Mélenchon Reaction
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Mélenchon Reaction is a reaction GIF featuring french politician and presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which is often associated with various captions describing surprising and unexpected circumstances. The original image emerged from an interview published by french radio network Europe 1 on march 15, 2017, and raised to national fame on Twitter the following days, under the hashtag #melenchonreaction.
Origin
On march 15th, 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon held an interview with the french radio network Europe 1[1], answering different questions regarding his run for the 2017 french presidential election. However, in a peculiar moment of the interview (video shown below, at 4:18), one of the interview hosts accidentally misnamed Mr. Mélenchon, which caused him to raise his head in an expression of complete astonishement and disbelief, in a fashion reminding Massimo D'Alema or Angry Yellow Diamond's faces.
On the same day, Twitter user Mickaël Frison[2] posted an animated GIF version of the video, simply captioning it "This GIF is going to make my day" (shown below). Within the next two days, the tweet recieved over 4000 likes and 3900 retweets.
Ce GIF va me faire la journée. pic.twitter.com/mytbVv3QWn
— Mickaël Frison (@mkfrison) 15 mars 2017
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Later, other Twitter user @Nain_Portekoi[3] reposted the GIF under the hashtag #melenchonreaction and added the caption "when the girl you're trying to pick up says she's a journalist"[4], before posting a GIPHY link to the image, encouraging other users to do their own variation[5]. That same day, various news articles on Hitek[6], Topito[7], Le Nouvel Observateur[8] and The Huffington Post[9] were published, highlighting several examples of Mélenchon Reaction tweets. The following days, the unofficial Mélenchon supporters' image hosting site, Melenshack.fr, published several other animated gifs under the tag "Melenchonreaction", taken from various TV interviews[10]. The hashtag campaign was later officially recognized and featured by Jean-Luc Mélenchon's official campaign account[11]
Various Examples
(translations available in the image titles)
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External references
[2] Twitter – Mickaël Frison
[3] Twitter – Nain_Portekoi
[4] Twitter – Nain_Portekoi
[5] Twitter – Nain_Portekoi
[6] Hitek.fr – Top 30 des meilleures #melenchonreaction
[7] topito.com – Top15 des tweets #Melenchonreaction
[8] Le Nouvel Observateur – Twitter s'amuse de la 'Mélenchon Réaction' après son interview sur Europe 1
[9] The Huffington Post – From #Melenchonreaction to Melenshack
[10] Melenshack.fr – list of 'Reaction' tagged posts
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