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That's an inaccurate and narrow view of the President's source of votes. Trump was widely known and popular with his supporters before the "memes".
by lonelappde 7y ago
That's an inaccurate and narrow view of the President's source of votes.
Trump was widely known and popular with his supporters before the "memes".
- krapp 7y agoHe was considered a joke candidate, and not only by the mainstream media. He was a has-been celebrity host of a reality show best known for playing parodies of himself on TV and for his obnoxious attitude. His quotability and memeability got him far more media coverage both in the mainstream and online than any of his colleagues, and one of the most devastating hits to Hillary Clinton's campaign was the result of well-poisoning efforts by his online supporters to push a viral conspiracy theory and implicate her in vague wrongdoings through the email leaks. Her own campaign even stated those efforts proved impossible to recover from. It may be true that the "memes" weren't entirely responsible but I would disagree that their effect wasn't significant.