Madison Malone Kircher/Tech Insider and Twitter/Weird Al Yancovic
It's been a little over a week since the news of Starbucks red cups started taking over Twitter, Facebook, and just about every other media platform you can name.
That includes Grammy Award-winning song parodist Weird Al Yankovic, who tweeted a meme featuring a picture of my hand holding a photoshopped drink sleeve that reads "Hail Satan."
On Sunday, Tech Insider published this story covering the red cup blow-up and included an original photo I'd taken while enoying a nice skim latte earlier in November.
Here's that picture.
Madison Malone Kircher/Tech Insider
And here's Yankovic's meme again. The two should look strikingly similar. Note the olive drab coat in the lower left-hand corner and the unvarnished thumb in both pictures.
Since we're living in post Fat Jew times, I did a quick Google search to see if this meme was, in fact, an original Yankovic creation. While it's impossible to know for sure, I didn't find anybody else using the image, so it appears to have come straight from "Eat It" creator himself.
Plus, thanks to Yankovic's tweet, I learned that I've lived 23 years without knowing I had a double-jointed thumb.
We've reached out to Yankovic to find out why the man behind such classics as "White and Nerdy" and "Amish Paradise" was inspired to turn my hand into a meme and will update this post if we heard back.
Though we can only hope it's because he thinks Tech Insider is pretty fly for a website.