As the age-old adage goes, no shitty graphic shared on the internet ever goes unpunished.
On Saturday the FBI Twitter account tweeted an innocent, simple graphic of a pleasant snowman next to the message, “Happy holidays from our FBI family to yours.”
Happy holidays from the #FBI pic.twitter.com/l9VoIbQXnx
— FBI (@FBI) December 24, 2016
I imagine the tweet was meant to be a sweet season’s greeting between vitriolic tweets and negative headlines, a break from the bustle of shopping for presents and meal preparation.
And yes, the snowman-clad e-card did bring many a Twitter user great joy…
https://twitter.com/lazygarfield/status/812654338656997377
…To roast the joke of a graphic like chestnuts on an open fire, that is.
As Twitter awoke on Christmas Eve, eager elves set their sights on the FBI’s early gift to the internet and attacked with pleasure.
https://twitter.com/hrtbps/status/812656930594426881
we need to have the “Lucida Calligraphy” talk.
— Rachael Sullivan (@rachaelsullivan) December 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/HyperGlavin/status/812651103623860225
https://twitter.com/bIeachfossils/status/812659798432948224
Yes, Twitter did its best to convey to the FBI just how embarrassingly horrid the sad-ass Frosty looks surrounded by those anemic, oblong snow flakes.
https://twitter.com/ignatzz/status/812662066175770624
https://twitter.com/shatterfront/status/812649457783185408
.@FBI pic.twitter.com/ffF32d14zY
— 🦋Brianna🦋 (@raininblack) December 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/cambrian_era/status/812649519590445057
Sure, a few folks took issue with the agency’s use of “Happy Holidays” over “Merry Christmas.”
https://twitter.com/chillmage/status/812681550642946048
https://twitter.com/JoanOfArgghh/status/812646272368787456
Thought y’all were fighting the “War on Christmas.” Focus on doing something abt Giuliani and partisanship in your organization!
— You Foking KNEW!! (@BluPhoenix2018) December 24, 2016
Donald Trump is going to LOSE HIS SHIT when he reads “happy holidays” instead of his trademarked phrase “Merry Christmas”.
— Jennifer B Dot (@jenniferbdot) December 24, 2016
But let’s be honest, we all know what the real crime is here.
MS Paint is a graphic design crime scene https://t.co/4imLCZbkqu
— C@RLY (@carlycarbonate) December 24, 2016
Twitter truly ran amok with the “graphic design is my passion” meme on this one, too, to the point of basically hammering the last nail into the coffin and lowering it straight into the goddamn ground.
https://twitter.com/mrmarti_/status/812678682976325632
graphic design is my passion https://t.co/KVN3dzTIfE
— j (@jesusacostx) December 24, 2016
love too graphic design https://t.co/w909ydab9I
— justin █████ (@jusatk) December 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/cassiwithoutane/status/812704801934966784
https://twitter.com/DAREDEVllLS/status/812704591158669312
https://twitter.com/erikhauIa/status/812704526197293060
the fbi: graphic design is my passion https://t.co/0VpJjcUG9m
— eggboy 🍳 (@horbsss) December 24, 2016
where’s the graphic design is my passion meme https://t.co/CYo3Z8IfBX
— kennedy (@popiacopias) December 24, 2016
Thanks for the good laugh, FBI Twitter. We know we’re gonna need it in 2017.
