Eric Andre Kissing Police Officer

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Eric Andre Kissing Police Officer is an image macro of Eric Andre and a police officer kissing during a sketch from a 2014 episode of The Eric Andre Show. The image was used on Twitter and Reddit as a reaction image or an object-labeling image indicating that two objects love each other or that a person loves police officers. The image increased in popularity in June 2020 during the George Floyd protests.

Origin

On November 13, 2014, episode two, season three of the Eric Andre Show aired on Adult Swim. The episode featured the sketch "HANDCUFFED!" in which Eric Andre is handcuffed by a police officer who then proceeds to kiss him. The video was uploaded to YouTube by Adult Swim that week and gained over 424,900 views and 6,700 likes in five years (show below).

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On November 21st, 2014, Redditor Zegopher posted the video to r/videos^[1] and received over 6,400 points (82% upvoted) in five years. On January 10th 2019, Twitter user @ihategoths^[2] posted the image with Andre labeled "Me" and the cop labeled "Almond Milk" (shown below, right). The tweet garnered 29,000 likes and 10,700 retweets in a year. On June 3rd, 2020, amid the George Floyd protests, Twitter user @hellograndpa^[3] tweeted the image captioned, "if ur still silent at this point imma just assume ur at home doing this" (shown below, right). The post accumulated over 196,100 likes and 47,600 retweets in five days.

On June 4th, Eric Andre posted the image to his Instagram^[4] account and received 181,200 likes in four days. In the image, Andre was label "Garcetti" while the police officer was labeled "LAPD (shown below). Stay Hipp^[5] published an article on Eric Andre kissing a cop memes.

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