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Meme Status Confirmed Type: Exploitable, Parody, Photoshop Year 2017 Origin The
Barbed Wire Tags medal of freedom, award, himself, barack obama, president, the
barbed wire, greatest president ever, wowserbowser879, insecure_mind


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Obama Awards Obama a Medal refers to a humorous photoshop of an award ceremony
photograph in which the former United States President Barack Obama awards the
Presidential Medal of Freedom to himself. Online, the image has been used in
memes about the former president and circulated as a reaction.

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ORIGIN

On November 22nd, 2016, then-incumbent United States President Barack Obama
awarded the Presidential Medals of freedom to 21 individuals, both living and
dead, including musician Bruce Springsteen, talk show host Ellen Degeneres and
former athlete Michael Jordan. On the same day, Getty Images posted several
hundred images from the event, including a photo of Obama awarding the medal to
Springsteen (shown below, left).[1] On January 11th, 2017, satirical news
website The Barbed Wire posted an edited version of the photograph made by an
unknown author in which Barack Obama appeared to give the medal to himself in
the article "Obama Awards Himself "Greatest President Ever" Medal During
Farewell" (shown below, right).[2]








SPREAD

On January 11th, 2017, the edit was posted by Newszii[3] and Signs of the
Times.[4] On January 12th, an unknown Redditor posted the first known meme based
on the image to /r/memes subreddit,[5] with the post gaining over 820 likes in
six months (Memecenter[6] reupload shown below).





In the following years, the image has seen a moderate spread online, used both
as meme format[7] and in posts making fun of and/or criticizing the former
president.[8] A March 17th, 2018, post containing the image in /r/hmmm subreddit
gained over 42,300 upvotes in six months.[9] On December 17th, 2018, Redditor
wowserbowser879 posted a meme based on the format which gained over 42,600
upvotes in six months.[10]

In late June 2019, the format saw a surge in popularity following a June 21st
post by Redditor Insecure_Mind which accumulated over 65,600 upvotes in two
weeks (shown below).[11]






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EXTERNAL REFERENCES

[1] Getty Images – Barack Obama Awards Bruce Springsteen

[2] The Barbed Wire – OBAMA AWARDS HIMSELF “GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER” MEDAL
DURING FAREWELL

[3] Newszii – 16 Most Memorable Quotes From President Barack Obama’s Farewell
Speech

[4] Signs of the Times – 'Farewell, O Captain my Captain!' Clueless celebrities
lament Obama's departure

[5] Reddit – When your meme gets 4 likes

[6] Memecenter – I Am Proud Of Me

[7] DailyPicdump – Everyone Needs To Comment And Then Upvote Their Own Comment.

[8] Facebook – Tomi Lahren's Post

[9] Reddit – hmmm

[10] Reddit – Oh Barack you’re so kind

[11] Reddit – Most Netflix movies aren't that good.




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