10/27/2023 0 Comments World of warships pepper spray meme![]() The meme has spiraled out into hundreds of joke reviews of the brand of pepper spray Pike used on Amazon, a robust Quora thread filled with all the images and image macros and a Hitler “Downfall” video where Hitler is angry about how little time it took Pike to become a meme. Like most memes before him, Pike’s got a parody Twitter account and spin-off memes, namely various iterations of Fox newscaster Megyn Kelly calling pepper spray “Essentially a food product.” (Moos’ take, “Kelly would probably like to eat her words, a long as they aren’t seasoned with pepper spray!”). It was then brilliantly extrapolated to incorporating Pike’s image in the Trumbull painting Declaration of Independence. And so on and so forth. [gigya src=”” width=”640″ height=”396″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowFullScreen=”true” bgcolor=”#131313″ flashvars=”id=player&skinurl=http%3A%2F%2FWhile you’ve probably seen Pike wield his spray at everything from Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” to a baby seal all over the Facebooks and the Twitters, the meme actually started as out another meme, “ Strutting Leo,” super-imposed on an Occupy protest photo. ![]() “Reports” Reports CNN’s Jeanne Moos, “He’s become what’s called a meme, an idea reproducing across the web, even spraying another Internet meme (!), The Keyboard Cat.” ![]() A testament to how fast we are consuming culture these days, it only took ~72 hours for the UC Davis “Casually Pepper Spraying Cop” Photoshop meme to go from Reddit thread to CNN, with officer John Pike is in all his pepper spraying glory spraying “everyone from Santa to Jesus” on a segment for the international news channel.
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