When fans discovered Shatner was going to space, they called for a Planet of the Apes prank, which founder Jeff Bezos said he was all for. On his arrival back down to Earth, Bezos exclaimed to the crowd, “I want to thank every Amazon employee, and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all this.” Some couldn’t help pointing out the irony in this statement, with Amazon’s CEO-to-worker pay ratio sitting at 58 to 1, or that labor activists continue to dog the company for the troubling reports of overwork in which employees reportedly have to ration bathroom breaks. Here are the five best Shatner-in-space memes. This is a screengrab of one of the Bo Burnham. Another mention of Amazon's working conditions Tweet may have been deleted 3. Here are some of the prime Twitter memes that generated a lot of buzz. The Daily Show put it pretty bluntly Tweet may have been deleted 2. They took the triumphant moment as an opportunity to remind the world about Amazon’s spotty labor record and rib him about his cowboy hat and single-guy ways. The meme typically pokes fun at Bezos’s ambition and wealth. The meme typically features a picture of Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, holding a rocket with the caption I’m going to build a rocket. Others on the ground were more disillusioned. The Jeff Bezos rocket meme is a popular meme that became popular in the early 2010s. “ Best day ever,” Bezos said on a livestream of the suborbital flight.įor Bezos it was an achievement of a lifelong dream to travel to space. The world’s richest man, with a net worth of $200 billion, shot up into space on his own Blue Origin New Shepard rocket, experienced a few moments of weightlessness-just past the Karman line 62 miles above Earth-and then descended homeward in a capsule wearing a cowboy hat.
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