Business Insider Meme Hunter Tracks Down ‘I Did That!’ Sticker Creator

Nina Burleigh Business InsiderHe is most well-known for “Offering Oral Sex To Bill Clinton to Keep Abortion Legal”, but he has now taken on a new role in his life. It was not about presidential candles sticks, but presidential stickers. Particularly, “I Did That!” stickers. Joe Biden stickers, which point out rising gas prices at station pumps in the past year, have appeared.

Burleigh was so annoyed by the stickers that she began a meme hunting expedition for their creator. Her Odyssey was described on Monday in “‘I Did That!Anti-Biden stickers can be found on all gas stations in the country. Who did they create them?

Burleigh’s anger at poor Joe Biden being blamed for high gasoline prices, and inflation generally, inspired her meme search for their evil creator.

Perhaps the most successful and widely used piece of political propaganda the counterculture right produced is the “I Did That” stickers. They are the result of a semi-deranged campaign by the counterculture to blame Biden, for everything: inflation, Hunter’s “biolabs” in Ukraine, setting up a communist regime at the White House. As with “Let’s Go Brandon” and those “Fuck Biden” flags, the style is occasionally clever, frequently profane (there’s often a junior-high bully, fart-joke vibe), and always infused with what used to be the province of the left — a kind of joyful, Yippiesque delight in causing public mischief on behalf of a greater cause.

They began appearing at gas stations across the nation last summer as oil prices started to rise. This frustrated workers, who must constantly remove them from the pumps. Putin invaded Ukraine a month ago, so it is fair to say the War on Oil prices caused the Biden sticker phenomenon. The stickers are available for purchase on Amazon, eBay and other online platforms from hundreds of sellers starting at $5.99 per pack. Etsy searches for Joe Biden gasoline pump stickers returned 672 results. These include variations such as the “Fuck Joe Biden” sticker that you can place above your fuel selection button ($10 for 50 packs from PatriotSupply76).

Burleigh describes her epic quest to find the “I Did That!” with self-righteous anger. She viewed Biden as the unfairly responsible sticker-maker for the spike in gas prices almost immediately after he became President in January 2021.

My search began on TikTok, Twitter and I was able to create a timeline and work with the top retailers. Next, I went to Etsy. After scrolling through thousands of sellers, I found a handful who sold the stickers in bulk packs at low prices. The bulk producers seemed to be most likely to have the source story. I called a few people, left messages for receptionists and waited.

After waiting and waiting, she heard the words “I Did That!” just when despair seemed to be setting in. Perp confessed everything and turned himself in.

When I felt like there was no hope left, my phone rang from West Palm Beach. Although I considered it spam, it was my lucky break. Robert “Bobby” Naklicki is the CEO and president of right-wing merch company Redneck Nation. He told me, over a lengthy and pleasant conversation, that he owns a variety of businesses, including a record label as well as a MAGA-friendly clothing brand called Patriots Pledge. “clothing of people by people for people shall not perish!””).Nacklicki looks like an old Harley rider sporting a thick ZZ Top beard. He wanted me to understand that common lefty beliefs about Florida Man conservatism were wrong. His words were, “You won’t be more conservative than I.” “And you know what — I don’t care if you’re gay. You can have an LGBT parade if you wish.

Naklicki says he made the “I Did That” sticker in May 2021. That was the month that gas prices reached $3 per gallon. I was told by him that “our brain trust did it.” After his team had come up with the idea they printed thousands of stickers in Florida.

So now that Burleigh tracked down the sticker creator, who in reality contacted her, will she demand that his stickers be labeled as disinformation despite the fact that sticker version Joe Biden is more truthful by declaring “I Did That!” Rather than the real-life version, who constantly shifts blame for higher gasoline prices to other people?