AOC’s ‘bin raccoon’ boyfriend sparks viral meme
A prominent writer’s suggestion that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is “shackled” to her “bin raccoon” partner has sparked the internet’s latest hissy fit and amidst the hysteria a pretty hilarious meme has emerged.
Viewers got a look into Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s private life in Knock Down The House, a new documentary about the 2018 midterm elections which debuted on Netflix last week.
AOC’s longtime partner Riley Roberts makes several appearances in the film and UK politics writer Marie Le Conte was prompted to paint an unflattering portrait of the politicians choice of boyfriend.
“Apologies for the blatantly mean tweet, but THIS is what AOC’s boyfriend looks like?” she wrote in a tweet that has since been deleted. “Incredible scenes, truly representing all the ambitious and stunning millenial [sic] women shackled to boyfriends who look like bin racoons [sic] out there.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly this did not go down well with many of AOC’s supporters who were quick to let their feelings be known.
- shames AOC's boyfriend on twitter dot com- gets called out about it- proceeds to whine and delete original tweetfor someone who's "way meaner in person (than on Twitter)", she sure can't take the heat. pic.twitter.com/VVGb3UiWrI
— Dom Augustine (@domaug) May 3, 2019
Being gratuitously nasty isn't a good look.
— James McVeigh (@CowboyssTed) May 3, 2019
The disbelief that AOC’s boyfriend is some normal looking raccoon man is another example of how people don’t understand that she is an actual socialist and not a pop star who vaguely referenced black panthers once
— Jake Flores (@feraljokes) May 3, 2019
Toxic post tbh
— Robert Price (@Informutation) May 3, 2019
Would classify also as "unnecessary," sorry to go full schoolmarm here but Marie he's supportive and very good to her and that outweighs looks any day. Cute-but-empty dudes are a dime a dozen, substance matters a LOT more
— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) May 3, 2019
You did it for attention, and now you have some. Isn’t that how Twitter works?
— Martha Spong 🌈 (@MarthaSpong) May 3, 2019
yup, that's incredibly mean
— Gian M. Volpicelli (@Gmvolpi) May 3, 2019
Le Conte first doubled down on the insult, tweeting: “I see the Men With Long Pubes Sellotaped To Their Chin caucus is not happy with this tweet”, before later, seemingly worn down by the criticism, deleting the tweet and issuing an all-time-great non-apology apology.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE, I CALLED HIM A BIN RACCOON, HE'S DATING AOC I'M PRETTY SURE HE'LL RECOVER
— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) May 3, 2019
oh jesus fucking christ, FINE, I've deleted my perfectly fine joke, the world breathes a sigh of relief as men with beards looking like braided pubes are no longer being discriminated against and "bin raccoon" officially becomes beyond the pale, well done to all involved
— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) May 3, 2019
But still the backlash was unrelenting.
good morning! it is.....it is still very much going on, in my mentionsI feel there's a certain irony in me usually avoiding Twitter fights then somehow getting beef from the entire US left, it feels like a mid-season finale or something
— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) May 4, 2019
Somewhere in this suffocating righteousness people started to post Le Conte’s words alongside photos of a variety of people and characters, including Game of Thrones’ Tormund and Slavoj Zizek, and the new meme made the whole exhausting episode worthwhile. Kind of.
apologies for the blatantly mean tweet but THIS is what AOC's boyfriend looks like? incredible scenes, truly representing all the ambitious and stunning millenial women shackled to boyfriends who look like bin raccoons out there pic.twitter.com/js4iIu2Ge4
— ilhan bro (@floridalease) May 3, 2019
apologies for the blatantly mean tweet but THIS is what AOC's boyfriend looks like? incredible scenes, truly representing all the ambitious and stunning millenial women shackled to boyfriends who look like bin raccoons out there pic.twitter.com/F33OFRCidB
— Escaped Zoo Animal (@ebarcuzzi) May 3, 2019
apologies for the blatantly mean tweet but THIS is what AOC's boyfriend looks like? incredible scenes, truly representing all the ambitious and stunning millenial women shackled to boyfriends who look like bin raccoons out there pic.twitter.com/06xVIWCHvk
— Ajmal (@ajmalalami) May 3, 2019
apologies for the blatantly mean tweet but THIS is what AOC's boyfriend looks like? incredible scenes, truly representing all the ambitious and stunning millenial women shackled to boyfriends who look like bin raccoons out there pic.twitter.com/OMcgaXrw4n
— Mayor Blandsizzle (@meohmyapplepie) May 3, 2019
apologies for the blatantly mean tweet but THIS is what AOC’s boyfriend looks like? incredible scenes, truly representing all the ambitious and stunning millennial women shackled to boyfriends who look like bin raccoons out there pic.twitter.com/gSV9ZOewvs
— Tom (@tmanning24492) May 3, 2019
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