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APUSH Milk, also known as Advanced Placement United States History Milk or A.P. U.S. Milk, refers to a series of jokes about a question on the Advanced Placement exam in the subject of United States history. In the question, students were given an advertisement that calls milk a "new weapon of Democracy."

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On May 10th, 2019, the AP U.S. History exam was administered to students throughout the United States. One of the questions on the exam asked about a political poster for the Douglas shipping company, which delivered milk and other pieces of aid to people in Berlin. The poster implies that by providing aid to people in Berlin, citizens would grow to favor the U.S. and a democratic government (shown below).^[1]

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That day, Redditor ^[2] UniqueAbsudity posted a Daily Struggle meme using the subject. The post received more than 295 points (100% upvoted) in three days (shown below, left). Redditor^[3] JCT0816 posted a photoshopped image of the Battle Bus from the video game Fortnite dropping milk from its cargo. The post received more than 890 points (98% upvoted) in three days (shown below, center). Redditor^[4] posted a They're The Same Picture image using the subject. The post received more than 410 points (100% upvoted) in three days (shown below, right).

Test takers also posted memes on Twitter. That day, Twitter user @drugstoresatan tweeted a video object labeling video that mocks the question. The post received more than 445 retweets and 2,000 likes in three days (shown below).

i just keep making milk memes #APUSH pic.twitter.com/ZO29oSzHcG

— ♥︎ jangles ♥︎ (@drugstoresatan) May 10, 2019

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