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Osama Death LULZ: the memeification of history

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Even before President Obama went on live TV last night to officially announce that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a US military operation, animated gifs and jpeg shoops commemorating the death of the world’s most wanted bad guy were already proliferating. Above, via randomguy on BB Submitterator.

More below, and your selections welcome in the comments. As crass and off-color as these may be, they are a snapshot of pop culture history, and they reveal more about our collective consciousness than might be apparent at first glance, on the first day.

Related: No word yet on Evil Bert‘s whereabouts since the raid.

(special thanks to Dean Putney for additional research, and many of these links were from canv.as or Reddit.).

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