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The Ted Cruz–Zodiac Killer meme is an cyberspace meme which circulated in 2015. A facetious conspiracy theory, the meme suggests that Ted Cruz, a United States senator and 2016 United states of america presidential candidate, is the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified serial killer active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Cruz, born in 1970, could not have committed these murders,[1] which began before his birth. Circulators of the meme do not genuinely believe that he was the Zodiac Killer, citing the absurdity of its premise; NPR wrote that the meme captured "a feeling they have about Cruz: they remember he'south creepy. And they want to signal that out, equally clearly equally they can."[1]

Origin and spread [edit]

To be articulate: the Zodiac Killer line is a joke. But it'due south a prolific joke, and i you lot can observe printed on bumper stickers and a multifariousness of blackness metallic tees across the state. For Cruz, the Baptist senator for Texas and correct-wing Republican presidential candidate, it'due south an unexpected foray into popular culture.

— Dylan Baddour of the Houston Chronicle, April 26, 2016[two]

A Jan 2016 investigation by Miles Klee of The Daily Dot constitute the first use of the meme to be by a Twitter user in March 2013, as Cruz was speaking at the Conservative Political Activeness Briefing and vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act.[3] [four] The actual Tweet was, "Warning: Ted Cruz is speaking!! His speech is titled: 'This Is The Zodiac Speaking'"[5] The meme was not repeated until November 2014, past another Twitter user writing nigh Cruz's proposal against internet neutrality.[4]

Information technology continued in obscurity up to February 2016, when another Twitter user edited a picture of a Republican debate in guild to include "Is Ted Cruz the Zodiac Killer?" in the interactive ticker at the bottom.[1] That calendar month, "is ted cruz the zodiac killer" was the second highest suggestion in Google'south autocomplete for "is ted", but by April it was not in the autocomplete at all.[ane] [6] News.com.au writer Matthew Dunn suggested that Google was censoring the search term, showing evidence that it accounted for 89% of total searches when compared to other terms in the autocomplete.[6]

In Apr 2016, the Houston Chronicle said the meme "has a post-obit. A Facebook group named for the meme has more than 27,000 members. A Google search turns up 621,000 hits, including exploratory articles past some of the biggest news publications on the web".[2]

Cruz himself has jocularly alluded to the meme past tweeting one of the Zodiac Killer's cryptograms; first in October 2017 responding to a retweet from Senator Ben Sasse referring to Cruz every bit "the son of the guy who killed Kennedy" (a reference to a conspiracy theory involving Rafael Cruz)[7] and and then wishing a "Happy Halloween" in 2018.[8] In December 2020, after the 340-character Zodiac cipher was cracked, Cruz retweeted an article nearly the nothing with the caption "uh oh".[9]

In popular culture [edit]

Afterwards the edited image showing the question on Google trended, the meme spread into popular civilisation.[1] Books about Cruz being the Zodiac Killer, including romantic ones, were listed on Amazon.com.[iv]

In February 2016, Public Policy Polling asked registered voters in Florida ahead of the Republican primary if they believed Cruz to be the Zodiac Killer; ten% believed and 28% were not sure. The other 62% did non think he was.[10] [11]

Comedian Larry Wilmore fabricated references to the meme in his April 2016 routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, including a joke that Cruz was not candidature to win the nomination, but to continue a murder spree.[12]

The meme has been repeated, without disclaimer, in anti-Cruz opinion pieces in GQ and the Chicago Tribune.[13] [14]

Reception [edit]

