BACK IN THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SEASON , reporters on the techand politics beats began noticing a rise in far-right memes that supported Trump. Memes being memes, these seemed initially like weird, off-color jokes. They wondered: What the hell is going on? Was this shitposting ironic or serious? Or both? Either way, it seemed newsworthy. The memes were climbing the trending lists on every social network and landing on the front page of Reddit. So journalists began filing what became a flood of stories about alt-right political memes and loopy conspiracy theories. Like Taylor Swift as a white nationalist icon and Pepe the Frog in a Nazi uniform.
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机译：回到最后的总统竞选季节，科技和政治动向的记者开始注意到支持特朗普的极右翼模因的兴起。模因是模因，最初看起来像是奇怪的，有色的笑话。他们想知道：到底是怎么回事？这贴子具有讽刺意味或严重吗？或两者？无论哪种方式，它似乎都具有新闻价值。这些模因正在每个社交网络上攀登趋势列表，并登陆Reddit的首页。因此，新闻工作者开始发表大量有关极右政治模因和loop回阴谋论的报道。就像泰勒·斯威夫特（Taylor Swift）是白人民族主义人物一样，而青蛙佩佩（Pepe the Frog）穿着纳粹制服。
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