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Twitter quickly made a glorious meme out of that massive Oscars mess

It turns out, many, many unsuspecting movies won best picture.

Peter Allen Clark

on February 27, 2017

What La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz lost in a Best Picture Academy Award, he gained in memes.

Just as the La La Land producers began thanking people for the shiny new Oscar they won for Best Picture, frantic men in headsets interrupted with a very unexpected announcement. It turns out the underdog Moonlight had actually won.

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To prove that it wasn't some lame Jimmy Kimmel bit that involved making further fun of Matt Damon, Horowitz held up the actual card that proved Moonlight's win.

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Never one to rest whenever something totally bonkers happens to a usually supremely scripted event, the internet leapt into action and turned that one flipped script of a reveal into whatever the f*ck it wanted.

And thus, a new meme was born.

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Obviously, people went for the political very quickly.

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Of course, the internet didn't stop with that one image. Other memes also shouldered the burden.

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Peter Allen Clark

I have done neat stuff all over these United States from sailing lessons on the Puget Sound to motorcycle maintenance on the backroads of upstate New York. My professional experience extends from newspaper reporting in the mountains of Eastern Oregon to fixing espresso machines throughout Kentucky. I also have kept a cat alive for 10 years.