Profile of CarpeDonktum, a stay-at-home dad posting highly popular pro-Trump memes and blurring the lines between viral trolling and the business of politics
A stay-at-home dad in Kansas reveals how the lines have blurred between viral trolling and the business of politics. Tweets: @cwarzel , @eddiezipperer , and @annehelen Tweets: Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : Pretty telling that the guy who made the Biden meme that Trump tweeted targets his content at extremely online boomers http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Eddie Zipperer / @eddiezipperer : .@carpedonktum, I don't think the NYT liked your video very much: “It's a perfectly unbelievable and dispiriting artifact of our fractured and chaotic political media ecosystem, where politicking is conducted through viral memes and retweets.” http://www.nytimes.com/... Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen : “Last year he won a $10,000 meme contest hosted by the conspiracy site Infowars and now said that he gets more than dozen requests per day to make bespoke political memes.” http://twitter.com/...