About
Bill Clinton Records/Bill Clinton Swag is an exploitable meme using an image template of former U.S. President Bill Clinton with several vinyl albums. The original image was a photoshop taken from an article by The Onion back in 1999.
Origin
The original image was created by the satirical news website The Onion, for an article entitled Clinton Writes Fan Letter to Joan Jett".[1] The fake article details how then President Bill Clinton wrote a letter to 80’s rockstar Joan Jett, and describes him as a devoted fan. Included in the article was a photoshopped image of Clinton sitting on the floor and holding a vinyl version of the Joan Jett and The Runaways album, “I Love Rock and Roll”, while listening to a record player through a set of and headphones, and surrounded by several other Joan Jett albums.
Spread
The image has been used in 4chan’s /mu/ board as a way of showing a user’s four favorite albums: each album in the image being replaced by the user’s own albums. The earliest known instance of this was in a /mu/ thread from September 26th, 2012.[2] In May of 2013, the website Bill Clinton Swag was created.[3] The site allows users to select four albums from a search bar, and generates a new version of the image for them. The site was featured in an article on Buzzfeed,[4] and has been used in threads on Reddit,[5] Rap Genius,[6] Metafilter,[7] and Vocamania.[8]
Search Interest
External References
[1]The Onion – Clinton Writes Fan Letter to Joan Jett
[2]4chan – tfw you will never have listening session of your favorite records with Bill Clinton
[3]Web Archive – BillClintonSwag
[4]Buzzfeed – Bill Clinton’s Got Swag
[5]Reddit – This site produces a picture of Bill Clinton holding your favourite albums
[6]Rap Genius: Put the last 4 albums u listened to in the bill clinton swag generator
[7]Metafilter – Bill Clinton Swag Generator
[8]Vocamania – Funny Favourite Albums Generator