Dark Brandon: Joe Biden Meme Gets Even More Hype After Student Loan Forgiveness – By Oscar Gonzalez (CNET) / Aug 27, 2022
Everything you need to know about the viral meme.
President Joe Biden announced that his administration will forgive up to $20,000 of individuals’ student loan debt. This led social media users to share a new “Dark Brandon” meme praising the president.
Last year, the phrase “Let’s go Brandon” made its way into the US political discourse after a reporter, while talking with a Nascar racer, misquoted a crowd chanting an obscenity about Biden. The disguised insult has since been used at Republican campaign rallies, on the floor of Congress and at QAnon events.
In recent months, a new meme has been making the rounds on social media, and it’s even being pushed by members of the Biden administration: Dark Brandon. The conflation of a phrase intended to insult the president has ended up being a celebratory term used by Biden supporters to tout the administration’s successes, such as the lowering of gas prices, the death of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri and the cancellation of up to $20,000 in folks’ student loans.
