Crying Jordan at 10: The GOAT of Memes

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🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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When Michael Jordan began to cry during his Basketball Hall of Fame induction speech, that moment would turn one of basketball’s greatest players to the meme seen ‘round the Internet. Now, 10 years after Crying Jordan first became a meme, it's still just as popular as ever, popping up anywhere and everywhere. ESPN’s Dave Fleming brings us the origin story of this legendary meme, and tells us why every corner of society just can’t get enough of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by Supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut.
0:06.9	It's not just any haircut.
0:08.8	It's supercuts.
0:11.2	Dave Fleming, you're here to tell me about something that first emerged 10 years ago this
0:15.7	month?
0:19.6	This is something that feels to me like the preeminent sports artifact in the entire internet era.
0:26.9	And like any great art, honestly, like any van go any Picasso.
0:32.0	It's actually transformed the way we perceive the world around us.
0:36.7	So tell us what this is.
0:39.8	Well the person that evolved human communication through sports culture could only really
0:45.1	be one person or one person in a particular mood.
0:50.8	All you have to do is look at your phone, go on social media, just look up in the sky,
0:55.6	just literally everywhere still.
0:59.2	Today we're talking about crime Jordan.
1:03.8	I did not realize, Fleming, that the most viral, most pervasive, most used sports meme of
1:10.2	our lives started back in 2012.
1:14.6	Yeah, it seems crazy because that is literally all the way back to the beginning of memetic
1:22.0	communication where people combined pictures and text to create or to display emotions or
1:29.8	share emotions with people through social media.
1:34.3	It just seems right that it was Michael Jordan who was at the heart of the greatest sports
1:40.6	meme in history.
1:42.5	What was the origin story of this dating back to a decade ago?
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