5 Times This Presidential Election Was SO 2016 It Was Crazy

Delete your account. https://t.co/Oa92sncRQY

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 9, 2016

1. Delete your account. Back in June, Hillary’s team demonstrated their mastery of social media use in her campaign with just three simple words: “Delete your account.” The common social media phrase took on a whole new life when used as a response to Trump’s tweet about President Obama endorsing Hillary, in which he took the time to call her crooked, because of course he did. It quickly became boss B Hillary’s most retweeted tweet. It was epic.

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Introducing #TrumpYourself: Discover what @realDonaldTrump thinks about people like you. https://t.co/cSY7ozT4tr pic.twitter.com/KvVt2tGwFd

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 21, 2016

2. The Trump Yourself Tool: Hillary’s team further proved their social media strategy with the release of Trump Yourself in July. Honing in on Facebook users’ love of applying a filter over their profile picture to support trending world events or causes, the Trump Tool isolates identifying elements such as whether you’re a woman or are gay, as examples, and applies quotes or viewpoints Trump has expressed. SPOILER: He has said some pretty awful things.

2016, ya'll. pic.twitter.com/M0AZceVagQ

— Victor Ng (@victomato) September 25, 2016

3. The Selfie Picture: Everyone immediately jumped all over this photo as a terrible example of society and the state of politics in the year 2016. The photo, it turns out, was staged, to a degree. “There were 500 people [in that overflow room] that couldn’t fit in the main event so she went and visited them in an adjacent room afterwards,” a spokesman for Hillary’s campaign told TIME. Clinton suggested they take a group selfie, and Barbara Kinney, her staff photographer, captured the poignant moment.

I will be voting for the candidate that looks best with @Snapchat filters @realDonaldTrump @HillaryClinton #Debate pic.twitter.com/R0xFl0u0SF

— The Yuppie Yinzer (@TheYuppieYinzer) September 27, 2016

4. The Great Snapchat Debate: Anyone can be *on* Snapchat (which Hillary has been since last summer), or have custom geofilters (which both campaigns have done), but are you even anyone at all until the whole world has put a Snapchat filter on your face? If you checked your Snap stories the night of or the day after the very WTF debate, it was filled with these.

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5. MEMES GALORE: Of course, this isn’t the first election to be memeified. Not even close. But you can tell we’re in the thick of 2016 by the sheer volume and rapidity of the memes during this campaign. Of course, Trump’s hair has been a big one.

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And who could forget this fake campaign poster meme? It seemed like it was EVERYWHERE at the beginning of 2016. (Image via Imgur)

The debate on Monday night has already proved a treasure trove of memes. Like Trump’s sniffling. (Image via Imgur)

Trump sniffles and interruptions: The Supercut. https://t.co/j3FwOVBM0A

— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) September 27, 2016

And Hillary’s shimmy.

That Hillary shimmy though.#debates #DebateNight #Debates2016 #HillaryClinton #ImWithHer pic.twitter.com/4VvT8CUv5x

— ElSassyPants (@KatieElsaesser) September 27, 2016

And, of course, that SMIRK.

*Record Scratch*

*Freeze Frame*

Yup, that's me

You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation pic.twitter.com/wGArnNx6qE

— Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad) September 27, 2016

What will the next month have in store? We’re here for it, whatever it is.

What do you think of the modern memefied take on the election? Let us know @BritandCo.

(Featured photo via Drew Angerer/Getty)