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2020 Presidential Debate Parody Questions refers to a series of exploitable image macros depicting Joe Biden and Donald Trump being asked fake questions during the first U.S. presidential debate in 2020. In memes, the image of Trump and Biden on the debate stage is used alongside CNN’s chyron that photoshops a humorous or absurdist question in place of the original. In late September and early October 2020, the exploitable trended online across most social media platforms.

Origin

The original clip that the meme is pulled from is seen during the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, which aired on September 29th, 2020. During the debate (featured below), the presidential candidates are asked several questions over the course of the night, and any one of these can be replaced with a fake question in the series of memes.

The earliest examples of the debate being used in this meme format appeared online shortly after it aired, though the exact first is unknown. One such example was posted on September 29th by the Facebook^[1] page Shadow the super edgy 'edgehog (shown below), receiving over 374 likes and 131 shares in one week.

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On September 30th, 2020, the Instagram^[2] account patrickwarburtonfan53 posted another example of the meme (seen below, left), receiving over 17,900 likes in five days. On October 1st, the Instagram^[3] account papa.panara posted a variant (seen below, right), receiving over 26,700 likes in four days.

On September 30th, the Facebook^[4] page Kanye West lyrics posted randomly posted a version photoshopped to include Kanye West appearing in the debate (shown below, left), accumulating over 1,900 likes, 304 shares and 46 comments in five days. On October 2nd, the Facebook^[5] page Depression Chronic, Memes Ironic posted another variant (shown below, right), accumulating over 1,600 likes, 465 shares and 78 comments in roughly three days.

On October 5th, Redditor^[6] P_Sully posted a version to the /r/dankmemes subreddit (seen below, left), receiving over 11,100 upvotes, 100 comments and several Reddit awards in 15 hours. Later that day, Redditor^[7] ARAKSH posted another example to the /r/dankmemes sub (seen below, right), receiving over 730 upvotes, 30 comments and several Reddit awards in seven hours.

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