Bernie Sanders memes don’t stop: they can now be put together simply from a webpage

The change of epoch in the United States has generated many jokes. We shared Donald Trump, Lady Gaga memes and even found out that The Simpsons had anticipated Kamala Harris in the White House. And of course also we have fun with the “thrill” Bernie Sanders.

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In the midst of all the guests, very elegantly dressed to attend the inauguration of the new President of the United States, Senator Sanders’ simple, warm and eco-friendly outfit has taken social media by storm. The former Democratic candidate wore a jacket and gloves knitted by one of his constituents.

The photo taken by the press agency photographer AFP Brendan Smialowski, showing him sitting with his legs and arms crossed, with his woolen gloves clearly visible, quickly circulated on social media, and many users and the internet have made a meme of it.

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Thus, the 79-year-old senator appears both on the majestic Iron Throne of the hit series “Game of Thrones” and seated on a bench next to Tom Hanks in “Forrest Gump”, in scenes from “Star Wars” “or in the famous 1930s photograph, sitting on a beam, overlooking the void, next to workers in a skyscraper under construction during their lunch break.

Nick Sawhney decided to create a very simple page, “Put Bernie Anywhere!” (“Put Bernie anywhere”) so that users can type in an address or location and the senator appears sitting there. Instant meme.

What the portal does is take that location from Google Maps and add Sanders. Here we did the test with Casa Rosada.

In a short time the page exploded and started adding millions of clicks. Now after the initial success, the creator is asking for financial support as they have increased the costs for the amount of traffic. “If I had known I was going to have so much traffic, I would have made all the decisions completely differently,” he explained to Wired. There he discovered that building a site is “more than writing the code and getting it live.”

“Sawhney simply used the Google Maps API, created a text entry field for consultations and decided where the senator should appear specifically ”, they detailed in the same article in Wired.

The choice of Google Street View came to mind because in general the application program interface (API) shows a relatively stable angle, so serve makes Sanders appear fairly well seated. A homemade Photoshop suitable for all types of users. He also thought of making Bernie “spin” to get different points of view, but then preferred to keep it simple. Something key to viral success.