By Rachel Popa
Managing Editor of Social Media and Web Content
Vice President of Memes
— Joebama (@ObamaAndBiden) November 14, 2016
Obama: “Joe, why are you still holding my hand?”
Biden: “I wanna freak Mike Pence out”
Obama: “But why?”
Biden: “Just roll with it” pic.twitter.com/o5KZZ0Ysgz— thomas moore (@Thomas_A_Moore) November 12, 2016
Obama: Did you replace all the toiletries with travel size bottles?
Biden: He’s got tiny hands Barack, I want him to feel welcome here pic.twitter.com/e7NRIZ43Ww— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) November 11, 2016
Biden: Hillary was saying they took the W’s off the keyboards when Bush won!
Obama: Joe put-
Biden: I TOOK THE T’S, THEY CAN ONLY TYPE RUMP pic.twitter.com/D6Vh7Zu429— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) November 13, 2016
With the reality of a Trump presidency finally setting in, sentimental people have taken to the internet to turn the relationship of Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama into heartwarming and hilarious memes. The themes of the memes include Joe Biden pranking Trump and his family, as well as Mike Pence.
@mikepence vs. @GovPenceIN
Mike Pence’s twitter is NOT @mikepence. That’s just a sweet little man who didn’t do anything wrong. look at his bio pic.twitter.com/43Q7XVdWxe
— Sophia Benoit (@1followernodad) November 15, 2016
On Twitter, there has been some confusion between the Twitter user @mikepence and @GovPenceIN. As @mikepence put it, he’s a software developer, writer and speaker. The other Mike Pence is a “Christo-fascist politician.”
— Mike Pence (@mikepence) November 16, 2016
#TrumpNarratesPlanetEarth
“I have birds. I have the best birds” #TrumpNarratesPlanetEarth pic.twitter.com/JzkdAk0ape
— Merle Hagrid (@CapitanoMatt) November 16, 2016
In times of great crisis, we often turn to humor to cope. The same goes for this election. A new hashtag has arisen in the midst of Trump’s win of the presidential nomination – #TrumpNarratesPlanetEarth. The hashtag included tweets that imagined what it would be like if Trump narrated the nature documentary series, “Planet Earth.”
“This is easily the best looking bird on the planet. Wow, what handsome guy!” #TrumpNarratesPlanetEarth pic.twitter.com/pboEP92VTM
— emile hirsch (@EmileHirsch) November 16, 2016
Oceans are only blue on a map b/c I didn’t campaign there. If had, they’d be red. Like that sea. #TrumpNarratesPlanetEarth @HuffPostComedy
— Laurie Crosswell 🌞 (@lauriecrosswell) November 15, 2016
Why do cats love laptop screens so much?
Cats are magical creatures. They’re cute, cuddly (most of the time), and they tend to do weird and perplexing things (hence why cat videos are so popular). Anyone who has owned a cat and a laptop at the same time knows how much cats like rubbing their faces all over the corners of the screen. The reason why cats love laptops will probably always be a mystery (my guess is that they like the warmth from the laptop), but that doesn’t stop people from posting pictures of their cats online caught in the act.
I walked away from my laptop for 2 minutes. How did my cat make the screen do this? pic.twitter.com/QJrKCBFnwB
— Danielle Evans (@daniellevalore) October 26, 2016
This cat is killing me today. Sat on laptop keyboard, started composing a DM, then tilted laptop, sat on screen. pic.twitter.com/x2WD9FFbeo
— Kaitlen Exum (@kaitlen) November 15, 2015
NASA captures images of a supernova for the first time
NASA peered back over one billion years int0 the past to observe the death of a star. The star, KSN 2011D, was 500 times bigger than the Sun, and was located 1.2 trillion light-years away from the Milky Way. Since the star was located so far away, it took over a billion years for the light from the supernova to reach Earth, meaning that the star itself has been dead for billions of years. Click here to watch the original video.
Time Out Chicago lists the 10 things Chicagoans have to explain to tourists
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
When people from out of town come to Chicago, they’re often shocked by how we Chicagoans tend to do things our own special way. Time Out Chicago listed some of things Chicagoans have to explain to people from out of town. The list included instructions to stand on the right side of the escalator if you’re not planning on walking up it, the point that nobody but tourists hang out in the Loop, that the city really isn’t that dangerous, and more. Check out the original list here.
