Memes – The 300s

The XFL is Recruiting a Massive Free Agent: Guy Fieri

By Red on February 18, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Hey @GuyFieri we noticed you haven’t chosen an XFL team yet so we figured we’d help you out.

What are you thinking? pic.twitter.com/aj9PaCTklR
— XFL (@xfl2020) February 18, 2020

Everybody knows that Guy Fieri is a taste maker plain and simple. The man has gone through the black hole of pop culture and come out on the other side only more popular. A guy that became famous for his wacky personality and bleach blonde hair on a Food Network TV show was ripe to be mocked in the age of twitter. Except he sort of owned it and because of that has endeared himself to the entire internet. Seriously, he’s even getting his own Funko POP figure!

And now the entire XFL is out hunting to secure Guy Fieri as the celebrity face of their franchise.

https://t.co/vQNnfECSIS pic.twitter.com/OJeMk7ev3P
— New York Guardians (@XFLGuardians) February 18, 2020

It’s part social media marketing, part legitimate business growth strategy; the guy has incredible visibility. I’ve seen him on TV at the NBA All-Star game and the Super Bowl in the last month alone. He’s even best buds with one Julian Edelman.

Plus who doesn’t love crushing a few eps of Triple D on a lazy Sunday afternoon?

By sharing and retweeting basically any meme out there about him, Guy Fieri has gone meta and come out more popular than ever. If marketing is about branding then Guy Fieri a marketing master because people know him and they know exactly what he’s about.

It’s actually a strategy Mike Bloomberg is now throwing his money behind in an attempt to become the next viral presidential candidate.

Who knew the key to the XFL’s success may have been hiding in Flavortown all along?

The Muppets Just Fired Kermit

By Red on July 14, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Yahoo – The former puppeteer behind Kermit the Frog has spoken out after being replaced earlier this week, saying in a blog post that he was fired by Disney. In a post on Muppet Pundit on Wednesday, Steve Whitmire wrote that he was told that the famous Muppet would be recast last October, assuring fans that he would never have quit the role voluntarily.

What an atrocity. Well I guess technically Kermit will live on, but the guy who voiced and muppeteered (thats a word right?) the famous green frog just got kicked to the curb by the Muppets. And you wanna know why? Because content is king.

“Whitmire took on the role in 1990 after creator Jim Henson’s death. His successor Matt Vogel — who voiced Kermit’s evil doppelganger in 2014’s “Muppets Most Wanted” — will become only the third performer to play Kermit since the character’s inception.”

The Muppets literally replaced him with the guy that voiced “Kermit’s evil doppleganger.” The Muppets ain’t stupid. Along with the rest of us they witnessed the creation of a first ballot Hall-of-Fame meme this year. Evil Kermit.

If the Muppets can bring me more Evil Kermit then I will forget about this injustice. I will not take vengeance on the Henson family for firing Kermit. As long as we can get the dark, hooded Kermit telling us all to embrace our inner Id. Those are my terms.