey and ASAP Rocky with John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy.
Take a look at some suspicious history lessons below.