Relatable Romney

Relatable Romney

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Updated Aug 11, 2015 at 02:45AM EDT by Brad.

Added Jul 23, 2012 at 04:48PM EDT by Don.

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About

Relatable Romney is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of the 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney with outstretched arms. The captions typically portray the candidate as an out-of-touch wealthy businessman unsuccessfully attempting to relate to the public.

Origin

Redditor lyinsteve submitted a photograph of Mitt Romney with the caption "Why don't poor people / just buy more money?" (shown below, left) to the /r/funny[1] subreddit on February 18th, 2012. Within five months, the post accumulated over 4,200 up votes and 70 comments. On April 27th, Redditor askins4trouble submitted a post to the /r/AdviceAnimals[2] subreddit titled "Relatable Romney", which included an image macro expressing a similar sentiment with the caption "I understand your problems / it costs a lot to fill up all my Cadillacs" (shown below, right).


WHY DON'T POOR PEOPLE JUST BUV MORE MONEV UNDERSTAND YOUR PROBLEMS T COSTS A LOT TO FILL UP ALL MY CADILLACS quickmeme.com

Background

Romney's vast sums of personal wealth and previous experience working for the asset management company Bain Capital became a political talking point during the 2012 Republican presidential primary elections. Romney was criticized for cutting thousands of jobs when Bain purchased other companies under his management in the late 1980s and early 1990s. On August 12th, 2011, Romney disclosed that his net worth was between $190 and $250 million.


JUST HOW WEALTHY IS MITT ROMNEY? x2 $128 MILLION COMBINED WEALTH OF THE LAST 8 PRESIDENTS $250 MILLION WEALTH OF MITT ROMNEY

Spread

On July 20th, 2012, the first Relatable Romney image macro to reach the front page of Reddit[3] was submitted by Redditor Searchlights with the caption ""I know it's hard to manage your finances / I can't keep track of all my money either" (shown below, left). Several hours later, another image macro by Searchlights reached the front page with the caption "I know what it's like to be unemployed / I haven't had to work in years" (shown below, right).[4]


I KNOW IT'S HARD TO MANAGE YOUR FINANCES CAN'T KEEP TRACK OF ALL MY MONEY EITHER quickmeme.com IKNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO BE UNEMPLOYED IHAVENT HAD TO WORK IN YEARS quickmeme.com

The same day, compilations of Relatable Romney examples were posted on the viral content site BuzzFeed[5] and the mixed martial arts website Sherdog.[6] On July 21st, the single topic blog "RelatableRomney"[9] was launched. On the following day, the Internet humor site Guyism[7] published a post titled "Meme You Should Know: Relatable Romney", which featured a slideshow of notable examples from the series. The meme has continued to spread on Tumblr[8] under the tag "#relatable romney."

Notable Examples


HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE PHRASE. "RICH AS A LANNISTERA" memegenerator.net I UNDERSTAND THE RECESSION HAD TO BUY THE SMALLER YACHT quickmeme.com l KNOWWHAT ITS LIKE TO BE UNINSURED MY HOUSE STAFF TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT quickmeme.com MY WIFEWORKED HARD THE MAIDS AND NANNIES DIDN'T ORDER THEMSELVES AROUND, YOU KNOW quickmeme.com OF COURSE CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE CORPORATIONS! quickmeme.com WHAT AMI SUPPOSED TO DO WITH MY HANDS quickmeme.com

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Emperor Palpitoad
Emperor Palpitoad

This meme is going to start a political sh*tstorm.
People will complain this is just another advice animals meme for politics.
Ponies somehow will get mixed in.
I'll still find this stuff hilarious.

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