• Andy@slrpnk.net
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    It’s actually a mashup of (at least) two memes. As mentioned, the name “Brandon” comes from a NASCAR event that spawned the phrase “Let’s go Brandon” as a euphemism for “Fuck Joe Biden”, so critics began calling Biden “Brandon” in reference.

    The “Dark” part came from a series of conservative/MAGA memes from last year, where commenters began to propose that Trump and his allies had been holding themselves back rather than acting as aggressively as they should’ve, and this vision for the future was called “Dark MAGA”, and used a lot of overdramatic anime imagery of Trump as a violent despot serving up the justice his enemies deserved.

    “Dark Brandon” emerged as a parody of it, because the idea of Biden as a powerful and ruthless mastermind is, admittedly hilariously absurd.

    Reference: Know Your Meme

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        I’m not sure what you’re referring to when you say “this” – the meme? my comment? the situation – but they are all both very real and also probably from a cartoon or something.

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            I don’t know how this is the thing that makes you realize that. The fact that people believed and in some cases still do believe that there are lizard men who drink the blood of babies for adrenochrome which somehow allows them to live forever, and that these men run the democratic party is much more weird and mystifying to me.