Symmetrical Margaret Thatcher

About

Symmetrical Margaret Thatcher, or BLFC Margaret Thatcher, refers to a picture of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that was deep fried and reflected to be fully symmetrical. The image was made into a sticker that was placed in many locations and posted on social media.

Origin

The first appearance of the image was on October 21st, 2021, when twitter user @raphlupus posted 2 images containing boxes with 3 stickers, one of which being a symmetrical version of , the tweet was captioned "Welcome to #BLFC2021" (Shown Bellow).

Welcome to #BLFC2021 pic.twitter.com/rYCb4U71rw

— Raph #SymetricalMargaretThatcher @ FC 2022 (@raphlupus) October 22, 2021

The sticker went on to be passed around at Biggest Little Fur Con 2021 by twitter users @raphlupus and @CTMCTV, where people started to place in various locations around the convention and onwards to more locations around the US and the world, and posting pictures on twitter and other sites, which is when the meme started to gain momentum.

Examples include placing the stickers on toilets, convention badges, street poles, ceilings, parks, monuments, elevators… The most popular of which was a tweet pointing out a Symmetrical Margaret Thatcher sticker placed on a toilet, which received over 2500 likes.

Margaret is always watching pic.twitter.com/rha5rstixF

— emotional support thembo 🔜 fc (@AesopHusky) October 24, 2021

spot the Margaret Thatchers

if you find them all the Falklands War restarts pic.twitter.com/UsBIISltsX

— Akkord 👑 (@KingAkkord) October 24, 2021

Guess who made it to Thailand?CTMCTV</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/raphlupus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">raphlupus pic.twitter.com/eo8ChGsN1R

— Serule @ FFXIV (@SeruleBlue) November 12, 2021

What the fuck pic.twitter.com/9roUIZQgRW

— tetra 🔜 DENVER!! (@etra_t) October 23, 2021

Spread

After the convention itself, twitter users started taking the original image and making it into various memes.

pic.twitter.com/vIcoIT3Vfb

— Muzzy➡️ANE22 (@_YungMuzzy_) October 25, 2021

Same vibe. #BLFC2021 #IRONLADY pic.twitter.com/xUmMX88Uja

— Ice cold can of AriZona 💯 (@pawcum) October 25, 2021

Later in the year, During Midwest Fur Fest (Another Furry Convention in December), a variant of the original sticker with no eyes or mouth was spread around the convention.

It begins pic.twitter.com/aXEz6uUOTJ

— tetra 🔜 DENVER!! (@etra_t) December 2, 2021

WHO DID THIS pic.twitter.com/eQktB7N5eg

— Rubin 🔜 TFF, FWA (@RubinTheFox) December 3, 2021