Like his name and face is used in many memes, he’s one of the most memed humans and is popular among non politics groups. Like if you’ve seen the amount of memes he’s used in and he’s seen in such a way you wouldn’t think he’s a politician
Why is Obama so memed?
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he’s got good photo charisma stats
He was the president in 2009-2017 when smartphones became popular/widely adopted, and meme culture was really becoming what it is nowadays. He was pretty popular and a well known cultural figure across the globe. He had a unique voice and speaking cadence as well as an expressive face.
Obama was the president during the birth of meme culture. It’s the same reason lots of early memes are still in use today.
I must be looking at different memes, I see other politicians a lot more frequently
Partly, it is because his [first] presidency was 2008-2012, which is approximately when social media as we know it today emerged or otherwise became ubiquitous. It is also when smartphones began to go mainstream for everyone to be hooked up to the Internet 24/7 everywhere they go.
Obama is a funny guy, very smart as well.
If the democratic party had another person like him, we wouldn’t have gotten Trump or Biden and things would be very different.
Hillary was a disaster, a megalomaniac narcissist who put her need to be in the history books about the welfare of the Country.
The problem with narcissists is their network shrinks as they get older, like Trump, most of the people who worked for him and parted ways hate him on a very deep and personal level.
Apart from what the other comments accurately note about him being the president at the time when memes became a thing for real, Obama also has the distinction of being uniquely vilified by conservatives and simultaneously uniquely missed by liberals who have had no one comparable to him in all the years since 2016.
Obama is history manifest. Of course he’ll stay in the memes.
Definitely not because he was a black president that aspect is completely irrelevant
Campaign funding
He was our last president who was intentionally funny.
if anyone in politics is a reptilian, it’s obama, that’s why.
If you weren’t around/aware in 2008, you won’t understand just how much of an absolute rock star Obama was.
He was like the second coming of JFK. Most easily charismatic, likable, and effortlessly funny guy in modern political history. And as others have said, he hit the spotlight right as smartphones became widely adopted and memes were really just becoming a thing, so combine his incredible popularity with the birth of wide meme creation, and there ya go.
Decent enough dude and to this day lives rent free in the heads of people that accused him of being what Trump actually is now. Comsidering the question, I’d assume you dont remember how “Conservatives” reacted to the announcement. Those people are now Maga diehards (and swear it’s about the Economy, and yall believe it every time fuckin mooks 🤣).
Tldr: Cause Folks wanted him to be Trump and all he was is another establishment Dem. Only reason they keep trying to fly anything else is because he is Black. Plain and Simple, folks just dont like being called out on flimsy attempts at racism.
He’s a funny, chill and calm guy who opened up sometimes and he was the president young people remember and they meme a lot so it’s a perfect fit.
I moved to the USA just when Obama got elected. I was a child then. Everytime I hear the song “Obama Obama Obama” I want to cry. I miss those days. I miss having an actual president.
Things only stay meme’d if they are relevant somehow. James Cameron movies are hardly meme’d. Game of Thrones memes only made sense while the show was still on air- never saw a House of Dragon meme. Obama is still relevant up to this day. Thus the memes.
I made my account name based on a picture of Obama leaning on a sign that just said 420
Luck. He is also very polarizing, with both the right and the left left not liking him.
Things were easy during the Obama years. People had little to actually worry about. Makes it easy to poke fun.
He was cool and had a good sense of humor
Everyone is memed lol
Frankly because Republicans liked to blame him for everything so satirical “Thanks Obama” became part of pop culture.
Obama is the Left’s Trump. And some people are a little overly obsessed.
Racism