Daily Mail tweet about 'Britain's best looking couple' instantly becomes meme
Well, that escalated quickly.
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LONDON -- If you ask the internet something, you might not always get the answer you were expecting.
The question "Is THIS Britain's best looking couple?," which was tweeted on Monday night by the Daily Mail's @Femail account alongside photos of a couple from Essex, is a classic example of this -- they were probably expecting a "yes" or "no" type reply, but the whole thing quickly got a lot more... well unconventional.
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It was only a matter of minutes before the memes started.
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The whole thing got very ridiculous, very quickly.
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Soon, politics got brought into the mix.
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Finally, this person dropped the mic.
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Twitter: where any question is only a few retweets away from becoming a meme.
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