{"id":14327,"date":"2024-05-03T10:39:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/dark-brandon-popping-off-is-joe-bidens-cringe-tiktok-helping-or-hurting-him\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T10:39:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:39:27","slug":"dark-brandon-popping-off-is-joe-bidens-cringe-tiktok-helping-or-hurting-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/dark-brandon-popping-off-is-joe-bidens-cringe-tiktok-helping-or-hurting-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Brandon popping off: is Joe Biden\u2019s \u2018cringe\u2019 TikTok helping or hurting him?"},"content":{"rendered":"

His youth support declining, the president needs \u2018to be where the people are\u2019. His account regularly mocks Trump \u2013 but remains silent on Gaza<\/p>\n

In Joe Biden\u2019s TikTok debut<\/a>, timed to the Super Bowl in February, the president answered rapid-fire questions like \u201cChiefs or Niners?\u201d (neither, he picked the Eagles because his wife\u2019s a \u201cPhilly girl\u201d) and flashed the Dark Brandon meme. He got over 10m views, so by pure metrics, the video was no flop. But to use one of TikTok\u2019s favorite disses, for many gen Z viewers it felt \u201ccringe\u201d \u2013 even pandering. Worse still, the TikTok, captioned \u201clol hey guys\u201d, made the rounds after Israel struck Rafah<\/a>, a city in the southern Gaza strip. Biden\u2019s jokes infuriated users who flooded the post with the comment \u201cWHAT ABOUT RAFAH?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want my president to be a TikTok influencer,\u201d read the headline of one USA Today editorial<\/a>. One (actual) influencer told<\/a> CNN the president\u2019s attempt at meme-ing felt \u201cperformative\u201d. A warm welcome to the app, it was not. But Biden\u2019s team kept posting.<\/p>\n

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\nHis youth support declining, the president needs \u2018to be where the people are\u2019. His account regularly mocks Trump \u2013 but remains silent on Gaza
\nIn Joe Biden\u2019s TikTok debut, timed to the Super Bowl in February, the president answered rapid-fire questions like \u201cChiefs or Niners?\u201d (neither, he picked the Eagles because his wife\u2019s a \u201cPhilly girl\u201d) and flashed the Dark Brandon meme. He got over 10m views, so by pure metrics, the video was no flop. But to use one of TikTok\u2019s favorite disses, for many gen Z viewers it felt \u201ccringe\u201d \u2013 even pandering. Worse still, the TikTok, captioned \u201clol hey guys\u201d, made the rounds after Israel struck Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza strip. Biden\u2019s jokes infuriated users who flooded the post with the comment \u201cWHAT ABOUT RAFAH?\u201d
\n\u201cI don\u2019t want my president to be a TikTok influencer,\u201d read the headline of one USA Today editorial. One (actual) influencer told CNN the president\u2019s attempt at meme-ing felt \u201cperformative\u201d. A warm welcome to the app, it was not. But Biden\u2019s team kept posting. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His youth support declining, the president needs \u2018to be where the people are\u2019. His account regularly mocks Trump \u2013 but remains silent on Gaza In Joe Biden\u2019s TikTok debut, timed to the Super Bowl in February, the president answered rapid-fire questions like \u201cChiefs or Niners?\u201d (neither, he picked the Eagles because his wife\u2019s a \u201cPhilly …<\/p>\n

Dark Brandon popping off: is Joe Biden\u2019s \u2018cringe\u2019 TikTok helping or hurting him?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}