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Shaved Head Pete Buttigieg is an image macro series featuring a screenshot of Mayor Pete Buttigieg's appearance on the daytime talk show The View.

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On April 9th, 2020, Buttigieg appeared in a video interview on the The View. When posted to Twitter, the video received more than 5,500 views, 400 likes and 110 retweets in less than two days (shown below).

.@PeteButtigieg on if Bernie Sanders’ supporters will support Joe Biden: “The fundamental question that supporters need to ask themselves is, what’s really at stake here?”

“Shame on us if we let 2016 repeat itself.” https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/xisxUk1uKh

— The View (@TheView) April 9, 2020

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Moments after the show posted the video, Twitter^[1] user @abcdentminded shared a screenshot of Buttigieg with the caption "Dude 👀👀." The tweet received more than 4,000 likes and 275 retweets in less than two days (shown below, left).

Hours later, Twitter^[2] user @jacobisanadult tweeted^[2] the image in comparison to a recent photo of fellow-former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke. They captioned the tweet, "the virgin post-loss pete vs the chad post-loss beto." The tweet received more than 20,000 likes and 1,400 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below, center).

The screenshot also inspired a series of image edits, including an image in which Buttigieg has curly hair and a mustache posted by Twitter^[3] user @_smarxist_.

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