{"id":11209,"date":"2021-01-21T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11209"},"modified":"2021-03-15T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T19:42:12","slug":"bernie-sits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/01\/21\/bernie-sits\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He Made a Viral Bernie Meme Site. Now He Has to Keep It Going<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Nick Sawhney’s \u201cBernie Sits” puts Sanders anywhere on Google Street View.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by BRIAN BARRETT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bernie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY 9 PM ET last night, Nick Sawhney knew he was in trouble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just a half hour earlier, still steeped in the afterglow of Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration, Sawhney had pushed live a website that lets you put a\u00a0viral image of Bernie Sanders<\/a>\u2014seated, mittened, alone\u2014atop\u00a0any Google Street View image<\/a>. The meme had already reached a fever pitch, with the Photoshop faithful placing the senator from Vermont in everything from\u00a0Mortal Kombat<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to Edward Hopper’s\u00a0Nighthawks<\/em><\/a>. But Sawhney\u2019s creation, born out of a group chat with friends, added layers of personalization, ease of use, and absurdity; because it fixes Sanders in the same coordinates regardless of his location, he occasionally looks as though he\u2019s floating, or sitting on a car, or in an otherwise unlikely orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site gained traction on Twitter slowly at first; friends retweeting, then friends of friends. A few verified accounts joined in. And then, as wonderful and perfectly timed internet creations do, it snowballed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at WIRED<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from WIRED He Made a Viral Bernie Meme Site. Now He Has to Keep It Going Nick Sawhney’s \u201cBernie Sits” puts Sanders anywhere on Google Street View.\u00a0 by BRIAN BARRETT BY 9 PM ET last night, Nick Sawhney knew he was in trouble.  Just a half hour earlier, still steeped in the afterglow of Joe Biden\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}