From President To Punchline: How The Biden Blast Meme Took Over TikTok & YouTube
The Biden Blast meme, which features distorted memes of President Joe Biden “blasting” with explosions and surreal effects, went viral on TikTok and YouTube, given Gen Z’s penchant for chaos and humor.
It is based on remix YouTube Poop culture, thriving on excessive sensory overload and absurdism, raising the question of the line between political comedy and chaos. This article will examine the origins, formats, cultural appeal, and long-term effects.
1. What Is the Biden Blast Meme?
What does the meme involve and how is it typically used?
A Biden Blast meme is a hyper-edited video or audio with a clip of President Joe Biden in absurd/over-the-top scenes—often “blasting” into the sky and screaming with bass-boosted audio and exaggerated lines like a video game boss.
These edits present clips of him (usually from a press conference) with absurd jump cuts, explosions, neon graphics, and surreal imagery to create humor from chaos.
The meme is mostly used for comedic shock value and is often shared on TikTok and YouTube Shorts for humor that evaporates within seconds as creators try and capture attention with the fleeting speed of humor.
Captions like “Biden when he sees Ohio” and “Joe Biden’s final boss form” are paired with visuals of him “flipping” through space or fighting enemies/capturing him as a parody of his public persona.
Is the Biden Blast meme the most chaotic political meme in recent years?
The Biden Blast meme is a chaotic and nonsensical internet phenomenon that mixes absurdist humor with political imagery, and its amalgamation of audio and visuals overloads the senses in a way that sets it apart from much more tame political memes like “Bernie Mittens.”
This obvious insanity is present in a kind of audio-visual detonation that we have not seen. The rapid and chaotic spread of memes like Biden Blast shows that Generation Z is increasingly embracing “unhinged” or “post-ironic” content, while competing with distinct surreal forms of content dissemination.
2. Where Did the Biden Blast Meme Come From?
First appearances on YouTube and meme channels
The meme originates in late 2021, starting with a YouTube thumbnail of Michael Knowles’ video “Biden Bans African | Ep. 895,” where he is preforming a hand gesture that resembles a “stop”.
The initial edits stem from the YouTube Poop meme form; remixing Biden’s speeches in a surrealist manner, relying on distorted audio mixes and strange visuals. It is likely they originally began appearing former YTP channels, which paved the way for it to evolve further.
TikTok Explosion – How Gen Z popularized the format
By early 2023, TikTok kids turned the meme into an internet-wide viral trend. Most edits featured fast cuts of Biden somersaulting, screaming, or “blasting” into space, usually set to trap music or ironic inspiration-sounding audio.
In February 2023, Twitter user @Kazoodingus made a significant contribution by writing “BIDEN BLAST” on the Knowles thumbnail, provoking lots of remixes. TikTok hashtags like #bidenblast took short videos of the meme and absolute blasted it into viral TikTok content, confirming its Gen Z appeal.
3. What Makes the Biden Blast Meme So Appealing?
The humor of meme chaos
The beauty of the meme is in its sensory overload, with booming bass drops, fast cuts, and random sights or sounds that throw you off your game. This wild presentation style fits Gen Z’s ridiculous, over-stimulating, surreal sense of humor, e.g., phenomena like “Skibidi Toilet”.
A clip of a Biden Blast might feature him “firing” a laser gun with a dubstep drop that causes giggles in viewers for how ridiculous it is.
How it fits into the absurdist meme tradition
Biden Blast has a shared lineage with memes like “GigaChad,” “Obamna,” and “Skibidi Toilet,” that revolve around altered imagery and humor reliant upon irony. In contrast with “Dark Brandon’s” rigid satire, Biden Blast invites us into chaos, remixing reality in the form of a fever dream.
Given its association with YTP and anime parodies, it’s no surprise that it skews toward absurdism, which is a hallmark of internet culture.
4. Popular Formats and Variants of the Biden Blast Meme
Short-Form Video Edits
Popular variations include “Joe Biden in Ohio,” where we see Biden “blasting” across a neon city skyline, or as “Biden gaming moments,” where he is “fragging” in Fortnite style edits; these exploits are culled of fast-paced, saturated colors, zooming backdrops and AI overlay for great hype.
YouTube Shorts, like “Biden’s Final Form”, easily get millions.
Audio Templates and Remix Tracks
Audio remixes place Biden’s quotes—“Heh, c’mon man!” or “Here’s the deal”—with trap beats or whatever’s trending on TikTok. Or quotes like “Biden Blast!” are simply put on a loop for meme soundboards and shared to Tuna.
These audio quotes become fodder for user-made and other collocations like duets and reaction videos, and provide additional amplification to the meme.
5. How TikTok and YouTube Amplified the Meme
Who creates and shares the meme
Memes are disseminated and produced by TikTok teens and YouTube editors. Creators remix clips for clout on TikTok, while channels such as Griffin Station create polished animations.
The memes are located in compilation videos, reaction videos, and gaming streams by creators like Albino, who posts “20 minutes of Biden Blasts”.
Community and Algorithmic Boosts
The meme takes advantage of TikTok’s duet features, green screen packs, hashtags (#bidenblast and #presidentialedit), and includes an array of content on Youtube as the algorithm fulfills requests for Boris badin and in some cases, edits with Biden “running” like sonic.
Ultimately, it harnessed community spaces like r/MemePiece as a hub for anime-inspired variants and cross-platform hype.
6. Political Satire or Pure Chaos?
Is it satire, disrespect, or just absurd fun?
The tone of the Biden Blast meme is ambiguous. Some edits mock Biden’s age or gaffes, whereas others praise him as a chaotic antihero. It’s post-ironic style makes it difficult to pin down a political alignment, appealing to both fans and critics if only for laughs. As Know Your Meme observes, it is less about policy and more about absurdity.
Does the meme reflect voter fatigue or meme nihilism?
The meme has the potential to signal voter fatigue, toalmost transform a president into a cartoonish caricature as an outlet for political overload. It embraces nihilism, where nothing matters but the next explosion, emphasizing internet culture’s state of detachment, while offering comic reality during a time of divisiveness.
7. Will the Biden Blast Meme Remain Relevant or Burn Out?
Lifespan of chaotic political memes
The lifespan of the meme will depend on the amount that Biden shows up in public over the next few year, any elections coming up, and remix culture. Major speeches or gaffes could again inspire new blends, but with none of the shocking energy that is part of the meme most likely won‘t be able to achieve any more social relevance.
The meme could also contaminate its reach if TikTok experiences greater bans or its user base shifts.
Ranking among iconic political meme formats
Biden Blast falls within conversation with other classics like “Thanks Obama,” “Crying Trump,” and “Bernie Mittens“ for its impact within culture. The chaotic experience it invokes and how it is closely tied to Gen Z raises its cult status next to “Dark Brandon“ as an iconic era–defining Biden meme, cementing him in history as both a president and a punchline.
Conclusion
The Biden Blast meme, from its unusual incarnation on a YouTube thumbnail to its acute popularity as a TikTok meme, transforms Joe Biden into a chaotic, “blasting” figure of internet absurdity.
Fueled by Gen Z’s love of sensory overload and remix culture, this meme is unafraid to push political absurdity into the nihilistic realm of TikTok and YouTube, and its core absurdity makes it appear easy to engage with and consume.
Whether it is Biden flipping through Ohio or short videos of him screaming over trap beats, the Biden Blast meme is a moment where pure chaos meets politics and endures as one of the wildest political memes of the 2020s.
