{"id":13837,"date":"2024-03-11T14:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13837"},"modified":"2024-03-11T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:29:59","slug":"distracted-boyfriend-fascist-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13837","title":{"rendered":"Distracted boyfriend: fascist edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Distracted_boyfriend\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>, &#8220;Distracted boyfriend is an Internet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/meme\">meme<\/a> based on a 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/stock%20photo\">stock photograph<\/a> by Spanish photographer Antonio Guillem. Social media users started using the image as a meme at the start of 2017, and it went viral in August 2017 as a way to depict different forms of disloyalty. The meme has inspired various spin-offs and received critical acclaim.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_13848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13848\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/Disloyal_man_with_his_girlfriend_looking_at_another_girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/Disloyal_man_with_his_girlfriend_looking_at_another_girl.jpg 387w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/Disloyal_man_with_his_girlfriend_looking_at_another_girl-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright on original: Antonio Guillem.<br \/>Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>The latest depiction of such portrayal has taken more than one step to the right, depicting as it does Kremlin crook Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin as the object of distraction, Adolf Hitler as the long-suffering girlfriend and one Donald John Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jul\/03\/trump-classified-documents-mar-a-lago\">unauthorised keeper of classified documents<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-68323487\">convicted business fraudster<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-trial-e-jean-carroll-01-26-24\/index.html\">convicted sexual predator<\/a>, suspected <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack\">Capitol insurrectionist<\/a> in chief and disgraced forty-fifth president of the United States of America.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_13849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13849\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/dd410ce8c30067d0-e1710165198380.png\" alt=\"Donald Trump, holding hands with Adolf Hitler, distracted by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin\" width=\"600\" height=\"592\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13849\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phwoar!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia, &#8220;Distracted boyfriend is an Internet meme based on a 2015 stock photograph by Spanish photographer Antonio Guillem. Social media users started using the image as a meme at the start of 2017, and it went viral in August 2017 as a way to depict different forms of disloyalty. The meme has inspired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17,15,34,9],"tags":[36,16,22,20,35],"class_list":["post-13837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","category-politics","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13837"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13858,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837\/revisions\/13858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}