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#LetsBlamePOTUSForThisToo is an ironic hashtag used on Twitter to make humorous allusions to Barack Obama being blamed for policy decisions he has no control over, similar to the meme Thanks, Obama.. POTUS is the generally-used abbreviation for President of the United States of America.

Origin

The hashtag was begun by comedy writer Adrienne Watson on March 15th, 2016, as part of a rotating game called The Brainwave Bonanza, which is run by an app called The Hashtag Roundup. Each round, a different Her first post using the hashtag received 75 likes and 38 retweets, and other participants in the game joined in quickly.

Spread

Throughout the morning, participants in the hashtag game used #LetsBlamePOTUSForThisToo, many earning tens of favorites and retweets.

By noon, more followed users, like the SiriusXM radio host John Fugelsang, were participating in the hashtag; his tweet earned more than 248 likes and 160 retweets. Another popular twitter personality, Kabir Iyengar, used the hashtag in several different tweets, all of which earned over 200 retweets, furthering the popularity of the hashtag. By the end of the day the hashtag was trending in America with over 17,000 tweets, many of which were collected by the Observer and AJ+, the viral video arm of Al Jazeera.

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