Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign turns to bizarre Instagram memes

nyPOST ^ | 2/13/2020 | jeremy leyton

[bitt]

Michael Bloomberg is channeling some of his $61.8 billion net worth into a new campaign strategy: memes.

The Democratic 2020 hopeful unleashed a flood of posts onto Instagram Wednesday night, partnering with some of the most-followed accounts for a series of bizarre memes.

The posts follow a similar theme, all pretending to be depicting direct messages from Bloomberg himself to the individual accounts. Most of the posts find him taking the persona of an out-of-touch old guy, trying to reach out to a younger audience in a tongue-in-cheek fashion and go viral.

In one, posted by @F–kJerry to its 15 million followers, Bloomberg’s fake DM says his granddaughter showed him the account, and he wants to post a meme that makes him look like the “cool candidate.”

When “Bloomberg” offers a photo of himself wearing deeply uncool duds, Jerry responds by saying it will “cost like a billion dollars.”

In a post on Tank Sinatra’s account, which has 2.3 million followers, the fake Bloomberg says he made his own meme — then reveals an edited Bernie Sanders ad with the caption: “I am once again asking for you to make me look cool.”

An even stranger post on the account @sonny5ideup mentions “sick Tech Deck tricks” — referring to the finger-sized skateboards popular in the early 2000s.

Nearly every posted is captioned with some variation on, “yes, this post really was sponsored by @mikebloomberg.”

[bagster]

Wait, kids still say hip, right?

They say 'hep', I believe.

#DamnBeatniks

[donaldo]

Don’t we already have our Jewish Messiah? Bloomberg is a fraud.

[catnipman]

“The Daily Beast reported last week that Bloomberg also reached out to a number of smaller influencers, paying them $150 each to generate original content that would make him seem “cool.””

wow! how uncool do you have to be to pay people to make you SEEM cool?