Texts from Hillary

Texts from Hillary was an internet meme that went viral in 2012, based on photographs of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.[1] The photos show Clinton holding a BlackBerry phone, wearing sunglasses. A Tumblr blog added various captions under the photo, imagining what Clinton might have been texting, and paired them with a matching photo to represent her imagined conversation partner.

Meme

The meme was based on two photographs of the same moment, from slightly different angles. One version of the photo was taken by Diane Walker from Time magazine,[2] the other by Kevin Lamarque from the Associated Press.[3] The photo was taken while Clinton was aboard a diplomatic trip to Libya.

Email controversy

In June 2016, a Freedom of Information Act deposition in a lawsuit by Judicial Watch, which was part of the Hillary Clinton email controversy, revealed that the photo caught the interest of State Department employees, who were inspired to investigate if Clinton was using a personal email account instead of an official state account.[4][5][6][7]

Clinton used the photo as her Twitter avatar until a week after the controversy first broke.[8][9][10]

gollark: It's mentally challenging, sometimes, but obviously not particularly physically hard.
gollark: There are lots of cool applications now. Automatic generation of art, protein folding, human-level competitive programming, good OCR.
gollark: Ah, but it's *very complicated* curve fitting which can sometimes do interesting things.
gollark: Any particular improvement might not work, but I would be *very very surprised* if people several hundred years ago just happened to stumble on the optimal court system.
gollark: *An* issue is that sentencing can vary significantly based on judges' arbitrary opinions and how they are feeling. So maybe if you averaged over multiple judges once the facts of the case were determined it would help. Although there are a lot of ways for that to go wrong (messing with the framing of those and such).

See also
  • Bernie or Hillary?

References
  1. http://time.com/3787649/texting-hillary-clinton/
  2. "'Texts from Hillary' photographer didn't LOL— at first".
  3. "Reuters photog who took 'Texts from Hillary' picture says viral meme was 'a mystery to me'". 13 April 2012.
  4. Lecher, Colin (10 June 2016). "'Texts from Hillary' photo raised questions about Clinton's email habits at State Department".
  5. "That Viral Photo of Hillary Checking Her Phone Made the State Department Want to Investigate Her Email Usage". 10 June 2016.
  6. Tacopino, Joe (10 June 2016). "This photo was the beginning of the end for Hillary".
  7. "Clinton BlackBerry photo led to State official's query about email account".
  8. Worl, Justin. "Hillary Clinton Drops 'Text from Hillary' Twitter Avatar".
  9. "Hillary Clinton changed her 'Texts from Hillary' Twitter avatar".
  10. "The 'Texts from Hillary' meme isn't so funny anymore".
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