Laughing Joe Biden

Laughing Joe Biden

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Overview

Laughing Joe Biden refers to the U.S. vice president Joe Biden's constant laughing that became a popular subject of online mockeries during the 2012 United States vice presidential debate in October 2012.

Background

On October 12th, 2012, the vice presidential debate between the Democrat incumbent Joe Biden and Republican nominee Paul Ryan took place at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. In stark contrast to the first presidential debate, the candidates carried on a spirited exchange with an energetic presence and the moderator Martha Raddatz won praise for pressing both for more specific answers. Throughout the 90-minute session, Biden was repeatedly seen wearing a smirk on his face when it was Ryan's turn to speak, which quickly became a trending topic on Twitter.



Notable Developments

On Twitter

Within minutes into the debate, Twitter parody account @LaughingJoeBiden[1] was launched at 9:20pm (ET) with the first tweet reading "LOL", immediately followed by another parody account @BidenSmirk[2] created at 9:21pm (ET) and the third account @LaughingBiden[3] at 9:50pm (ET).




During the first hour alone, @LaughingJoeBiden gained nearly 5,000 followers and by the end of the 90 minute debate, the account had gained more than 8,000 followers. In addition, screenshots of Biden's smirks began making the rounds with hashtags like #malarky, #laughingbiden and #bidensmirk.



Image Macros

By the end of the debate, image macros and photoshopped parodies had spread across Twitter[17] as well as on Reddit.[13][14][15]


HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I DONT KNOW WHY T'M LAUGHING PREPARE TO RELEASE THE BIDEN SH T JUST GOT REAL IDON'T ALWAYS LAUGH LIKE ANIDIOT NO WAIT. YESI DO THAT SABUNCHA MALARKEY" HATSABUNG IDON'T ALWAYS LAUGH BUT WHENIDO, IT'S THE ONLY THING REPUBLICANS CAN TALK ABOUT IN ORDER TO TRY AND FORGET THAT I EVISCERATED MR. P9OX IN A DEBATE quickmeme.com "When a wise person debates with a fool, the fool rages and laughs, and there is no peace and quiet." - Proverbs 29:9 Times247.com

News Media Coverage

The political blog Politico[4] was one of the first to write a story on Joe Biden's smirk, highlighting a collection of tweets from political commentators and columnists. The trending topic was reported on by many U.S. news outlets and blog publications, from The New York Times[7], Washington Post[6] and CNN[5] to The Huffington Post[8], Mediate[9], and Gawker[11] with a wide range of opinions on Biden's demeanor during the debate. The Associated Press[12] noted on the smirk by stating “Biden mockingly smiled, wagged his finger and couldn’t seem to stop interrupting Republican running mate Paul Ryan."

Republican Campaign Ad

In the early hours of the following day, the Republican National Committee released a YouTube campaign advertisement featuring a back-to-back montage of Joe Biden's smirk sequences set to Paul Ryan's speaking points from the debate. The video gained a quarter million views in the first 12 hours of upload.



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Mnemonic
Mnemonic

This will probably have the same half-life that a lot of media-perpetuated memes have. It's hot now, and is a big subject on Twitter (Tickle Me Biden as an example) but I'm not sure this is quite a "meme".

+1 wait, and I'd vote for a Twitter Trend category. We could always edit the subject later to full-on meme if it works out.

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