Rupert Murdoch’s memefail

Tony Thompson

2014 saw various Twitter memes started by brands, corporations, and celebrities and many of those did not go as expected.

There was the Twitter hashtag #myNYPD created to show images of positive interactions between the NYPD and civilians. It did not go well, with the hashtag being flooded with images like this:

Many people took that opportunity to criticize the actions of the NYPD during the Occupy Wall Street protests.

There was Doctor Oz. The “good” doc, who peddles magical weight loss cures and promotes psychics, decided to ask his followers what their biggest question for him was.  He got many responses in the same vein as the following:

Among his Twitter followers are people who are highly critical of the pseudoscience he peddles. Guess he thought they would be the same people who watch his show.

Another memefail of 2014 came from Bill Cosby. Cosby’s Twitter team started a hashtag for users to meme him. They probably thought they were going to get amusing memes. What they got instead were images like this:

I’m guessing it didn’t take long before his Twitter team regretted the idea.

Now another company has decided to start its own hashtag.

That’s right, FOX News, that bastion of TRUTH! HONESTY! and JOURNALISTIC ETHICS! thought this was a good idea (in the echo chamber they live it, it probably was).  In case there was any doubt, they’ve been mercilessly mocked:

and one of my favorites:

I wonder what memefails 2015 will bring. Maybe the nice people over at the National Organization for Marriage will start a Twitter hashtag. After all, they are quite deserving of merciless mockery.

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Rupert Murdoch’s memefail

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