About

Colin Kaepernick Nike Ad Parodies, also known as Nikeposting, is a photoshop meme featuring satirical Nike ads mocking the footwear company's "Colin Kaepernick": ad for the 30th anniversary of their "Just Do It" campaign.

Origin

On September 3rd, 2018, Nike unveiled that they had made Kaepernick the face of their "Just Do It" campaign. Kaepernick tweeted^[1] the advertisement that day, gaining over 244,000 retweets and 587,000 likes (shown below, left). That day, Twitter user @ComfortablySmug^[2] tweeted a photograph of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort captioned with the Nike ad slogan (shown below, right).

Spread

On September 4th, actor Adam Baldwin tweeted a black-and-white photograph of children working in a Nike sweatshop featuring the Kaepernick ad caption (shown below, right). The same day, Redditor ntheg111 submitted a shirtless selfie photograph of "Anthony Weiner": with the Nike ad caption to /r/The_Donald,^[3] where it gathered upwards of 5,000 points (96% upvoted) and 98 comments within 24 hours.

On September 5th, the @DailyCaller^[4] Twitter feed posted a Nike ad parody featuring a black-and-white photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (shown below).

Bleedover into Real Life

On September 4th, New-Right commentator WildGoose made a twitter thread^[5] claiming to have discovered Nike ad parody flyers featuring "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski posted in locations throughout Los Angeles, California.

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