Lindsey Martin, a Twitter user who helped broadcast the meme, told NPR that she did so because it is "so plainly untrue... if at that place was any manner that information technology could peradventure be true I would be scared to joke nearly it only because of the repercussions."[1] The Verge writer Kaitlyn Tiffany opined that some may consider the subject area of the meme to be "distasteful and irresponsible, even unsafe".[4] Leigh Alexander considered its spread an instance of the growing political engagement of youth, writing that in such memes, "the political figure is exaggerated, his context made grotesque or fantastical, only as in traditional political cartooning."[fifteen] According to Lozano, the bespeak of the meme is to "[demonize] his grapheme".[2] Heidi Cruz responded to the meme by stating that she has "been married to him for xv years, and I know pretty well who he is, so it doesn't carp me at all. There's a lot of garbage out there".[16] Ted Cruz best-selling the meme on his official Twitter account on Oct 18, 2017, by tweeting an image of i of the Zodiac Killer'due south encrypted messages.[17] He did and so again on October 31 of the following yr.[8]

Meet likewise [edit]

  • List of conspiracy theories
  • Zodiac Killer in popular culture

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d east f Sanders, Sam (February 26, 2016). "#MemeOfTheWeek: Ted Cruz And The Zodiac Killer". NPR. Archived from the original on May 2, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Baddour, Dylan (26 April 2016). "Killer cocktail named afterwards Ted Cruz, sort of". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  3. ^ Klee, Miles (January 25, 2016). "Ted Cruz has yet to deny that he's the Zodiac Killer". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on May 4, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d Tiffany, Kaitlyn (February 26, 2016). "Who called Ted Cruz the Zodiac Killer, why, and is he?". The Verge. Archived from the original on May 1, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  5. ^ Steppin' Razor [@TakeItDeeDee] (March 14, 2013). "#CPAC Alert: Ted Cruz is speaking!! His oral communication is titled: 'This Is The Zodiac Speaking'" (Tweet). Archived from the original on Jan 28, 2021. Retrieved March three, 2021 – via Twitter.
  6. ^ a b Dunn, Matthew (April 21, 2016). "Google removes 'Is Ted Cruz the Zodiac Killer' suggestion, despite it being most popular search". News.com.au. Archived from the original on Apr 26, 2016. Retrieved May one, 2016.
  7. ^ Cruz, Ted [@tedcruz] (October 18, 2017). "@BenSasse t.co/CRKdrSDWes" (Tweet). Archived from the original on February 16, 2021. Retrieved March 3, 2021 – via Twitter.
  8. ^ a b Cruz, Ted [@tedcruz] (October 31, 2018). "Happy Halloween t.co/jIgTaIMzep" (Tweet). Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved March 3, 2021 – via Twitter.
  9. ^ Cruz, Ted [@tedcruz] (December 11, 2020). "uh oh t.co/HkyYGa4oKN" (Tweet). Archived from the original on Feb 22, 2021. Retrieved March three, 2021 – via Twitter.
  10. ^ Stuart, Tessa (February 26, 2016). "Is Ted Cruz the Zodiac Killer? Perchance, Say 38 Percent of Florida Voters". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on April 28, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  11. ^ "Trump Leads Rubio in Florida- Even Head to Head" (PDF). Public Policy Polling. Archived (PDF) from the original on April viii, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  12. ^ Ayala, Christine (May i, 2016). "Larry Wilmore: Of course 'everybody hates' Ted Cruz, he's the Zodiac Killer". Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on May 2, 2016. Retrieved May ane, 2016.
  13. ^ Moore, Jack (April 27, 2016). "Ted Cruz Is Doing Very Little to Disprove He's the Zodiac Killer". GQ. Archived from the original on April 30, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  14. ^ Huppke, Rex (Apr 25, 2016). "Ted Cruz's cowardly anti-transgender stance". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on April 29, 2016. Retrieved May i, 2016.
  15. ^ Alexander, Leigh (May 4, 2016). "Blame it on the Zodiac killer: did social media ruin Ted Cruz's campaign?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on May sixteen, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  16. ^ "Heidi Cruz responds to people who telephone call her married man the Zodiac Killer". Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on May 5, 2016. Retrieved May thirteen, 2016.
  17. ^ Victor, Daniel (October 18, 2017). "Ted Cruz, Who Is Not the Zodiac Killer, Acknowledges a Long-Running Joke". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 19, 2017. Retrieved October xix, 2017.

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