On May 3, writer Jessica White shared a
TikTok video on Twitter with a simple caption: “obsessed with ben affleck as a concept.”
In the video, actor and comedian Nivine Jay shares her experience “
unmatching” with the Hollywood star on the dating app Raya because she didn’t believe it was him.
That resulted, according to Jay, in Affleck sending her a video on Instagram in which he looks directly at the camera and says, “It’s me.”
The video went viral as more and more people watched it and wondered, “
Is that really Ben Affleck?”
But, just looking at the history of his paparazzi shots becoming a meme which include his enormous
Paris Hilton has debunked the meme featuring her in a top that says “stop being poor”, explaining how the image in question was edited. The photo shows Hilton in 2005 at a party at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas wearing a pink ombre maxi skirt (in typical noughties fashion) and a vest, bearing the slogan. The image is regularly used as a meme, often as a sarcastic response to political policies which are seen to disproportionately affect those on.
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Paris Hilton Reveals What Photoshopped Stop Being Poor Top Actually Said
On 5/4/21 at 9:33 AM EDT
Paris Hilton has said that her infamous stop being poor t-shirt was in fact photoshopped.
While the t-shirt being digitally doctored may not be news to some people, this is the first time the heiress and social media star has spoken about the top which became a meme when it first went viral back in 2013.
The photo itself features Hilton at a party at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas with outstretched arms wearing a white tank top with the offensive slogan, which has always been viewed as a tongue-in-cheek nod to Hilton s rich party girl persona of the aughts.
The shirt actually said, “Stop Being Desperate,” and Hilton showed another photo of her and sister Nicky wearing the matching tees. There are several photos of her in the real shirt, taken in 2005 at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas.
Know Your Meme points to a 2013 Tumblr post as a possible origin of the photoshopped image, and the shirt has been debunked since then, but the meme (and the ideology behind “Stop being poor”) has persisted. Depop and Amazon both sell versions of the fake shirt.
Commenters were a bit shocked at the revelation, though multiple people claimed the shirt is still “iconic” and even “inspirational.”