Marveling at the speed at which social media can create memes -- and turn nobodies into celebrities in the blink of an eye -- The Washington Post considers the case of “Alex from Target.”
Initially, the fetching young man -- whose name is Alex, and who does indeed work at Target -- caught the eye of a Twitter user with 14,000 followers. “Within the space of six hours [Alex
became] the subject not only of countless derivative memes and impersonators, but also an entire screaming teen fandom,” WaPo reports.
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