Reddit is now the hometown of two fanatical communities devoted to a cause. One believes that it memorizes a bloviating fascist into office as soon as becoming the leader of the free world. The other wants to save Brendan Fraser.
Although
savebrendan is not a new community, it seems to have garnered attention
this week with most of the board members involved in the past five
days. Ignoring
the constant image of Guy That from Encino Man, subreddit is
fundamentally indistinguishable from the_donald (and, to end, a spin-off
community called the_brendan has been created.) Frequently calling each other to help make Brendan Great Again.
It's
hard to know whether the new concern about the well-being of actor
Brendan Fraser has been rinsed is correct or a parody of Trump
supporters, or if the distinction is problematic - because one That way, what savebrendan is doing is working.
IMDB
has listed the head of the bed that jumped 149 locations on Starmeter's
site this week, re-entering the top 500 for what could be the first
time in decades (I have not had and declined payment for an IMDB Pro account). .org requests "please consider Brendan for any upcoming show / film to be scheduled" has topped 33,000 signatures. Moving
forward, communities are planning to coordinate Twitter actions around
startup tags like #savebrendan and #UnfuckBrendansShit.
Although
some of us have lovely memories of watching George of the Jungle,
Fraser has been the subject of a long and rich meme history that
explains some, though not all, of the interest. recently. A
couple of years after his divorce from his wife, Afton Smith, he became
the headline when he petitioned his $ 900 million annual relief payment
after a severe back injury. It is noteworthy that the event featured a photo of Fraser, his eyes flushed, seemingly unwell and ripe for food for the meme. Sad
Brendan has been-by the magic of Photoshop - with the ugly hair of an
irrelevant internet joke, has become associated with the phrase "just
fuck my fuck up," and a meme version of Sinbad. : Beyond the Veil of Mists led was born.
It
is not content for Fraser to be remembered as a sobbing accident - or
to use his broken career as a cultural warboat.
Trump-parodying-savebrendan is breathing new life into the memes of a Best man remembered on the screen as a lovely doofus. Whether they can effectively #unfuckhisshit and Google bombs Monkeybone 2 into production though still to be seen.
