We want to get something out the way. This is not "the most 2016 image ever." The most 2016 image ever is, like, Donald Trump being scared by a bird.
But, this picture of Hillary Clinton as selfie subject is something else important. It's our future president posing like another future president: Kanye West. First, let's look at the Clinton image.
2016, ya'll. pic.twitter.com/M0AZceVagQ
— Victor Ng (@victomato) September 25, 2016
Campaign photographer Barbara Kinney took the photo after a speech in Orlando on Wednesday, and it was then posted by a staffer. It's since gone mega viral.
We wondered where we had seen this selfie style — standing before an adoring crowd so they can all get their pic — before. Only one place: Kanye. In a London Nando's. Before his amazing Brit Awards performance. Let's look at the tape.
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KANYE IS IN NANDOS. Desperately looking for good puns. So far I've come up with "uh huh peri" which is NOTHING. pic.twitter.com/MKKvahBe0I
— Catriona Wightman (@catrionaw890) February 25, 2015
SOOOO BASICALLY I JUST SAW KANYE GETTING A CHEEKY NANDOS pic.twitter.com/nuyi8KG3qX
— Rachel (@EnchantedPalms) February 25, 2015
It's all there. The pose, the flashing cameras, the crowd of adoring teens. The only difference is that Clinton didn't get some delicious peri-peri chicken immediately afterwards. But we assume she'll let that go if she can drop the political equivalent of "All Day" during Monday's debate.
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