This just made my morning. God I love Twitter!! The newest thing I know is
@PaulRyanGosling. And it is awesome.
If you don't follow internet memes, you are seriously missing out on the lighter side of the internet. These things come hard and they come fast. I actually have friends who don't know what a "meme" is, so if you're one of those, you can go here for a database of internet memes and some background. Example: Texts from Hillary.
Portmanteau of "Texts from Hillary" and "Hey Girl..."
Anyhow, the "Hey Girl...Ryan Gosling" meme has been popular on the net for a while, one of the most popular one featuring pictures of superhero hearthrob actor Ryan Gosling juxtaposed with feminist quotes. Feminist Ryan Gosling got to be so big, it even spawned a book deal.
One of the latest incarnations of the "Hey Girl..." meme is "Hey Girl, It's Paul Ryan". It started off as a pro-Ryan Tumblr a few months ago, with drab Paul Ryan pics sporting allegedly sexy squirmish quotes:
You get the picture. That pro-Ryan Tumblr was essentially shut down after Paul Ryan complained. WaPo explains:
“Hey Girl, It’s Paul Ryan,” which parallels the actor’s and the politician’s boyish good looks, began in a just-as-complimentary way in May as a Tumblr created by Emily Zanotti, Lyndsey Fifield and Lindsey Dodge. They described themselves as “a few 20-something women who think fiscal sanity and conservative values are sexier than anything else,” and filled their blog with quips like, “Hey Girl, unlike the debt, our love will never hit a ceiling.” They soon called it quits when Ryan was critical of the endeavor.
But the internet, never one to let us down, has conspired to bring Paul Ryan Gosling back to life
as an implicitly Ryan-bashing Twitter account:
@PaulRyanGosling. It's only been up for three days and already has 30K followers. Needless to say, it's a hit, it should be
your new favorite Twitter, and it's not very friendly to Paul Ryan (which begs the question of whether it's at all related to the fawning Tumblr account of the same name...most likely not). Here are some of my favorite tweets so far. Enjoy!
LOL!!!!