The tweet went viral, and people fell in love with this mysterious Alex from Target, creating memes and tributes in his image, leading anyone over the age of 23 to wonder: What the fuck is happening here? Her tweet was simply, “YOOOOOOOO,” signaling that, well, this teen boy was cute. In November 2014, a young woman tweeted a photo of a teenage checkout clerk at Target with Alex on the nametag. Dodson went on to a strange post-virality career, with a reality show that never got off the ground, celebrity boxing matches, controversial statements about being gay, and a Trump endorsement. At the time, some people pointed out that turning a video of poor black man expressing anguish over the attempted sexual assault of his sister was problematic. “Bed Intruder Song” captured two powerful vectors that would come to define the rest of the decade: a normal person being propelled to some sort of viral fame, and a critical backlash over the exploitative race, gender, and class dynamics.

Anyone can create one and then send it to the page to possibly become published on the kermit page.In July 2010, Antoine Dodson appeared on the local news in Alabama after a home invader attempted to assault his sister, saying: “He’s climbin’ in your windows, he’s snatchin’ your people up… So y’all need to hide your kids, hide your wife.” The news clip went viral, and a few days later, Dodson’s words were remixed into the auto-tuned “Bed Intruder Song,” which made it onto the Billboard 100 charts and become the most-viewed YouTube video of 2010. Twitter even made a page specifically for evil kermit memes. Because this is on twitter, it is open for anyone to pariticpate and create their own captions for the picture. This also meets the design for spreadability and is classified as a procedural text because it encourages participation.

The meme encourages ongoing conversation by making viewers think about if they relate to the certain inner conflict that is talked about.

People can relate to the memes becasue they share inner conflicts that many people face and can relate to. This evil kermit meme is spreadable becasue it is so relatable. After this tweet became viral, many other people began to post the same picture and created thier own captions. Within 10 days the tweet got over 31,800 likes and 22,500 retweets. A girl put the picture on twitter and commented me: sees a fluffy dog, me to me: steal him. We always say how we are gonna start our work, but always end up procrasintaing and waiting til the last minute to complete it. We both procrastinate a lot with our work, even though we both know we have a lot of work. I shared this with Courtney because it reminded me of us trying to do our work. Kermit knows he has a lot of work to do, but his inner self does not want to do it and instead wants to push the work away. However inner kermit, says procrastinate. In this example kermit says he has so much work to do. With all the examples the inner kermit is the bad influence or the negative thoughts in your head. Each meme has the same picture and the same structure where kermit will say one thing, and inner kermit will say the opposite and shows your inner conflicts. This meme is a picture of Kermit who represents “me” and his “inner self”. One day on twitter, I was scrolling through and saw this meme. The picture above is one of the memes that we saw and shared with each other. Whenever we see one that we find funny or that reminds us of each other we will share it and tag each other in it. Throughout twitter there are so many funny and relatable memes. My friend Courtney and I both are on twitter and love it.

Kermit listening to music meme