Don Jr. Posted a Meme About the WNBA Dildos
Okay, pack it up, divas. The WNBA dildo situation is no longer a fun, possibly queer-coded bit of mischief. Instead, Donald Trump Jr. has gotten ahold of the story and is posting memes about it on Instagram. You’re probably like “What?,” and honestly, I’m right there with you. Let me to try and explain.
In case you need a refresher, a lime-green dildo has become the talk of the WNBA over the past week or so. Last Tuesday, while the Atlanta Dream was playing the Golden State Valkyries, a sex toy the color of cartoon slime was thrown onto the court during the fourth quarter. While some players mentioned that it was dangerous to throw anything at players, others had a laugh about it. “Damn how my shit get there,” tweeted Las Vegas Aces guard Kierstan Bell.
For the next week, bright-green dildos kept being thrown onto the court. The second one appeared in Chicago when the Sky played the Valkyries; a third appeared in Los Angeles when the Sparks played the Fever this past Tuesday. Fever player Sophie Cunningham tweeted “stop throwing dildos on the court … you’re going to hurt one of us,” and then appeared to be hit with one in L.A.
And now, the hehe-ing is officially over, because on Thursday Donald Trump Jr. posted a meme of … his dad being the one throwing the dildo? To make things worse, he also folded Trump’s little trip to the roof of the White House earlier this week into his meme, which proposes that Trump was throwing the dildo onto a WNBA court from the roof. “Posted without further comment,” he captioned the image, alongside some laugh-crying emoji.
I sort of do need further comment, though. Is the joke that it would be funny if the president threw a dildo at some professional female athletes? Couldn’t be, since Republicans want to “protect” women in sports. On the other hand, maybe the meme is not really trying to be funny, and is instead an exercise in being able to say, “I recognize both of these images.” That being said, the top comment on his post is “America is so back ????????????,” so it seems to be working for his target audience.
In other bad news about the dildo, it turns out it was never even fun. On Thursday, The Athletic reported that the dildo-throwing might be connected to a meme coin called Green Dildo Coin, which “saw a trading volume of more than $1.5 million between Wednesday and Thursday afternoon.” Apparently, the Green Dildo Coin community (?) has suggested they’re in touch with the throwers during livestream chats, where messages about a “potential tosser (in Seattle)” and “confirmation L.A. is out of the building” have been sent.
A man claiming, anonymously, to have insight into the situation told ESPN that he and a group of crypto investors had orchestrated the stunts. “It was more or less like an opportunistic approach to, you know, what is already trending,” he said. “Where is there already controversy and how do we intercept some of that attention?”
Unfortunately, mission accomplished.
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