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Me Voting in 2016 vs. Me Voting in 2018 refers to a series of tweets which spread prior to the 2018 United States midterm elections in which users post two pictures representing how they felt in the 2016 United States Presidential Election versus how they feel voting in the 2018 United States midterm elections. The pictures were generally two images of the same character with the latter showing a more haggard version.

Origin

The earliest mention of "Me Voting in 2016 vs. Me Voting in 2018" appeared on November 9th, 2017. It was posted by user
@GeoffTebbets in reference to pictures of European Badgers tweeted by @EmmaBowers (shown below).^[1]

Spread

On November 4th, 2018, Twitter user @brianscully tweeted two pictures of Charlize Theron representing how he felt about each election, gaining over 180 retweets and 840 likes (shown below, left). After that, many more Twitter users began using the format. One of the most popular tweets using the format posted by @JenniferReitman gained over 7,300 retweets and 28,000 likes (shown below, right).

The spread of the meme was covered by Twitter Moments^[2] on November 5th. They compiled several jokes tweeted by user @DaveSchilling who made multiple examples of the meme using Professional Wrestlers (shown below).

Various Examples

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