MEMES, Part 8: The Scream

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🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

If you typed “inauguration” into your web browser anytime between 2017 and 2020, you likely saw, near the top of your search results, an image of a person in a neon green jacket, black winter hat and glasses screaming “Nooooooooooo!” That person was Jess, who was in Washington D.C. on January 20, 2017 to protest the inauguration of President Donald Trump. This “Nooooooooooo!” flew out of Jess after the oath of office, during what seemed to be a deeply painful and private moment. But what Jess didn’t know at the time was that they were being filmed by a UK media outlet. Within hours, this became the scream heard ‘round the world, the meme seen ‘round the world, and a symbol of “liberal fragility” for Trump supporters. Fearing for their safety, Jess went into a sort of hiding – on social media, and in their personal life. Four years later, Jess tells their story for the very first time.

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0:29.4	It felt like being on the Titanic and being like, I know the icebergs coming, I know the
0:35.3	icebergs coming, and oh my god, one, two, three, and we're hitting it.
0:48.6	We are talking to a person we're calling Jess outside on a spring day in March of 2021,
0:55.3	but they're telling us about a different day, inauguration day, January 20th, 2017.
1:02.0	And it was like 5am or something crazy, which to me is just like, that's the ass crack
1:06.2	a don, nobody needs to get up that early.
1:08.5	Jess and a friend had traveled hundreds of miles to Washington DC, specifically for this
1:13.7	day.
1:14.7	So we get to DC, like nobody's around, it's the streets are empty, it's quiet, I have
1:19.7	my camera with me because when I go to events I love to take pictures, it's like, I think
1:23.8	it's actually one way that as an introvert I can like show up somewhere.
1:27.4	That's what I've always done when I've gone to protest is taking pictures.
1:35.7	There was a designated area, just off Pennsylvania Avenue for protestors.
1:40.6	And my friend was like, bundle the fuck up because we're going to be out there all day.
1:45.7	And there's no place to go to warm up.
1:47.7	So I had on these like two layer like of coats and like all this stuff and it was just
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