Michelle Obama gave the Internet a sign—here’s what it gave back

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Once again, the jokesters on Reddit have proven the world is their canvas.

First Lady Michelle Obama took to Twitter earlier this week to contribute her voice to the #bringbackourgirls campaign—an effort to spreadawareness about the plight of the 276 missing schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria. She posted a simple tweet featuring a photo of herself holding a sign with the hashtag on it.

Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It’s time to #BringBackOurGirls. -mopic.twitter.com/glDKDotJRt
— The First Lady (@FLOTUS) May 7, 2014

But once Reddit got ahold of the photo, its users—well-known for hostingPhotoshop battles such as this—went wild adding anything and everything to the blank page:

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Some even got creative and added animation to their contributions:

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Lesson learned?

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Hopefully. But it isn’t the first time a well-intentioned sign-holder has become the butt of the Internet’s jokes. Earlier this year, a mom’s attempt to talk her daughter down from sharing on social media completely backfired when 4chan reappropriated that sign too.
Photo via dailymess/Reddit

Source: The Daily Dot

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