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The award for best meme of the 2017 Oscars goes to…

If ‘La La Land’ can win without winning, why can’t ‘Bee Movie?’

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If you thought that the Oscars accidentally awarding Best Picture to La La Land for a brief instance would light the meme community on fire, well, you’d be exactly right. 

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Nearly the instant the dust settled on the dust-up, the Twitter meme factory went into full production. The most obvious jokes were about people and teams everyone thought had a win in the bag who went on to lose, like Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election or the Atlanta Falcons in the Super Bowl.

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But if La La Land (which lots of people thought was bad) could win, what other awful movies (or bands) deserved a Best Picture win?

Thus, and the Oscar goes to… meme:

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Inevitably, some brands got into the act. 

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Of course, there were references to Steve Harvey’s infamous viral screw up

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La La Land definitely wanted to cash Moonlight ousside. 

H/T Huffington Post

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