EARLIER THIS WEEK, Bernie Sanders posted a photo of himself watching the Republican National Convention and pissing around on his iPad.
Politicians — they’re just like us!
Shortly afterwards, Irish Twitter user @PrayForPatrick shared this mocked-up photo purporting to show a framed photograph of the gorilla Harambe, who was shot and killed at the Cincinatti Zoo and Bonatical Gardens earlier this summer, on Sanders’ bookshelf.
Now obviously anyone with a modicum of cop on would realise that it was a gag, but he tweet still soon ricocheted around the internet with the accounts @Dory, @CommonWhiteGirl and @chanelpuke ripping it off verbatim.
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Meanwhile people soon started to *actually* believe that Bernie Sanders actually had a framed photo of Harambe in his living room.
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People even began to lament the fact that Bernie Sanders was no longer in the running to be President of the United States.
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The whole thing got so out of control that Buzzfeed took it upon themselves to debunk it and declare it “photoshopped AF”.
This isn’t the first time one of @PrayForPatrick‘s has successfully tricked the internet. Last summer, he duped the British media into thinking the following Glastonbury infographic was authentic.
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Patrick / Twitter / Twitter
Of his latest con, he told DailyEdge.ie, “To be honest I can’t believe people thought it was fake. I’m sure most politicians have a photo of a gorilla shot at a zoo amongst their private family pictures at this stage.”
