After unquestionablywinning the second presidential debateon Sunday , Ken Bone rocketed to fame vis - a - vis viral memedom . His disarming red sweater and khaki pants combo woo the internet and eclipsed the comportment of two presidential candidates , as a thoughtful question about energy insurance poured from his mustachioed lips .
And all week , Bone heighten his substantial net front byappearing onJimmy Kimmel Live , and generally subsuming every aspect of trivial banter chance across social medium . He also used his newfound ill fame to vend official Ken Bone product and not - so - subtly plug Uber – the latter of which has since been blue-pencil from Twitter , perhaps forviolating FTC rules .
Gizmodopublished a trove of the those Reddit thread today , many of which are several months old , and boy , many of the NSFW subreddits make Bone seem like a looney , and also kind of a dick :
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As Select All ’s Madison Malone Kirchereloquently channelize out , in a uncanny way , the internet idealized Ken Bone – build up him up as a grandiose figure of speech before he needs came tumbling down like the average , porn - ogling Joe that he is . As Malone Kircher writes , this is inescapably the destiny that belie all the Ken Bones andChewbacca Momsof the world .
With the winds of pop culture at his back , Ken Bone could have been eternize among the meme Gods , perhaps surviving as the only human - meme to stay relevant well past his 15 mo of fame . All it took was a footling snooping around his Reddit history to make him seem like any other rote keyboard warrior – a regular dude who likes gawking at anon. naked girls online .
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Sam Blum is a News Staff Writer for Thrillist . He ’s also a soldierlike artistry and music nerd who appreciates a fine sandwich and cute heel . regain his clips in The Guardian , Rolling Stone , The A.V. Club and Vice . He ’s on Twitter@Blumnessmonster .
