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Jordan Steel (27) is one of many veteran internet trolls whose youth was mainly driven by an inexplicable urge for online mayhem and destruction.
Like many nihilistic image board users of the time, Jordan was fully behind the meme campaign for Trump, even taking part in some historic Twitter raids.
“It was really funny. None of us thought he would actually get anywhere; we really just enjoyed watching Americans lose their minds,” he explained.
Today, Jordan says he hasn’t even browsed an image board in years.
“Oh yeah” he says.
“I got a girlfriend and forgot those websites existed.”
Despite this, Jordan’s online antics seem to have seeped into the mainstream of millions of internet-illiterate baby boomers, even members of his own family.
“Firstly, it’s just so cringe. Such a dead meme. How slow do they wanna be?” Jordan lamented.
Jordan says his family get-togethers have somehow devolved into him and his own mum trying to walk his brain-rotted older family members back from the Trump cliff.
“Some of the conspiracies they’ve embraced are things I got haven’t even thought about since I put the bong down at 17”
“My aunts and uncles said I was an idiot for buying a MAGA hat in 2016, but now they are the only people I know
still wearing that shit ”
“I ‘spose they are also the same people that once told me to not believe everything I read on the internet”
Jordan is one of millions of young men who thought the Trump meme was funny a decade ago and now realize this meme is probably going to shape the culture around them for the foreseeable future.
“I never thought I’d be the one trying to explain the dangers of authoritarianism to family members who grew up in the post-war era, but here I am.”
