Sup nerds,

JD Vance memes are everywhere.

You can’t scroll the timeline without seeing a JD Vance face swap. Even Vance himself jumped in on the fun and posted a JD Vance meme.

And I’m proud to say that I’ve played a part in it. You’re welcome.

In this piece I’m going to break down:

1. What it means now that memelords are in power

2. How I helped the internet spread JD Vance memes

3. How to turn yourself into a meme

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1. What it means that memelords run the country:

New technology always starts in the fringes of the internet.

The internet’s biggest use case in the 90s was porn. Crypto started with crime (still mostly is). And memes proliferated on 4chan and Reddit.

Now we have two memelords as President and Vice President. Trump and Vance both are posting memes on the daily.

And whether you’re a democrat or republican, you can admit Donald Trump is one of the funniest motherfuckers on the face of the planet. He’s been memeing and tweeting bangers for over a decade. He’s one of the greatest to ever do it. A memelord like me can only dream of having an archive full of bangers like Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, you might not realize this, but JD Vance has been in my world of Silicon Valley “tech Twitter” for the last decade. He was a venture capitalist working at Peter Thiel’s fund. I was at Peter Thiel’s conference last October. We have mutuals. He shitposts. He follows meme accounts and tech anons. He’s the first true chronically online millennial memelord in office. Hell yeah.

In other words, the most powerful leaders of the free world are posting memes.

Not to mention many more who are serving in Congress or the House of Representatives or whatever. We are living in the age of the memetic government.

What this means for you: posting memes can fundamentally no longer be unprofessional when the highest levels of the highest profession do it.

This trend had been coming for a while.

I wrote about it 2 years ago in my book Memes Make Millions. Billionaires like Elon Musk, Garry Tan, and Marc Andreessen were all posting memes. It makes sense they were early to memes (given that’s the nature of a founder or venture capitalist’s career to be early). From the top, the bravery to post memes spread down.

Plus add in ChatGPT spitting out boring AI writing across the internet and then people wake up to the fact that humor is one of the only things that sticks out on social media. Boom, add in Elon’s Free Speech movement on X and people realize they can start saying funny things again and being genuinely themselves.

There’s a great conversation excerpt on this between Zynga CEO Mark Pincus and Chamath Palihapitya from The All-In Podcast.

So rather than being blocked by Chiefs of Staff or college kids, government officials and CEOs are taking the iPhone back into their own hands.

And it turns out smart people who can make billions can also be quite funny. Who would’ve thought humor and intelligence were connected?!?!?!

2. How I helped the internet spread JD Vance memes:

3 weeks ago, I released a face swapper only for Memelord Pro users.

The memelords loved it.

So I drank a Red Bull and built a free JD Vance meme swapper this week. Took less than 5 minutes to build since I already had the APIs connected.

And boom, the memelords went absolutely apeshit.

When I talk about “how I want to seize the memes of production” this is what I mean. We get to spread insane memes now.

Jason Calcanis even tweeted one of my users’ JD memes.

I even got a like from the aforementioned House of Representatives memelord above.

Yup it’s official.

Memelord Technologies is basically a government contractor.

JD Vance meme swapper API go brrrrrrr.

3. How to turn yourself into a meme

What does this quote actually mean?

When you capture so much mindshare that people organically make memes about you, that’s when you know you made it.

Think about this with a new musician.

Pretend they’re a rapper named Lil Vance.

At first, no one cares about Lil Vance. Then one day, someone makes a fan page. A fan starts spreading memes of Lil Vance. Then another fan page pops up. Until Lil Vance’s face is everywhere and there’s thousands of meme pages and memes spreading.

Except here’s the thing…

This isn’t how it actually goes down. It’s not that organic. I’ve talked to labels’ marketing teams for artists like Charli xcx. They’re users of mine. Labels literally build meme pages and fan accounts for their artists. It’s memetic astro-turfing. Once 1 page starts, more soon pop up. It’s the reason why Warner Music spent $85M on a meme page. The fame-creating industry invests in meme pages because memes are how you become instantly recognizable.

If you’re a founder or creator, you need to get on the same insane level of trying to become a meme. As I’ve said before, every founder is now an influencer and every startup is a media company.

That’s why I put my face in Memelord Technologies as a sticker. That’s why I put myself in my software for fixing bugs. That’s why I do all my crazy viral subway videos. It’s not enough for me to make memes. I wanted to become the meme. Now other people make memes about me. Boom.

Memes are the quickest way to get your face everywhere and help your community build you up. The face swapper is more than about funny memes. It’s about becoming ubiquitous. It’s about mindshare. It’s about being everywhere at once.

So what’re you waiting for?

Start face swapping with Memelord Pro.

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Thanks for reading nerds.

Create some cool shit this week.

Jason “The Memelord” Levin

Founder of Memelord Technologies, Author of Memes Make Millions, Memetic Advisor to beehiiv