{"id":1274,"date":"2011-05-03T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/03\/osama-death-lulz-the-memeification-of-history\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T23:23:00","slug":"osama-death-lulz-the-memeification-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/03\/osama-death-lulz-the-memeification-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Osama Death LULZ: the memeification of history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Osama Death LULZ: the memeification of history<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Even before President Obama went on live TV last night to officially announce that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a US military operation<\/a>, animated gifs and jpeg shoops commemorating the death of the world’s most wanted bad guy were already proliferating. Above, via randomguy on BB Submitterator<\/a>. <\/p>\n

More below, and your selections welcome in the comments. As crass and off-color as these may be, they are a snapshot of pop culture history, and they reveal more about our collective consciousness than might be apparent at first glance, on the first day. <\/p>\n

Related: No word yet on Evil Bert<\/a>‘s whereabouts since the raid. <\/p>\n

(special thanks to Dean Putney<\/a> for additional research, and many of these links were from canv.as<\/a> or Reddit<\/a>.)<\/small><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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