Content Creator Obama

Content Creator Obama

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Content Creator Obama refers to a series of jokes on Twitter in early December 2016 in reaction to a story that President Barack Obama was considering a career in digital media following his presidency.

Origin

On December 2nd, 2016 Mic[1] reported that Barack Obama was considering launching his own media company following his presidency. Obama was reportedly very concerned about the proliferation of fake news, commenting that his post-presidency plans included "organizing my presidential center," where a top subject would be, "How do we rethink our storytelling, the messaging and the use of technology and digital media, so that we can make a persuasive case across the country?" The White House denied the claims in the Mic article, but the possibility led many on Twitter, particularly those connected to the digital media industry, to make jokes imagining the president joining their field.


Charlotte Wilder @TheWilderThings Dec 2 Same Mic @mic EXCLUSIVE: @POTUS is considering post-presidential digital media career. bit.ly/2gvYm9e 5 Charlotte Wilder @TheWilderThings Follow Commander-in-Chartbeat President of the United Blogs Blograck Hussein Obama @ BLOGUS President at Large

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Twitter members of digital media cracked jokes about Obama using common media tools like Tinyletter, Slack, and Chartbeat, and some used pictures of the president as a reaction image to captions describing common digital media problems, such as typing an article into a Content Management System (CMS) and losing the work due to a glitch (shown below).


Follow Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono Why the f--- did I type in the CMS"

The spread of the jokes was soon covered by digital media companies like Mashable[2] and Poynter.[3] Some of the jokes were compiled into a Twitter Moment[4] that day.

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Madison M. K. @4evrmalone Follow Biden: You're going into digital media? Obama: No, Joe. Biden: But you'll still tell me about the good memes, right? Obama: Yes, Joe. Alex Fitzpatrick Φ @AlexJamesFitz Follow this month's comscore numbers are horrendous tell biden he's fired Jessica Misener @jessmisener Follow "@ here @ channel i can grab :)" David A. Grahame @GrahamDavidA Follow Tinyletters From My Father RETWEETSL LIKES 20 79 4:34 PM-2 Dec 2016 Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff Follow @BarackObama any interest in recapping the next season of VEEP RETWEETSL Joseph Lichterman @ylichterman Follow Content We Can Believe In TETS LIKES 154 856 4:48 PM-2 Dec 2016

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Nedhitis
Nedhitis

Damn, I would have preferred him choosing being a Let's Player on YouTube so that he could make collab gameplays with the Pope after having played Undertale. Like the new-age Game Grumps:

"HEY I'M BLACK!"
"I'M NOT SO BLAAACK!"
"AAAAND WE'RE THE GAME GRAMPS!"

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I am AHO Right?
I am AHO Right?

I can't wait for Obama to get into a twitter war with Trump.
Actually, what's really going to be weird is when Trump gets access to the POTUS twitter. A: will he even use it? and B: the sudden shift from, like, "We need to work with the new Italian government to blah blah blah…" serious Obama-style tweets to suddenly "yo it's 2 AM fuck th IRS amirite?" Trump-style tweets is going to be really weird.

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