“On a quiet street in Ankara, an American Flag burned. Its stars and its stripes slowly wilting like a dying flower. But all that was dying in that Turkish road was one lone fan’s belief in the power of the American VMA viewing audience. Who had rejected the infinitely better Green Day for the tumblr-powered recent ascent of a girl who dyed her hair….”
This is Andrew Fitzgerald’s classic re-envisioning of the polemic events that occurred at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. In this seminal piece of meme historical fiction, the Kanye West / Taylor Swift controversy never happened. Instead after Green Day won the best rock video, Hayley the neon redheaded Paramore vocalist jumped on stage to utter those immortal words “sup Green Day? ur musik stop bein’ relevant when I was 6.”
“The twenty year old caused controversy, when her fans used social networking sites demanding a VMA recall. This never happened, which led to the most perasive meme of late summer 2009.”
“This event entered the monumental canon of memes, once it was legitimized by Xzibit“.
The realm of meme historical fiction is a new art form that dates all the way back to the Balloon Boy era of internet meme-itude. The Current Comedy Blog believes this is the future of fiction, and that’s why we courageously published the writings of Andrew Fitzgerald. It’s kind of like Fitzgerald is Michael Moore, trying to release the controversial Fahrenheit 9/11. Nobody wants to release it, because it’s too real. But I’m like Harvey Weinstein, because I actually have the guts to publish this work of genius.
If you have any meme historical fiction that you’d like published, hit me up.
October 20th, 2009 at 12:01 am
A response from the Green Day side of this fictional meme
http://current.com/17pri4c