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"Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Liberals" refers to titling conventions used by a subset of right-leaning YouTube channels for their videos, usually featuring prominent commentators and public intellectuals such as Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson debating or lecturing liberal or left-wing opponents. The titles are often parodied for their perceived sensationalism.

Origin

The snowclone originates from YouTube, where similar phrases are frequently used by conservative and libertarian channels to title videos featuring Ben Shapiro and other members of the Intellectual Dark Web delivering rebuttals to liberal arguments. One distinctive feature of the meme is the use of capitalization combined with strong verbs.

The earliest known usage of the phrase was used as the title for a debate between Shapiro and Piers Morgan about gun control.. On January 10th, 2013, YouTuber Chase Donnelly uploaded the debate under the title "Piers Morgan Gets Annihilated By Ben Shapiro During Gun Debate CNN." The post (shown below) received more than 9,000 views in five years.

Spread

On December 31st, 2017, Twitter user @cowabungus tweeted^[1] an Instagram post by @rob._.boss of a fake YouTube video titled "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Freeloading Cancer Patient." The post (shown below, left) received more than 845 retweets and 4,000 likes in less than one year.

Several days later, on January 10th, 2018, Twitter^[2] user @Marxism_Wokeism tweeted, "Student: I don't like how clothing companies exploit people in the third world to make their products Ben: But you wear clothes tho Video title: Ben Shapiro DESTROYS and rips SOCIALIST student to SHREDS with LOGIC and FACTS." The post (shown below, center) received more than 3,900 retweets and 14,000 likes in less than one year.

On May 9th, the Facebook account TPUSSR posted a photoshopped image of Ben Shapiro playing the children's board game "Hungry Hungry Hippos." The image is captioned "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS LIBERAL SJW CUCK KIDS at Hungry Hungry Hippos." The post (shown below, right) received more than 65 reactions and 20 shares in three months.^[3]

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