What it’s like to learn from Twitter that your grandpa’s become a meme

At any moment in time, whether you want it to happen or not, someone could take a photo of you, post it online, and turn it into a meme for the internet’s enjoyment. (This, I assume, is the price we pay for existing in 2018.)

And as one Reddit user recently learned, this applies to everyone — even grandpas. On Thursday, u/manic_unicorn revealed in a post that her grandfather was once the subject of a meme.

“My cousin was browsing Twitter and came across this picture of our grandpa at the mall with his friends that a stranger took and captioned ‘Squad Goals’,” she wrote in the Reddit post of the photo, and noting that the image “had been retweeted thousands of times.” Read more…

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